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The house of our student nation, Urdsgjallar (named after a drinking horn of Viking mythology) in Espoo, Finland deserves a mention. Teknologföreningens Urdsgjallar [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], by J-P Kärnä (Own work), from Wikimedia Commons It's neither remarkably ugly or pretty as far as brutalist buildings go, but it has the most impractical floor plan I've ever seen. Approximately a quarter of the building consists of hallways or stairs. The latter also serve to make it remarkably wheelchair-unfriendly and hauling stuff around is a pain in the rear end because you can't really use a trolley or a pallet jack. The basement, which contains a third of all floor space, also lacks windows completely.
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sinking belle posted:Also in Almaty, this other thing. Don't know if it's part of the same complex as the one above or what. St. Petersburg to Vladivostok, Murmansk to Baku, malls and gaudy towers always have those bright blue tinted windows.
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anchoress posted:what's ridiculous is that calatrava is also trained as an engineer. he studied at the ETH Zurich Well that's a kind of recipe for disaster, someone who knows what's just within the realm of possible, but doesn't actually bother with it himself.
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ghosthorse posted:Thought maybe that was the 401 in Ontario. Welcome to North America's widest/the world's busiest highway!  Mother of God.It baffles me that the powers that be didn't realize more lanes aren't going to help by 12 lanes or so.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Couldn't every problem with parking and cities and the uglyness and everything just be fixed with enough underground parking garages? Adding 10-20% to the price of a home doesn't go well in this economy and the parking spots often sell at a loss when sold separately. I sit in the board that hands out building permits in my city and something like 70% of our debates are about parking requirement exemptions. The funny thing is that our high and expensive parking requirements are essentially a business tax that subsidises car owners. That's the kind of socialism our business-minded conservatives and populists can get 100% behind.
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wayfinder posted:Well you're gonna get dementia and Alzheimer's patients if you're gonna specialize in gehryatrics 
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therattle posted:What's BIM please? Fascinating stories, BTW. More please! BIM stands for Building Information Model. You'll find plenty of fancy videos on YouTube if you type in your question without the "please", but it all boils down to making a detailed, unified model of a building and the construction process rather than having separate people do a bunch of blueprints and a vague schedule. At least in theory. The idea is to avoid situations where you have e.g. a HVAC duct blocking the sprinkler piping because nobody cross-checked the blueprints. It won't stop architectural disasters if the concept is flawed or prevent construction workers bungling things, but it does reduce ambiguity and conflict in plans.
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