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I'm pretty sure this was a thread a while back and I remember it being pretty awesome so I figured I'd start it up again some starters...who doesn't love brutalism?? At&t building in NYC  Abandoned 'pod city' of San Zhi, Taiwan  For wilco fans I think these buildings are on the cover of Yankee Hotel foxtrot 
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I sometimes make the trip to Lincoln or Omaha NE to see bands perform, and I *always* get creeped out at this church that is on the state line of Kansas/Nebraska. Late at night its even worse, all lit up. Its been restored since this photo, and I think its even more creepy than the photo lets on - they have huge flood lights shining on it. Its just this big creepy church out in the middle of nowhere. The Immanuel State Line Lutheran Church 
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RaoulDuke posted:
Actually, if I remember right, this technically isn't brutalism. Most brutalism was built in the 70's, and this is a more modern building. It looks like that because it's a switching center, and designed as an incredibly durable structure designed to withstand natural disasters and all reasonable types of bombs, because it's basically the communications hub for all of NYC. There's another such building, far less imposing and a million times smaller, right next to my apartment.
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RaoulDuke posted:For wilco fans I think these buildings are on the cover of Yankee Hotel foxtrot We in Chicago call these the "Corn Cobs". They are actually condos right off the river.
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The AT&T building would be perfect as oppressive regime HQ. And those pod houses are awesome, I'd definitely live there. For content:  The Royal Ontario Museum, AKA "Post Godzilla Office Building" Daniel Libeskind is a goddamn hack of an architect.
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 Click here for the full 1200x1600 image. That's a door. To nowhere.
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I love the look of the Turning Torso in Malmö, Sweden. Click here for the full 1536x2048 image. and then the new Gazprom building in St. Petersburg, Russia 
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MrMoist posted:
That reminds me of this  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House
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Der Luftwaffle posted:Daniel Libeskind is a goddamn hack of an architect. No loving poo poo. His Denver Art Museum (which is a leaky, poorly constructed abortion which is ill-suited for actually hanging art in) looks like what happens when a naval vessel gets brutally raped by Pyramidhead and a baby results.  Appreciate art, OR BE CONQUERED! Oh yeah, and this is the Brutalist abortion that the pointy abortion replaced:  gently caress Daniel Libeskind right up his stupid pretentious rear end.
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i think habitat 67 is pretty rad.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67
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I drove through Wisconsin a couple of weeks ago and had to try to track down The Gobbler. Sadly, the motel is long gone, but the restaurant--complete with the original purplinkle furnishings--is still waiting for some kind owner to give it a new lease on life.   And I still think architect Helmut Ajango has the most awesome name ever.
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The Art Gallery here in Winnipeg is pretty ugly. I guess it's "art" but after walking by it every single day since I moved downtown its "majesty" has worn off and compared to all the other buildings around here, which are either old rear end heritage buildings like the Legislature or fancy new ones like the Hydro building, it's just an eye sore.   Click here for the full 870x580 image.
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My college is brutalist, I think. There aren't too many good pictures on GIS though   
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The Lloyd's of London building. I guess it's supposed to look like the future? I think it looks cool, in a  sort of way.
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Toronto has the worst architecture in the whole country. Example: City Hall:  The offices by the windows are hot in the summer and freezing in the winter; the ones at the far side of the building (not at the windows) are the opposite. I worked in and around there for a year and a half. God how I hate that building. We could have had this badass (in my opinion) building as City Hall, but it was turned down. Esso got it instead. Fun fact: it was designed to operate as an emergency hospital in the event of a nuclear attack, and was placed such that it was outside of any blast radius from a strike on downtown Toronto. 
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syrairc posted:The Art Gallery here in Winnipeg... 
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Also, the Guggenheim in NYC always drove me nuts.  I usually get a very weird sort of vertigo when I walk up to the top of the spiral and look down. It's odd, because I've never had vertigo or height dizziness anywhere else in the world, not even from 30,000 feet in the air. Also, one time they had the exhibits mounted on some weird black felt material that absorbed sound, so if you were walking upwards, it would feel like your right ear was deaf (vice versa for downwards). That coupled with the vertigo left me a wreck by the end of the visit.
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slothmonster posted:i think habitat 67 is pretty rad. This is just so surreal... and amazing.
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You know, these buildings all tell me that they were at least trying. I hate the generic fake-brick-and-beige-stucco monstrosities that are being vomited up all over now. You know the ones.
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hockeyfrog posted:I sometimes make the trip to Lincoln or Omaha NE to see bands perform, and I *always* get creeped out at this church that is on the state line of Kansas/Nebraska. Late at night its even worse, all lit up. That's like 20 minutes from my house! Never heard of it before.
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Esplanade posted:I drove through Wisconsin a couple of weeks ago and had to try to track down The Gobbler. Sadly, the motel is long gone, but the restaurant--complete with the original purplinkle furnishings--is still waiting for some kind owner to give it a new lease on life. according to the website from that sign, the gobbler dinner club can be had for $1,350,000. who wants to donate to the cause? we'll have club goon! We could totally make that thing into the world's best themed 60's cocktail lounge
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olylifter posted:Fun fact: it was designed to operate as an emergency hospital in the event of a nuclear attack, and was placed such that it was outside of any blast radius from a strike on downtown Toronto.  Who would ever even bother thinking about nuking Canada?
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The Sculputered House, AKA the Sleeper House, locally known as the Jetson house. I lived just below it on the mountain. Click here for the full 1800x1440 image. 
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schmuckfeatures posted:
During the Cold War the shortest route between the U.S. and Russia was over Canada. A missile could falter and hit us instead. Anyway, an awesome drive-thru liquor store in Mexico.  
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WierdFishes posted:Anyway, an awesome drive-thru liquor store in Mexico. That's not a very good idea.
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Experience Music Project in Seattle - vomit educing  La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona - creepy as all hell, I've always avoided it when I go   its been under construction for over 120 years, estimated time of completion is 2026 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia
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Esplanade posted:I drove through Wisconsin a couple of weeks ago and had to try to track down The Gobbler. Sadly, the motel is long gone, but the restaurant--complete with the original purplinkle furnishings--is still waiting for some kind owner to give it a new lease on life. Wait, is this the restaurant in Pulp Fiction?
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An observer posted:Also, one time they had the exhibits mounted on some weird black felt material that absorbed sound, so if you were walking upwards, it would feel like your right ear was deaf (vice versa for downwards). That coupled with the vertigo left me a wreck by the end of the visit.
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I'm from Marin and the Civic center creeped me out when I was younger. I guess the dated retro-futurism put off a weird vibe for me. Most late Frank Lloyd Wright does that though. Not that I think it's bad, just.. weird. Still really cool though.  And then I walked past this beast of a building every day for four years:  It was the big eyesore in our middle of the pretty Beaux Arts campus. The 70s were a bleak time for architecture. Except I'd rather have the right angles and regular geometry than that Daniel Libeskind poo poo posted earlier. God that type of stuff is horrible. I hate modern architecture sometimes.
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Der Luftwaffle posted:The AT&T building would be perfect as oppressive regime HQ. And those pod houses are awesome, I'd definitely live there. Because the architect made absolutely no attempt to blend with the old section it looks like the neoclassical ROM is being attacked by alien crystals
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Most of these buildings are loving amazing and I would love to have them in my town.
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Libeskind.... oh Libey Libey Libey... Libester, Libeskinder, Libester. The world of architecture's finest troll. Design for the sake of it is my favourite thing to spend money on!
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Nebakenezzer posted:Because the architect made absolutely no attempt to blend with the old section it looks like the neoclassical ROM is being attacked by alien crystals The Cleveland Museum of Art is currently undergoing a similar treatment. I can't find a decent picture of the revision model on their website to show you. Content: This building creeps me out a little every time I pass it on the highway.  The reason being that some friends and I found a corpse in there. Years later, I don't think UrbEx in the Flats could have had any other possible outcome.
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BetterWeirdthanDead posted:The Cleveland Museum of Art is currently undergoing a similar treatment. I can't find a decent picture of the revision model on their website to show you.  ? I can't find one either.It's not so bad though, the way each side faces different streets -- the more classical part has the lagoon in front and the modern renovations fit the oval with the other museums. Now, the Gehry building just down the street... 
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The Seattle Public Library is intense:  Its probably the only building I dont like walking near.
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Ouija posted:
That's some Beksinski-looking poo poo right there.
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The Burj Dubai, mainly because I'm a little scared of heights Click here for the full 1020x672 image. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Dubai
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More in the scary/creepy vein, these are some scans of photographs I found in a antique store in Seattle:  
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The Ryugyong hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea:  It was started in the 80s, designed to be one of the tallest buildings in the world, but abandoned because of lack of funds. Egyptian contractors have recently been brought in to clad the whole thing in glass to make it less of an eyesore and the north koreans are saying the whole thing will be finished, but it's unlikely that that's true. It's also supposedly made out of low grade concrete and shouldn't even be able to support its own weight. There were some pictures someone posted here once that showed closeups of how warped and cracked the concrete already is; I'd like to find those again at some point. It was meant to have seven revolving restaurants, because Kim Jong-Il loves revolving restaurants. It used to be photoshopped to have lights on it in official photos of the cityscape, but now they just photoshop it out altogether.
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Welcome to Edinburgh, here's the Scottish Parliament building. Yes, from the front it looks like a weird crappy beach bar. Oh wait, maybe it's more appealing from a different angle...  Nope. Danger - Octopus! fucked around with this message at Nov 04, 2009 around 09:58 |
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