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nomadologique posted:it is pretty loving glorious though... And currently a bargain, if you can figure out a way to afford the upkeep.
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yeah hold on lemme see if i can scrape together half a billion for front-end and first five years...
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How long until they stop having a security guy in there, and all the hobos can go live in the Suite??
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nomadologique posted:yeah hold on lemme see if i can scrape together half a billion for front-end and first five years... i bet you'd get a break on property taxes tho
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MSPain posted:I'd like to see the inside of one of those telecom buildings. How much of that space is being used? Are there really zero humans that work there day to day? The equipment has gotten smaller in the last couple decades, so as somebody said, a lot of them rent out space for server farms. Or in the case of my local one, to the county government's disaster command center. Makes sense -- telecom switching buildings were basically built as bunkers to survive the Cold War going hot and already have onsite backup generators (ever notice how the phones still work when the electricity's out?), so they're good places to keep servers or for the emergency services HQ to ride out a natural disaster. Also it amuses me that the county's Secret Underground Bunker is on the fourth floor (it used to be in the basement of City Hall, but they outgrew it). Surprised the Ryugyong Hotel hasn't been mentioned. Glorious monument to the glory of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, tallest hotel in the world, shining beacon of Dear Leader's badassery ... well, that was the plan anyway. Construction stopped in 1992, three years past the planned opening day, on the building, with little more than a crumbling skeleton to show for it (big surprise, the concrete was subpar and it started falling apart before they could finish it.) And so it sat, a more accurate monument of NK than they'd like, for 16 years:  In 2008, work started to finally finish it out, beginning with the exterior cladding. In 2011:  At the start of the second bout of work, plans were for it to open in 2012 on Eternal President Kim Il-Sung's 100th birthday, but as far as anybody can tell, all they had done by then was hang the glass on it, still no interior. And then in 2013, work was again postponed indefinitely. It's still half-finished and empty, but at least it looks a bit nicer on the Pyongyang skyline. Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Feb 19, 2015 |
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Have any of you ever lived in a place like this? I always wondered how the hell you give people directions to your house, or find it when you're walking home from the bar after one too many. Places like that honestly fill me with dread. There's a place near Nashville that has row, after row, after row, after row of absolutely identical poo poo looking houses that I'm sure it would take months for me to figure out which one was mine without staring at the house numbers that were in a really lovely location that I would hate to rely on for an ambulance to find were there an emergency. I'm going to try and find it and get back to you.
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FreakerByTheSpeaker posted:Have any of you ever lived in a place like this? I always wondered how the hell you give people directions to your house, or find it when you're walking home from the bar after one too many. the houses are numbered
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FreakerByTheSpeaker posted:...or find it when you're walking home from the bar after one too many. *stumbles drunkenly down street loudly singing Weeds theme*
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Dyna Soar posted:the houses are numbered But really poorly in my experience. The place I'm thinking of has the house numbers above the door in the 8 inches between the doorframe and the awning that covers the front landing. If I lived in a place like that, I would want my address in giant, blinking numbers with my name in scrolling text to help anyone find my place.
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Dyna Soar posted:the houses are numbered on different street names.
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It's McKay's Mill HOA between Liberty Pike, Turning Wheel Ln, and Oxford Glen Dr in Franklin TN. They grew some trees near the road so you can't get a good shot of the mind bending sameness of the place, but I biked through it with a friend when it was just built when I was down in Nashville and the horror of the beehive feel, plus the fact that no one was outside because it was a weekday caused a terror bordering on anxiety. I can't find a picture of the exact houses, but here's a picture of the worst part via Google:  And some of the "nicer" duplexes that are on the other side of Liberty Pike in the same neat little rows:  Also, I know how addresses work, but there's something really unsettling about knowing you'll spend such a long time being able to identify your own house without needing to squint at poorly lit addresses or counting houses the whole way.
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You don't walk back from the bar back to one of those houses because they are located miles and miles away from any bars.
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Fallingwater's bathrooms are lined in cork. This is all I can contribute but this thread is already really cool. Wasn't there a place in korea or china that was some sort of strange dome hotel and it was abandoned completely? I remember seeing pictures of it and thinking it looked like chernobyl. Fake Edit: Found it it was called Sanzhi Pod City in the 70's (I have a weird love of 70's futurist stuff) 
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^Not sure why suburbs scare me, but this is great. The overgrown grass and shrubbery also help, somehow.Present posted:You don't walk back from the bar back to one of those houses because they are located miles and miles away from any bars. That's the ticket. You drive home completely obliterated and pray that tonight will be the night you wrap your car around a telephone pole to release you from the crushing reality that is modern hive-home ownership. Or you just get drunk at home and smack your kids around since their existence triggered your nesting instinct while also sucking all the income from your awful job in the city that you have to keep because of your children and house.
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FreakerByTheSpeaker posted:^Not sure why suburbs scare me, but this is great. The overgrown grass and shrubbery also help, somehow. Anyway I scoffed at your question until I remembered that I drove by my house many times. It was 2 or 3 houses from a perpendicular road so I knew I went too far if I came to it. The thing is it was cheap and only a couple years old so the upkeep costs were almost nothing, so a great starter house. But I'd love to know how it will be in 20 or 30 years. Vinyl siding with stucco front, all wood framing, probably finished as cheaply as possible. My current house was built in 1925 in CO and will outlive me certainly. E: Also my neighborhood had a lot of borderline-trashy young families with cheatin' druggin' drinkin' drama. Crazy poo poo like a guy banging his neighbor's wife on the porch at 3am, regular poker games when one guy's wife was out of town, ever present cocaine on the downlow, all that stuff.
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FogHelmut posted:
It's not finding the Revel that's the hard part, it's letting go...
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FreakerByTheSpeaker posted:Have any of you ever lived in a place like this? I always wondered how the hell you give people directions to your house, or find it when you're walking home from the bar after one too many. I know someone, he and his husband bought like a 2,000 sqft house house in a new sub-division, it was close to one of their work places, far from the other but he could take the train to work after a short drive. They broke up, my friend kept the house, his work transferred him to a one hour commute that you couldn't take the train to. His cats died. He now lives along in a big house, all his friends live in the city, all his neighbors are young families. Every street in his neighborhood is named after a Monopoly street. I believe it is my personal hell.
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^ Sweet Christ that's depressingFreakerByTheSpeaker posted:^Not sure why suburbs scare me, but this is great. The overgrown grass and shrubbery also help, somehow. there is another picture where some of the roof fell away from a pod and now its filling with grass and it made me realize how much I want a balcony gardening area in a house. ( I realize drainage and blah blah reality but it would be cool to have a lawn on your second floor for goofs)  this picture.
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  If I weren't phone postin I'd find pictures of this as it was being constructed (it's almost done) cause it looked like an armadillo skeleton sprouting wings
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Moosechees posted:Because Colombo keeps coming over and arresting you for murder. Under appreciated
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I'm one of the badly placed people walking around in an architectural proposal.
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May I present the University of Kent's (UK) library? A 60's-70's redbrick new university that a) was evidently designed to survive the thrid war b) rumored to be earmarked as a prison, if the whole educational thing didn't work out.  This is the nexus-throne where the god-emperor dwells
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Tawd posted:This is the nexus-throne where the god-emperor dwells this is a good idea, can we design more buildings as though they were part of the dune universe?
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ZeusCannon posted:made me realize how much I want a balcony gardening area in a house. ( I realize drainage and blah blah reality but it would be cool to have a lawn on your second floor for goofs) I have one of those fake dog grass patches on my balcony, I thought about doing fake grass in the whole area but I figured I could keep my dogs confined to the one grass area that they are allowed to pee on so I haven't. I do garden out there though, can't wait for it to warm up a little bit and replant. 
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"Condo".
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Tawd posted:A 60's-70's redbrick new university that a) was evidently designed to survive the thrid war b) rumored to be earmarked as a prison, if the whole educational thing didn't work out. It is good to see that the "this educational building was built using the same blueprint as a prison!" urban legend isn't exclusive to the US.
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that's just the thesis of foucault's "discipline and punish" hellooooooooo
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Three Olives posted:I have one of those fake dog grass patches on my balcony, I thought about doing fake grass in the whole area but I figured I could keep my dogs confined to the one grass area that they are allowed to pee on so I haven't. I do garden out there though, can't wait for it to warm up a little bit and replant. Nice I had to move recently so now I have a balcony that I am learning to garden on. I do miss my back yard a bit, can't grill on a balcony where I am. Right now its filled with boxes for my bonsai to winter in so I look like a hoarder.  On other architectural failures (and red brick failures! ) I put forth Fort Jefferson on the Dry Tortugas. It was one of the first of its type of construction for the army engineers. Since there was no water on the islands (gulf of mexico so all salt) it was designed to capture rainwater and filter it down to holding cisterns. However (this is the failure part) it wasn't built so good so it started sinking when they put the 2nd level on (supposed to be 3) and the cisterns cracked making them useless. It never fulfilled its purpose and got turned into a prison after the civil war. They held the Lincoln conspirators there, and there are a bunch of interesting stories about that including how Dr. Mudd earning his parole by treating patients during a terrible outbreak of yellow fever. Now its a really pretty place to visit and has pretty good snorkeling!  It really is a beautiful place though. Well worth visiting. *note I cant remember if it was the 2nd or 3rd level that started the sinking so I may have that wrong.
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QUEEN CAUCUS posted:
Unilever stole this idea for their HQ but made it pretty  Weird building are kind of their thing 
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Personally I'm happy Madison, WI has a last line of defense against Orcs
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NihilismNow posted:Unilever stole this idea for their HQ but made it pretty let me just lay this skyscraper sideways above your property. hope you don't mind!
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Libelous Slander posted:let me just lay this skyscraper sideways above your property. hope you don't mind! It's their own factory/ R&D facility though. Management is literally elevated over the workers.
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NihilismNow posted:It's their own factory/ R&D facility though. oh that's cool in a totalitarian sorta way
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CoffeeBooze posted:It is good to see that the "this educational building was built using the same blueprint as a prison!" urban legend isn't exclusive to the US. Realising it could be complete BS. It does make some sense though, the dining hall in the imperial throne hall building is literally overlooked by what would have been the staff break room, a la a panopticon, and the way the accommodation was organised certainly made you feel it could work effectively.
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BEHOLD... The American DreamTM ! (formerly known as XANADU) More of a financial failure than a strictly structural one, it's greatest achievement is being the most hideous eyesore next to an ugly highway surrounded by hideous eyesores. This was supposed to be the super mall to end all super malls. Indoor ski slope! World's biggest LEGO store! A giant ferris wheel, an AMUSEMENT park! Concerts, restaurants AND it's right next to the IZOD Center, so you can catch your favorite sporting event! WHY WOULD YOU EVER LEAVE~ Oh right, cause it never got done. The company that started this project went bankrupt, and was taken over by another company that ALSO went bankrupt, so were on our 3rd set of owners who aren't bankrupt... yet. Once complete, it will be the crown jewel in the Jersey crown. In the meantime, it's just a bunch of jumbled colors and pieces just sitting there collecting dust. This is officially year 12 of the project, with projected 'partial' opening next year. Get hype.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream_Meadowlands
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Libelous Slander posted:let me just lay this skyscraper sideways above your property. hope you don't mind! This kind of reminds me of Citigroup Center:  To build the building they bought the air rights from a church (pictured left) and cantilevered the skyscraper above it. Everyone thought it was super cool and it was studied in architecture school for how initiative it was. Then one day a student called the architect and was like "Hey, we are studying your building, it is super cool but every time I do the simulation of it it looks like it would fall over if it got hit by a 70 mile hour wind from the corner. Obviously this isn't the case because you aren't staggeringly incompetent, how did you guys solve the problem? Anyways, super cool, I really want to know because it's really impressive, k bye tnx." Yeah, not so much, they never simulated it from the corner, it would totally fall over and kill thousands of people if it got hit by a storm from the corner. They secretly fixed it in the middle of the night by welding on a bunch of supports. Secretly because people would obviously freak the gently caress out if they found out they worked in/worked next to/live next to a sky scraper that could actually blow over from a wind gust.
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CoffeeBooze posted:It is good to see that the "this educational building was built using the same blueprint as a prison!" urban legend isn't exclusive to the US. There's a building in my town that the university bought and was planning to turn into dorms. Thing is, people were upset because the (actually very pretty) building was a former women's prison; it still had the wrought iron bars on the windows. The school decided to turn it into an archive instead. Speaking of my town (Kingston, Ontario) there's this beauty not two blocks from where I live.  It was built as a student co-op housing project called Elrond Towers, but like most student projects it went to poo poo. The new owners renamed it to Princess Towers, after the street its on. I see this thing pretty often walking home, really lends a kind of 'Soviet cyberpunk' atmosphere to cold evenings.
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Dre2Dee2 posted:BEHOLD... The American DreamTM ! (formerly known as XANADU)  Jonad posted:There's a building in my town that the university bought and was planning to turn into dorms. Thing is, people were upset because the (actually very pretty) building was a former women's prison; it still had the wrought iron bars on the windows. The school decided to turn it into an archive instead. Women need prisons too, idk? Lucy Heartfilia posted:anyone else besides me who unironically loves brutalism? At least it was bold and forward-looking and, in retrospect, utterly overshadowed by the threat of nuclear apocalypse. Which is cooler if it's less of an imminent threat. What will the unemployable nu-hipster architecture students of tomorrow say about our steel-and-glass-and-odd-multicoloured-metal-clad buildings? (probably exactly the same thing)
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Dre2Dee2 posted:BEHOLD... The American DreamTM ! (formerly known as XANADU) I like how it is built next to Giants Stadium, which was been torn down and replaced while Xanadu has been under construction.
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