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Feminition posted:topical! Huh, the Taj Mahal looks really different from how I remember it.
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I can't remember if this has been posted before, but I just saw this lovely earth ship on Facebook:
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Komojo posted:I can't remember if this has been posted before, but I just saw this lovely earth ship on Facebook: Is that actually an architectural failure though? I mean did an architect have any hand in producing it?
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Delivery McGee posted:
I used to live in Garner Apartments on the SFA campus. Same design, just a single tower instead of two. Good luck fitting furniture in a pie-shaped room...
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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: The thing about the Shard is how out of place it is: that part of London is mainly typical 3 - 5 storey mixed use buildings dating from Victorian to modern. The Shard comes erupting out of that low-rise sprawl like a zillion meter high alien spacecraft. It really is strikingly incongruous.
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Komojo posted:I can't remember if this has been posted before, but I just saw this lovely earth ship on Facebook: I'm pretty sure the buildings in Zardoz were supposed to look weird.
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Pistol_Pete posted:The thing about the Shard is how out of place it is: that part of London is mainly typical 3 - 5 storey mixed use buildings dating from Victorian to modern. The Shard comes erupting out of that low-rise sprawl like a zillion meter high alien spacecraft. It really is strikingly incongruous. Oh no my dystopian city looks like a dystopian city
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satanic splash-back posted:Oh no my dystopian city looks like a dystopian city Well also it looks stupid and like poo poo so that's 2 negative points in its favor, or 3 depending on if you count "stupid and like poo poo" as two points
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Mike the TV posted:Another weird Raleigh decision Has that got a revolving/revolting restaurant in the top floor? It looks like one of those. Edit: on closer examination only some of the lights are turned on, so that top floor is partitioned. Maybe it used to be revolving?
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Dec 12, 2015 05:48
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Mike the TV posted:Another weird Raleigh decision  What up?GotLag posted:Has that got a revolving/revolting restaurant in the top floor? It looks like one of those. No, it was (is?) a restaurant, but it never did revolve, unfortunately (although if you read the comments in the link below, there are people who swear it did). Raleigh's not that cool. Years ago I was friends with a guy who was a cell service field tech, and his company had a site on the roof of that hotel, which meant he had access to it. We went up there one night -- best view of the city is from that roof. Here's a bit more about it: http://goodnightraleigh.com/2011/08/raleighs-second-round-building-the-holiday-inn-downtown/
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Komojo posted:I can't remember if this has been posted before, but I just saw this lovely earth ship on Facebook: this looks like it's straight out of a claymation film
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Pistol_Pete posted:The thing about the Shard is how out of place it is: that part of London is mainly typical 3 - 5 storey mixed use buildings dating from Victorian to modern. The Shard comes erupting out of that low-rise sprawl like a zillion meter high alien spacecraft. It really is strikingly incongruous. Ehhh, not so much. St Thomas's hospital is right next to it and is maybe half the height and thats a grey brown concrete monstrosity. Most buildings along the river around there are about 10 floors, then there's the cluster of towers around the natwest building and bishopsgate.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Taking old buildings and needlessly covering them in glass. It's ok a few times but not all the time everywhere on everything. I was told that another reason they don't turn is because the building is positioned wrongly. The prevailing wind direction is east-west, but the turbines are oriented for north-south, because the architect wanted them to be visible from across the river in central London.
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Frazzbo posted:I was told that another reason they don't turn is because the building is positioned wrongly. The prevailing wind direction is east-west, but the turbines are oriented for north-south, because the architect wanted them to be visible from across the river in central London. Windmills have been set on pivoting bases since they were invented centuries ago.
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FrozenVent posted:Windmills have been set on pivoting bases since they were invented centuries ago. These ones are set in holes in the building, so they can't pivot.
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It's been posted itt before, I think. It's the one shaped like a giant electric shaving razor:
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I do actually like the way it looks but the failed turbines are just hilarious. I can just imagine some poor turbine engineer trying to explain why it wouldn't work and being told they had no vision.
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I'm surprised this thread has gone this long with nobody mentioning the ultimate hideous tourist trap: Hollywood and Highland Center Because nothing says Hollywood like elephants on giant columns, a pointlessly enormous wall with a tiny tower stuck onto it, and loads of empty retail space. When it comes to an actual architectural design failure, nothing in Los Angeles beats Pershing Square. Originally, it was just an ordinary park in the middle of downtown  The park went through a lot of changes over the years, until sometime in the early 90s some hotshot architect was brought on to improve the park, and went on to completely ruin it:   Oh? What's that in the far right of that last picture you ask?  Parking ramps! Completely blocking off the sides of the park to pedestrians. Not only that, but the actual park was raised up for some inexplicable reason, and the only entrances to the park are on the corners. Needless to say, the only people who frequent the park after the renovation are homeless people, and the city has been extremely reluctant to do anything about the park because they're making loads of money off the parking garage below. Although apparently they're currently having a competition for a new park design, with the parking garage intact of course.
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That park and its suckiness is faithfully recreated in GTA V.
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Consist posted:I'm surprised this thread has gone this long with nobody mentioning the ultimate hideous tourist trap: Hollywood and Highland Center This actually kind of works for me because I'm pretty sure that this set up is based on the set of Babylon in the D.W. Griffith silent epic "Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)" As a nod to Hollywood history, I cant think of many better options for monumental. It's tacky but its Golden age of Hollywood tacky. 
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Looks like a half-assed rebuilding of the set of Babylon from D.W. Griffith's Intolerance. The revamp of Pershing Square sounds like an attempt to make a Union Square for Los Angeles, including the giant parking garage, but somehow they drew in more homeless people than the one in San Francisco. How the gently caress did they do that?
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Kavak posted:The revamp of Pershing Square sounds like an attempt to make a Union Square for Los Angeles, including the giant parking garage, but somehow they drew in more homeless people than the one in San Francisco. How the gently caress did they do that? It's just a wholly unpleasant place. All pavement and steps and sharp angles in the middle of a stand of skyscrapers isn't really what anyone is looking for in a park. I've been there a few times and it always seems like people are actively trying to avoid being there at all. I can't help but love Hollywood and Highland, though, because remusclaw posted:It's tacky but its Golden age of Hollywood tacky. And you have to remember it's practically attached to Grauman's Chinese Theater, and just down the street from the Egyptian.
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Consist posted:I'm surprised this thread has gone this long with nobody mentioning the ultimate hideous tourist trap: Hollywood and Highland Center Used to work there. Parking was horrendous anywhere in its 2 block vicinity. Also the bottom floor of the parking lot is a good place to smoke weed.
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http://gothamist.com/2015/12/12/photos_the_khaleesi_is_the_most_ins.php http://gizmodo.com/this-nyc-skyscraper-design-is-like-the-chrysler-buildin-1747445141  
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C.M. Kruger posted:http://gothamist.com/2015/12/12/photos_the_khaleesi_is_the_most_ins.php Property owners with views of where this building would hypothetically be going up should fight their asses off to get this thing built. A giant totem pole going up in Manhattan would be a great statement.
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Building looks like it belongs in a video game.
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Yeah, that looks like it's right out of a Final Fantasy game. For my part, I hate the Bank of America Tower in NYC. It just looks too fat for its height, and the curvy part clashes badly with the angular part. 
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Dec 14, 2015 01:31
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Consist posted:When it comes to an actual architectural design failure, nothing in Los Angeles beats Pershing Square. Ricardo Legoretta's renovation of the park is generally reviled. They have been making some improvements to the play area that are akin to moving deck chairs on the titanic right now. The design competition has attracted serious interest but they are ranking architects above landscape architects, which is a pretty grave mistake. I'm also butt hurt because my firm, who is respected in be field, didn't make the top 10 cut. The garage will remain because the garage provides revenue that can fund the park, potentially. Most public urban open space is struggling to develop self-sustaining revenue streams as park and rec departments watch their budgets dwindle.
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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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNj_XaINXac
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C.M. Kruger posted:http://gothamist.com/2015/12/12/photos_the_khaleesi_is_the_most_ins.php This is cool as gently caress - neo futurist deco would be an interesting direction in architecture
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C.M. Kruger posted:http://gothamist.com/2015/12/12/photos_the_khaleesi_is_the_most_ins.php It's like someone thought this wasn't enough http://www.corcoran.com/nyc/Listings/Display/2546956
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"And in high winds, excess citizens are conveniently swept off and fall to the ground below, fertilising the earth with their blood."
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Is it bad if I think the concept art for that NYC tower is super rad? Because drat, it's like they took the generic glass & metal buildings of the last decade or so and made some kind of retro-futuristic art deco monolith out of it. also i loved grinding down that huge sloped side of the LA park building in tony hawk 3
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C.M. Kruger posted:http://gothamist.com/2015/12/12/photos_the_khaleesi_is_the_most_ins.php
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I need to see it in airborne and robot form before I can say for sure if I like it.
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Yeah, I'd like one of the offices where the view is completely obscured by a giant wing, thanks. You may as well wonder if they'll actually build the ziggurat from Metropolis. Bunch of nerds.
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Its a house designed specifically for humans who live with twenty cats.  http://dornob.com/remodeled-house-has-insanely-fun-cat-centric-interior/
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Lt. Tanaka posted:Its a house designed specifically for humans who live with twenty cats. And one perpetually terrified goldfish by the looks of things.
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C.M. Kruger posted:http://gothamist.com/2015/12/12/photos_the_khaleesi_is_the_most_ins.php This thing would look tacky and out of place even if it was built in Dubai
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