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Lucy Heartfilia posted:challenge for the thread: find a good blob architecture building Zaha Hadid's (Heydar Aliyev Center) is quite impressive, structurally and aesthetically. There are many others, but it's obvious that you have a blockade up against anything that deviates from the norm. Good luck with your astringent attitude!
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I wouldn't really consider that an example of blobitecture (I'm not terribly impressed with its design, though). To me blobitecture is more like bulging and swelling, whereas that building is more like a sheet in the wind.
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This thing had better be an aquarium or it's a complete waste of a design concept.
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Aug 24, 2015 03:29
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earthships are cool and i wish more of them were made wanna see a weird earthship city
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:This thing had better be an aquarium or it's a complete waste of a design concept. National Fisheries Development Board.
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the Culture cities described in Matter and Look To Windward sound like architectural bliss imo
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its me!!! the lovely nerd!!!!!
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Clockwork Sputnik posted:The reason the LA skyline looks the way it does is because of some forward-thinking-at-the-time building code which required every building over X stories must have a roof that can accommodate a helicopter landing pad. On google maps, I counted 30-some helipads in a 6-block radius in central Downtown. When the Hall of Justice was damaged in the '94 quake  a new jail was set to be built. It cost $400 million and by the time it was finished, the state was going through a recession, so there were no funds to actually run the jail. It sat empty for a while which made people want to break in, which resulted in the city posting cops to deter trespassers.  It's considered one of the worst jails in the country, with terrible conditions and rampant use of psych meds to subdue inmates. Wikipedia posted:The jail is in close proximity to the civic center  It has one of the ugliest color schemes I've ever seen. It kinda tries to have an intimidation look, but it's so loving ugly.
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MikeJF posted:National Fisheries Development Board. Meh, close enough.
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Not being a scientist, biologist (or whatever plant subprofession), or city planner, how feasible would a city with exclusively plant/roof gardens be? I imagine roof damage would be a problem (depending on climate) at least.
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Bip Roberts posted:Getting around LA in public transit really isn't too bad. I had a car when I lived there but did all my commuting via transit and it was always clean, frequent, and on time. This was mainly around downtown and the east side for the record. Then I would get sent right back into the mess 
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sinking belle posted:the Culture cities described in Matter and Look To Windward sound like architectural bliss imo The distributed cities, the ones with massive parks dotted with the occasional tower? Yeah those are rad but only if there's subway/transit stations in the basement of each tower like in the books.
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"forming a lively and chaotic place for visitors to the annual ruhrtriennale festival in bochum, germany, atelier van lieshout has channeled recurrent themes of sexuality, humor and human existence for the installation ‘the good, the bad and the ugly’. the series of sculptures, habitats and immersive environments that form the monumental art village comprises a collection of both iconographic pieces and new works, each embracing a duality between dark and humorous motifs."
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Aug 24, 2015 14:59
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Found this through Google and It's so gaudy I sorta' like it. "Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Complex"  
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Paddyb posted:"forming a lively and chaotic place for visitors to the annual ruhrtriennale festival in bochum, germany, atelier van lieshout has channeled recurrent themes of sexuality, humor and human existence for the installation ‘the good, the bad and the ugly’. the series of sculptures, habitats and immersive environments that form the monumental art village comprises a collection of both iconographic pieces and new works, each embracing a duality between dark and humorous motifs." Where did you think little buildings come from?
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canis minor posted:Where did you think little buildings come from? 
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Nckdictator posted:Found this through Google and It's so gaudy I sorta' like it. looks like a casino/hotel
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drat NIGGA posted:On google maps, I counted 30-some helipads in a 6-block radius in central Downtown. I immediately recognized that from direct-to-video movie Mean Guns, which might actually be a documentary considering how poorly run the actual prison seems to be.
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drat NIGGA posted:a new jail was set to be built. It cost $400 million and by the time it was finished, the state was going through a recession, so there were no funds to actually run the jail. It sat empty for a while which made people want to break in, which resulted in the city posting cops to deter trespassers.
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FRINGE posted:I think the super-hippy homes look pretty cool. If this isn't Tolkien architecture then the person/people that come up with names for architectural styles needs to be fired. 
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The Skeleton King posted:So, what kind of architecture is good?
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LvK posted:I immediately recognized that from direct-to-video movie Mean Guns, which might actually be a documentary considering how poorly run the actual prison seems to be. Holy poo poo, me too!  Ice-T and Christopher Lambert, phoning it in. EDIT: Hahaha from IMDB "Christopher Lambert only worked on the film for 2 days. He was scheduled for 3 days, but had a prior commitment so he could only work for 2 days." Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Aug 24, 2015 |
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The Skeleton King posted:Brutalism can make some really cool structures. It usually looks great when used to make simple, powerful shapes, and often goes very well when mixed with trees and vegetation. The idea is to create an image of power and simplicity, shapes that look clean and unpretentious. This got posted earlier in the threat before the traffic derail.  Even though this technically predates brutalism as a style, I think it's a perfect example of what you're talking about. All the more so because it's purely functional: let's build a tower to fire artillery from. This looks like nothing so much as a stack of semiconductor wafers. Phanatic fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Aug 25, 2015 |
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have these been posted yet? They sure are ugly 
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Now we know where Morally Inept lives
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drat NIGGA posted:have these been posted yet? They sure are ugly
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Cultural Imperial posted:Michael Caine's place in children of men. hard to believe he was playinga retired actor who starred in jaws 4
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amityville anus posted:Gotta give Japan credit for building a tribute to their current stock market situation so fast gently caress
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this would give me great joy as a kid, and as an adult I would at least drive by it with fond memories of when we drove by that funny fish building. there's this electric plant along the highway near where I live, with huge steam clouds going all the time. at age 31 I still call it the "cloud factory" because I was so dumb as a child I thought that was where clouds came from.
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Why are there no teletubbies in this picture?
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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The Chinese just don't have the concept of tackiness, do they?
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The Russia State Library: very sinister or really sinister?    
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Nckdictator posted:The Russia State Library: very sinister or really sinister? Commies seem to have baller libraries.
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Maneki Neko posted:Commies seem to have baller libraries. Yeah, I kind of like the façade, and the interior is incredible. Library Monitor Lenin gave me laugh, though.
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Nckdictator posted:The Russia State Library: very sinister or really sinister? That was a great level in Metro 2033. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:
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flosofl posted:Yeah, I kind of like the façade, and the interior is incredible. Library Monitor Lenin gave me laugh, though. reading decadent western tablet
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:
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I know it's been mentioned before, but the Hammons Tower in Springfield, MO is kinda badass, especially when it's lit up by the stadium across the street at night. I still think it should've been the Tyrell Corporations's HQ in Blade Runner.
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