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Benagain posted:Speaking of Gehry wannabes, "rear end-Auger Tower"
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That looks super awkward
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Jun 29, 2015 14:34
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Interestingly that pic doesn't include the foundation, which I have made a mockup of here (outlined in green for extra visibility): Cultural Imperial posted:Nice drill bit. Also a good alternative
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Jun 29, 2015 14:34
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Reminds me of Turning Torso. Personally think Turning Torso looks pretty neat though.
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Jun 29, 2015 15:24
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Jun 29, 2015 15:47
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Gonna out myself as an admirer. It looks top-heavy, but I'm sure it's perfectly balanced. Unlikely to melt cars at least.
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Jun 29, 2015 18:51
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It'd look a bit better if the top didn't extend out quite as far over the bottom, yeah, but it's pretty decent.
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Jun 29, 2015 18:53
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did anyone post the Birmingham Bullring already
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du -hast posted:Are these ugly faux-Italians the ones up on Sunset? Like Cesar Chavez north of downtown? Yes, they are loving ugly. The bitch of it is that the area badly needs affordable housing and well-thought-out mixed-use development, and Palmer's Neapolitan ant farms create giant swaths of expensive dead space wherever they are. They have skybridges so residents never have to go down to the sidewalk and interact with their neighborhood at all. This is sold as a desirable feature. In a part of town that's desperately trying to revitalize itself, that (and the rent) is just mean. That fire really was epic. We could see the glow from Fountain and Normandie. My Facebook feed was jubilant that night. One friend said "Welp, looks like everyone who lives downtown is now a suspect." I love that Curbed's articles about the "Renaissance Collection" (loving gross) are tagged "Casa Nostra". spite house fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Jun 29, 2015 |
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This is cool. Dunno why you posted it in here. edit: ChlorophileAddict posted:did anyone post the Birmingham Bullring already The new one is a massive piece of poo poo from the air but inside it's not too bad. I do like the massive trusses they had to build to cantilever support the roofs for reasons unknown, but possibly related to them building it over like 3 major roads and a train station. Drone_Fragger fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Jun 29, 2015 |
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Jun 29, 2015 20:16
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spite house posted:They have skybridges so residents never have to go down to the sidewalk and interact with their neighborhood at all. This is sold as a desirable feature. In a part of town that's desperately trying to revitalize itself, that (and the rent) is just mean. Not going to lie that would be a fantasy feature in virtually every college town in my state for all buildings, if only to keep idiot pedestrians out of the roadways. Also to decrease the danger associated with walking around during or immediately after ice storms. As of right now we only have sky bridge hospital buildings together. I assume this is different in a larger city with warmer weather though.
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Jun 29, 2015 22:49
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The Westin Charlotte makes me irrationally angry:   However, I am completely, totally, unapologetically, unironically in love with the Hearst Tower. It looks straight out of Gotham City.   
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Terrible Opinions posted:Not going to lie that would be a fantasy feature in virtually every college town in my state for all buildings, if only to keep idiot pedestrians out of the roadways. Also to decrease the danger associated with walking around during or immediately after ice storms. As of right now we only have sky bridge hospital buildings together. I assume this is different in a larger city with warmer weather though. In addition to advanced hideousness, the saga of Casa Nostra involves serious gentrification and urban-planning issues that might be a little far afield for this thread, so I'll shut up now. More ugly buildings please.
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Jun 29, 2015 23:26
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Drone_Fragger posted:This is cool. Dunno why you posted it in here.  it's just loving weird tbh
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Jun 30, 2015 00:04
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and speaking of awful...
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Jun 30, 2015 00:07
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let's not forget the bastion of bad taste (hate that fake sky poo poo)       (real talk: stay at the vdara if you do go to vegas)
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Jun 30, 2015 00:23
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The Vegas strip is basically just a gigantic "who can build the gaudiest most eye-attracting building of all" contest and there's no uniformity and it looks like something out of a fever dream.
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Jun 30, 2015 00:35
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The below image equally (if not more so) applies to Las Vegas. 
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CJacobs posted:The Vegas strip is basically just a gigantic "who can build the gaudiest most eye-attracting building of all" contest and there's no uniformity and it looks like something out of a fever dream.
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CJacobs posted:The Vegas strip is basically just a gigantic "who can build the gaudiest most eye-attracting building of all" contest and there's no uniformity and it looks like something out of a fever dream. There is a reason why it was the only place Fear and Loathing could really have been set in.
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this horse was made for sniffin' coke. Benagain posted:Speaking of Gehry wannabes, It'd be like living in a dilder
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Feminition posted:(real talk: stay at the vdara if you do go to vegas)
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Benagain posted:Speaking of Gehry wannabes, 
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Blistex posted:I might be outing myself, but that looks cool as hell. I like the top half and I like the bottom half, but on their own. Putting them together like that just confuses me as to what I'm looking at.
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CJacobs posted:The Vegas strip is basically just a gigantic "who can build the gaudiest most eye-attracting building of all" contest and there's no uniformity and it looks like something out of a fever dream. But we were so close to the greatest thing ever, in 1992.     (Paramount vetoed it at the last minute because they were afraid that it'd get daggy and rusted in 20 years and sit there dragging the franchise down) (And yet they greenlit Voyager) The engine nacelles and the parts of the saucer that weren't up over the neck were basically just going to be lightweight hollow empty sculptures, if you're wondering about the structure. The lower hull would contain a large Star Trek experience, 'crew quarters' that made up a Trek hotel, and set recreations so you could pretend the ship was real and explore it. Story here. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 07:44 on Jun 30, 2015 |
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Jun 30, 2015 07:39
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MikeJF posted:It'd look a bit better if the top didn't extend out quite as far over the bottom, yeah, but it's pretty decent.
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MikeJF posted:But we were so close to the greatest thing ever, in 1992.  Google Earth
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ChlorophileAddict posted:and speaking of awful... I was annoyed by the table breakage until I realized it was really the only appropriate way to post the second largest building in the world, which presumably could house the entire public sector of an east European nation. Also, I uh, I kind of like that behemoth.
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Collateral Damage posted:The chinese beat you to it. Figures China would build Voyager.
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Accretionist posted:I was annoyed by the table breakage until I realized it was really the only appropriate way to post the second largest building in the world How do you figure? Admittedly using Wiki as a source, but it's not top ten by volume, footprint or floor area. (It's 330,000 m² floor, 2.55 million m³ volume) Collateral Damage posted:The chinese beat you to it. Yeah that's pretty neat but it's not exactly a life-size detailed model.
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MikeJF posted:How do you figure? Admittedly using Wiki as a source, but it's not top ten by volume, footprint or floor area. (It's 330,000 m² floor, 2.55 million m³ volume) The file name. I retract my previous concession to table breakage 
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Accretionist posted:The file name. I retract my previous concession to table breakage Huh, the building's website claims it's the second largest building in the world behind the pentagon... which might've been true, like, 20 years ago when it was finished. If you rule out skyscrapers. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Jun 30, 2015 |
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Jun 30, 2015 17:53
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I remember something about it being the second heaviest but 
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:The Westin Charlotte makes me irrationally angry: Is it because it looks like someone sucks at Tetris and then thought his failure would make an interesting (read:not interesting) building?
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Jerry Cotton posted:I remember something about it being the second heaviest but The heaviest being your mother.
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Jun 30, 2015 18:04
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I'm reading that it's the world's largest administrative building for civilian use, which sounds like cheating, and, with over 1,000,000 cubic meters of marble, possibly the world's heaviest building. Possessing this information is less fulfilling than I'd hoped. I still want to buy it and create the world's largest and heaviest think tank.
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Here's some stuff from my hometown. As a kid I always thought our court house looked like where Cobra's headquarters should be:  It's like mini-brutalism! Also our local university has a notoriously difficult-to-navigate brutalist library:  The outside plaza might be a cement hellscape in the summer (called "concrete beach") but dat interior:  1960-70 there was only one style in Canada  But real talk: I genuinely like both of these For something actually terrible, here's the building for the university's once great business school. Y'all like cheap green glass?  And here's the original non-lovely design:  Also the interior has a lovely fireplace just like that gothic beauty in Pittsburgh:  Cozy!
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Does anyone feel up to doing an effortpost about various types and grades of glass? I do not know much about the subject and would enjoy learning more, so I can properly mock buildings that use lovely sub par stuff.
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