Ivor Biggun posted:

Goons would design for maximum efficiency

0haiThere posted:

Maybe old Greek/Roman buildings were originally painted, but their colors faded over the years. Like how they used to paint their statues.



Actually, that could be a cool idea for a photoshop thread. "Paint the brutalist building".

ReidRansom posted:

How does he keep getting work? He's a loving hack. Is it just that pretentious morons think they're supposed to like his work and so claim to do so and order new terrible designs?

steinrokkan posted:

A bridge that breaks on a slightly windy day does indeed facilitate travel, in addition to looking fun!

Total Meatlove posted:

The garden bridge won't be built though.

Phanatic posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwI0P7AV7DE

Humboldt Squid posted:

Believe it or not, this isn't the only Victory of Samothrace themed building

(thankfully this one's just a proposal though)

Neutrino posted:

The Milwaukee School of Engineering has a relatively new athletic center called the Kern Center. Looks nicely modern:


The Google satellite view shows how the architect felt about the project (Comparison shown in the inset):

darkwasthenight posted:

Because it's not actually a bridge you're supposed to use, it's an elaborate tourist trap owned by a private company. Total shitshow.

Angela Christine posted:

LOL, that architect hates social science students.



Should have been the math building.

Angela Christine posted:

Oh, its the "my child can do better art than this modern stuff" of architecture.

Pead posted:

Man, the sad thing about this: this isn't the only spaghetti junction in Atlanta. This one is in the center of the metro area where I-20 and I-85 cross, but there is a second one at the north side of the metro area where I-85 crosses the I-285 perimeter highway that circles the city. It's just as stupid looking and I believe is the one that Outkast wrote a song about on Stankonia

Roy posted:

People just associate it with poverty. The reason why some people dislike it is the same reason why white people in general don't wear gang colours or addidas tracksuits.

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Terminal Entropy posted:

You can, it would be Czech artist David Cerny. Though the last time he was hired to make something, it just was an insult in model kit form.

Accretionist posted:

That wood siding in the living room might, though.

Do floor to ceiling windows look very modern to anyone else? I feel like they require the rest of the interior look like this:

Nckdictator posted:

I think I saw this in a movie.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2015/06/12/billionaire-bunkers-exclusive-look-inside-the-worlds-largest-planned-doomsday-escape/

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.

A good example of this would be a stud wall with a stone veneer finish.

Now in the US it's expected that if the plans called out for a wall that from the interior to exterior would be 5/8" Gyp, 4" stud, 2 layers of 1/2" plywood, and 1 1/2" of veneer the overall width of that wall would be 7 1/8" +/- about a 1/2" on a wall that's say 20' long, and the wall might kick out an additional 1/2" at the top or bottom per 10' of height. So worse case you're talking about 1" out of alignment which might sound horrible if you're OCD but in the world of construction that's actually super accurate and so if you know you'll need a very exact interior room size you'll usually compensate by adding another 1-2" since you'll know that the vast majority of contractors can hit that minimum room dimensions.

China on the other hand... holy loving poo poo.

If you were designing that same wall in China you would not only have to plan on an additional 2-3" per 20' of length misalignment and 10' of height misalignment, but would also need to account for another 4" of stone veneer, making a wall that would be 7 1/8" in the US become roughly 12" in China. So remember that the next time your idiot family member starts talking about China overtaking the US as a world power because they can barely build poo poo 1/2 as well as we can. The Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea (the pyramid that's literally falling apart) is probably more structurally sound than like 1/2 of the buildings that have been put up in China over the last 10-15 years. It's so bad that they have to import entire construction crews from Europe to do anything close to precision construction like structural framing for glass canopies and walls.

Vladimir Poutine posted:

Anyway, it turns out the plastic core is what makes it highly flammable