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This is the waiting room of my doctor's office:  imo, brutalism done right. 
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In America only the cost of healthcare is brutal.
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Aug 27, 2015 05:58
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Cultural Imperial posted:This is the waiting room of my doctor's office: But like the other goon was saying about knowing where to put windows and contrasting with vegetation. It opens the space up to the world instead of boxing it in.
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Aug 27, 2015 05:59
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This is rad as gently caress. Ahem, I mean I love the interplay of solid and void, of light and dark, of man and nature.
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Aug 27, 2015 14:02
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Speaking of which, from the architects of the Boston City Hall, a hospital in Brooklyn:
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Aug 27, 2015 14:47
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Would idle and cogitate in that wait room irl Edit: Jesus, that hospital is bringing this thread back to its roots. It's so ugly that I kind of feel angry at it.
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Aug 27, 2015 14:48
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Paddyb posted:Speaking of which, from the architects of the Boston City Hall, a hospital in Brooklyn:
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Sammus posted:So hire a bunch of day laborers and start digging into a hillside? I have just the place. joat mon posted:Both seepage and condensation are serious concerns. yeah. If we're talkin about earthships in particular here, they're all about passive heating- combining earth mass and big dawn-facing slanted windows to maintain ambient a climate with little energy expenditure. One of the catches is that they have to be well-sealed for this to work properly, so sheltered-earth constructions in wetter climates struggle with humidity and dampness a lot. They can also face serious moisture/drainage problems, but proper construction (French drains, poly sheeting out the rear end, properly-sloping roof surfaces, properly-vetted building location etc etc) mostly nixes that. They're a really smart and holistic design for deserts and fairly hot/arid locales but their appropriateness drops off as you get more temperate. They can and do work in all sorts of climates, but things start getting dumb and counterintuitive- like, building right into the ground is great in the desert, the earth is a fantastic temperature moderator. Do that in Canada, and in the winter the earth will steal all the heat from your house and make your heating bills insane, so Earthships up here need a big foam insulating pad somewhere in there, which kinda runs counter to their whole design.
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Paddyb posted:Speaking of which, from the architects of the Boston City Hall, a hospital in Brooklyn: 
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Aug 27, 2015 16:14
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Cultural Imperial posted:This is the waiting room of my doctor's office: This looks out of somewhere on the Citadel in Mass Effect.
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Aug 27, 2015 16:55
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I'm Crap posted:this is... good? I'll be up there in a month and I'm seriously thinking about a visit to confirm.
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Aug 27, 2015 17:17
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Paddyb posted:Speaking of which, from the architects of the Boston City Hall, a hospital in Brooklyn: It looks like those sets for toys cars.
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Aug 27, 2015 21:28
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Cultural Imperial posted:This is the waiting room of my doctor's office: I like this building. It is better than most brutalist buildings. The Skeleton King fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Aug 27, 2015 |
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Aug 27, 2015 21:49
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https://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/nevada/lasvegas/gehry/brain.html Not sure if this has been done, but even if it has, god it's awful. quote:"If I had a problem with my brain, I would not be reassured arriving at this place. The implicit sadism is impressive."   
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Aug 27, 2015 21:51
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Did they send the architect and the people who approved it there? Because they belong there.
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Aug 27, 2015 21:54
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It was Gehry and no. EDIT: They treat Alzheimer's disease there. Who the gently caress would want to take their demented grandma near that?
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Aug 27, 2015 21:54
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Gehry.... 
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Aug 27, 2015 21:55
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Wow that is a really insulting place to send people with dementia.
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Aug 27, 2015 22:46
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Well you're gonna get dementia and Alzheimer's patients if you're gonna specialize in gehryatrics
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wayfinder posted:Well you're gonna get dementia and Alzheimer's patients if you're gonna specialize in gehryatrics 
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Aug 27, 2015 23:24
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Stuff built in Fascist Spain ( http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1732622 )           
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AxeBreaker posted:https://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/nevada/lasvegas/gehry/brain.html this isn't as stupid as you might think, the whole swoopy bit is basically a space for holding rich person fundraising galas and such. the back section of the building is normal and has labs, offices etc.
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AxeBreaker posted:https://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/nevada/lasvegas/gehry/brain.html He made a little model of a building and stepped on it a couple of times.
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Nckdictator posted:Stuff built in Fascist Spain ( http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1732622 ) I also didn't know Spain had flak towers Paddyb posted:Speaking of which, from the architects of the Boston City Hall, a hospital in Brooklyn: GotLag fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Aug 28, 2015 |
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Aug 28, 2015 01:56
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Nckdictator posted:Stuff built in Fascist Spain ( http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1732622 ) The proportions are obviously off, but the Herrerian style is fundamentally good and I wish it had been incorporated into American architecture instead of Spanish Colonial Revival.
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Aug 28, 2015 02:30
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Paddyb posted:Speaking of which, from the architects of the Boston City Hall, a hospital in Brooklyn: I live right near here. It's the biggest thing around and really foreboding, but I like the radius of chaos and urban decay it creates. Also every Brooklyn native I've spoken to about it has insisted to NEVER under any circumstance allow yourself to be admitted there, as you'll likely wake up with a scalpel and an antibiotic resistant bacterium inside of you
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Aug 28, 2015 03:21
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this is good
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never trust an elf posted:I live right near here. It's the biggest thing around and really foreboding, but I like the radius of chaos and urban decay it creates. Also every Brooklyn native I've spoken to about it has insisted to NEVER under any circumstance allow yourself to be admitted there, as you'll likely wake up with a scalpel and an antibiotic resistant bacterium inside of you Why are the hospitals in New York such garbage?
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Aug 28, 2015 07:13
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wanna see this thing just upgunned to gently caress and back and with AAA on the little pedestals and machine guns on every approach and mortars and lazers and rpgs and guys with rifles and poo poo.
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Aug 28, 2015 07:37
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Frostwerks posted:wanna see this thing just upgunned to gently caress and back and with AAA on the little pedestals and machine guns on every approach and mortars and lazers and rpgs and guys with rifles and poo poo. 
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Aug 28, 2015 09:32
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I know. I like the repurposed ones too
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Aug 28, 2015 10:35
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Nckdictator posted:Stuff built in Fascist Spain ( http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1732622 ) All I hear is the Nazi march from Indiana Jones.
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Aug 28, 2015 13:38
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circ dick soleil posted:Why are the hospitals in New York such garbage? hospitals in Manhattan are generally good-great, I'm not sure why the outer boroughs are so bad, I suspect it has to do with low funding and the fact that they're essentially for-profit and many of the people that use them don't have insurance
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Aug 28, 2015 15:06
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Random poo poo.             
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http://gcaptain.com/a-concrete-samp...22#.VeBwtrQkera New Panama Canal isn't looking too good... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbnQs-qMqsM 
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Aug 28, 2015 16:10
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The old Denver Art Museum building by Gio Ponti is one of the ugliest structures I've ever seen:  The new addition, by Libeskind, is better but still not great: 
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Aug 28, 2015 16:11
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Wax Dynasty posted:The old Denver Art Museum building by Gio Ponti is one of the ugliest structures I've ever seen: This was my first up close encoutner with Liebeskind and you could tell they struggled on how to arrange and hang the artwork. I liked the main stairwell though.
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Aug 28, 2015 16:43
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Is it bad that I like it? All it needs is turrets in the windows to complete the Imperial Destroyer look.
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Aug 28, 2015 16:47
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PhotoKirk posted:http://gcaptain.com/a-concrete-samp...22#.VeBwtrQkera they're gonna need a lot of gum
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My appreciation of Brutalism comes from growing up in the early 1970s in Canada. As we've seen in this thread it was a popular style during the mid 1960s through to the mid 1970s, and like most styles can be done well or poorly. The Winnipeg Art Gallery opened around this time and although I remember it being larger I see now that it's actually fairly small. That spire seemed so much taller when I was a child.    But this same period also gave us the Winnipeg Public Safety building which although cohesive doesn't look like a place for human beings.  The university's Lockhart Hall was built within a year or two of the Borg Public Safety building but it showed a common Canadian approach to Brutalism, softening it with warm wood and brick/tile textures and breaking up the concrete with playful shapes and lighting.   This sort of marriage of concrete and wood is what I think of when I think of Brutalism.
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