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Lt. Tanaka posted:This is the interior of the brutalist Basilica of St Pius X. This at least is somewhat practical. You want to build a church that can hold 25,000 pilgrims a few times a year, and it has to be in this particular town, but you are pretty happy with the two basilicas you already have.  Apparently it's not a very good church, due to echoes and site lines, but most people can forget it exists.
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Maleh-Vor posted:Neoclassicism is the ketchup of architecture. Nah. Neoclassicism is boiled potatoes - usually inoffensive, but only rarely great. The true ketchup of architecture is superficial postmodernism, especially when used to "liven up" a boring box building. Computer viking fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Dec 7, 2015 |
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Roy posted:Colours? On a brutalist house? If I saw that irl I'd knock it over like Corbusier Kong Corbusier liked him some colored accents.    This one is not Brutalism, but it is ugly. It's supposed to be East West "fusion"     I guess that means stick two completely different, clashing buildings together in a completely non-harmonious fashion. http://shanghaiist.com/2015/12/07/zhengzhou_university_fusion_architecture.php
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Bonster posted:This one is not Brutalism, but it is ugly. It's supposed to be East West "fusion" Lol this is like that one building with the massive roman column just smashing right down the middle, you know the one
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Bogan Krkic posted:Lol this is like that one building with the massive roman column just smashing right down the middle, you know the one No but it sounds bad and stupid and I'd probably hate it. Can you find it?
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Accretionist posted:No but it sounds bad and stupid and I'd probably hate it. Can you find it?
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What a magnificent piece of poo poo. If I saw that in person I wouldn't be able to stop laughing. I'm actually impressed by how awful that is.
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I love it because it looks like they wanted to put in columns, couldn't figure out how to draw them in CAD so imported a file and couldn't figure out how to resize it, and just said 'gently caress it' and gave up
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Was that by the Japanese guy who now kind of regrets it? IIRC someone talked about that building many pages back.
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Computer viking posted:Was that by the Japanese guy who now kind of regrets it? IIRC someone talked about that building many pages back. Yeah, I think so. I only know of it from the post itt I quoted though
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Bogan Krkic posted:Yeah, I think so. I only know of it from the post itt I quoted though Not sure if this was the interview, but it seems relevant: http://www.vantage-magazine.com/living-room/kengo-kuma-master-of-understatement.html (That monstrosity is the M2 building.)
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Roy posted:Colours? On a brutalist house? If I saw that irl I'd knock it over like Corbusier Kong https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.50511,-0.0972312,3a,75y,50.92h,108.28t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s8sbizgJp2RnNYb7g3IAjuw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
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Chinatown posted:anyone posted the Salk Institute yet? Its perhaps the best example of Brutalism. And, thus, it owns very hard. 
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You wanna talk about buildings that don't know what style they're supposed to be? There's a bank in my town that's made some rather questionable architectural choices for their branches: "This building doesn't say 'bank' to me. Maybe we should add a big Greek-revival-temple thing on the roof? ...what? Hell, no, it doesn't have to be functional! Just slap it up there!"   "This one should be Asian inspired, but we like that classic Old West adobe stucco thing, too. Can you do that? And oh yeah, make it round!"  
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:
I don't really hate that. I think it's supposed to look like an old round barn or something, which are super cool structures. Is this in Vermont by chance? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_barn http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/buildings/barn-round.html Suspect Bucket fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Dec 8, 2015 |
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Suspect Bucket posted:I don't really hate that. I think it's supposed to look like an old round barn or something, which are super cool structures. Is this in Vermont by chance? Raleigh, NC Those barns are cool -- thanks for sharing them. I've never seen round barns before. I still don't like this building, though.
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Catzilla posted:Now you can own your very own Brutalist Building in cardboard... ooooh, these are neat!
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Bonster posted:Corbusier liked him some colored accents.
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Bonster posted:This one is not Brutalism, but it is ugly. It's supposed to be East West "fusion" It's like neoclassicalism and brutalism hosed and had a really ugly baby.
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smackfu posted:This at least is somewhat practical. You want to build a church that can hold 25,000 pilgrims a few times a year, and it has to be in this particular town, but you are pretty happy with the two basilicas you already have. That looks great though. I'm not a church-going man but I'd church-go there and fight some belltower gargoyles.
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This is what central London will look like in a few years: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/dec/11/city-of-london-skyline-of-tomorrow-interactive What is the architectural movement called that produces those big glass skyscrapers with lots of edgy features? I'm imagining that in the future we will look at these sort of towers with the same sneer we give to Brutalism. At least all the dumb buildings are concentrated in a small area I guess.
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I once read somewhere that a sudden boom in skyscraper building is a pretty reliable sign for a near-future economic collapse.
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netally posted:This is what central London will look like in a few years: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/dec/11/city-of-london-skyline-of-tomorrow-interactive Towers are better than sprawl. The population keeps increasing and all those people have to go somewhere.
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And three to five story mixed-used brick architecture is better than towers because anything else is a mistake
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Honj Steak posted:I once read somewhere that a sudden boom in skyscraper building is a pretty reliable sign for a near-future economic collapse. It's more like recession puts the kibosh on new skyscrapers. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00036846.2014.967380#.VmsBdUorLRY
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netally posted:This is what central London will look like in a few years: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/dec/11/city-of-london-skyline-of-tomorrow-interactive Some of the major reasons for the shapes in the city cluster are the sight lines of St Pauls, which is such an English response to the future. You can build 300m tall buildings but they can't be anywhere behind this cathedral built 350 years ago as you walk along a street that's probably 800-1000 years old.
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Angela Christine posted:Towers are better than sprawl. The population keeps increasing and all those people have to go somewhere. Oh I don't mind towers. I understand that with limited space you go upwards. But recent skyscrapers in London have been so freaking ugly. Many of them have architectural problems, such as the walkie talkie building that melts cars, and they all have unflattering nicknames, such as the can of ham building that is exactly what you'd expect it to look like. Other places like the Shard are cool, yet their flats aren't selling and not many companies in an uncertain economy want to risk moving into iconic buildings with massive rent. I just wonder how long before these buildings look like total poo poo, in the same vein as many regrettable concrete tower blocks built in the 1960s.
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Angela Christine posted:Towers are better than sprawl. The population keeps increasing and all those people have to go somewhere. The only people going into those buildings will be Saudi oil princes and corrupt Russian oligarchs.
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netally posted:Other places like the Shard are cool, yet their flats aren't selling and not many companies in an uncertain economy want to risk moving into iconic buildings with massive rent. The Shard's gotten a lot of bad press but when I was there I thought it was a pretty loving cool building. I mean, yeah, it's pretty aggressive and if *every* building looked like that it'd probably hurt your eyes to look at. But in and of itself I like it:  The Shard Ain't That Bad by Phanatic, on Flickr
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:You wanna talk about buildings that don't know what style they're supposed to be? There's a bank in my town that's made some rather questionable architectural choices for their branches: Hey Raleigh goon. I used to live right across from this building and I always wished it would turn into a club with a pool on the roof.
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This documentary about the Leadenhall Building in London is really good and shows what it takes to build one of those monsters. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g5RgRboBE2Y
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Phanatic posted:The Shard's gotten a lot of bad press but when I was there I thought it was a pretty loving cool building. I mean, yeah, it's pretty aggressive and if *every* building looked like that it'd probably hurt your eyes to look at. But in and of itself I like it:
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Suspect Bucket posted:What do you suppose the sriracha of architecture is? Taking old buildings and needlessly covering them in glass. It's ok a few times but not all the time everywhere on everything. Tunga posted:I work near London Bridge and have to look at this thing every day and...I like it. It's modern, simply, and because it's all glass it doesn't stand out against the sky, it just sits there being all tall and pointy. It's massive and yet it doesn't impose itself like One Canada Square does. Same. I like the cheesegrater one as well. The walkie talkie is loving dumb though. Speaking of dumb ideas, there's a tower in south ish London that has three wind turbines in the roof but theyre permanently disabled because the transient vibrations pissed off the people that owned the penthouses. So they're left with three motionless turbines as a monument to incompetence. Powerful Two-Hander fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Dec 12, 2015 |
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Phanatic posted:The Shard's gotten a lot of bad press but when I was there I thought it was a pretty loving cool building. I mean, yeah, it's pretty aggressive and if *every* building looked like that it'd probably hurt your eyes to look at. But in and of itself I like it: do people hate on this one a lot? im only looking at your pic but my negative assessment of it would be "slight wankery in the direction of artsy geometric-ness" which is not really the most withering critique of an exterior e: i do actually think it's alright, i was just playing devil's advocate. i get kind of a sci-fi dystopian vibe, like the HQ for an amoral corporation that clinically carries out evil high-tech experiments in stark, cold white laboratories Lutha Mahtin fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Dec 12, 2015 |
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Same. I like the cheesegrater one as well. The walkie talkie is loving dumb though. quote:Speaking of dumb ideas, there's a tower in south ish London that has three wind turbines in the roof but theyre permanently disabled because the transient vibrations pissed off the people that owned the penthouses. So they're left with three motionless turbines as a monument to incompetence. Tunga fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Dec 12, 2015 |
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Interesting. I thought the turbines on that thing didn't work because they were crap. I know the building had lots of design faults. I went to uni in picturesque Elephant & Castle and used to gaze out the window, watching that thing being built. It's in such a sharp contrast to the rest of the area. I can't imagine being rich enough to spend millions on a flat and living there.
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Here's my town's city hall. It's between a gamestop and a nestle toll house cookie store.
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