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PizzaProwler posted:What material is that built out of? My eyes can only parse graham crackers and frosting. Looks like used steel wool to me.
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OwlFancier posted:I looked it up hoping to find an explanation but instead: ok that's loving amazing    
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TIP posted:ok that's loving amazing More photos here: http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2014/07/22/wat_rong_khun_or_the_white_temple_in_chiang_rai_thailand.html (check out the last two)
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EasilyConfused posted:More photos here: http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2014/07/22/wat_rong_khun_or_the_white_temple_in_chiang_rai_thailand.html (check out the last two) lol I also want to point out the angry bird flying towards the WTC in one of the ones I posted 
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 St Kinga's temple, carved out of salt.
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I love cool buildings and that salt situation above is freaking cool!!
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Ornery and Hornery posted:I love cool buildings and that salt situation above is freaking cool!! You read all 11 pages that quick?
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a sexual elk posted:You read all 11 pages that quick? Yeah! One of the coolest, saddest parts, is the old awesome stuff that was supposed to be affordable housing but now it’s all expensive 
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Doraemon is the ultimate exemplar of mankind's depravity.
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 College Hall at the University of Pennsylvania. The Addams Family house was based on this.
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That looks more like Disney’s Haunted Mansion than the actual Haunted Mansion.
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there's a whole subgenre of aesthetic called "college gothic" does it remind you of a spooky house, but the kind of place where harry potter would learn to disappear turds? thats college gothic. it was real popular in the early 20th century, one thing you learn when you start doing architectural classification is to identify when something really is old vs just people a long time ago building something brand new they wanted to look old. like "colonial revival" architecture was popular in the late 19th century in the united states, and it was a grab bag of aesthetics meant to look like hundred year old houses built brand new, a hundred+ years ago, and now we have NEO-colonial revival which is a modern interpretation of the retrohistorical interpretation and so on and so on... Mr. Fall Down Terror has a new favorite as of 16:14 on Jul 29, 2022 |
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:there's a whole subgenre of aesthetic called "college gothic" Copy of A
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:there's a whole subgenre of aesthetic called "college gothic" PYF Cool-rear end building: the kind of place where harry potter would learn to disappear turds
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The former post office in Utrecht has been converted into a library a while back, and it is one of my favourite spaces here:  A fun fact about those black statues: They are an integral part of the construction and were placed as rough hewn blocks of arduin, a hard and dark type of lime stond. After the construction was done the blocks were carved into statues This is the exterior, so when you step inside it's like having gone through a magic portal 
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 This is the Jachthuis (hunter's lodge) Sint-Hubertus. It was original a private country house commissioned and owned by Mr and Mrs Kröller-Müller, who were tremendous patrons of the art. The lodge is also much closer to being a monumental piece of art than a house or a home. Everything is designed by the architect Berlage: The exterior, the landscape, the interior, the furniture, the lighting, everything. The result is an extreme excercise in the style called the 'Amsterdamse School'. It is beautiful, but also dark, oppresive, and claustrophobic. I love it.     Nowadays it's a monument, and if you ever have the opportunity to visit, you should.
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Such Fun posted:
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 Astronomer Walter Sydney Adams at the entrance to the Hale Solar Laboratory in 1946. Photo by Edison Hoge / Courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California  The telescope dome is installed on the Hale Solar Laboratory in this photo dated November 18, 1924.  The library at the Hale Solar Laboratory https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/obsolete-art-mapping-skies-glass-plates-can-still-teach-us-180971890/
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Look at that coffered ceiling. Jesus. Drooling here
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Where are the skateboarders?
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Chicken Butt posted:Where are the skateboarders? When I was a kid, me and my mom and my brother came across a building that was basically just one of these waves, but bigger. They told me how in the winter it was used as a skiing slope, and I bought it completely and with wonder. They laughed quite cruelly, but also I was 12, so I could have known better.
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Such Fun posted:When I was a kid, me and my mom and my brother came across a building that was basically just one of these waves, but bigger. They told me how in the winter it was used as a skiing slope, and I bought it completely and with wonder. Nah, 12 year old you was cool. From this very thread:
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 This is the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, by Berlage, the same architect as that heavy rear end building I posted before. It was finished in 1935, a year after Berlage's death, and is considered his masterpiece. It is clearly more modern, eschewing ornamentation in favour of clean lines. The difference is especially dramatic in the interior. Berlage still designed every aspect, from the bricks to the handrails. But the result is spacious, bright, and clean. I can really appreciate the oppresiveness of his earlier work, as a piece of art. But as a functional building this is a huge step forward.   
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It's amazing how ahead of its time it feels. Kinda like so many people think falling water was made in like the 70s
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That cool house with the giant central tower reminded me of a very short-lived insane house some rich English guy build in the late 18th/early 19th century. All I could remember about it was that it was "Something Abbey" and it had a giant tower, so I googled "abbey huge tower fell down". The very first result got me "Fonthill Abbey" Unfortunately it didn't survive long enough to be photographed, but the paintings/engravings of it are just insane.   The wikipedia entry is absolutely worth a read - here are a couple of highlights quote:The first part to be built was the tower, which reached about 90 metres (300 ft) before it collapsed. The new tower was finished six years later, again 90 metres tall. It collapsed as well. Beckford immediately started to build another one, this time with stone, and this work was finished in seven years. quote:Once he stipulated that he would eat a Christmas dinner only if it were served from the new abbey kitchens, and told his workmen to hurry. The kitchens collapsed as soon as the meal was over.
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That spire looks like Isengard, I keep waiting for a wizard dual to break out. E: I guess Barad-Dur too.
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You'd want to be very careful having a duel up there; apparently the entire huge tower was built out of cement and wood - real three little pigs stuff.
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I have a memory of seeing a short documentary on YouTube about Fonthill Abbey, but I can’t find it back. It’s such an amazing story of this wretch of a man aimlessly seeking to fill his unhappy life. And having seemingly infinite money, his attempts keep getting wilder and more desperate.
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I thought the englishman who wanted to live in a cathedral was crazy already and thenPookah posted:You'd want to be very careful having a duel up there; apparently the entire huge tower was built out of cement and wood - real three little pigs stuff. out came the nitrous and the overdrive
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Such Fun posted:I have a memory of seeing a short documentary on YouTube about Fonthill Abbey, but I can’t find it back. Here you go
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