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Lucy Heartfilia posted:I also like it. Concrete owns. Really just needs a button to retract the stairs. That would be cool.
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hydo posted:I flipped through the thread, hopefully I'm not reposting. They missed a trick with this building by not turning that ugly concrete bottom bit into a rock climbing centre.
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hydo posted:I flipped through the thread, hopefully I'm not reposting.
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I think that building is very Seattle! It has this weird "we built it in the 60s! JET AGE MOTHERFUCKER" vibe to it, like a lot of Seattle does. You think they take the wings off a 747 and built a building around it. It sort of floats there!
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AdvancesMONKEY posted:I think that building is very Seattle! It has this weird "we built it in the 60s! JET AGE MOTHERFUCKER" vibe to it, like a lot of Seattle does. You think they take the wings off a 747 and built a building around it. It sort of floats there! There's a  joke in here somewhere...
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Kavak posted:It looks like the prison room Starbuck was kept in on New Caprica. Which, like her and Boomer's apartments on Caprica, were real apartments in the Waterfall Building in Vancouver.   
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Oct 17, 2015 16:34
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Those apartments are good and I wish I could live in one.
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hydo posted:I flipped through the thread, hopefully I'm not reposting. They should have a little cardboard sign posted at the top of the concrete base that says "no poors allowed"
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The University of Technology, Sydney, features a Frank Gehry building, and it’s bad, but it somehow manages to not be the ugliest building on campus (through no effort of its own):   Wait, what’s that in the upper right?   Gehry’s building is still unparalleled on the inside, though: 
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I'm pretty sure I've seen this in a scifi movie where, like, a black hole eats the building from the inside.
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MikeJF posted:I'm pretty sure I've seen this in a scifi movie where, like, a black hole eats the building from the inside. We can dream.
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:Those apartments are good and I wish I could live in one. I agree, although I wouldn't move out of my current house to live there.
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Grim Up North posted:Here's a video of a house of a Japanese couple with cats. There are some elements of the architecture that I find interesting like breaking up the hard boundary of inside and outside without giving up privacy, but lol its a high-concept deathtrap. this house unironically owns. if I didn't live near the arctic circle I would've loved to live in that
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ulvir posted:this house unironically owns. if I didn't live near the arctic circle I would've loved to live in that I like how more and more YT videos are becoming 1080p/60fps
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Computer viking posted:I haven't been to Tampere, but I have a feeling that will be much more popular in January. Being able to go between buildings in indoor clothes is a luxury in the winter. Not really, no. The distance between the buildings is so short it just isn't worth the time it takes to go up there, because both ends of the pipe are in extremely bad places where you normally never need to go, unless you're specifically going to the pipe. One end is on a part of the floor where there's nothing there except one single department and the university chapel. So unless you're going to one of those, you never have any reason to be there. That building also has more floors than the other one, so to connect these there's that tiny tower with absolutely nothing in it except for the stairs and an elevator leading to the pipe. Like I guess if there's a bigass storm or something it'd be nice, but even during winter it's just very inconvenient and nobody ever uses it. (I graduated from there last year)
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That looks a lot like "I've seen Scandinavian interiors and I'm going to do it too only I didn't actually get it".
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What's that cool looking art deco tower to the right? Lots of good buildings in this pic.
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ulvir posted:this house unironically owns. if I didn't live near the arctic circle I would've loved to live in that Winter really sucks when I comes to house-design options. If I lived on the west coast (BC) I'd most definitely build something like this.     Creekside Cabin in Seattle. There is more to it hidden at the back, but I would love to have a nice glass wall in the living room (not the bedrooms) that looked like a mural of a lush forest. Also I would not have those sink basins as they are a bitch to clean underneath the edges.
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kemikalkadet posted:What's that cool looking art deco tower to the right? Lots of good buildings in this pic. Post-modernist crap!
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Blistex posted:Winter really sucks when I comes to house-design options. If I lived on the west coast (BC) I'd most definitely build something like this. This doesn't belong within 5 miles of this thread. It owns.
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kemikalkadet posted:What's that cool looking art deco tower to the right? Lots of good buildings in this pic.
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Bluemillion posted:This doesn't belong within 5 miles of this thread. It owns. That wood siding in the living room might, though. Do floor to ceiling windows look very modern to anyone else? I feel like they require the rest of the interior look like this: 
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Blistex posted:Winter really sucks when I comes to house-design options. If I lived on the west coast (BC) I'd most definitely build something like this. I also want a sweet cabin like this too. There's some Finnish/Norwegian designed ones with efficient woodburning fireplaces/stoves that can keep the place warm even in bitter winters.
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CJacobs posted:"It's very bottom heavy" is rear end in a top hat lovely architect code for "Don't wooorry it's fiiiine what could possibly go wrong" It's a Yamasaki so
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red19fire posted:I also want a sweet cabin like this too. There's some Finnish/Norwegian designed ones with efficient woodburning fireplaces/stoves that can keep the place warm even in bitter winters. Huge windows and efficient heating is the architectural equivalent of a healthy McDonald's meal.
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FrozenVent posted:Huge windows and efficient heating is the architectural equivalent of a healthy McDonald's meal. You can make walls that are more energy-efficient than any window but you can also make windows that are more energy-efficient than most walls actually built in the US. e: Actually that might not even be true since walls don't let in light.
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Kunstler's website was down for a little while and it made me sad because no one complains about lovely buildings like him. It's back now.  quote:Hey, who left that stack of Fed-Ex boxes in the middle of downtown Vancouver? Wait a minute… that’s the proposed new Vancouver art museum designed by Swiss starchitects Herzog & de Meuron. Anyone who’s been through the Vancouver Airport knows that they are very into the “environmental look” there. In the building trades, that means lots of wood, because wood is “organic” and “natural.” It is of nature, and therefore stands for nature in the center of the horrible mechanistic city, with all its baleful glass-skinned boxes. Note, also, the miniature British Columbian forest around the base, a totemistic exercise to ward off the encroaching anti-nature of the surrounding city. The darn thing looks a bit top-heavy, though, as if the top three boxes are supported by stacked levels of…playing cards! Lots of theoretical people in the rendering, enjoying the “green space.” Experience actually suggests that public places enfronted by multi-laned motoring corridors will probably be shunned by casual droppers-by. Modernism lives… until the long emergency drives a stake through its snooty heart. Edit: This is from Kunstler's "Eyesore of the Month" category. http://kunstler.com/featured-eyesore-of-the-month/ Fabricated fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Oct 18, 2015 |
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Jerry Cotton posted:You can make walls that are more energy-efficient than any window but you can also make windows that are more energy-efficient than most walls actually built in the US. Yeah, look at Werner Sobek's buildings, he builds passive solar glass houses which are recyclable - he calls it Triple Zero „Zero Energy / Zero Emission / Zero Waste“. Here's an article on one of his latest ones, B10, which is a bit experimental: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/greathomesanddestinations/a-glass-box-of-a-house-in-germany-that-thinks-for-itself.html?_r=0 He himself lives in R128, in Germany so its not like his designs only work in warm climates:  http://www.wernersobek.de/en/projects/material/glass/r128/ His houses are great but I'd appreciate a bit more privacy.
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Blistex posted:Winter really sucks when I comes to house-design options. If I lived on the west coast (BC) I'd most definitely build something like this. This could easily work in a cold enviroment, too. Just need to make sure the windows and wall sare properly insulating. I've seen houses here in Norway with really large windows, and "winter verandas" are a big trend in certain apartment complexes here. ulvir fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Oct 18, 2015 |
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Grim Up North posted:Yeah, look at Werner Sobek's buildings, he builds passive solar glass houses which are recyclable - he calls it Triple Zero „Zero Energy / Zero Emission / Zero Waste“. He can call it that, but it sounds like marketingspeak. The link says that house R128 is "is self-sufficient in terms of heating energy requirement" which is significantly different from "self-sufficient." It claims the enclosing triple-glazing has a k-factor of 0.4, which is about 10 times that of fiberglass or foamed-plastic insulation. His stuff at least looks good, though.
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Fabricated posted:Kunstler's website was down for a little while and it made me sad because no one complains about lovely buildings like him. make sure not to give us the link our anything though
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It really doesn't look that bad, at least in concept art. It feels like minimalism crashed in orientalism. It's not super practical but art museums get some slack in that regard.
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Fabricated posted:Kunstler's website was down for a little while and it made me sad because no one complains about lovely buildings like him. He's got bad opinions about open space, HTH.
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I really dislike 432 Park Avenue. It looks like the original WTC. But if the WTC was made of Lego, 432 Park is made of Duplo.
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Jaramin posted:I really dislike 432 Park Avenue. So does everyone. It was literally inspired by a trash can.
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While we love to rag on Ghery but it is important to remember that a lovely building that doesn't meet the needs of the occupants, is awful to maintain, and is not easily fixed/renovated is possible in any style. The brutalist FBI building is a good example.
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Grim Up North posted:Yeah, look at Werner Sobek's buildings, he builds passive solar glass houses which are recyclable - he calls it Triple Zero „Zero Energy / Zero Emission / Zero Waste“. I'm the gigantic tape dispenser.
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Jaramin posted:I really dislike 432 Park Avenue. It looks more like it's made from these: 
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Adix posted:make sure not to give us the link our anything though http://kunstler.com/featured-eyesore-of-the-month/
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Grim Up North posted:Here's a video of a house of a Japanese couple with cats. There are some elements of the architecture that I find interesting like breaking up the hard boundary of inside and outside without giving up privacy, but lol its a high-concept deathtrap. Sweet Jesus. I got vertigo just from watching that.
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