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netally posted:Not sure why I've never heard of this one until today. The Garden Bridge is planned to open in London in 2018. The funny thing about this was that when they first announced it everyone thought "oh that's a good idea" but then as soon as one iota of thought was put into the practicalities and the stuff about charging for access and poo poo came out the entirety of London did a 180 and it's now regarded as a shambles. It's such a mess now that I think it'll probably be viewed as toxic to any politician that backs it, plus some rich guy nearby has taken it to the supreme court on the grounds that it got circle jerked through the planning process and never should have got off the ground.
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`Nemesis posted:Sadly that'll never happen, seating capacity is too valuable. The best that could be hoped for is that wretched mess to get torn down. Luxury boxes are too valuable. The big renovation actually lowered seating capacity from about 65,000 to 61,000.
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Cornuto posted:
The best thing about this building (and most fitting for this thread) are the handles. They badly need a coat of paint but they can't figure out how to do it.
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May 2, 2015 13:54
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Halah posted:The best thing about this building (and most fitting for this thread) are the handles. They badly need a coat of paint but they can't figure out how to do it. Looks like that building is going to hell in a handbasket. 
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The Twinkie Czar posted:Luxury boxes are too valuable. The big renovation actually lowered seating capacity from about 65,000 to 61,000. And shrunk the field size making it ineligible to be the main Olympic Stadium which added a wrinkle to their Olympic bid as they had to build another big-rear end stadium and totally hosed up their pitch for it. "We can build it on the cheap!" is not how you appeal to megalomaniacs who want bribes.
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Trevor Hale posted:And shrunk the field size making it ineligible to be the main Olympic Stadium which added a wrinkle to their Olympic bid as they had to build another big-rear end stadium and totally hosed up their pitch for it. "We can build it on the cheap!" is not how you appeal to megalomaniacs who want bribes.
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Fly Molo posted:Here's one, the Death Star. A concrete maze designed on purpose to be unnavigable, with no landmarks, maps, or consistent numbering system. We had an old building at uni which interconnected with half the other buildings in the science block. When they were doing renovations they decided to just lock the whole place up to stop students getting in the way. Thankfully we must have had a bunch of professional hoodlums at our campus because people made a point of going around every day and picking or forcing every single lock and door in the place. STEM: gently caress human interaction.
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akasnowmaaan posted:Add a bounce pad and some railgun ammo and it's a Quake 3 level. First thing that came to my mind too. What a bunch of douchebags. Unclear architecture is the worst. Why yes let me wander hopelessly around the building wondering where the entrance might be, what a good idea.
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Mr. 47 posted:Indianapolis, Indiana I have to go past these monstrosities to pick up my prescriptions every month. The gigantic mirror sides are angled perfectly to blast the sun right down into your eyes.  The other two sides are just giant windowless (aside from at the seam) concrete slabs that even the most die-hard brutalism fan (hi, that's me) would be hard-pressed to justify.  They're the tallest buildings around, too. And then downtown, there's this fucker, which was built for the Super Bowl a few years ago.  Not just a giant mirror, but a giant concave mirror. 
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May 2, 2015 18:08
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I like the Marriott, it reminds me of 2001's Monolith.
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Speaking of pyramid-like structures (though this one is more ziggurat-like)...  Apex, a former department store in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. In slightly better days:  It was a pretty polarizing building to begin with when it was in use-- you can't miss it when you're driving down 95, and some people appreciated that fact, and others thought it was an eyesore-- but then it closed 15 years ago and it's been left to sit and rot ever since (outside of a small outlet in the corner, which is really weird to walk around in and is like a mini K-Mart). Nobody wants to scoop the building up, and I bet more than anything it'll eventually just end up demolished. That is, if the city ever scrounges up the money for it. My crappy phone pic doesn't really capture the weird "walking through a rusty falling-apart 1995" feeling you get when you walk through the overgrown parking lot. Honestly though, it's a pretty good representation of Pawtucket in general so maybe it should stay, just for honesty's sake.
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Spatule posted:First thing that came to my mind too. I actually really like the idea of a building that through its design encourages social interaction, that's a goal of architecture I'd never really considered before. And an academic building on a college campus seems the perfect place for such a building, it's not like your local post office or something.
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Spatule posted:First thing that came to my mind too. I do legit really like the idea of trying to shape social interactions through architecture, of all things, but "deliberately obtuse layouts" in a building people actually have to use every day instead of a tourist trap or sth is not so good, no.
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I can't help but wonder whether anyone actually bothers to go around locking/unlocking a different set of doors each month. That seems like the kind of thing that anybody who has to actually work there would just immediately stop doing.
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Tunga posted:I can't help but wonder whether anyone actually bothers to go around locking/unlocking a different set of doors each month. That seems like the kind of thing that anybody who has to actually work there would just immediately stop doing. It seems super unsafe if there is a fire or something "we can get out this way! Oh wait I guess it's locked today, I better interact to find which routes are open"
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a pipe smoking dog posted:It seems super unsafe if there is a fire or something "Maybe that man over there currently burning to death knows the way out! We should go ask him!"
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Flagrant Abuse posted:I have to go past these monstrosities to pick up my prescriptions every month. The gigantic mirror sides are angled perfectly to blast the sun right down into your eyes. I never minded the Marriott, but I always thought that the pyramids looked like the headquarters of an evil corporation in an eighties action movie.
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Flagrant Abuse posted:The other two sides are just giant windowless (aside from at the seam) concrete slabs that even the most die-hard brutalism fan (hi, that's me) would be hard-pressed to justify. Those needs to be completely covered in ivy or something.
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Fire egress can be solved by magnetic locks that release on alarm, or crash bars, or delayed egress bars (which I hate the concept of). But I agree that the locking random doors poo poo probably doesn't happen anymore.
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Mr. 47 posted:I never minded the Marriott, but I always thought that the pyramids looked like the headquarters of an evil corporation in an eighties action movie. Which, I'm sorry, makes them awesome.
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Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria  actually rad as gently caress
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Noggin Monkey posted:I've been seeing this kind of louver system popping up on new projects. What building is this and who designed it? I found that through a GIS for Hunt Library at CMU, but looking again I don't think it's the same building. So, I guess I have no idea? DNova posted:FYI every single college campus in the US has some baseless story about how something was designed to prevent riots or how this one building that looks different was actually designed for a different school but lol whoops the blueprints got mixed up and they built it here by mistake. Dmitri-9 posted:and the architect failed to take the weight of the books into account so the building started sinking hyuk I think the main problem with university architecture is universities have lots of architecture professors who have no business designing buildings that are actually meant to serve a purpose.
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AwwJeah posted:Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria kunsthaus? because it looks like a tumor that fell out of someone's kunt?
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AwwJeah posted:Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria Looks like a dumb gay alien thing materialized too close to the surface
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Of course the South would build a pyramid just to stick a Bass Pro Shop inside.  
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Lord of Pie posted:
This is amazing and I don't even fish, Bass Pro Shops owns The promo vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQeIkYgLtnI
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The Pyramid in Memphis TN was an all around mess and belongs in this thread even before the Bass Pro remodel. It looks pretty next to the river though 
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When you hear "bad Korean architecture" you think of NK's Ryugyong, I'm sure, but least-best Korea is like the perfect storm of terrible architecture. You've got a country where: - they got a bunch of money all of a sudden - no one has any idea what's going on - there are basically no regulations I'll make some effortposts later, but here's an easy one:  Seoul's 63 Building, designed by the same firm that did the Sears Tower. Not bad. Inoffensive at worst but I think it looks pretty good. It, like many early Korean skyscrapers, juts out from out of nowhere. It's not just the tallest building in its area, but there's nothing nearby even a third of it's height (those towers in the background are a little ways off). Also it's clad in super-reflective mirrored gold glass. Also it's specifically positioned to catch the morning light, which it does really well. Really really well. Just look at this fucker:  For about half an hour at dawn, during most of the year, this becomes the world's most annoying reflector. It's like staring into the sun. It's absolutely terrible. Last year I had just moved to Seoul from the southern part of the country, and had woke up really early to drive up the rest of my stuff that was too delicate for the delivery truck. I turned a corner to get on to one of the roads that lines the river and almost drove off the road. It's absolutely awful. It doesn't help that it's still a point of national pride, so no one at my office is willing to commiserate. "Oh, the 63 building? Yes, it's very big! What's that? A blinding eyesore? No, actually it's very beautiful. Please be careful while driving!"
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CannonFodder posted:The Pyramid in Memphis TN was an all around mess and belongs in this thread even before the Bass Pro remodel. Except for the east side, which is always covered in bird poop. I never could figure out why birds only seemed to nest on that side. I liked the pyramid as a concept, and especially as a play off of the Memphis name. But it was built in a terrible place with horrible road access and had a terrible interior.
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nobody in gbs has probably ever been to high point, nc, a dying town built on the dying american furniture industry, so i dont know if anyone's seen this bad boy, but it's pretty special my parents used to drop off rent at a building right next to it when we moved to nc in the 90s. even as a child i thought it was dumbsecretly awesome also, if you have been to high point, congratulations on your job in the furniture industry! there's no reason to go to there outside of the biannual furniture market. it's the city equivalent of a k-mart.
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Flagrant Abuse posted:Not just a giant mirror, but a giant concave mirror.
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Collateral Damage posted:Wasn't it the Marriot that literally melted cars parked in certain spots in front of it because it focused the sun on them like the world's biggest ant-burner? Maybe you're thinking of London's walkie-talkie building.
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Yep that was it, my bad. But it fits the thread: http://www.livescience.com/39371-skyscraper-melts-cars-20-fenchurch.html
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Speaking of pyramids, we have the Steelcase Pyramid in Grand Rapids. Its been out of use for years, though, to the point that the parking lot is mostly grass. The creepy part is at night it lights up in red.
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So presumably it should be cheap to buy as a 
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Fly Molo posted:The idea was to force human interaction because it houses the social sciences. LOL, that architect hates social science students. Should have been the math building.
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blowfish posted:So presumably it should be cheap to buy as a Its just been donated to the local school system. I'll be interested to see what they do with it. You can't see it from the pictures, but there is also a large tunnel/loading dock that runs under the building and has enormous security doors.
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Dienes posted:Speaking of pyramids, we have the Steelcase Pyramid in Grand Rapids. drat thing looks like a Goa'uld mothership.
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