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Ladies and Gentlemen, I present my home town, town centre. Welcome to Cumbernauld: (70's - 80's photo) Basically, architecturally, the town centre makes no loving sense whatsoever. It belongs to a brutalist, utopian engineering idea that was half completed. During construction the company building it went bust and there was no structural referencing available. Urban myth has it that the architect committed suicide after construction was complete by jumping off it, although it's difficult to confirm that.  (Again 70's photo...the horror) The town centre is a labyrinth structure. It originally incorporated two sections across what was the main thoroughfare road between Glasgow and Falkirk/Stirling. The section you see in the photos was the right side, which held a library, halls and a cinema. The very top structure was supposed to be apartment housing, but the structural defects meant this was abandoned and changed to offices. This was then abandoned also and became effectively derelict. That structure still exists. It has been empty for the better part of 40 years - an entire 4th floor consisting of nothing but empty rooms and empty promises.  Within one section of it held a very old and famous clock that belonged to one of Glasgow's railway stations before it was demolished. Cumbernauld's answer was to put it into a section of the maze barely used. The clock was almost left to complete ruin before finally being moved...funnily enough to another hallway, never to be seen!  Eventually parts of it were deconstructed. This is probably a more modern photo of it.  Today it hosts a council built town centre section to the right of it. The main architecture of the building though still exists - and no one knows if it'll ever be torn down. It stands as a monument of instrumental architectural failure. Hilariously nowadays its surrounded by a huge Tesco and Asda, which effectively kills any sort of commerce within the town centre itself. EDIT: Final picture:  This was one of the main entrances in. That existed till about 2005! Communist Bear fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Feb 19, 2015 |
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This one is the best if only because of its oppressive look. It's like a subtle gently caress you if you look at - the smog looking sky, the oppressive buildings, the industrial hell in the background, the concrete lead into a solitary figure sullenly walking to his death. This entire design is literally calling London out as poo poo. EDIT: Honestly the bridge doesn't even make an appearance really. It's drat near a second thought. quote:
Meanwhile this one looks like the guy was high on LSD. What in the actual gently caress? It doesn't even look architecturally feasible.
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Mar 3, 2015 13:33
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We're referencing Use of Weapons again?
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Mar 5, 2015 14:57
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Does the guy hate historic buildings or something? "gently caress you better architecture! gently caress you for being better than me! Just for that, i'm going to grow a triangular tumour out of you!"
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Mar 31, 2015 09:32
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Pead posted:They replaced it with a terraced park / shopping arcade now . It's a mall so its not all that great, but it ends up being a pretty cool way to add usable greenspace to the city Nobody escapes the labyrinth mall. Nobody!
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Jan 5, 2016 18:11
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