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dadrips posted:Entire city blocks have been obliterated and old streets bisected, the most egregious example of which is Argyle Street - once a contiguous road running east to west through the city, it has now been split in the middle leaving its two sides disconnected. An offshot of the motorway - dual carriageway called the A803 is notorious for effectively killing an entire community of Glasgow called Springburn, like a particularly vicious Glasgow smile carved across the landscape. They drove it straight through the little area, demolishing whatever stood in its' path and ignoring the industrial areas just up from it that could have benefited from having a big road nearby. The result is a curious one, with softly curved rows of little houses ending abruptly mere metres from the main road with no access to it, sweeping red sandstone tenaments cut off so crudely on either side of the road that you could still see remnants of wallpaper adhering to the new end walls as late as the 1990s. Relatives of mine, that lived on a street perhaps forty metres long and could run in a matter of seconds to each others flats before the construction now found themselves either moved out the district or utterly separated by four lanes of traffic, a central wall and a very few points at which to get from one side to the other. Fascinating documentary on the destruction and regeneration of Glasgow called Dreaming the Impossible: Unbuilt Britain, if you can ever find it on iPlayer or Netflix, documenting plans meant to revitalise or improve Britain throughout the ages that utterly failed due to their bonkers nature. The section on an 1870 plan to build a 15mile long circular glass walkway completely covering Londons' shopping districts is nicely mental too.
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Do horrible landscaping failures belong here as well? Because it seems that some of the builders in my area have decided that vast spans of gravel and a single sad lonely tree is the best way to do a yard. 
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Jul 26, 2015 01:34
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I'm kind of surprised that this monstrosity of brutalism isn't mentioned in these threads, leaky, draft, and so out of place on campus it drew rumors of being designed as a student riot invincible bunker when it was built in the 60's.   It got demolished a few years ago and Madison's campus was vastly improved for it. killer_robot fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Jul 26, 2015 |
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Jul 26, 2015 02:29
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Shifty Pony posted:Do horrible landscaping failures belong here as well? Because it seems that some of the builders in my area have decided that vast spans of gravel and a single sad lonely tree is the best way to do a yard. Let me guess: California? Because less to water during drought, and less to burn during wild fires. Or maybe Texas. My abuelita had a rock garden she was very proud of.
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Jul 26, 2015 02:30
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Wedemeyer posted:Let me guess: California? Because less to water during drought, and less to burn during wild fires. Or maybe Texas. My abuelita had a rock garden she was very proud of. Austin Texas. Xeriscaping can be pretty, but too many people seem to think that just throwing down a barren crushed aggregate is all you have to do. Look at how boring that yard is, and it is pretty much unusable for anything because walking or playing on crushed stone sucks. Here the climate is wet enough that there are myriad ways to have a pretty and usable yard that needs zero watering but I think builders go with the rock yards out of laziness and because crushed rock is a hell of a lot easier to get a hold of than 3ksqft of buffalograss sod or worse waiting for a Habiturf lawn to establish itself from seed.
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Jul 26, 2015 03:25
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Ya, the other pictures looked pretty bad but I think this is great.
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Jul 26, 2015 04:12
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Cyril Sneer posted:Ya, the other pictures looked pretty bad but I think this is great. Too bad that that's supposed to be indoors.
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Jul 26, 2015 14:08
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But then who's gonna put snow on the tables?
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Jul 27, 2015 07:32
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Shifty Pony posted:Austin Texas. Xeriscaping can be pretty, but too many people seem to think that just throwing down a barren crushed aggregate is all you have to do. Look at how boring that yard is, and it is pretty much unusable for anything because walking or playing on crushed stone sucks. Here the climate is wet enough that there are myriad ways to have a pretty and usable yard that needs zero watering but I think builders go with the rock yards out of laziness and because crushed rock is a hell of a lot easier to get a hold of than 3ksqft of buffalograss sod or worse waiting for a Habiturf lawn to establish itself from seed. With that house design, you are basically supposed to ignore the front yard.
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Jul 27, 2015 13:18
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ghosthorse posted:woops, well uhh...what about a bridge! I was in Venice several weeks earlier. That bridge connects Piazzale Roma, where most tourists arrive by motor vehicle, with the train station and rest of Venice. That's a poo poo ton of heavy luggage going over the bridge without a ramp. It was bad enough that porters on both sides were offering (overpriced) services just to carry luggage over it.
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Jul 27, 2015 13:33
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Venice loves bridges with steps, so you are pretty screwed with heavy luggage regardless (unless you get to your hotel via water taxi.)
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Jul 27, 2015 15:38
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killer_robot posted:I'm kind of surprised that this monstrosity of brutalism isn't mentioned in these threads, leaky, draft, and so out of place on campus it drew rumors of being designed as a student riot invincible bunker when it was built in the 60's. Have you ever been to Madison? The Humanities building is very much still there.
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Jul 27, 2015 16:01
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Freudian posted:Hah, my old university started planning its next accommodation halls, and the Earth Sciences department helpfully pointed out that the ground wasn't great to build on. So of course they built anyway. And M block promptly had to be torn down due to subsidence. What exactly is the point of paying geologists to exist on the same campus as you if you don't actually listen to their geological advice? ...we have a fairly large engineering department on campus which has links to multiple enormous multi-national engineering companies (as in they have departments on campus) and we outsource our engineering to companies we have no links with. Because the finance department enjoys pissing away millions needlessly.
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Jul 27, 2015 16:18
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That's 95% of all houses in seasonal beachfront towns. When the house is empty the rest of the year and then rented all summer, usually by multiple parties, yard maintenance is on nobody's to-do list. The tree is a sad surprise though.
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Jul 27, 2015 19:28
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Splizwarf posted:That's 95% of all houses in seasonal beachfront towns. When the house is empty the rest of the year and then rented all summer, usually by multiple parties, yard maintenance is on nobody's to-do list. What's sad to me is the lack of natural light for that house (looks like a duplex?). And that tree is mostly likely a shrub. I have one very similar in the flowerbed along my garage. It was there when I bought the place five years ago, and it's still the same size as the one in the picture.
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Jul 27, 2015 22:18
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flosofl posted:What's sad to me is the lack of natural light for that house (looks like a duplex?). If thats a south or west facing wall in a hot place there is a very good reason for that. (Lives in a top floor southwest facing apartment with lots of windows and hates life)
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Jul 27, 2015 22:23
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nm posted:If thats a south or west facing wall in a hot place there is a very good reason for that. (Lives in a top floor southwest facing apartment with lots of windows and hates life) Yeah, it's a pretty common modernist design. Back wall would be large windows, street-facing wall would be either wide short windows high up (like in the photo) or tall narrow windows. Besides issues with the sun, it's also for privacy.
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[London's] ‘Death Ray’ Skyscraper Stands Accused of Blowing People Over quote:Already infamous for its curved facade that ignited fires in adjacent buildings and melted nearby cars basking in its reflected sunlight, the Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London is now being blamed for toppling signs, overturning food carts and even knocking passers-by off their feet. Dubbed ‘Walkie Scorchie’ as well as the ‘Death Ray’ during its last public debacle, critics may need a new name for this building more suited to its fresh source of infamy.
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Jul 29, 2015 12:02
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That building owns and I love the fact that it's rebelling against its creators by knocking them over and setting their things on fire.
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Jul 29, 2015 12:14
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ANAmal.net posted:That building owns and I love the fact that it's rebelling against its creators by knocking them over and setting their things on fire. I've read that the architect has the same problem with a building in Vegas which attacks the pool area every day. Accretionist fucked around with this message at 12:59 on Jul 29, 2015 |
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Jul 29, 2015 12:19
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Square buildings are boring, what if we made them curved? Oh, right then.
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Jul 29, 2015 20:29
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It's the next level of spite house technology.
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Jul 29, 2015 22:20
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quote:An exceptional re-working of a 1936 grade II listed gamekeeper's cottage (by William Curtis Green, architect of the Dorchester Hotel foyer) with Arts and Crafts stylistic elements blended with a contemporary modernist extension (by Plymouth based Architects Form Design).  e: forgot to add I hate every bit of the extension.
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fuctifino posted:http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-49818115.html The original house has really tiny windows. Unusually tiny windows. Obviously the tiny windows drove them mad.
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Jul 30, 2015 00:43
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Eh, I don't mind that. Unlike some of the atrocious glass monsters eating old buildings we've seen in here, it's cleanly off to the side and appears to be actually practical for the intended use. Also unlike those, it looks almost understated - it's just a room wrapped in a minimal amount of exterior, and small enough to not even be visible from several angles. That doesn't mean I think it's pretty, mind you. More "inoffensive".
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Jul 30, 2015 02:33
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Angela Christine posted:The original house has really tiny windows. Unusually tiny windows. Obviously the tiny windows drove them mad. The extension is perfect for spotting the enemy army and the house perfect to fire arrows at them from.
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Jul 30, 2015 02:36
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fuctifino posted:http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-49818115.html actually this is dope, but they should conceal the extension more with trees and bigass bushes. if that extension was a surprise it would be cool.
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Jul 30, 2015 02:42
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That house has some tiny windows, so I can see why they made that extension. It must be really gloomy in there, especially on cloudy days. It still could have been done better.
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Jul 30, 2015 05:53
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Accretionist posted:Palette Cleanser: The Cathedral of Learning e:  Went to a wedding reception recently at a Carnegie museum by there that was ridiculous. The church the ceremony was at was also pretty awesome. gvibes fucked around with this message at 08:50 on Jul 30, 2015 |
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Jul 30, 2015 08:47
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fuctifino posted:http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-49818115.html idgi That's really nice. The original house is 100% intact, and the extension is entirely separate from it.
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Jul 30, 2015 09:45
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It has a glass hallway thing, which is awesome, just like the house and its modern extension are loving awesome and if I had 600,000 pounds and then some more thousands of the things, I would buy it right now.
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Jul 30, 2015 09:48
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gvibes posted:Isn't there some awesome photo from the top of this looking down at a baseball game or something? The photo you posted is in the post you quoted. 
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Jul 30, 2015 10:05
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Angela Christine posted:The original house has really tiny windows. Unusually tiny windows. Obviously the tiny windows drove them mad. If you click through on the property listing you'll see that the house has a nice porch and large windows at the back. Way to be welcoming and friendly. I initially thought how the house was way ugly and the extension was, if anything, better but if you look at the other pics I reassessed that slightly.
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Jul 30, 2015 10:24
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Houston in the '80s   It's better now but still, yeesh: 
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Aug 9, 2015 09:43
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Accretionist posted:Houston in the '80s 
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Aug 9, 2015 09:54
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80's Houston kinda resembles 40's Hiroshima at a glance.
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Aug 9, 2015 10:00
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Accretionist posted:Houston in the '80s
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Elukka posted:80's Houston kinda resembles 40's Hiroshima at a glance. Hiroshima didn't get as hot though.
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Houston in the 80s looks horrifying... but on the other hand, a part of me is going 'Oh yeah having parking like that would make driving in to work SO much easier'. I mean, our cities are basically in a perpetual parking crisis. They did deal with it...
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Is downtown Houston really that tiny? I'm kinda surprised actually.
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