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What a shame. He ran out of money before he could insulate the stairs.
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How will the runners stay straight without some drywall to help hold them up?
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On the plus side, it's haunted by Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis.
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Shifty Pony posted:Reminds me of these things which have been going up in my neighborhood : Three types of panelling, two types of roofing, not an ounce of aesthetic style. It could possibly look decent with board and batten on the bottom half and cedar shingles on the top half, but the overall shape and "juttiness" of the house irks me. Accretionist posted:Would this count as brutalist or would it be 'modern' or what? This place, while not offensive looking on the outside, still screams "commercial sprawl" to me. If you've ever driven into Toronto along the 400, about half of the offices along the highway look very similar to this. Also this is pretty much the only location (West coast rainforest) where you can get away with that kind of window arrangement and not be totally paranoid that someone is always watching you.
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Has there ever been an analysis of why people like glass and metal boxes inside a forest setting?
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Want a modern, stylish house in the Bay Area? Look no further than an Eichler. http://www.eichlernetwork.com/article/wonderful-world-eichler-homes When we were home shopping, people were bidding furiously for Eichlers.
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Shifty Pony posted:Reminds me of these things which have been going up in my neighborhood : the home builder in the sims is not a valid architectural drafting system dammit
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I was in Macau last month and this monstrosity looms over the city:
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Cacator posted:I was in Macau last month and this monstrosity looms over the city: Jesus. How terrifying.
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Cacator posted:I was in Macau last month and this monstrosity looms over the city: So... this is the fabled super saiyan level 6. A whole city's worth of power-levels...
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cheerfullydrab posted:Has there ever been an analysis of why people like glass and metal boxes inside a forest setting? They like to look at the forest
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cheerfullydrab posted:Has there ever been an analysis of why people like glass and metal boxes inside a forest setting? I'm pretty sure the glass part is easy to figure out.
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Cacator posted:I was in Macau last month and this monstrosity looms over the city: I've seen that before 
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Default Settings posted:Thought I'd just drop this link here: http://www.sosbrutalism.org This is the interior of the brutalist Basilica of St Pius X.  There's something so unnerving about the walls or the lighting or maybe the shape of the room.
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Lt. Tanaka posted:Great link by the way. It's like the hanger in some super villain's mountain lair.
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flosofl posted:It's like the hanger in some super villain's mountain lair. I was thinking “extraterrestrial base”, but agreed on the hangar part.
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The Washington Post has a write up about Facebook's offices quote:The desk is a white slab, 5-feet long, no drawers. The top has room for her laptop, computer monitor and a few knickknacks. Russell, a brand strategist, also has an office chair and small file cabinet. That’s it. No coat rack. No office phone. Her just-delivered dry cleaning, handled by Facebook, hangs by its metal hangers from the desk’s lip. There are no cubicle walls. No partitions. Her desk sits cheek to jowl in a pod with five other desks, a scene repeated across the cavernous Frank Gehry-designed space filled with 2,800 Facebook employees. Oh good job Gehry, you designed an office space so lovely the client had to hack together a mapping program to find desks.
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Most brutalism I'm not that fond of, but man, it really works for the inside of chapels and such when done right. Wonderfully oppressive.
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Lt. Tanaka posted:This is the interior of the brutalist Basilica of St Pius X.
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Blistex posted:This place, while not offensive looking on the outside, still screams "commercial sprawl" to me. If you've ever driven into Toronto along the 400, about half of the offices along the highway look very similar to this. Oh wow, all I can see is a dentist's office now
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That's very clearly one of the secret maps in the original Quake. Watch out for the pentagram of power up top.
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Blistex posted:Three types of panelling, two types of roofing, not an ounce of aesthetic style. It could possibly look decent with board and batten on the bottom half and cedar shingles on the top half, but the overall shape and "juttiness" of the house irks me. I chalk it up to mid century modern being extremely in vogue around here but a combination of land price, impermeable cover restrictions, penny-pinching/profit-maximizing developers, and a strange McMansion ordinance results in whatever you call that house. Basically they want to build a boxy two story house to maximize square footage and stay under the 40% building coverage and 45% impermeable cover limits but also want the $50-100k premium they can get by putting "modern!" on the listing. So they use a bunch of windows, odd roof outcrops, and different materials to hide the box.
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Lt. Tanaka posted:Great link by the way. Just looks like a normal sports book.
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MikeJF posted:I'm pretty sure the glass part is easy to figure out. It's still a sickness. You could post a rendering of a 10x 10 metal and glass cube in a woodland setting on your Facebook right now, and it would get 50 likes. Even if you only have 10 friends. People just love that poo poo.
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cheerfullydrab posted:It's still a sickness. You could post a rendering of a 10x 10 metal and glass cube in a woodland setting on your Facebook right now, and it would get 50 likes. Even if you only have 10 friends. People just love that poo poo. That type of contrast triggers something in our ape brains
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cheerfullydrab posted:Has there ever been an analysis of why people like glass and metal boxes inside a forest setting? I like it. It's quite a nice thing really.
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I'm Crap posted:zaha hadid is poo poo See, I don't quite agree. Zaha Hadid's first building that actually got made is a fire station in the Vitra campus in Switzerland. As a building, it's fantastic. Sweeping curved concrete, amazing windows, wicked-cool pointy thing. But as a workplace—as a firestation—it's appalling. There's not a right angle in the building (literally). There's no real privacy between male and female showers. The dining table is at a special height to ensure the best view out the windows, which is too low. The countertops are too high. The stairs feel distinctly odd.   This is a hallmark of a great many of Hadid's buildings. Visually, they can be stunning, daring—even breathtaking, sometimes. But they are almost universally unfit for purpose. Glasgow recently closed its Museum of Transport, and relocated to a new campus, the Riverside Museum. It cost £74m/$111.4m. It looks striking. It is awful to visit. There is little segregation of space; the layout is confusing; floor-space is limited, resulting in a display of some three or four dozen classic cars being stacked on a high vertical wall where they cannot be seen properly, the stairs are embedded in a huge central pillar in such a way that they are virtually impossible to find; the mezzanine space is practically non-Euclidian, and all-in-all I'm very glad it's free. Because it's a loving failure, in my eyes.   
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cheerfullydrab posted:Has there ever been an analysis of why people like glass and metal boxes inside a forest setting? It's a weird effort to balance a desire for privacy with the urge to show off their conspicuous consumer acumen, with the way a rich person wants to interpret the trendy concept of 'living green'.
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Shifty Pony posted:Oh good job Gehry, you designed an office space so lovely the client had to hack together a mapping program to find desks. I have complaints about the building, but we've had the wall-mounted wayfinder systems since long before we got into the Gehry one. (And a web app longer than the 4 years I've been there.)
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Jeherrin posted:This is a hallmark of a great many of Hadid's buildings. Visually, they can be stunning, daring—even breathtaking, sometimes. But they are almost universally unfit for purpose. If a building is not fit for the purpose it was commissioned for, the architect is poo poo and the building is a failure.
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GotLag posted:If a building is not fit for the purpose it was commissioned for, the architect is poo poo and the building is a failure. I'm not sure I agree wholly. Buildings can still have sculptural qualities aside from functional ones. It doesn't make Zaha Hadid an intrinsically poo poo architect, it just means that she is poo poo at providing workable solutions. The question, of course, is whether architecture as a practice can, ever, exist independently of the requirements of a building.
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Jeherrin posted:I'm not sure I agree wholly. Buildings can still have sculptural qualities aside from functional ones. It doesn't make Zaha Hadid an intrinsically poo poo architect, it just means that she is poo poo at providing workable solutions. The question, of course, is whether architecture as a practice can, ever, exist independently of the requirements of a building. Buildings intended for people to inhabit can have sculptural qualities, but they're not sculpture, and an architect who ignores the fact that people are supposed to live and work inside of buildings in favor of making a piece of sculpture is a poo poo architect.
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It looks like a life-size die-cast model display. And why not have walkways along each level? There's looks to be room enough for that.
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Agreed. You build the form around the function, not the function around the form. You can have incredible, beautiful, daring buildings that still have workable spaces. If a building can't be used as intended, it has fundamentally failed. The problem with many of the starchitects like Hadid and Gehry is they start with a concept, and then try to squeeze in the purpose, and it ends up looking great and being a nightmare to use.
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flosofl posted:It looks like a life-size die-cast model display. Something something interior space, probably. It's loving idiotic.
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In my opinion, a good architect should also be a good engineer, good designer and good artist. Not all of them are.
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Lt. Tanaka posted:I like it. It's quite a nice thing really. Terrible to heat and cool and no closet space.
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Bonster posted:The problem with many of the starchitects like Hadid and Gehry is they start with a concept, and then try to squeeze in the purpose, and it ends up looking great and being a nightmare to use. Or more usually, looking like half-melted rear end and being a nightmare to use.
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What happened to the classical concepts of architecture? What happened to columns, arches, vaulted ceilings, domes, pillars, buttresses, statues, fancy doors and windows, and all the fine detail you get with it? Why is the modern idea of architecture just walls of glass/concrete or buildings that are made in unnatural, nonfunctional shapes. When did basic geometry become uncool? I thought people liked older styles of architecture, which is why people want to go and visit places like France and Italy.Bonster posted:The problem with many of the starchitects like Hadid and Gehry is they start with a concept, and then try to squeeze in the purpose, and it ends up looking great and being a nightmare to use. Ghery doesn't even bother with the purpose, his buildings are garbage (and shaped like garbage too).
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The Skeleton King posted:What happened to the classical concepts of architecture? Nothing "happened" to them, they're part of the toolset. Nothing "happened" to classical concepts of art, but the world of art encompasses more than just those things.
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