gender illusionist posted:

This thread owns ; that japanese classical column building is one of the funniest things I've seen. Just think how many people had to say
'yes good idea' before it was built.

Souvlaki ss posted:

Finally the national library of Argentina

Frostwerks posted:

what was that brutalist highrise estate that kinda sorta collapsed in britain? like i dont think the whole thing toppled but some parts of it did

Mokotow posted:

Poland. Create fancy design to garner local support, skimp on construction. In this case, a local planetarium.

boom boom boom posted:

ok seriously what the gently caress is going on? Why have the British committed to ugly loving buildings?

Souvlaki ss posted:

It looks super tacky to me. I hate it when architects try to pass colorful crap as innovation, especially in such an uninspired fashion
I can only imagine how it fits with the rest of the buildings in the area

Souvlaki ss posted:

I can only imagine how it fits with the rest of the buildings in the area

NihilismNow posted:

Ok i shift my blame to the city planner.

THE_Chris posted:

FWIW, Regensburg was the only major German city that was pretty much untouched and is a really unique place as a result. I don't really know why it was spared but I don't think there was much there to bomb. There was one raid, but it wasn't a city center raid and although they lost one major church, the rest of the city is pretty much untouched and doesn't seem to have too much modern crap in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regensburg

ruebennase posted:

And the running joke among Berlin's citizenship is that tearing down Berlin and rebuilding it next to a functioning airport might be cheaper and quicker than trying to repair BER.

Omi-Polari posted:

Holy lmao the Egyptian junta wants to build a new capital city out in the desert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7KdtShlwqA

Yeah that'll never happen.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/03/egypt-to-build-a-potemkin-capital/387826/

netally posted:

Not sure why I've never heard of this one until today. The Garden Bridge is planned to open in London in 2018.



It's a cool concept, but apparently is already having financial problems, won't be accessible by cyclists, and will be closed during nighttime hours. On the plus side, I'm sure tourists will love it.

Trevor Hale posted:

And shrunk the field size making it ineligible to be the main Olympic Stadium which added a wrinkle to their Olympic bid as they had to build another big-rear end stadium and totally hosed up their pitch for it. "We can build it on the cheap!" is not how you appeal to megalomaniacs who want bribes.

Onion Knight posted:

Accretionist posted:

It's part of the state university in Pittsburgh and was built in the 30s for $10m, or, in 2015 dollars, ~$130m. If I ever win a very large lottery, America's getting another one.

MikeJF posted:

It'd look a bit better if the top didn't extend out quite as far over the bottom, yeah, but it's pretty decent.

Phanatic posted:

The sole function of a footbridge is for people to walk across it. This guy designed a footbridge that people can't walk across. That's as utterly failed as architecture can get, that's right up there a house that falls down when you open the front door.

quantumavenger posted:

Literally too important to bother with details. Being an engineer on one of his buildings must be soul-destroying.

The Skeleton King posted:

That may not be architecture, but that image is slick as gently caress.
Suddenly I am curious as to what would happen if Gehry tried to design a van.

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

RE: Concrete, a colleague who used to be a civil engineer was saying that part of the reason that loads of tower blocks built in the 60s and 70s in the UK are being demolished is that (in addition to being terrible fire hazards) the concrete slabs were pre fabs that were layed next to each other with the steel rebar sticking out then joined on site by pouring concrete into the gap between slabs. Great in theory as you get one continuous slab without having to form in place but apparently the gaps were used as dumps for whatever rubbish the builders had lying around they couldn't be bothered to take down x levels so the joints aren't contiguous and are filled with coke cans and shite .

Next time I see my friend thats a structural engineer now I'm going to tell him this and it'll probably give him nightmares.

A Winner is Jew posted:

Quick one since I sort of touched on it earlier, but Chinese contractors vs. American ones.

Now, I'm not all and poo poo and saying that US contractors are the best or anything, but they're super high up there compared to the rest of the world in that you can give them very tight tolerances on things and most of the time they will be well within those tolerances.