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Dick Church, complete with flushing fire hydrant.
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bartlebyshop posted:Ottawa posting and no Lester B Pearson building? This building is actually cool
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Say Nothing posted:Dick Church, complete with flushing fire hydrant. 
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Feb 19, 2015 10:00
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You would have to think the architect was seeing if anyone would notice the joke, but then plans were approved and it got out of their hands.
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Feb 19, 2015 10:32
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:In another context this would look cool. I'm just not at all sure what that context would be. a feed and seed mill
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Everything mr. Calatrava does is pretty much an architectural failure and a source of shame for us Spanish. This monstrosity is the Oviedo Conference Hall, and as you can see it has no business at all being there in the middle of a residential area. The thingy in the middle is supposed to move, but it was risky as gently caress and using it meant someone could end up dead. 
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Feb 19, 2015 11:52
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is that a ruffles potato chip?
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Feb 19, 2015 12:09
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Trochanter posted:On the whole, I'd say Gatineau is a lot nicer. Someone's never been to Portage. Block after block of concrete government offices.  redshirt posted:All of Ottawa was constructed in the 1970's, apparently. Toronto too. Lots of government and corporate offices left Montreal and Quebec City for some reason 
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Feb 19, 2015 12:41
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oh god all this ugly architecture take a break from these disasters and gaze upon the beauty of an american suburb 
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Feb 19, 2015 12:49
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Before the coming of the Age of Condos rich people in Toronto used the Bay & Gable to show off their weath.  Truly a golden age.
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A misanthrope posted:oh god all this ugly architecture it is beautiful, comrade
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Feb 19, 2015 13:03
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guidoanselmi posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8MEm3eVPNU I could watch Jonathan Meades stuff all day, and I may just do that.
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Feb 19, 2015 13:05
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A misanthrope posted:oh god all this ugly architecture i like how there's no trees and half the fences are missing
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Feb 19, 2015 13:32
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Kavak posted:i like how there's no trees and half the fences are missing trees and fences impede views and make you forget you're living in a perfect ant-like colony trees and fences are for people who have secrets
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Feb 19, 2015 13:51
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A misanthrope posted:oh god all this ugly architecture the way god intended us to live
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Feb 19, 2015 14:04
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not checking to see if it was posted but behold, smack dab in the middle of paris
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Feb 19, 2015 14:06
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nice happy trail
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Feb 19, 2015 14:56
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 This is supposed to resemble a smashed guitar.
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Feb 19, 2015 15:01
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looks more like goatse
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Vernii posted:
yeah the long lines building is cool as heck, so is the western union building:     hell yeah we're on a roll, nyc telecom buildings are great     gently caress
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Feb 19, 2015 15:19
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The Asahi Brewery headquarters is shaped like a giant glass of beer. I don't know what deal with the giant golden sperm is though. Do they jack off into the beer? Is that what they are saying???? Extra Large Marge fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Feb 19, 2015 |
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FizFashizzle posted:not checking to see if it was posted but behold, smack dab in the middle of paris this one actually owns
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Kavak posted:i like how there's no trees and half the fences are missing Lower middle class neigborhood, privacy fences are actually surprisingly expensive so tract home builders in cheap neighborhoods will make them optional, especially since you can't cover up shoddy rear end construction with drywall like you did in the house.
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Feb 19, 2015 15:58
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 Meet The Harmon. I ate breakfast in the shadow of this building back in 2011 and thought it looked pretty cool, so I researched it after my trip to the sin city. This is when I learned of the horror. Wikipedia posted:Serious construction defects to the building were discovered in 2008, and the project was halted indefinitely. On August 23, 2013, a Clark County court approved the tower's demolition. The dismantling of the tower began in the summer of 2014. Hard to believe a building so new and so large was planned for dismantling.
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Angela Christine posted:
There's a mission in GTA V where you go to this house and snipe some guy who's throwing a party in it. Anyway, Minneapolis is mostly a good looking city with a cool skyline, but then it has these loving monstrosities: 
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goons love brutalist architecture news at 11
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Feb 19, 2015 16:20
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i used to live in these buildings
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Feb 19, 2015 16:27
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Continuing the trend of ugly Ottawa libraries.  I realize this isn't an issue for the typical Goon, but gently caress all barracks, forever. Especially Shilo.     Walking past this poo poo every day crushes your spirit, living there is even worse. Frosted Flake fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Feb 19, 2015 |
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Feb 19, 2015 16:38
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Say Nothing posted:"Nah, it'll hold" I'm going to build an apartment building that appears to be laying down. Every window will actually be a skylight. #functionalart
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Feb 19, 2015 16:42
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dental/medical college in copenhagen  appropriate artwork around it 
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Feb 19, 2015 16:47
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 Upscale casino built in a dying town with nothing but old and degenerate gamblers. Aimed towards the youth in a dead economy, the Revel Casino was built at a cost of $2.4 billion. It declared bankruptcy after only 2 years. Recently it was bought at auction for $110 million, but the purchasers backed out of the deal. It sits and rots.
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FizFashizzle posted:not checking to see if it was posted but behold, smack dab in the middle of paris This is also really cool Paris however is mostly a sloppy kludge of city planning. Most old european cities are like that but Paris is particularly loving bad even after that system update in the mid-19th century.
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Feb 19, 2015 16:59
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Is that a WWII era German 88mm Flak cannon? 
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Gorilla Salad posted:Is that a WWII era German 88mm Flak cannon? It is. Canadian bases are full of war trophies, in a really haphazard way. On boulevards, in parks, on the lawns of buildings. Everywhere you look there are guns, tanks, planes of every era and nation on display.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I present my home town, town centre. Welcome to Cumbernauld: (70's - 80's photo) Basically, architecturally, the town centre makes no loving sense whatsoever. It belongs to a brutalist, utopian engineering idea that was half completed. During construction the company building it went bust and there was no structural referencing available. Urban myth has it that the architect committed suicide after construction was complete by jumping off it, although it's difficult to confirm that.  (Again 70's photo...the horror) The town centre is a labyrinth structure. It originally incorporated two sections across what was the main thoroughfare road between Glasgow and Falkirk/Stirling. The section you see in the photos was the right side, which held a library, halls and a cinema. The very top structure was supposed to be apartment housing, but the structural defects meant this was abandoned and changed to offices. This was then abandoned also and became effectively derelict. That structure still exists. It has been empty for the better part of 40 years - an entire 4th floor consisting of nothing but empty rooms and empty promises.  Within one section of it held a very old and famous clock that belonged to one of Glasgow's railway stations before it was demolished. Cumbernauld's answer was to put it into a section of the maze barely used. The clock was almost left to complete ruin before finally being moved...funnily enough to another hallway, never to be seen!  Eventually parts of it were deconstructed. This is probably a more modern photo of it.  Today it hosts a council built town centre section to the right of it. The main architecture of the building though still exists - and no one knows if it'll ever be torn down. It stands as a monument of instrumental architectural failure. Hilariously nowadays its surrounded by a huge Tesco and Asda, which effectively kills any sort of commerce within the town centre itself. EDIT: Final picture:  This was one of the main entrances in. That existed till about 2005! Communist Bear fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Feb 19, 2015 |
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Feb 19, 2015 17:36
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Legend has it Mitterand picked this design for the Opera Bastille as a gently caress you to a city he had grown to hate.  It's pretty difficult to fully grasp how butt loving ugly it is from just this picture, however.
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Feb 19, 2015 17:50
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it looks like a freighter beeched itself on a wharf and they decided to just leave it like that
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Feb 19, 2015 17:53
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bartlebyshop posted:Ottawa posting and no Lester B Pearson building? i dig this
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Feb 19, 2015 18:09
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lol the "hip new thing" of mondrian-inspired rectangles of prisma color plastic there was so much potential in this trend, but everywhere i've seen it's been badly realized, and we are going to regret it more and more with the coming decades
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