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never trust an elf posted:
ill see if i can find pictures of it
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# ? May 6, 2015 02:19 |
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holy gently caress i found them
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# ? May 6, 2015 02:27 |
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It's not even a monument, it's a train station.
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# ? May 6, 2015 04:35 |
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GentlemanBrofro posted:holy gently caress i found them Pretty nice graphics in the new Killzone game
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# ? May 6, 2015 11:26 |
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Visisted the Barbican this weekend. Highly recommended. Brutalism done right: huge, consistent and full of greenery.
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# ? May 6, 2015 11:39 |
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i studied architecture and regularly got criticised because my designs were too logical. if you didn't have a flowery concept behind your impractical piece of poo poo design you had to expect average marks lol. i hate architects
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# ? May 6, 2015 13:45 |
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ASU is a cornucopia of dumb ideas. Life Sciences B, which is some sort of Brutalist window slit nightmare. It is attached to the Life Sciences tower, which is in fact not a parking garage. The power station, which looks like some sort of Star Wars-rear end piece of poo poo. ISTB-1, which looks like a factory combined with a triangle . Hayden Stacks, which is a library with a dry moat and seems to be a fortress.
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# ? May 6, 2015 13:46 |
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KiteAuraan posted:ASU is a cornucopia of dumb ideas. I like all of these, except for the pseudo-garage, a lot.
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# ? May 6, 2015 13:51 |
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strap on revenge posted:i studied architecture and regularly got criticised because my designs were too logical. if you didn't have a flowery concept behind your impractical piece of poo poo design you had to expect average marks lol. i hate architects Still have any of your designs? Post 'em and let the thread decide if they're architectural failures or not.
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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 in gurnee, Il there's a horrendous house in similar faux egyptian style and it's a hideous mess. its right next to a bunch of subdivisions on the outskirts of the waukeegan area the lot is huge. seriously huge. none of the pictures truly convey the barren emptiness of the lot cause the house is 600 feet away from the gate. it's completely flat gravel with a few obelisks sticking out and the house itself isn't particularly large so it's hardly visible from the street. i didn't know there was a lake around the house cause you can't see it from the gate but i guess the owner really wanted a moat even though it appears to have been built as a big gently caress you to everyone around it, and the long driveway and closed gate make it seem like the owner wanted maximum distance between him and the outside world - he gives tours for money and has a sign posted outside the gate. it constantly looks in the same state of disrepair that decaying tourist attractions on route 66 have except i think it's less than 20 years old. please note the massive pile of gravel to cover up the grass attempting to grow and the cracking and sun bleached stencils on the fence nigga crab pollock fucked around with this message at 17:39 on May 6, 2015 |
# ? May 6, 2015 17:36 |
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also not really a failure or anything but i live in springfield missouri and the skyline here is loving hilarious. there's tons of flat and cheap land around here so there aren't many tall buildings, except for these three from the left, a dorm building built in the 70s that is filled with middle eastern exchange students, the big rear end black monolith named after and built by Our Local Patriarch, and probably the only "high rise" apartment in a 600 mile radius. no, that's not an office building, that's an apartment. *throws bone into air* nigga crab pollock fucked around with this message at 18:04 on May 6, 2015 |
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nigga crab pollock posted:in gurnee, Il there's a horrendous house in similar faux egyptian style and it's a hideous mess. its right next to a bunch of subdivisions on the outskirts of the waukeegan area This gets my vote for worst thing in the thread. I hope the community bands together and razes the compound and everyone gets a medal for it. Jesus loving christ, it's like his entire conception of ancient Egypt comes from Bazooka Joe comics or some poo poo.
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# ? May 6, 2015 18:31 |
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nigga crab pollock posted:also not really a failure or anything but i live in springfield missouri and the skyline here is loving hilarious. there's tons of flat and cheap land around here so there aren't many tall buildings, except for these three Wait missouri part of Australia now? I have no idea when, or why that happened, but welcome to our united southern lands our new Aussie brethren!
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# ? May 6, 2015 18:33 |
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nigga crab pollock posted:also not really a failure or anything but i live in springfield missouri and the skyline here is loving hilarious. there's tons of flat and cheap land around here so there aren't many tall buildings, except for these three Huntsville, Alabama is like that. There's a banking building, an old newspaper building, and a generic office building and then nothing else is more than five stories tall (if even that high) for miles around, except for one random church belltower on the edge of downtown. e: vvvvv the Saturn V's not really "downtown" though (the replica Saturn V that's actually vertical is though) Ferrovanadium fucked around with this message at 20:55 on May 7, 2015 |
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YellerBill posted:Huntsville, Alabama is like that. There's a banking building, an old newspaper building, and a generic office building and then nothing else is more than five stories tall (if even that high) for miles around, except for one random church belltower on the edge of downtown. Well, the Saturn V is, but they keep it stored on its side.
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# ? May 6, 2015 20:21 |
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nigga crab pollock posted:
I am a fan of this building.
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# ? May 6, 2015 22:08 |
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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)
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# ? May 6, 2015 22:14 |
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Am I too late to do lovely pyramids? Welcome to Stockport! I was going to write a history of the building but I thought the David Icke forums did a better job quote:The Co-Op Bank Pyramid or Stockport Pyramid in Stockport, England is a large pyramid-shaped office block in Stockport in England. (The surrounding part of the valley of the upper Mersey has sometimes been called the "Kings Valley" after the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.)
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# ? May 6, 2015 22:24 |
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That is amazingly stupid but drat does that thing look cool at night.
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# ? May 6, 2015 23:00 |
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Tsaedje posted:Am I too late to do lovely pyramids? This looks like something out of the future era in SimCity, but the player just unlocked that tier so everything else is still realistically modern-day.
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# ? May 6, 2015 23:03 |
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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 i googled it but theres not lartge interior pictures :/
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# ? May 7, 2015 03:51 |
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dr_rat posted:Wait missouri part of Australia now? Which is obviously right across the border from Norway. (Why that rather ... specific selection of flags?)
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# ? May 7, 2015 07:43 |
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Tianzi hotel in Langfang China....hahahahhaa
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# ? May 7, 2015 12:01 |
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GlassEye-Boy posted:Tianzi hotel in Langfang China....hahahahhaa That is hilarious and I love it.
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# ? May 7, 2015 16:39 |
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GlassEye-Boy posted:Tianzi hotel in Langfang China....hahahahhaa Please please tell me there are rooms in the heads.
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# ? May 7, 2015 16:40 |
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haveblue posted:Please please tell me there are rooms in the heads. I think it's far more important that there are heads in the rooms.
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# ? May 7, 2015 16:59 |
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This is a nice thread, I like it. Here's this thing in Almaty. My buddy's parents live in it. Also in Almaty, this other thing. Don't know if it's part of the same complex as the one above or what.
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# ? May 7, 2015 17:13 |
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It looks like it's trying to do that invisibility thing the airship in Avengers did.
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# ? May 7, 2015 17:16 |
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strap on revenge posted:i studied architecture and regularly got criticised because my designs were too logical. if you didn't have a flowery concept behind your impractical piece of poo poo design you had to expect average marks lol. i hate architects If I'd studied architecture (I almost did) and if we'd been in the same class, I think we would have gotten along. I did an architecture summer program in high school and got called out for "aggressive symmetry" for one project. Except why would I make the thing asymmetrical if I didn't have to? It's in our nature to prefer symmetry and it also makes for logical, navigable buildings. I ended up studying industrial design, which has a number of similarities to architecture, and while I like to think that we were more pragmatic about making logical, useful things than the architects (we constantly shat on our more stupid academic buildings during class discussions, though I did later learn the architects at my school hated all the same buildings the designers did (maybe there's hope for the future of architecture)), but I definitely remember getting dinged for my deadpan "but the glass is twice as big as it needs to be "-type design solutions because they weren't creative or experimental enough or whatever the gently caress. Also, this is like a stubby and bad version of PPG Place (which is awesome):
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# ? May 7, 2015 21:49 |
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That is exactly what I thought of! I don't like that building at all. Also, I had to look up where Almaty was. I've never heard of it. Largest city in Kazakhstan. Who knew?
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# ? May 7, 2015 22:00 |
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It...it owns.
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# ? May 8, 2015 02:07 |
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Google "brutalism"... is this cunting hipster bullshit. Edit: It's like the architectural version of aids.
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# ? May 8, 2015 04:29 |
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no you see you don't understand the 'context' so you can't appreciate brutlaism doop doop doop
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# ? May 8, 2015 05:07 |
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It's actually a very liberating school of architecture, for you see its simplicity makes it available to all people and thus is innately a celebration of the common man, freed from the bonds of aristocratic columns and such bourgeoisie elements as gables, and furthermore Le Corbusier.
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# ? May 8, 2015 05:21 |
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The only people who genuinely like Brutalism are old people that want to appear like they're creating a modern renaissance, and goons who played Wolfenstein when they were kids and came all over the screen when they saw Hitler's badass castle.
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# ? May 8, 2015 05:30 |
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Brutalism has hints of clear intentionality and a mindset of permanence, a fantasist escape from the futureless tedium we persist in. Man.
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# ? May 8, 2015 09:39 |
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Brutalism is subjectively good.
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# ? May 8, 2015 09:42 |
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Senor Gato posted:Google "brutalism"... is this cunting hipster bullshit. you may be surprised to hear that there are already many amazing examples in this very thread!
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# ? May 8, 2015 10:26 |
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Brutalism alone is ugly. Brutalism with greenery owns and is like a metaphor for some ideological whats-it that I've always taken for granted and thus don't notice and aren't thinking of.
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# ? May 8, 2015 12:56 |
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Brutalism is the death metal of architecture, which itself is the anime of music.
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