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wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

kith_groupie posted:

I sort of like the library. Not all brutalism is bad, to be fair, it's just very, very difficult to execute.

This is the auditorium at the Technical University of Delft. It fits into the environment well I think and isn't overwhelming imposing. I think it works there though cause the campus is just a whole bunch of different styles.

That is a bulbasaur

wayfinder fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Mar 6, 2015

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Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Pffft the Carrington Campus of Unitec in Central-West Auckland actually was a mental institution and still has a facility housing some of our most dangerous mental health patients in the grounds.

Doesn't really belong in the thread because it's not an architectural failure as such, but with it still being an active facility I always feel creeped out whenever I have to be there at night (which is so far three times and hopefully never again).

# ? Mar 6, 2015 05:58

Frostwerks: Sep 24, 2007; by Lowtax

EmperorFritoBandito posted:

Building on top looks like a place where you'd go to learn the exciting new science of trepanning.

i thought it was the chicago murder hotel

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fatherboxx: Mar 25, 2013

not feeling opressed by central planning enough? here is a circle of doom

# ? Mar 6, 2015 09:29

Lucy Heartfilia: May 31, 2012

fatherboxx posted:

That's a pretty interesting looking building. I like it.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 09:54

TenementFunster: Feb 20, 2003; The Cooler King

Job Truniht posted:

Worst loving building on campus.

eccr is a loving maze. i still can't find my way around three months later

# ? Mar 6, 2015 10:04

midnightclimax: Dec 3, 2011; by XyloJW

someone post the architectural equivalent to "im gay"

e: neuschwanstein prohibited

# ? Mar 6, 2015 10:26

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009

midnightclimax posted:

someone post the architectural equivalent to "im gay"

e: neuschwanstein prohibited

Neuschwanstein's more "Fich Ihr, Habe Mein"

# ? Mar 6, 2015 11:03

Vanagoon: Jan 20, 2008; Best Dead Gay Forums
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Western State in Bolivar TN pretty much just is Arkham Asylum..

http://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Special:AWCforum/st/id130/Bolivar_and_Bryce_State_Hospital....html

# ? Mar 6, 2015 12:09

RedTeam: Feb 5, 2011; SHAZAM!

A city doesn't get to be almost 2000 years old without some gently caress ups.

This is a view medievel church of St. Saviour (on the right), and the more recent methodist curch (the one with the pillars), from Stonebow in York, UK.

This is the view of St. Saviour today:

'Stonebow House' blends in less-than-seamlessly with the surrounding buildings. It is the site of many hundereds of square feet of empty office space, mostly unused car parking spaces (having been made redundant by a nearby multistory), and an empty music venue that has since moved to a less depressing location.

This is York Castle, including Clfford's Tower (the motte and bailey keep towards the centre of the picture) and the present-day courthouse and museum:

The area also used to have perimeter walls and gates that extended aroud the whole area aas well as a prison (to the right of the tower):

The prison was built in 1825 but closed in 1929. The best possible use for the site?

# ? Mar 6, 2015 13:58

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Kavak posted:

Neuschwanstein's more "Fich Ihr, Habe Mein"

If anything, it was the opposite.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 15:51

paddyboat: Feb 20, 2013; Maxi, Maxi Rodriguez
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fatherboxx posted:

I loves these boxes

# ? Mar 6, 2015 16:39

Domattee: Mar 5, 2012

Kavak posted:

Neuschwanstein's more "Fich Ihr, Habe Mein"

I'll have you know that it's either "Fickt euch, hab meins" (plural) or "Fick dich, hab meins" (singular)

# ? Mar 6, 2015 16:59

Yawgmoth: Sep 10, 2003; This post is cursed!

fatherboxx posted:

Somebody likes Jenga way too much.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 17:06

boom boom boom: Jun 28, 2012; by Shine

blowfish posted:

did it finally loose too many lawsuits?

Why was a bridge suing people?

# ? Mar 6, 2015 17:12

the fart question: Mar 21, 2007; College Slice

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.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 17:18

Philthy: Jan 28, 2003; Pillbug

TapTheForwardAssist posted:

While we're covering dystopian public housing hell-holes:

Cabrini Green, Chicago. Basically synonymous with "terrible public housing ideas".

I can't be arsed to find it now, but some articles I've read show the old concept art for how great a place it was going to be, and you can pretty much go down the whole checklist of its innovative features and see how each one just became nightmarish.

For context, the horror film Candyman was shot in CG, which probably offered a huge savings in having to do almost nothing to make scary sets.

If you want a more inside look at the projects, check out the book Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh. He befriends a few gang bangers around Cabrini Green trying to do a simple study and ends up sucked into their world as a friend. They spend almost all their time within and around Cabrini Green doing the drug selling and other gangster stuff, but he also becomes friends with residents in the project and how everything is broken down, and people help each other out to get water running again, etc. It's a really fascinating book. The book/project basically turned him into one of the more well known sociologists because he got into the loop with inner city gangs and poverty first hand and was treated as one of their own. This is very rarely done, the only other book that comes close, and surpasses it in my opinion, is The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood by David Simon and Edward Burns. (This would eventually lead to The Wire)

Philthy fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Mar 6, 2015

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Neutrino: Mar 8, 2006; Fallen Rib

Milwaukee had an architect in the 1960's that had some interesting designs and proposals. He built this addition to a historic downtown hotel which is a unique blot on the landscape. Back then, cylindrical buildings were a space age wonder.

Then there is his idea for the Tourist Tower in 1964 that was thankfully never built:

Neutrino fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Mar 6, 2015

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Jaramin: Oct 20, 2010

Hexagonal tumor hospital complex.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 22:08

Sponge Baathist: Jan 30, 2010; by FactsAreUseless

fatherboxx posted:

#hashtag

# ? Mar 6, 2015 22:15

Lote: Aug 5, 2001; Place your bets

fatherboxx posted:

Tetris block architecture is so in right now.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 22:45

midnightclimax: Dec 3, 2011; by XyloJW

Lote posted:

Tetris block architecture is so in right now.

There's a UN program in collaboration with Mojang, where african villages design their community using Minecraft. The creepers are Ebola.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 22:54

Peanut President: Nov 5, 2008; by Athanatos

Omi-Polari posted:

Not an architectural failure, but I'm a big fan of the Caldwell County Courthouse which is near me outside Austin:

Small town county courthouses are usually pretty fantastic:

edit: For an ugly building more in theme with the thread, the middle one isn't the courthouse anymore, this is:

This building is 3 stories tall and takes up 4 loving blocks, blocking off a main road.

Peanut President fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Mar 6, 2015

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smackfu: Jun 7, 2004

joat mon posted:

Tear it down and put up this instead:

That wouldn't be as bad if it was better maintained.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 23:04

NoNotTheMindProbe: Aug 9, 2010; pony porn was here

We don't have anything too ugly in Brisbane but what they did to the parliamentary precinct always amuses me.

Here's Parliament House, a grand old Federation era structure. But what's that lurking behind?

ITS THE PARLIAMENTARY ANNEX

There's actually a private bar for public servants where the grassy top of that building is in the bottom right.

As a bonus here's Kurilpa Bridge:

# ? Mar 6, 2015 23:16

Sparq: Feb 10, 2014; If you're using an AC/20, you only need to hit the target once. If the target's still standing, you oughta be somewhere else anyway.

Today I bring you a beautiful architectural failure.

The unfinished Cathedral of Valladolid.

"We'll build the biggest, raddest cathedral in Europe, in Herreriano style, for this distinguished city" (Which will be the capital of the Spanish Empire for five years)

"gently caress, this poo poo is expensive. :effort:

The smaller building there is the old Colegiata, the de facto cathedral before this started. Still, it's a very serene place and the whole "urban ruin" thing about the older building is kind of endearing.

# ? Mar 7, 2015 00:05

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Peanut President posted:

Small town county courthouses are usually pretty fantastic:

edit: For an ugly building more in theme with the thread, the middle one isn't the courthouse anymore, this is:

This building is 3 stories tall and takes up 4 loving blocks, blocking off a main road.

I dunno, at least two of those look like when a noveau riche douchebag decides to build his own castle out of cheap imitation materials. The modern last one is a net improvement.

# ? Mar 7, 2015 00:28

Peanut President: Nov 5, 2008; by Athanatos

They're not though. They're solid brick and limestone.

# ? Mar 7, 2015 09:19

BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

A lot of small county courthouses are built in weird styles that look archaic but were actually en vogue when they were built.

Then FDR showed up and we got hundreds of these sprouted up across the country:

A lot of New Deal / Art Deco architecture looks like it's trying to be bigger and more monumental than it really is.

BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 09:46 on Mar 7, 2015

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Cumslut1895: Feb 18, 2015; by FactsAreUseless

Rianeva posted:

A new apartment building in the Seahawks' stadium's parking lot. It looks like someone jammed three different buildings together and said "welp. good enough."

Wow, that's really, really cool

Honj Steak posted:

I have the sudden urge to beat up a cop and steal his gun

# ? Mar 7, 2015 10:31

flavor.flv: Apr 18, 2008; I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches

Jonad posted:

NoNotTheMindProbe posted:

why

# ? Mar 7, 2015 17:30

paddyboat: Feb 20, 2013; Maxi, Maxi Rodriguez
Run down the wing for me

I'm on the fence:

The Tulsa Tornado Tower

# ? Mar 7, 2015 18:17

grinnard: Apr 10, 2012

I do love London but there is some tragic architecture here

# ? Mar 7, 2015 18:19

midnightclimax: Dec 3, 2011; by XyloJW

MUSEUM OF LONDON HELLO PLEASE COME IN

NO WE'RE CLOSED ON SATURDAYS

WHAT? HELLO

MUSEUM OF LONDON ENTRANCE

# ? Mar 7, 2015 18:59

paddyboat: Feb 20, 2013; Maxi, Maxi Rodriguez
Run down the wing for me

The worst font

# ? Mar 7, 2015 19:34

Anza Borrego: Feb 11, 2005; Ovis canadensis nelsoni

Neutrino posted:

Milwaukee had an architect in the 1960's that had some interesting designs and proposals. He built this addition to a historic downtown hotel which is a unique blot on the landscape. Back then, cylindrical buildings were a space age wonder.

I've stayed here several times and the floor plates are terrible. Awful, awful plans.

# ? Mar 7, 2015 19:42

jazzyhattrick: Jul 1, 2010; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

grinnard posted:

I do love London but there is some tragic architecture here

The architecture isn't close to being the worst thing about the museum of london.
It is the most boring museum on earth, where fun goes to die. A day from my childhood I am never getting back.

# ? Mar 7, 2015 23:26

ANAmal.net: Mar 2, 2002; 100% digital native web developer

Omi-Polari posted:

A lot of small county courthouses are built in weird styles that look archaic but were actually en vogue when they were built.

Then FDR showed up and we got hundreds of these sprouted up across the country:

A lot of New Deal / Art Deco architecture looks like it's trying to be bigger and more monumental than it really is.

this building loving rules

# ? Mar 7, 2015 23:29

Max Manus: Oct 25, 2004; Saboteur par excellence.; Nap Ghost

Nice old city block in Oslo. Det engelske kvarter as it was known.

Then the 1960's came along, gotta get with the modern times. Away with the old and in with the new!

Behold, the industry export-import building!

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SEX BURRITO: Jun 30, 2007; Not much fun

I only found out this thing existed the other day. ArcelorMittal Orbit, some sort of lovely observation tower built for the 2012 Olympics.

It looks like someone designed a regular, boring tower, but their kid scribbled all over the design randomly, so they just presented it as some cutting edge design.

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