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I didn't know that the bad guy in Goldfinger was named after the guy who did this: and this  and this  and this  which are all perfectly villainous. This was even his personal lair:  Plus, the guy was apparently a giant rear end in a top hat. Granted, he also did this, which doesn't suck. At least visually: 
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Those are reminscent of the Skybridge in Chicago. That left column? Each floor is a single unit. If I recall correctly it's like 2600 sq ft or something with a sunken living room. The listing price is "Call for price". The moderate sized one's on the right side are two stories units and around 1400-1700 sq ft and started around 700,000 USD for the small ones when I last looked about 6 years ago. 
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Oct 9, 2015 16:57
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flosofl posted:Those are reminscent of the Skybridge in Chicago. No handrails on the stairs seems dangerous here, because you know at least one tenant is throwing some RAGING parties.
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Oct 9, 2015 17:05
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Plus, you can go over the side which is a little worse than a series of 6" falls
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Oct 9, 2015 17:14
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News in Photos: Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids
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Oct 10, 2015 00:10
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Phanatic posted:
The rest, eh you could debate. That one's the physical embodiment of reasonable. It's such a reasonable building! That's a building that really nails of concept of "being a sensible structure, just gonna keep hanging out right here on the ground. You can use me for whatever, but you know mainly normal stuff, no rock walls for climbing or a fountain that requires too much maintenance. Probably a dozen people could sleep here, once a year maybe, on new years or something." edit: can somebody recommend me the book equivalent of this thread?
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Mescal posted:The rest, eh you could debate. That one's the physical embodiment of reasonable. It's such a reasonable building! That's a building that really nails of concept of "being a sensible structure, just gonna keep hanging out right here on the ground. You can use me for whatever, but you know mainly normal stuff, no rock walls for climbing or a fountain that requires too much maintenance. Probably a dozen people could sleep here, once a year maybe, on new years or something." The story goes that Erno Goldfinger built that right next door to Ian Fleming's house, who was absolutely [i]furious[\i] at this modern boxlike brick monstrosity showing up to ruin the pastoral splendour of the quiet village he lived in, and vented his rage by making Goldfinger the villain in his next book. So yeah, that's the house that made Goldfinger a James Bond villain.
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Oct 10, 2015 10:11
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Mescal posted:
That point people make over and over again about the problem with modernist high rises failing to build communities because they offer no way to allow people to interact and build communities was first made by Jane Jacobs in her book, The Life and Death of Great American Cities. All my favourite posts were of those blocks the Soviets built in Eastern Europe the book equivalent of which is a great read that Owen Hatherley just released called The Landscapes of Communism.
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quantumavenger posted:The story goes that Erno Goldfinger built that right next door to Ian Fleming's house, who was absolutely [i]furious[\i] at this modern boxlike brick monstrosity showing up to ruin the pastoral splendour of the quiet village he lived in, and vented his rage by making Goldfinger the villain in his next book. Building it required the destruction of some older homes, Fleming wanted to preserve them. Erno threatened to sue Fleming over the book, and Fleming said "if you do, I'll change the name to Goldprick." It's is really reasonable, it's just gently caress-ugly.
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Oct 10, 2015 14:31
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Rare Collectable posted:
That's pretty cool tbh
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Oct 10, 2015 14:47
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more like Frank L. WRONG.
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Oct 10, 2015 15:11
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Cultural Imperial posted:If so, why is he so highly respected? you've seen what high paid and respected architects have done over and over in this thread and yet still pose this query.
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Oct 10, 2015 15:29
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Cultural Imperial posted:There's a whole bunch of anecdotes floating around the internets about how flw's houses were pretty lovely inside. Is that true? If so, why is he so highly respected? They were dark, uncomfortable and poorly designed for actual human occupancy, but they looked fantastic and gave birth to a brand new style. They were living art pieces, not necessarily great places to live.
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Oct 10, 2015 15:37
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So uh, what's the point of architecture
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Oct 10, 2015 16:06
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Paddyb posted:I'm literally shaking right now. I used to be a contractor tasked with building out the ladder racks for new telco switches. One time we worked in a Verizon unit that was way behind schedule, because all the conduits coming out of the floor were far, far from where they were supposed to be. As a result, the walls needed to be redrawn to fit over the conduits. One particular hallway shrunk nearly half its size from one end to the other. I was responsible for fastening threaded rods to the i-beams on the ceiling of this hall. I could only fit up one side of the hall to get between the ducting and the wall, then shimmy my over to the far side of the hall. To make matters worse, the halon sprinkler system was installed and active. This meant that if I somehow slipped and hit one of the many two inch glass bulbs, I would have to shimmy all the back, get down, and get out of the hall before the oxygen ran out. That was the scariest job I ever worked.
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Cultural Imperial posted:So uh, what's the point of architecture That's one of those open-ended questions people can and have written large books about. It's not just about being convenient as a place to live, though ... unless you are a Bauhaus or functionalism fan, and even they had clear philosophical ideas beyond that. It's much like art in general: It's not just for making your living room prettier, but beyond that lies endless philosophical debates. Computer viking fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Oct 10, 2015 |
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Oct 10, 2015 17:03
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I drove past a brutalist elementary school yesterday and thought of this thread. Didn't get any pictures though.
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Cultural Imperial posted:So uh, what's the point of architecture sometimes you just want to build weird poo poo
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Oct 10, 2015 19:11
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 this building looked like a cheap styrofoam prop and I'm glad it's dead
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PenguinBob posted:
It really did. It reminds me of that time when the façade of the U.S. Supreme court building was being restored and the scaffolding was wrapped with a photograph of the building: 
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PenguinBob posted:
It kinda looks like you could just pick it up and toss it around because it's actually really light despite looking heavy. I think it might be the bricks near the bottom.
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Oct 11, 2015 11:53
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It looks like a poorly-textured low-poly model.
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Oct 11, 2015 14:56
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Death to stucco
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PenguinBob posted:
minecraft screenshots don't count
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Platystemon posted:It really did. It reminds me of that time when the façade of the U.S. Supreme court building was being restored and the scaffolding was wrapped with a photograph of the building: this is actually kind of dope tbqh
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PenguinBob posted:
I would really like it if it didn't have that problem. What the hell did they build it with?
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The Skeleton King posted:I would really like it if it didn't have that problem. What the hell did they build it with? it's apparently stone underneath, but they added plasterboard cladding in the 80s and painted it to resemble the big pink granite courthouse on the left side of the picture. i can't find any pictures of how it originally looked.
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PenguinBob posted:
 Platystemon posted:It really did. It reminds me of that time when the façade of the U.S. Supreme court building was being restored and the scaffolding was wrapped with a photograph of the building:
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This must be the opposite of architectural failure: when a building is built so well it stops falling down halfway through a controlled demolition. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-34495463 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msjExSyckAU Tunga fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Oct 11, 2015 |
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Tunga posted:This must be the opposite of architectural failure: when a building is built so well it stops falling down halfway through a controlled demolition. Pretty funny comments on thta
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PenguinBob posted:it's apparently stone underneath, but they added plasterboard cladding in the 80s and painted it to resemble the big pink granite courthouse on the left side of the picture. i can't find any pictures of how it originally looked. "In 1987, our firm reconstructed the exterior of the five story Tarrant County Civil Courts building, in downtown Fort Worth. The purpose of the project was in effect, to provide a giant "canvas" for nationally recognized muralist, Richard Haas. Our contract involved extensive demolition on the face of the building, installing hundreds of anchors into the existing stone panels and installing prefabricated plaster panels. The muralist's crew then painted the trompe l'oeil mural that can be seen on the façade of the building today."    That is one fugly-rear end building. The 80s redo was basically a desperate attempt to just throw a blanket over the top until it went away.
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never trust an elf posted:Death to stucco  gently caress stucco, it always looks cheap and dirty and terrible.
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How did you get inside my room?
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Yawgmoth posted:
Two out of three ain't bad, but it ain't good. Not even stucco can make rococo not succo. popewiles posted:How did you get inside my room? If you said this:  was your room, I'd say you were mad. joat mon fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Oct 12, 2015 |
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Oct 12, 2015 21:03
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joat mon posted:If you said this: That's my room
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Oct 12, 2015 21:39
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Bogan Krkic posted:That's my room You're mad! p.s. If any local aristocrats want to take you out skinny-dipping, DON'T GO.
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Oct 12, 2015 22:07
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Bogan Krkic posted:That's my room Kanye?
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If it hasn't already been brought up in this thread I highly recommend "How buildings learn" by Stewart Brand. Excellent case studies in how buildings are designed vs. how they really get used, and how they change over time. http://amzn.com/0140139966
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Not gonna lie, I would love (and probably later hate) to live in that unit jutting out of the tower. Cultural Imperial posted:There's a whole bunch of anecdotes floating around the internets about how flw's houses were pretty lovely inside. Is that true? If so, why is he so highly respected? Part of the FLW hate is that the guy was a massive prick. He was an rear end in a top hat to anyone who didn't 100% approve and love everything he did, and anyone who had the gall to do something that didn't look like his stuff was an idiot. He3 was also really bad at structural engineering, and when he designed Falling Water, he had a laughable small amount of support beams and metal holding up a massive hanging slab of concrete. One of the engineers went behind his back and doubled-tripled the amount that FLW said was needed, received a lot of flack from FLW, and even then it still sagged like crazy. He's so highly regarded because a few of this designs (Falling Water for example) inspired a whole new direction in architecture. Falling Water is absolutely beautiful, and I think it is totally liveable (with a few decent dehumidifier units added) but a lot of his stuff wasn't so great unless you loved bare concrete, massive echo chambers, feeling like you're living in a cave, or almost nowhere to get changed without someone seeing you naked.
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