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my dad's company was an exclusive steelcase dealer for all of the nyc-tristate and spent a good amount of time in that pyramid. He had a lot of good things to say about it. My grandfather didn't like the way the steelcase execs did business, told them all to gently caress off and walked out leaving my father there confused and uncomfortable on his first visit. That's how they got exclusivity though so 
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May 3, 2015 16:34
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Lord of Pie posted:
the Dread Tomb of the Realtree Dads has been consecrated
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May 3, 2015 17:08
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I can't believe I'd forgotten about this one, a stunning Art Nuveau florist from the turn of the 19th century, Brussels.: The photo was titled "Ancienne chemiserie Niguet (1896) – 13 rue Royale, Bruxelles (Belgique)." The shop is still there today, more than a hundred years later. And it's still a florist, run by Daniel Ost. Sadly, google street view went past on a day when the big metal shutter was down so you can't see it. But doing a search for "brussels belgium 13 rue royale florist daniel ost" gives a bunch of modern day shots.
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May 3, 2015 17:23
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That's awesome
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May 3, 2015 23:18
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Holy poo poo lol
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May 3, 2015 23:25
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shiksa posted: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 What up, NC goon?  A few years ago that building was for sale. I mighta tried to buy it (the price was surprisingly reasonable), but financially it was a bit out of my reach. Also, it woulda meant, you know, having to live in High Point.
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May 4, 2015 04:43
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Dienes posted:Speaking of pyramids, we have the Steelcase Pyramid in Grand Rapids. If I were a billionaire I'd buy the poo poo out of that place and turn it into the world's coolest laser tag/early 90s FPS simulator.
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May 4, 2015 04:58
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It's like a goddamn plutonium rod. Flagrant Abuse posted:
These things exist solely in my mind to act as a midpoint marker during any drive from Keystone to 65 South.
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May 4, 2015 09:26
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Mad Hamish posted:drat thing looks like a Goa'uld mothership. This is some kind of terrible brutalist government ziggurat in Aliso Viejo
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May 4, 2015 09:36
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Gorilla Salad posted:I can't believe I'd forgotten about this one, a stunning Art Nuveau florist from the turn of the 19th century, Brussels.: I have been inside this shop and I assure you that it is like an acid trip. But it smells great in there, and the old lady that worked there when I went (2005 or 2006?) was really nice, though she refused to speak anything but Flemish. It's definitely something cool to check out if you ever end up in Brussels. Jesus Christ, I can only imagine driving with a hangover and that in the background. Doesn't it heat up stuff around it? It reminds me of those three buildings that look like the Hand of Nod from C&C that would burn the paint off cars or whatever... it was a few pages back but that is an equally fantastic thing. I work in this building:   which definitely wins the award for ugliest building in the Los Angeles skyline. There was a fire that burned a few floors in the 80s, and it's an open secret that those floors were never re-occupied afterwards and that there are still a few burned out floors. The security lady showed me some pictures. It's pretty weird, that there're scorched floors like 10 stories above us. Also, there was an earthquake yesterday down here and I found out that the building is equipped with these strange roller things in the basement; when the ground shifts they rock the building like some kind of inverse pendulum, which apparently limits structural damage but definitely caused a bit of a concern since you could really really feel the quake while you were in the building. Also, my coworker moved here from Nepal about six months ago, and I found him cowering under a desk and praying to Vishnu.
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May 4, 2015 10:19
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Angela Christine posted:LOL, that architect hates social science students. i will never get architecture that is all about making people do annoying things during their workdays (having to ask for directions on every single corridor is just annoying no matter how ungoony you are), except maybe for an art museum building
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May 4, 2015 10:43
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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May 4, 2015 11:21
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fuctifino posted:held together by damp To be fair this is true for nearly every building in the UK
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May 4, 2015 12:17
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Oh man that reminds me of Swansea Civic Centre, which is where my grandad used to work: I honestly don't think it's that bad of a building, the fun thing about it though is that it was built directly in between Swansea prison and the sea because someone realised that the prisoners actually had one of the best sea views in the city and the council were vindictive cunts.
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May 4, 2015 12:20
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fuctifino posted:The council moved out of the building last year, as it was literally falling down and needing £40m of renovations. The building was sold or leased to Urban Splash recently, and I believe they are planning on turning the building into apartments or a hotel. I, for one, cannot wait to spend my summer staying at the asbestos towers working on my lung tan.
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May 4, 2015 13:02
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I had to GIS to figure out how big this is, it's really hard to get a sense of perspective on the thing. What the hell is it? Is there anything inside of it or is it just a monument to socks? Tunga fucked around with this message at 13:38 on May 4, 2015 |
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May 4, 2015 13:36
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du -hast posted:
Gah, I think both of those tie for that award. Jesus that's offensive. blowfish posted:i will never get architecture that is all about making people do annoying things during their workdays (having to ask for directions on every single corridor is just annoying no matter how ungoony you are), except maybe for an art museum building Has anyone mentioned the Federal Building in San Francisco yet? Looks like a bathroom that's half-finished, the cement board is up but they're still waiting on the tile to be delivered:  I will never get architects that forget that the whole point of a building is to provide people with functional spaces in which to live and work comfortably. It's very distinct from sculpture. And yet: http://www.beyondchron.org/san-franciscos-green-building-nightmare/ quote:The first fact about the building that may cause surprise is its lack of air conditioning or heat. According to Mayne, “a bike rack and air conditioning get you the same point. I’d much rather see BTU and CO2 requirements and let the professional community solve the problem.” And this is amazing: quote:According to my source, architect Mayne has stated that federal office workers do not get enough exercise. To address this, he installed elevators in the building that only stop at every third floor. This requires employees to walk up or down one or two flights of metal stairs. The cafeteria's also across the street because Mayne wanted the workers to get more exercise. And despite not having air conditioning or heat (well, for the plebes), the building still failed its LEED certification. How to the people who actually have to work in this abortion feel about it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Federal_Building quote:In 2010 the GSA commissioned a survey of employees in 22 federal buildings nationwide, to determine employee satisfaction with their workplaces. The San Francisco Federal Building was included in this study even though commissioning was still underway, and tenant improvements of some floors were not complete. The 22 buildings included in the study scored between a low of 13 and a high of 98% employee satisfaction. Seventeen of the 22 buildings scored above 50% employee satisfaction. While incorporating many green concepts more aggressively than other buildings, the lowest ranked building for employee satisfaction was the San Francisco Federal Building, with a rating of just 13%; the next-lowest was considered twice as satisfactory, at 26%. The San Francisco building scored well below the median in the categories of thermal comfort, lighting and acoustics.[10] Phanatic fucked around with this message at 15:31 on May 4, 2015 |
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May 4, 2015 15:29
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The Land of the Reflected Sun.
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May 4, 2015 18:39
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Racine, WI has this UFO thing from Frank Lloyd Wright. It's a part of SC Johnson which has an even bigger more normalish building that is really cool, but the UFO thing is kinda WTF when you drive past it. When I went past there was a ladder going right up into the bottom middle and some dude going in and out.
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May 4, 2015 19:00
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Isn't Racine full of modernist architecture or something like that? Like flw gas stations and dinners and stuff.
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May 4, 2015 19:16
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Tunga posted:I had to GIS to figure out how big this is, it's really hard to get a sense of perspective on the thing. the armoire is about 2-2.5 stories tall, and theres a regular building in the back, although i have no idea whats in it, i havent been to high point in about a decade. and basically, yeah. the whole city was built on furniture manufacturing so it's a monument to dressers
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May 4, 2015 20:08
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Onion Knight posted:Just look at this fucker:
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May 4, 2015 20:44
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The men's bathroom has a glass wall behind the urinals on the observation deck. Makes it feel like you're peeing on the ground hundreds of feet below.
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May 4, 2015 20:53
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Phanatic posted:Gah, I think both of those tie for that award. Jesus that's offensive. i don't want to defend to sf federal building but i'd like to address a bit of ignorance in the first quote there quote:The first fact about the building that may cause surprise is its lack of air conditioning or heat. According to Mayne, “a bike rack and air conditioning get you the same point. I’d much rather see BTU and CO2 requirements and let the professional community solve the problem.” when thom mayne says that a/c and a bike rack get you "the same point", he's talking about LEED points, which are tallied up for your eventual LEED classification. putting in a bike rack is a cheap and easy way of scoring LEED points, even if your building is impossible to commute to via bike. that's one of several problems with the LEED system and i can see where mayne is coming from talking about letting the professional community find solutions for hitting hard targets like BTU etc. on the other hand the building in question is pretty fail
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May 4, 2015 23:12
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Tunga posted:I had to GIS to figure out how big this is, it's really hard to get a sense of perspective on the thing. There's an actual building behind it. High Point, NC is (or used to be, at least) the furniture capital of the US, if not the world. And thus, you get things like that.
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May 4, 2015 23:27
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Phanatic posted:Gah, I think both of those tie for that award. Jesus that's offensive. you fat government fuckers shoulde exercise more, therefore I'm going to make you uncomfortable for 8 hours a day - a good architect
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May 5, 2015 07:32
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This is the ugliest building in the thread to me.
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May 5, 2015 07:36
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Blistex posted:The men's bathroom has a glass wall behind the urinals on the observation deck. Makes it feel like you're peeing on the ground hundreds of feet below. I want to go to Korea just to have this pissing experience.
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May 5, 2015 08:34
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...now I legit wonder if the South has a thing for random-rear end pyramids because I work within walking distance of this amusingly about six years ago these people built a huge amusement park back around the suburbs, which was then sold and rebranded a year later, and then closed down after another year and now all the stuff is sold off, Good Job
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May 5, 2015 09:21
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anchoress posted:when thom mayne says that a/c and a bike rack get you "the same point", he's talking about LEED points, which are tallied up for your eventual LEED classification. putting in a bike rack is a cheap and easy way of scoring LEED points, even if your building is impossible to commute to via bike. that's one of several problems with the LEED system and i can see where mayne is coming from talking about letting the professional community find solutions for hitting hard targets like BTU etc. on the other hand the building in question is pretty fail Making thousands of people uncomfortable for a significant part of their life and costing the government millions per year in lost productivity sounds like a great way to make a point about industry standards. If the market for office buildings in SF is anything like it is here in a few years people are going to realise that making all your employees uncomfortable is a terrible strategy and the building will be torn down because retrofitting actual climate control will be more expensive than a new building. Causing much CO2 release in the process.
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Gyra_Solune posted:...now I legit wonder if the South has a thing for random-rear end pyramids because I work within walking distance of this Well, there is a city called Memphis...
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PT6A posted:I want to go to Korea just to have this pissing experience. Top of the Shard has urinals with a glass wall backing as well.
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May 5, 2015 12:28
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May 5, 2015 12:47
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Airstream Driver posted:A children's hospital Used to work across the road from it, the older wings around the other side have the spooky Victorian facades and up until the late 90s still had that beige and bleach feeling of 'spooky hospital' about it when I went there as a child. It was cooler when it was all a bit more like if David Lynch was filming a British hospital drama vibe about it.
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May 5, 2015 15:32
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Airstream Driver posted:A children's hospital The Incredible Hulk goatse building
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May 5, 2015 17:41
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Dienes posted:Speaking of pyramids, we have the Steelcase Pyramid in Grand Rapids. Well now I have a "Stupid thing to buy in case of Lottery winnings" property. The land around it look perfect for a Logans Run-esque walking garden before you arrive at my Renew-Center. (of doom) But in Michigan...eh.
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May 5, 2015 19:08
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Smuggins posted:Well now I have a "Stupid thing to buy in case of Lottery winnings" property. The land around it look perfect for a Logans Run-esque walking garden before you arrive at my Renew-Center. (of doom) You get a lot more bang for your buck in a flyover state. Buy your fortress of doom, and have enough money left over for a zombie apocalypse cosplay site in detroit.
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May 5, 2015 19:50
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Angela Christine posted:You get a lot more bang for your buck in a flyover state. Buy your fortress of doom, and have enough money left over for a zombie apocalypse cosplay site in detroit. Its about 2 blocks from the Grand Rapids airport, so you get decent visibility. 
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popewiles posted:This is the ugliest building in the thread to me. It's weird-looking but I kind of like it (helps that I don't have to work in it  ). A couple more shots of it:  It's way more interesting than the other federal building in SF: 
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