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Marshmallow Blue posted:restaurants in greater Boston Area are weird. Are you going to have your birthday at The Ship? That whole strip of buildings is pretty ugly, which is saying something considering everything on Rt. 1 is ugly as poo poo (except the Hilltop Steak House sign, which owns and I hope that thing sticks around when whatever replaces the restaurant comes).
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Nice sign.
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Mr. Sharps posted:all you fans of brutalism mingled with greenery should visit seattle's freeway park Still smells like piss and poo poo however. In maintained parks are a tragedy.
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May 21, 2015 09:07
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I've only been to boston the once but I do remember it being quite damp. It doesn't seem like a funnel shaped roof would help that.
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May 21, 2015 09:33
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Moridin920 posted:This one in particular I hated; it looks better in the photos than it does in real life because the photos don't capture the bonkers texture on the outside very well: Hundertwasser was a strange man.
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Angela Christine posted:Apparently it's an experimental factory, so blankets are a possibility. And here I was naively thinking experiments were made by scientist in laboratories, wearing lab coats, but now I find out the scientist were just ordering them all their experiments already done from a factory and passing them off as their own! The whole field of Science is a lie. 
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May 21, 2015 11:28
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Seriously, if they ever make another Star Trek series they shouldn't bother CGIing cities for alien planets, just send a team out to get some shots of some of the bizarre obscure buildings people in this thread are posting. Shoulda done it for the old shows too. I mean, why bother making a matte painting of this:  When you can just go take a photo of this:  Take a snap, crop out the cars, call it a day, get lauded for how realistic the lighting on your your planetary art is. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 11:51 on May 21, 2015 |
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May 21, 2015 11:31
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Woody Allen did that in Sleeper. All the film's futuristic exteriors are just modernist buildings in California.
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May 21, 2015 12:48
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I'm p sure the TV headquarters from Running Man was in this thread.
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May 21, 2015 13:00
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tardwrangler posted:Nice sign. This is unironically amazing.
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MikeJF posted:Take a snap, crop out the cars, call it a day, get lauded for how realistic the lighting on your your planetary art is. Use a wastewater processing plant and you don't need to crop out much. 
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tardwrangler posted:Nice sign. My uncle was the head chef there for years. I got a commemorative t-shirt and a set of steak knives when they shut down. There's also Kowloon right in the same area. Hard to find decent pics of the inside but it's all kitschy tiki themed.  
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May 21, 2015 16:19
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Hilltop shut down? Driving to that big dumb place was a highlight of growing up around there.
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May 21, 2015 16:42
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Why is the tiki themed restaurant called Kowloon?
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Spatule posted:Kill it, kill it with fire. Quoting myself since nobody cam back alive from seeing this link (or didn't bother looking).         All those things have been built in the last five years.
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Dr. Stab posted:Why is the tiki themed restaurant called Kowloon? For the same reason that there's a chain of Italian restaurants in MA called The Chateau 
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Dr. Stab posted:Why is the tiki themed restaurant called Kowloon?
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Yawgmoth posted:I wanna have a Chinese restaurant named Kowloon and have the inside be a model of the walled city. Like Denver's Casa Bonita.
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Spatule posted:Quoting myself since nobody cam back alive from seeing this link (or didn't bother looking).
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You will be assimilated Resistance is futile 
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Phanatic posted:This is unironically amazing. It really is. It's about 40 feet tall and about as wide. It dominates it's little piece of skyline. It's kinda like something you might see on Route 66, except on a crowded, busy road in Massachusetts. ANAmal.net posted:Hilltop shut down? Driving to that big dumb place was a highlight of growing up around there. Yeah, sometime last year I think. I drove by last week on the way to Logan, it's all just a pile of rubble now. Thankfully, it does seem the sign will stay when the new shopping center thing is built. The plastic/fiberglass/whatever cows apparently were saved, too, though I don't know where they are.
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Grim Up North posted:Use a wastewater processing plant and you don't need to crop out much. If they ever shut that place down Paramount should buy it and turn it into a Star Trek museum.
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MikeJF posted:Seriously, if they ever make another Star Trek series they shouldn't bother CGIing cities for alien planets, just send a team out to get some shots of some of the bizarre obscure buildings people in this thread are posting. In the TNG epside Contagion Picard is stuck in a soon to explode outpost. His only means of escape is a teleportation portal that is cycling through a bunch of destinations. He decides that the bridge of a Romulan Warbird is preferable to Toronto City Hall. 
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Grim Up North posted:Use a wastewater processing plant and you don't need to crop out much. 
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joat mon posted:Like Denver's Casa Bonita.
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Grim Up North posted:Use a wastewater processing plant and you don't need to crop out much. Next Generation had an episode filmed there as well - Season 1, Episode 8: Justice 
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May 21, 2015 19:33
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TenementFunster posted:Or Tulsa's Casa Bonita, you ingrate Closed years ago.
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Spatule posted:Quoting myself since nobody cam back alive from seeing this link (or didn't bother looking). The Triumphal Arch is a tad excessive.
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And now we come full circle; the Chinese company NetDragon actually licensed rights from CBS in order to build their headquarters in the shape of the Enterprise. Video flyover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbl45otRBiw
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Detective Thompson posted:It really is. It's about 40 feet tall and about as wide. It dominates it's little piece of skyline. It's kinda like something you might see on Route 66, except on a crowded, busy road in Massachusetts. Is there a good image site that worships/documents this kind of stuff?
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Doggles posted:And now we come full circle; the Chinese company NetDragon actually licensed rights from CBS in order to build their headquarters in the shape of the Enterprise. Kinda weird that they bothered to pay the licencing fee
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Turfahurf posted:My uncle was the head chef there for years. I got a commemorative t-shirt and a set of steak knives when they shut down. I was expecting pictures of the infamous place in China.
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I heard you like really ugly buildings. 1. University of Bielefeld "Let's put the whole university in one building. Let's build the biggest university building in the world. Let's do it in the seventies, where architecture is really cool. Let's use asbestos liberally" whooooops      Now they have to renovate it for the tiny sum of 1 billion euros. 2. Ihme Center, Hannover A really, really beautiful urban "all inside" thing akin to the Olympiades in Paris.     Too bad it's now abandoned and too big to do anything with it      More Urbex Pics
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Spatule posted:You will be assimilated I thought it was Belgium, and then I saw the "Te Koop - A Vendre" sign Apparently that's a screengrab from a documentary series on Belgian architecture and city planning https://vimeo.com/127148926
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Geoff Zahn posted:Next Generation had an episode filmed there as well - Season 1, Episode 8: Justice Merge it with the Futurama pavillion and you get Starfleet HQ, too!  They got a lot of mileage out of that water processing plant.
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MikeJF posted:
That huge concrete building from the Power Rangers was used as a set repeatedly, too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandeis-Bardin_Institute#Filming_locations
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Continuing the Rt1 Kick. Anyone thinking of playing mini-golf here, don't it's very bad. If you're looking to buy in on the action  This Chinese gate and Chinese style building a qtr mile up a hill has been for sale forever. Seriously if you ever go to Boston, skip the Aquarium and Museum of Science and take your Rent a car up route 1.
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Reminds me of this proposal from SITE, which I think wasn't actually built:  But these were. quote:quote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkirk_Wheel
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