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Tsaedje posted:Am I too late to do lovely pyramids? That article refers to the Ganges; I'm pretty sure they meant the Nile.
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Spakstik posted:Brutalism is the death metal of architecture, which itself is the anime of music. Holy poo poo.
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Spakstik posted:Brutalism is the death metal of architecture, which itself is the anime of music.
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Spakstik posted:Brutalism is the death metal of architecture, which itself is the anime of music. Good point, I hate Brutalism now.
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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 What up Springfield bro? I know you aren't hating on the Darth Vader building, it's great. What you should be hating on is AG's HQ:   The blue is even more God awful and 70s in person. In the wide shot you can see some pretty cool churches literally next door. Also the causeway there goes over a road because why not?
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GlassEye-Boy posted:Tianzi hotel in Langfang China....hahahahhaa These look like Chinese versions of those midwestern statues of Paul Bunyan.
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And a rare few people who actually like textural elements on their buildings? Brutalism can look fabulous when you deviate from the strict "grey concrete only" definition that gets pushed in this thread.
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Brutalism can never be understood by American idiots who grew up in stupid tiny wooden houses. If like me you were born in a Brutalist hospital tower, have fond memories of playing in your cathedral city's Brutalist water fountain (sadly since removed), and learnt to drive navigating around its Brutalist mulistory car parks you'd truly understand the power of pure concrete on the individual who stands before it measuring himself unequal to its pure gigantic force. Du mußt dein Leben ändern.
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lol some of the best examples of brutalism in this thread have been American you maroon
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Authentic You posted:
The corners inside that thing are useless floor-to-ceiling crooked nooks in which you could maybe fit a potted plant or a kitty litter box. I'm sure their janitors are well paid, but I bet they hate that place.
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never trust an elf posted:lol some of the best examples of brutalism in this thread have been American you maroon Technically pre-brutalism but close enough: 
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Senor Gato posted:Google "brutalism"... The main problem with brutalism is that it's a great excuse for huge, cheap, blocks of concrete with little energy put into the design. At its best it can be elegant, and even the ugly brutalist buildings are more often than not perfectly reasonable places to do whatever they were designed for. That said, I'd be happy with recycling a lot of the 70s concrete boxes as gravel. Computer viking fucked around with this message at 16:28 on May 8, 2015 |
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One of the best, and least known, examples of Brutalism remains the Hotel Blau Valadero in Cuba. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUCYu5BY9fg cloudchamber fucked around with this message at 17:09 on May 8, 2015 |
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Spakstik posted:Brutalism is the death metal of architecture, which itself is the anime of music.
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this city is brought to you by, the Letter H. Seriously never understood this building.
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Computer viking posted:The main problem with brutalism is that it's a great excuse for huge, cheap, blocks of concrete with little energy put into the design. At its best it can be elegant, and even the ugly brutalist buildings are more often than not perfectly reasonable places to do whatever they were designed for.
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Marshmallow Blue posted:this city is brought to you by, the Letter H. I'll see your H and raise you an M.  The M is also an elephant.
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You sir are incorrect. That is obviously a duck. A duck with three legs. Okay it's an M with a duck face.
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Angela Christine posted:I'll see your H and raise you an M. IT duck.
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Thwomp posted:You sir are incorrect. It's a sideways 8 with a duck face
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I hope someone at Toho Studios set design consults this thread when making little the buildings for Godzilla to smash. Though Godzilla may befriend the Mduck building.
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exspurt analcyst posted:I hope someone at Toho Studios set design consults this thread when making little the buildings for Godzilla to smash. Though Godzilla may befriend the Mduck building. Can we get a M-Duck VS Godzilla gif?
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Thwomp posted:You sir are incorrect.   :brutal:
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Angela Christine posted:I'll see your H and raise you an M. It's a four-legged duck with a beard.
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I thought that building was the "Elephant and Castle"
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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. Blame the historical society or whoever's behind historic preservation things. Large towers in the downtown area would "take away from the core area's unique aesthetic," so those guys want the downtown area to be frozen in time. Nevermind how the county bulldozed a perfectly good building:  And, in it's place, built this:  Progress! 
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joat mon posted:It's a four-legged duck with a beard. Oh my god, it's Emduck! Marshmallow Blue posted:this city is brought to you by, the Letter H. And this is a washboard. Midnight Voyager fucked around with this message at 05:30 on May 9, 2015 |
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Lol it's doremon
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I'm Crap posted:Actually almost all of them are leaky, unnavigable, dark, dank hovels of concrete-rot dogshit IRL. They can look cool in photographs but so does the Rio Tinto - doesn't mean I'm going swimming in it any time soon. I guess we've had different luck - most of the ones I've been in have been boring but functional.
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All of the talk of archetechs ruining old museums with crazy additions made me think of the old Museum of Science and Industry building in LA. About 20 years ago, LA decided to build do a major remodel and expansion. And, here is what it looks like now, when you get there  Oh wait, you probably want a shot from the of the face in the first picture  Some architect actually managed to do one of those crazy and strange looking additions without killing the style of the original. And its laid out fairly sanely, so there isn't even a lot of space wasted on weird design BS Bonus, here is the nearby Air and Space museum, with the addition designed by Frank Gehry 
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Living in Edmonton Alberta I've come to both love and hate Brutalism. During the 70's the city was booming and huge tracts of land were set aside for Brutalist structures. This wasn't just office buildings but shopping malls, apartment buildings and even playgrounds. I remember playing in a playground with no sand and nothing but big concrete triangles with large circular holes through them with ladders and wooden bridges. Even the art that was placed was Brutalist, composed of the remnants of construction. Out LRT stations downtown are all brutalist with colorful tiles and chandeliers but ugly. Over time however I've come to like the style. While it looks imposing and barren, there's something that makes you feel secure with structure made of nothing of Gravel filled concrete and wood.
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The Glumslinger posted:
I think that's the first Frank Gehry building I've seen that doesn't look like melted poo poo. But it still looks like poo poo.
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Selfridges Department store in England: And for good measure: 
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Accretionist posted:Selfridges Department store in England: 
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The Glumslinger posted:Bonus, here is the nearby Air and Space museum, with the addition designed by Frank Gehry It puts me in the mind of a (inverted) phased radar array, so kinda appropriate for a aerospace museum I guess. 
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Tarkus posted:Living in Edmonton Alberta I've come to both love and hate Brutalism. During the 70's the city was booming and huge tracts of land were set aside for Brutalist structures. This wasn't just office buildings but shopping malls, apartment buildings and even playgrounds. I remember playing in a playground with no sand and nothing but big concrete triangles with large circular holes through them with ladders and wooden bridges. Even the art that was placed was Brutalist, composed of the remnants of construction. Out LRT stations downtown are all brutalist with colorful tiles and chandeliers but ugly. P.much this. Going to the U of A was an experience let me tell you. And I think the big fuckoff playground made of concrete, sand, and soaked with the blood of a million toddlers' skinned knees is still there in Hawrelak Park. I'll have to stop by there one of these days.
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C.M. Kruger posted:It puts me in the mind of a (inverted) phased radar array, so kinda appropriate for a aerospace museum I guess.  RAF Fylingdales Pretty weird to see the first time as it's sat right on top of barren moorland near Scarborough.
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This is the PatCenter. It looks like someone built a giant locker room around the skeleton of a gutted ship. It has won a bunch of awards too, apparently. I believe it is currently without occupants, if any of you happen to be looking for a "building". 
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