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Zopotantor posted:Reminds me of this proposal from SITE, which I think wasn't actually built:  Which was used to turn this:  Into this:  I really like Hundertwasser's buildings.    thank you, thread, for Hundertwasser. (More)
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rocket_350 posted: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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May 22, 2015 19:32
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Zopotantor posted:Reminds me of this proposal from SITE, which I think wasn't actually built: that's quite impressive
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May 22, 2015 19:37
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joat mon posted:
Wait, what? Explain?
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May 22, 2015 22:16
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joat mon posted:Closed years ago.
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May 22, 2015 22:20
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Messadiah posted:Wait, what? Explain? There was a fear during WW2 that the Japanese would bomb CA since most of the aircraft manufacturing in the US was done there. This was a project to hide one of the largest plants from possible bombardment.
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May 22, 2015 23:03
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Popular Thug Drink posted:dont post my tropico screenshots
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May 22, 2015 23:58
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I will never understand buildings with holes through the center but this was the most flattering angle I could take the photo in on my walk to Lunch today. Their website has a better picture of said hole. The thing that bothers me about this cluster of buildings is that all of them are wildly variable for age/design methodology and they've tried to make it all fit. While the photo makes it look pretty good, in execution, the concrete formulation of the building in the back is wildly discolored and the glass building to the left is a 1970's style ball of concrete, steel, and glass.. aka lets paint over the rusty parts nobody will notice. The giant staircase to the hole through the building is also notable for serving no real purpose. Of note immediately behind the school is a canal, so it's effectively nothing except a workout routine to access side doors in a building you'll still need to use the elevator to get around in. The old style mansions in the background from before builders in Tokyo realized they needed more than simply functional architecture don't help. Shibaura Institute of Technology, Toyosu Campus http://global.shibaura-it.ac.jp/en/about/toyosu-campus/
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May 24, 2015 08:16
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Messadiah posted:Wait, what? Explain? http://www.seenandshared.com/air-factory.htm If you like that type of bullshit, check out the archives of bldgblog.blogspot.com You'll go bananarrs
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May 24, 2015 08:28
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May 24, 2015 08:37
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I used to travel to Seattle a couple of times a year with work because my company were based there in the Rainier Tower. I'm not sure how famous this building is but I think it looks kind of ridiculous: I feel like there's a good idea in here somewhere but the execution is extremely bland. It's pretty cool to look up at from the base though. Tunga fucked around with this message at 10:03 on May 24, 2015 |
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May 24, 2015 10:00
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Marshmallow Blue posted:Continuing the Rt1 Kick. 
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May 24, 2015 15:01
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Tunga posted:I used to travel to Seattle a couple of times a year with work because my company were based there in the Rainier Tower. I'm not sure how famous this building is but I think it looks kind of ridiculous: i don't get it, that sure is a completely boring and unremarkable looking buildi 
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May 24, 2015 15:29
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joat mon posted:I really like Hundertwasser's buildings. His buildings are actually really tacky and dumb, especially if you see them up close. Also, none of the windows line up, the walls are never straight and sometimes even the floor isn't. The apartments come mostly furnished because you can't fit any other furniture in there except for specially made snowflake furniture. Upkeep is also insane and the insulation is sub-standard as well. It's loving retarded.
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May 24, 2015 15:38
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This one looks kinda creepy, like a child's dream wonderland that has decayed into a soviet hellhole.
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May 24, 2015 15:39
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Ghost Farts posted:Also, none of the windows line up, the walls are never straight and sometimes even the floor isn't. He really didn't like straight lines and right angles. Also: Wikipedia posted:The Hundertwasser Toilets is a public toilet located at 60 Gilles Street, the main street of the town Kawakawa on New Zealand's North Island. It is one of few toilet blocks seen as an international work of art and a tourist attraction in its own right. 
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May 24, 2015 16:20
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An aunt of mine once had a flat in the Magdeburg Hundertwasser Haus. It was beautiful, uplifting and interesting to visit her, but totally impractical to actually live there, so she sold it a few months later.
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May 24, 2015 16:24
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Honj Steak posted:An aunt of mine once had a flat in the Magdeburg Hundertwasser Haus. It was beautiful, uplifting and interesting to visit her, but totally impractical to actually live there, so she sold it a few months later. He seems like the kind of guy who should have allied himself with a sensible if boring engineer to make his ideas into slightly more convenient realities.
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sinking belle posted:i don't get it, that sure is a completely boring and unremarkable looking buildi Edit: Oh right I am dumb. But yeah, the best part about the pedestal is that they didn't do anything good with the surround space. Tunga fucked around with this message at 19:09 on May 24, 2015 |
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May 24, 2015 18:14
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Tunga posted:It has a weird pedestal thing at the bottom that doesn't actually serve any purpose or create any useful space. He seems to have noticed towards the end of the sentence.
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May 24, 2015 18:38
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Tunga posted:I used to travel to Seattle a couple of times a year with work because my company were based there in the Rainier Tower. I'm not sure how famous this building is but I think it looks kind of ridiculous: this is the exact opposite of an architectural failure. also, is the same architect as the old world trade center
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May 25, 2015 01:49
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reagan posted:this is the exact opposite of an architectural failure. also, is the same architect as the old world trade center those didn't hold up so well
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May 25, 2015 03:45
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The architect of the World Trade Center stuck a more boring version of it on a pedestal. It's cool and impressive but it's a gimmick that doesn't accomplish much. I bet they had a good concept for using the extra public space below it but people didn't want to hang out in the windy shadow of a building.
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May 25, 2015 04:16
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is it vulnerable to strong gusts of wind
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May 25, 2015 10:36
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it was designed to bounce back from large punches
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May 25, 2015 10:41
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Feminition posted:
Is that Biff's Casino?
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May 25, 2015 12:49
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The Twinkie Czar posted:The architect of the World Trade Center stuck a more boring version of it on a pedestal. It's cool and impressive but it's a gimmick that doesn't accomplish much. I bet they had a good concept for using the extra public space below it but people didn't want to hang out in the windy shadow of a building.
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May 25, 2015 14:52
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Not a failure at all but I wanted to post the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne because it's so hilariously Aussie. "We finished tiling the big dome! What a beautiful building this is gonna be!" "But it was a lot of work... wanna just say gently caress it, throw corrugated iron on the rest, and go get a beer?" "...yeah, whatever."  
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May 25, 2015 18:42
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It looks like an untextured building render put together in Unreal Engine 4
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May 28, 2015 10:52
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just finished reading through this thread - fun stuff! my area contribution: residential castle fail http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/...atured_headline
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sinking belle posted:i don't get it, that sure is a completely boring and unremarkable looking buildi Out of pure co-incidence I was listening to the Jurassic Park OST, and the song was at the exact bit where Grant & Ellie spot the Brachiosaur for the first time. I had the same reaction as them for that drat building looking down, poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJlmYh27MHg Same music segment as 0:01
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CJacobs posted:It looks like an untextured building render put together in Unreal Engine 4 Always wondered why they never painted it. Does make for pretty impressive canvas for when ever they want to project video stuff onto though:  although thats only happens like once a year.
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kbdragon posted:just finished reading through this thread - fun stuff! If I could teleport past O'Fallon while driving I would.
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Jun 12, 2015 18:02
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I absolutely hate this building in Kansas City, KS 
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evilclosetmonkey posted:I absolutely hate this building in Kansas City, KS Somewhere, a lovely Tetris player is being triggered
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kbdragon posted:just finished reading through this thread - fun stuff! A-hahahaha. "Let's build an average suburban brick home and slap a tower on the front." "Shouldn't we, oh, I dunno, make the tower look more integrated into the design? Maybe make the house look a little more like a castle or something...? How about an all-stone facade instead of brick?" "No! No, it's fine just like this!"
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kbdragon posted:just finished reading through this thread - fun stuff! "I always wanted a tower on a house, I just didn't give two shits about anything else, like not looking like poo poo, or having the house itself be interesting in any way. Tile floors on every surface of the house? OK sure why not, I've got a two story tower built out of cinderblocks, just like they build in Germany, that's all I care about. That and getting black out drunk on bulk wine apparently" Seriously, that '1000 bottle wine AutoArgus fucked around with this message at 13:27 on Jun 13, 2015 |
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Jun 13, 2015 13:23
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It's not a tower by any reasonable definition.
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Jun 13, 2015 13:34
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Maybe it reminds her of the crumbled foundation of a tower she saw in Germany. I could see that.
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reagan posted:this is the exact opposite of an architectural failure. also, is the same architect as the old world trade center Don't care I hate walking underneath it even though it is clearly structurally sound.
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