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Tumble posted:yea, but she was very nice and pretty cute so that evened out the airhead moments I sounded like a massive bitch then, and it was unintentional.
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CopperHound posted:Oh. It's Greebles. I get it now. Just going for functional form was too boring, so they need to add fake function. Yeah, although a little less justifiable IRL since you know, they really are dealing with human sized tubes and squares instead of tiny styrene bits you need to glue on with tweezers.
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My city barely has anything over 100 years old but developers tried to attach this monstrosity to the 1914-built waterfront station transit hub.  Thankfully it was rejected.
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Chief McHeath posted:Because architecture students are pretentious edgelords who think all their really bad ideas are instead really good and no one else gets it hth i drink with an architect sometimes and that's basically it though she acknowledges a lot of it is bullshit and pretentious
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Gazpacho posted:Seattle has a brutalist public park (built 1976) which thankfully I managed never to set foot in Vancouver's brutalist park comes with a sweet underground skating rink. Look how inviting those dark corners are. And it's too small so its main use is for security guards to get in conflicts with bored skateboarders. 
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Steps to being a successful architect: 1. Design the most grotesque monstrosity you can imagine 2. Interpret said monstrosity within the context of some modern arts movement. Doesn't matter which one. Make minor adjustments if necessary. (Probably won't be necessary, you can talk your way through this one) 3. Subcontract the blueprints to an architect. Anyone that can do blueprints. Someone that just designed a bus garage or something. 4. Collect money
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Mental Hospitality posted:Now this is a loving building. Isn't that where the Men In Black operate out of?
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Smdh if you wouldn't want to live in Habitat 67.
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Paper Diamonds posted:People are posting buildings they dont like to look at, not at buildings that are causing day-to-day issues with their lives. Aesthetically unappealing to your taste does not mean a negative impact on quality-of-life. what the gently caress are you talking about. if one of the buildings on the first few pages sprung up outside my window i would move
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Mordja posted:Smdh if you wouldn't want to live in Habitat 67. Hey, this was an alternate skin for a SimCity 2000 arcology
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nice looking things are a waste of resources and are only achievable through brute misunderstanding of capitalism and/or owning slaves. sorry, theyll never happen again until we get slaves again
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we cant have unnecessary or impractical things. its not like we live in a hilariously wasteful capitalist society
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We have to purge our art and design schools of everyone that is sexually aroused by clumps of sharp scrap metal. Or maybe have some sort of test, if their submissions are all glass and steel angular boxes they get thrown into an incinerator (the designer not their work). More and more i feel our society will collapse if aren't willing to murder people for being hopelessly deluded and stupid, or obnoxiously contrarian. Currently most architects fit those criteria.
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Have we talked about 432 Park Avenue yet? As plain as it looks, it's actually an engineering work of marvel considering its one of the slenderest towers in the world. 
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an ex lived directly across from this while it was being constructed- apparently everyone in the neighborhood thought it was hideous when i lived in Arlington i saw all kinds of cool buildings like this  turn into poo poo like this 
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My appreciation for raw concrete increased a lot after I stayed in a bloc tower hotel in Honolulu. Those walls made everything dead silent. I dig shotgun houses:  Not a fan of snout houses, though: 
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:Not a fan of snout houses, though: this looks like the kind of place you buy if your favorite color is beige
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Gazpacho posted:Suburbs were OK when you could pick a pattern out of a catalog before it was built, they became v bad when developers just went and dropped the same pattern on every lot Yeah. My parents bought a tract house in ~1968 when I was a baby and there were like six or seven completely different home designs to choose from, so the mind-numbing conformity wasn't so bad, especially after people landscaped to their taste and painted all different colors. Nowadays, there's 'giant ugly brown stucco box' and 'slightly smaller brown stucco box so everybody knows you're poor' to choose from, plus the advent of HOA's means there's little permissible personalization.
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funkybottoms posted:
Awwww, that breaks my heart 
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funkybottoms posted:an ex lived directly across from this while it was being constructed- apparently everyone in the neighborhood thought it was hideous to be honest the last one looks way better than the first, at least in its owm aesthetic
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Stexils posted:this looks like the kind of place you buy if your favorite color is beige http://mcmansionhell.com/post/164574515471/50-states-of-mcmansion-hell-clark-county-nevada
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CopperHound posted:I made a trip out to New York this last year. No I didn't go see Ground Zero... Or the Empire State building... Or even the statue of liberty, but I did go out of my way to go see the Long Lines building. Sure, the style broadcasts that people are not welcome there, but that works for a building full of equipment. congrats on being the most boring person in existence
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funkybottoms posted:when i lived in Arlington i saw all kinds of cool buildings like this
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your friend a dog posted:to be honest the last one looks way better than the first, at least in its owm aesthetic Gazpacho posted:this is better preservation than most developers would do. auto dealership buildings have very limited usefulness as anything else Ballston and Clarendon were really interesting neighborhoods until they started doing this bullshit see also: Columbia Pike near Walter Reed
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Here's a triple whammy for ya: The original Hotel Vancouver, built in 1911, was demolished:  ...to turn it into this in 1973:  Then was reclad into this recently: 
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funkybottoms posted:Ballston and Clarendon were really interesting neighborhoods until they started doing this bullshit yeah i really love the lovely lookin car dealer ship that looks like it came from a 10 cent archie comic
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:I sounded like a massive bitch then, and it was unintentional. it's cool i thought it was funny Gazpacho posted:this is better preservation than most developers would do. auto dealership buildings have very limited usefulness as anything else yea the only thing a brand-name dealership can turn into is a used car lot
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your friend a dog posted:yeah i really love the lovely lookin car dealer ship that looks like it came from a 10 cent archie comic
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solar energy panel posted:These two immediately came to mind. These things look cool. What are they?
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First one is a nazi bunker and the second is the seed vault
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i'd also point out that unlike so much "neotraditional" postmodern architecture that amounts to vomiting mediterranean, or imperial, or classical, etc. structural elements into a design, without regard either for those elements' function or the locale's history, that building actually does integrate elements of the locale's history into something new and at the same time functional
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Gazpacho posted:Seattle has a brutalist public park (built 1976) which thankfully I managed never to set foot in Just looking at that thing has given me a respiratory infection.
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The Seattle park you guys are talking about is known as "Freeway Park." It's actually pretty cool (and usually cleaner than that first picture) and has become a bit of a parkour destination when it is dry. The downside is that there are so many places to hide behind the columns that it is often overrun with crackheads.
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Lifespan posted:The Seattle park you guys are talking about is known as "Freeway Park." It's actually pretty cool (and usually cleaner than that first picture) and has become a bit of a parkour destination when it is dry. The downside is that there are so many places to hide behind the columns that it is often overrun with crackheads.
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That Seattle park rules and I hope that they film the acid scene from the eventual remake of Easy Rider there.
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Tricky D posted:the eventual remake of Easy Rider 
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Blues Point tower occupies one of the most scenic spots on Sydney Harbour I think it's actually heritage listed, but most people think it's fugly 
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