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Yawgmoth posted:this owns all of the people it's going to fall directly on top of someday Fixed
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Yawgmoth posted:this owns When we can Finally spell out whole words with skyscrapes that don't just consist of several lower case l's in a row, then we truly will be living in a an amazing and pointless future world! From a bit closer:  gently caress you gravity!  edit: CJacobs posted:Fixed Hey stop taking gravities side. If humans won't to deify and mock gravity they should be able to all they please. 
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peanut posted:Needs context Its a hotel in the Dutch town Zaandam. They took the building style, the so called Zaanse Style of that region and made a big pile of buildings out of it.
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Can't believe there has been posts about Prague without this thing Zizkov broadcasting tower right in the middle of Prague  Incase you were wondering what those black spots are...  e: VV gender illusionist posted:an actual space ship funny you say that  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwnVGRwkZVs Kerrow fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Sep 9, 2015 |
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Kerrow posted:Can't believe there has been posts about Prague without this thing an actual space ship
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It's kinda cool to visit in real life. Prague has lots of awesome Soviet relics that most tourists never bother to see. There's much more to the city than the old town. I forget what the baby statues were for though.
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Bonster posted:The babies are really creepy up close. They forgot the ring
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Bogan Krkic posted:I can see this from my new office I found this instead: https://theconversation.com/melbournes-new-william-barak-building-is-a-cruel-juxtaposition-38983 Close enough.
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Cologne has some pretty bad buildings. The worst part is when you look at how the city was before it was bombed, it looked so much nicer. This is a typical street, full of boring building built in the 50s and 60s:  some streets though have a few older buildings right next to each other and you can just tell how much nicer things used to/could be:  We also have our own ugly social housing projects:  The university has its share of brutalist buildings:  and other, more modern designs:  They decided to build this gigantic tower for students to live in (on the left, to the right are other, just as ugly buildings)  We have a building on a popular shopping street with this on top of it:  and the opera house looks like this:  It's currently undergoing a renovation, but I doubt it will improve the outward appearance. This is what it used to look like: 
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Thats a lot of ugly poo poo, except the blocky apartments which I like so sue me
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Cologne people should forever live in shame for what they did to the main train station. They even had, for a time, a cool and good thing where they housed the old train station building in the newer train station building imo. But of course, everything good and cool needs to be destroyed hail Satan  nah gently caress this poo poo lets  uuughghghghghghghghghgh Boner Slam fucked around with this message at 12:14 on Sep 10, 2015 |
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Sep 10, 2015 12:08
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German cities that suffered from massive bombings in WW2 full of terrible 50s and 60s architecture. What a shocking discovery.
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Can't wait for WW4 so the Americas get old stone buildings of their own 700 years from now.
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dr_rat posted:When we can Finally spell out whole words with skyscrapes that don't just consist of several lower case l's in a row, then we truly will be living in a an amazing and pointless future world! How do the lifts work? Are the shafts angled?
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therattle posted:How do the lifts work? Are the shafts angled? It looks like there's a place where you could draw a vertical line up the building. I'd imagine that's where both the lifts and the structural core are.
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Architectural success, really.
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Ugh. Who the gently caress poured that beer?
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Lt. Chips posted:Ugh. Who the gently caress poured that beer? Are you questioning Glorious Leader's beer pouring ability? 
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upon Glorious Leader's birth a thousand cranes flew over the mountain and imparted upon him the secret of pouring beer that's 90% head
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Gold and a Pager posted:We also have our own ugly social housing projects: Christ, that looks like SimCity.
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demolishing beautiful buildings for lovely rectangles is the rich mans mid-life crisis except instead of buying steroids and a cool sports car you're laying a big steel deuce all over history
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Kerrow posted:Can't believe there has been posts about Prague without this thing That alien spaceship docking station/mind control antennae is loving awesome. There's one in the middle of San Francisco too, and it is also loving awesome:    It's 977' tall, and is on top of a 911' mountain, so it's a really prominent landmark:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutro_Tower Some people hate it, especially old people who lived here before it was built, but cool people like it. No alien babies on ours though 
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Magnus Praeda posted:Are you questioning Glorious Leader's beer pouring ability? Wait, is that Cosmic Comic Cafe?
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Rah! posted:That alien spaceship docking station/mind control antennae is loving awesome. There's one in the middle of San Francisco too, and it is also loving awesome: Sutro tower owns and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
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Boner Slam posted:Cologne people should forever live in shame for what they did to the main train station. That's a lovely old building for sure, but the newer one's got a different beauty. The structure rhymes with the type on top, as well as the logos on front. It's all a very harmonious combo. It's proudly straightforward. Better than unreasoned juxtaposition! I'd be happy to wait for a train there and stare at that big clock.
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frankenfreak posted:German cities that suffered from massive bombings in WW2 full of terrible 50s and 60s architecture. What a shocking discovery. Yeah, except this one survived the war just fine Mescal posted:That's a lovely old building for sure, but the newer one's got a different beauty. The structure rhymes with the type on top, as well as the logos on front. It's all a very harmonious combo. It's proudly straightforward. Better than unreasoned juxtaposition! I'd be happy to wait for a train there and stare at that big clock. I can't believe you'd call that beautiful. Look at the rest of the building, it's a 60's piece of poo poo. The old building is like Grand Palais and Petite Palais, smths people would make fotos of today. No one takes fotos of the Cologne train station.
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Mescal posted:That's a lovely old building for sure, but the newer one's got a different beauty. No it doesn't.
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The old one's gorgeous and certainly a level above the new one. But the new one is isn't atrocious. It looks like it's degraded a bit, but with a minor refit to the surfaces to the left and right of the main hall it could be very nice. On the right, cover the concrete top and bottom of the windows with white rims matching the top of the main hall, and on the left... okay, just refront the non-glass surfaces, yellowing squares are out. And extend the ground floor aesthetic to both sides. Maybe as you do that move the zeitcafe to the right of the main hall where the bike racks are, I hate having things stick out the front and interrupt what was clearly meant to be a big sheet entrance. Like we won't know we want a coffee unless we literally bump into it on the way in, having it a few feet away apparently isn't enough. That's just a two-second cheap remedy, but looking at it a bit more, I reckon if you put some thought into it you could bring out the 60s elements of the design and really make it shine. The big main hall and curve has some great era-reminiscent elements. EDIT: man the inside of the station is just sexy. 
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Paddyb posted:New thread title plz
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:No it doesn't. nah its pretty decent. although i guess that doesnt necessarily make it beautiful.
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MikeJF posted:Maybe as you do that move the zeitcafe to the right of the main hall where the bike racks are, I hate having things stick out the front and interrupt what was clearly meant to be a big sheet entrance. Like we won't know we want a coffee unless we literally bump into it on the way in, having it a few feet away apparently isn't enough. It looks like it's set up so that the coffee shop is fully enclosed and has a separate outside entrance. To me it makes sense since it means people stopping to get a cup of coffee won't be going inside the station and then straight back out, or can get their coffee and go through to their train, and it's probably going to be quieter inside than if it was open to the station.  
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Boner Slam posted:Yeah, except this one survived the war just fine MikeJF posted:EDIT: man the inside of the station is just sexy. It is and it captures the original idea of putting the station where it is today: building a cathedral of modernity right next to the Cologne Cathedral. 
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C.M. Kruger posted:It looks like it's set up so that the coffee shop is fully enclosed and has a separate outside entrance. To me it makes sense since it means people stopping to get a cup of coffee won't be going inside the station and then straight back out, or can get their coffee and go through to their train, and it's probably going to be quieter inside than if it was open to the station. Yeah, I meant... the big glass wall is clearly intended to be a grand entrance, and they just blocked off most of it with shops and the extending coffee shop ruins the visual effect. See the bike racks on the right of the photo? I meant put extension in there in that corner, so it doesn't stick out. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 10:29 on Sep 11, 2015 |
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quote:gently caress ART; THIS IS ARCHITECTURE Paddyb posted:New thread title plz
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 This is a 1980s hospital in Zagreb, Croatia. It looks weirdly plastic from the outside, but on the inside it looks like an airport terminal:  "Nauseatingly Green Plastic" is the pervasive theme inside the hospital. What's even better, the architect apparently loved the idea of port-a-potties so in the walk-in clinic waiting room, instead of real bathrooms you've got these weird green plastic kiosks you're supposed to take a poo poo in (GIS unfortunately came up with nothing on this one.) I've had a wisdom tooth pulled in that clinic back in '04, the doctors were good but the building was weird as gently caress. They've got a bazillion of those arrow-pointing signs everywhere, they didn't stop me from getting lost in the hospital. It was like getting lost at an airport. I bring you some lovable but nasty commieblocks for the working poor:  These shits are 1960's "sardine cans". Even though they were devised under the "Silver City" moniker, they ended up being called "Sardine Cans" because  Hot as gently caress in the summer, and cold in the winter: corrugated aluminum sheets insulated by a tiny little bit of spray-on asbestos and plywood, the whole thing left to rot over the past fifty years. Soundproofing in these buildings is virtually non-existent: a friend tells me she can hear her neighbor's Little White Dog scampering around the linoleum floors in the early morning. Every. Single. Morning. The idea of aluminum/plywood walls must have sounded really impressive in 1957 (so much that the architect actually bothered to patent the design) but time has not been kind to these buildings. To add an insult to an injury, since they could be put up quickly and easily, the city planners shat out clumps of these aluminum blocks in quite a few districts of Zagreb. All of them are now way past their design life. I've known several people who live there, and none were "all there" in the head. edit: despite the fact that aluminum cladding stops the government mind-controlling rays from getting inside. A SWEATY FATBEARD fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Sep 11, 2015 |
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GAY 4 ORGANS