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Life and death situations are well-known for their teamwork building ability, mission accomplished.
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Logikv9 posted:Life and death situations are well-known for their teamwork building ability, mission accomplished. Unless a guy shows he's a craven rear end in a top hat who pushes a pregnant lady out of the way in his rush for the exit.
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Jun 17, 2015 16:44
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Angela Christine posted:Unless a guy shows he's a real go-getter who pushes a pregnant lady out of the way in his rush for the exit.
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Jun 17, 2015 17:28
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I get it's like a convention center so form over function etc., but the adrienne arsht center for the performing arts in Miami is pretty much the ugliest building I have ever seen*. the concert hall is actually pretty nice inside but it doesn't excuse the crime against humanity going on outside:   *not made by gehry
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Jun 17, 2015 17:47
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Platystemon posted:Has MIT’s Stata Center been posted? I don’t recall seeing it, but it was designed by thread favourite Frank Gehry. strap on revenge posted:this piece of poo poo is gehry's only contribution to australia thankfully I wonder if this aggressively asymmetric stuff is annoying the construction workers that have to build it. Dude goes to work with his carpenter's square, his level, and his plumb line and WTF is he suppose to do here?
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Jun 17, 2015 18:59
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Angela Christine posted:Unless a guy shows he's a craven rear end in a top hat who pushes a pregnant lady out of the way in his rush for the exit. Was that the stephen king book about the coma guy who saw the future and needed to assassinate the president? This feels like a direct reference to something but I can't quite place it. e: Seinfeld? gently caress. Krinkle fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Jun 18, 2015 |
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Jun 17, 2015 23:45
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idk if this was posted but this is in east lansing  so horrendously ugly
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Jun 17, 2015 23:55
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Angela Christine posted:Unless a guy shows he's a craven rear end in a top hat who pushes a pregnant lady out of the way in his rush for the exit. pregnant schmegnant
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Jun 18, 2015 00:04
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Krinkle posted:Was that the stephen king book about the coma guy who saw the future and needed to assassinate the president? This feels like a direct reference to something but I can't quite place it. I think Seinfeld is indeed what you're looking for, but the book in question is The Dead Zone.
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Jun 18, 2015 00:14
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cubicle gangster posted:When gehry does something good though, it's real good Call me old-fashioned, but I really don't like New York by Frank Gehry (and as a New Yorker the name makes me shudder. It just...I don't like it). It's too understated and metal paneling and glass is already such a huge sign of new construction in the city that it just feels like the tallest, most ostentatious iteration of it. I bet it would look better in a much newer skyline like in Singapore or Seoul.
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Jun 18, 2015 00:36
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At least Gehry isn't covered with blue glass. gently caress that poo poo.
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Jun 18, 2015 00:57
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Krinkle posted:Was that the stephen king book about the coma guy who saw the future and needed to assassinate the president? This feels like a direct reference to something but I can't quite place it. No specific reference, though Seinfeld is one of the places it has come up. Sometimes a life or death situation brings out the best in people, and sometimes it brings out the worst. Having to act in an emergency without time to think can reveal hidden sociopaths and assholes among us.
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Jun 18, 2015 01:13
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Angela Christine posted:I wonder if this aggressively asymmetric stuff is annoying the construction workers that have to build it. Dude goes to work with his carpenter's square, his level, and his plumb line and WTF is he suppose to do here? Yes, all that stuff is nightmarish to put up. Mostly just "extremely expensive", though.
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Jun 18, 2015 01:24
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grade-A apartment construction   "nah, it'll hold" what a cheap loving building
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TEAYCHES posted:grade-A apartment construction I've heard two things about this. First, that there seemed to be some rot or something, which caused some structural weakness. Second, (and this seem fairly ridiculous to me), the builder is now stating that the balconies are "merely decorative, and not meant to support the weight of a human."
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genesplicer posted:I've heard two things about this. First, that there seemed to be some rot or something, which caused some structural weakness. Second, (and this seem fairly ridiculous to me), the builder is now stating that the balconies are "merely decorative, and not meant to support the weight of a human." Would such balconies be legal wherever that is?
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Jerry Cotton posted:Would such balconies be legal wherever that is? Maybe if there wasn't a door leading out to the balcony.
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 You can see that there are on both floors in the first pic. You'd think the building contractor would just own up to lovely unstable balconies instead of pretending you aren't supposed to stand on them when there are doors that lead there and all. 
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Jun 18, 2015 12:47
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I don't know if there were any people under it, but my guess is too many people were on a lovely balcony with no weight limit or warning posted.
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Kavak posted:I don't know if there were any people under it, but my guess is too many people were on a lovely balcony with no weight limit or warning posted. There were thirteen people on that tiny lovely balcony, so I'm not too surprised that it broke and killed half of them. Especially considering that the company that built it has a habit of building poo poo-quality balconies: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Berkeley-mayor-says-water-damage-probably-to-6333561.php quote:The investigation into the cause of the Berkeley apartment balcony collapse that killed six people and injured seven focused Wednesday on the company that constructed the building — a firm that has paid more than $6 million in the past two years to settle lawsuits claiming its work caused balconies to rot prematurely and fail.
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Palette Cleanser: The Cathedral of Learning    I look at that, and then I look at this thread, and I think, It's part of the state university in Pittsburgh and was built in the 30s for $10m, or, in 2015 dollars, ~$130m. If I ever win a very large lottery, America's getting another one. It is also the tallest educational structure in the western hemisphere and was apparently the site of some good powerwasher porn in 2007 when this happened:   Interior shot:  I feel like it's straight out of some utopian alternate reality where threads like this don't exist. Look at it. Look at it.
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Accretionist posted:The Home of Wisdom I'm imagining professors and huge shelves of old books crammed into broom closets, but with solid wooden doors with patina'd brass nameplates. You know when you're in a dean's office because he has a window that looks out over the baseball field. How high up you are is an indication of status. A small group of philosophy majors has staked out a corner of the vaulted library, arguing about dead languages. You always get the sense that you're supposed to be quiet, because this is a serious place for scholars. I'm writing building fanfiction help e: Holy poo poo I googled it, it is actually formally named The Cathedral Of Learning and it does indeed house their philosophy department as well as their top-ranked "History and Philosophy of Science" department. quote:Colloquially referred to as "Cathy" by Pitt students,[13] the Cathedral of Learning is a steel frame structure overlaid with Indiana limestone and contains more than 2,000 rooms and windows. It functions as a primary classroom and administrative center of the university, and is home to the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and many of its departments, as well as the University Honors College. It previously served as home of the university's College of General Studies (until its relocation to Posvar Hall in 2014). It houses many specialty spaces, including a studio theater, food court, study lounges, offices, computer and language labs, 29 Nationality Rooms, and a 1⁄2-acre (2,000 m2), 4-story-high, vaulted, gothic study and event hall. I did a lot of late-night studying in college, usually by fluorescent light in some sheetrocked box. Sitting in a cathedral by a fire and studying seems more important, somehow. it actually seems like a really useful, practical building with a lot of facilities for lots of different functions. Uncle Enzo fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Jun 18, 2015 |
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Jun 18, 2015 14:48
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That rules, Accretionist.
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Accretionist posted:Palette Cleanser: The Cathedral of Learning I saw this in person recently. You can all take your Frank Gehry skyscrapers and cram 'em. NYC needs a second wave of art deco skyscrapers. gently caress, most US cities need more art deco.
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Jun 18, 2015 14:58
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It's like... deco gothic.
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Jun 18, 2015 15:47
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It's like someone fused the first place and second place entries for the Tribune Competition. http://skyscraper.org/EXHIBITIONS/PAPER_SPIRES/chitrib01.php Goddamn. Now I need to go to Pittsburgh.
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This picture always scares the poo poo out of me. Looking at the picture gives me vertigo. It looks like you're one slip-on-a-puddle-of-beer away from landing on the third base line. It's amazing, how loving awesome would it be to watch a ballgame there even if it's really windy and the birds keep making GBS threads on you and you can't see the players and....
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Jun 18, 2015 16:33
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Accretionist posted:Interior shot: Any more interior shots, I love those ridiculously high ceilings 
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Gorilla Salad posted:Any more interior shots, I love those ridiculously high ceilings
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Yawgmoth posted:They look really cool but I bet it's a bitch and a half to heat. Well, there's a reason bachelor robes have all that fur.
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Accretionist posted:Palette Cleanser: The Cathedral of Learning  So much better than my campuses faux-spanish style.
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Accretionist posted:It's part of the state university in Pittsburgh and was built in the 30s for $10m, or, in 2015 dollars, ~$130m. If I ever win a very large lottery, America's getting another one.
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Los Angeles, despite its underwhelming downtown skyline, has some great architecture. Also some terrible architecture. It's kind of all-or-nothing with this place. My least favorite buildings in town at the moment are the ghastly, cheaply-built-though-not-at-all-cheap, hosed-out-hideous quasi-Italianate termite mounds that take up what seems like half of the stretch of the 101 between downtown and and Hollywood. They're called the Visconti and the Medici, and the best I can say about them is that they might look pretty cool after Armageddon comes and they turn into the Kowloon Walled City.   Pictures don't do these monstrosities justice. They're just VAST. Also sparsely inhabited by exactly the kind of bourgy jerks you'd expect. And their official signage is in loving Papyrus.  As if that weren't enough, the developer responsible, Geoff Palmer, may be literally Satan. Then, last December, something magical happened. Earlier in the year, Palmer thumbed his nose at everyone with any sense who's ever had to endure looking at his awful buildings, and started to build another complex much like the others except even bigger and even stupider. It was to be called the Da Vinci, and it was almost finished when:   Yep. Arson. Nobody was hurt, and it was spectacular, and everyone in the neighborhood really hoped they wouldn't catch the guy who did it. Unfortunately he got sloppy. Pour one out. Mr. Palmer does not understand, and can only conclude that his critics are plebes who do not appreciate "classical beauty". spite house fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Jun 19, 2015 |
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They have a pool, they can!t be that bad.
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Lawman 0 posted:
That's not the best part. The best part are the Nationality Rooms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationality_Rooms
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Khazar-khum posted:That's not the best part. Wow. That's... amazing. Brb enrolling. Imagine studying in those rooms every day.
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Dre2Dee2 posted:BEHOLD... The American DreamTM ! (formerly known as XANADU) It looks like a great location for an inside racing course.
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spite house posted:Los Angeles, despite its underwhelming downtown skyline, has some great architecture. Also some terrible architecture. It's kind of all-or-nothing with this place. If there was a kickstarter to donate to help this hero make bail, I'd kick in 20 bucks.
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The house of our student nation, Urdsgjallar (named after a drinking horn of Viking mythology) in Espoo, Finland deserves a mention. Teknologföreningens Urdsgjallar [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], by J-P Kärnä (Own work), from Wikimedia Commons It's neither remarkably ugly or pretty as far as brutalist buildings go, but it has the most impractical floor plan I've ever seen. Approximately a quarter of the building consists of hallways or stairs. The latter also serve to make it remarkably wheelchair-unfriendly and hauling stuff around is a pain in the rear end because you can't really use a trolley or a pallet jack. The basement, which contains a third of all floor space, also lacks windows completely.
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