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 Post architecture you find either good or terrible or both. Art-structures like those brutalist Yugoslavian monuments is cool too. To start, I hate Brazil's National Congress building. It looks like a set from a bad 1980s science fiction/dystopian film that would have gotten a MST3k episode.  One half expects to see a C-list British actor in a turtleneck fleeing down that ramp from a squad of golf cart driving bad guys after discovering the secret of The Council. I don't actually find Oscar Niemeyer's other buildings in Brasilia to be bad, they're just sort of what you expect from modernist buildings. I can't find a nice overview shot of it but the Strick House he designed for a family in the US is nice looking. 
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When I saw this thread I knew I had to share this post from the goldmined Architectural Failures Thread, presented unedited*:Accretionist posted:Palate Cleanser: The Cathedral of Learning *Except for correcting a slight grammatical error in the title.
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^^^^^I wanna climb to the top of that and fight Gozer. Flat tops are in.
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Cythereal posted:Brutalist churches. The Finns have a special word for them, something to the effect of "Anti-Devil Defensive Fortification" if I'm remembering right.
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Yvonmukluk posted:When I saw this thread I knew I had to share this post from the goldmined Architectural Failures Thread, presented unedited*: The Cathedral of Learning (A.K.A. The Height of Stupidity (CMU kids don't got no building to match (no not sour at all, sweet, sweet they are)))
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Cythereal posted:Brutalist churches. drat, that's cyclopean as gently caress.
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The Kaden building in Louisville is really something else.
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Rise from your grave, with a godawful library:Zamboni Rodeo posted:Who wants to read about a library designed with metal grating floors (and why that’s a big “whoops”)? value-brand cereal posted:After reading about creeps in this thread... StrixNebulosa posted:
JacquelineDempsey posted:I was describing this horrow-show of a library to my husband. He's never worked in a library, but has heard all the stories I've posted here (and then some).
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That doesn't look handicap accessible at all. Holy poo poo, what a neat idea in theory but terrible in execution
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Oh, man, architecture! I love architecture. Probably my favorite building of all time is Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamps:  Doesn't look like much from the outside, right? Don't worry -- it's what's inside that counts:   I also unironically love the Hearst Tower in Charlotte, NC. My brother lived in Charlotte during its construction and we always referred to it as the "coffin building". It looks like it belongs in Gotham City: 
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Zamboni Rodeo posted:I also unironically love the Hearst Tower in Charlotte, NC. My brother lived in Charlotte during its construction and we always referred to it as the "coffin building". It looks like it belongs in Gotham City: At least it has a flared base.
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I'm not usually a fan of brutalism, but brutalism combined with a lot of greenery is absolutely    
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Here to add the North Dakota Capital building. It is  personified.
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Perestroika posted:I'm not usually a fan of brutalism, but brutalism combined with a lot of greenery is absolutely
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Zamboni Rodeo posted:Oh, man, architecture! I love architecture. Probably my favorite building of all time is Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamps: Huh, so that's what the Bureau of Reclaimed Spaces in Kentucky Route Zero is based on:  (BTW, if you like gorgeous architecture and want a walking sim with an incredibly atmospheric southern gothic magical realist story play that game. The final part should be coming out soon.) Also somewhat in the vein of this thread, an urbex channel I follow recently posted this video where they explore a "ghost city" in China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE-Oa7mAyDU The sheer scale of the unfinished/ruined structure is mind-blowing. The interiors are all just bare concrete but to tie it loosely in with this thread some of the exteriors are fairly well finished and they're incredibly gaudy.
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Perestroika posted:I'm not usually a fan of brutalism, but brutalism combined with a lot of greenery is absolutely This is also my favorite look. God it's soooo good.
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In the huge old GBS thread of architecture someone did a big post about a big stupid mansion thing some guy in England built to impress the dames, it was called Someone's Folly because it was so stupid, it was too big and he didn't finish it and it had big stupid bits that went nowhere. I remember a floorplan with a massive ballroom and so on. Anyone know what that was?
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C.M. Kruger posted:The Finns have a special word for them, something to the effect of "Anti-Devil Defensive Fortification" if I'm remembering right. Piruntorjuntabunkkeri.
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eating only apples posted:In the huge old GBS thread of architecture someone did a big post about a big stupid mansion thing some guy in England built to impress the dames, it was called Someone's Folly because it was so stupid, it was too big and he didn't finish it and it had big stupid bits that went nowhere. I remember a floorplan with a massive ballroom and so on. Anyone know what that was? I know what you're talking about I think but I don't think I can find it on google. It had giant doors that were operated by dwarves so they'd look more imposing iirc
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Milo and POTUS posted:I know what you're talking about I think but I don't think I can find it on google. It had giant doors that were operated by dwarves so they'd look more imposing iirc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a2OLuG0rng&t=69s
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eating only apples posted:In the huge old GBS thread of architecture someone did a big post about a big stupid mansion thing some guy in England built to impress the dames, it was called Someone's Folly because it was so stupid, it was too big and he didn't finish it and it had big stupid bits that went nowhere. I remember a floorplan with a massive ballroom and so on. Anyone know what that was? Milo and POTUS posted:I know what you're talking about I think but I don't think I can find it on google. It had giant doors that were operated by dwarves so they'd look more imposing iirc That's Fonthill Abbey/Beckford's Folly. A very rich, very single guy decided to build an over-scaled medieval Gothic cathedral as a bachelor pad, using experimental concrete construction for a 300ft spire which continually fell down.
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The Federal building in Savannah, Ga. Affectionately referred to as "The Bathroom Building." It's being replaced. Mister Kingdom has a new favorite as of 02:39 on Jan 6, 2020 |
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Mister Kingdom posted:The Federal building in Savannah, Ga. Affectionaly referred to as "The Bathroom Building."  The Kastenmeier Bankruptcy Courthouse in Madison Wisconsin. It was originally painted white and looked exactly like bathroom tile.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:
And now it looks like BeatmasterJ's bathroom. Great job!
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I used to occasionally go to Cincinnati for work, and walked past this place (The Ascent at Roebling's Bridge) in Covington, KY a number of times. Kinda interesting architecture with the building presenting a very different vista from different angles. https://www.e-architect.co.uk/america/the-ascent-kentucky
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OxySnake posted:Here to add the North Dakota Capital building. It looks like one of those firefighter training towers.
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Maybe they had cockatoos?  
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FINE, HERE'S YOUR loving GREEK COLUMN, YOU HAPPY?
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Nostalgamus posted:FINE, HERE'S YOUR loving GREEK COLUMN, YOU HAPPY? The rarely seen "Reverse Samson".
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The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw is the tallest building in the city and it's massive and hideous. For years Varsovians have made the joke that it has the best view of the city because it's the only view where you can't see the Palace of Culture and Science. 
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw is the tallest building in the city and it's massive and hideous. For years Varsovians have made the joke that it has the best view of the city because it's the only view where you can't see the Palace of Culture and Science. I heard that same joke about Guy de Maupassant and the Eiffel Tower, that every day he ate lunch at the restaurant at the base of it because it was the only place in Paris he didn't have to look at it Don't know how true that is but he did apparently hate the thing
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Maybe they had cockatoos? I see the cockatoos are also fans of McMansion Hell https://mcmansionhell.com/post/151254239061/mcmansion-hell-from-a-to-z-part-two-i-p
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This photo brings me peace. 
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What's the name for that kind of heavily greened architecture?
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Heath posted:What's the name for that kind of heavily greened architecture? if it's something where living leafy plants are deliberately built in to a structure's architecture, but it's not a system meant to produce food or any sort of agricultural product, then there isn't really a fancy name for it. most people just call it a green wall or green facade
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it's called building fabric damage and it means the building will eventually require enormously expensive repairs (which will include ripping off all the greenery) if they're going to prevent a complete destruction of the thing due to water intrusion. e. like, it's beautiful, definitely, though but really bad
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Surely there's a way to design it so you can have the creeping vines AND not damage the structure.
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