PYF: Cool-ass building.

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Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F84FAYwSII8

this building is fun for a couple reasons. aside from being an aforementioned oddity in his career, it is not a very tall building- 20ish stories, in a pretty nowhere town - so the tower stands out as being one of a few buildings of equivalent height in the otherwise midsized regional city. the tower is also an example of artistic flourish, designed decades before but unbuilt, and then constructed in a time when ostentation in architecture meant flat, clean lines with expensive materials (think the Mad Men aesthetic). Price Tower, on the other hand, is a positive riot of flourish, decoration, and ornamentation. still tastefully done, but definitely not austere and cold. on top of that, it has built ins - built ins! - in a commercial building, which is pretty wild given how often commercial properties are renovated to be up to date but also cheap. yeah, its a neato building, and if for any reason you ever find yourself passing through northern oklahoma or southern kansas, swing by and take a look

What kills me is that you could plunk that sucker down next to any of the 20-ish story tall apartment blocks in my city that were built in the late 90s-early 2000s and nobody would give it a second look. It's like he perfectly predicted:

Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:

if you're looking at a building and you're thinking "this is trying to remind me of something, but it mostly sucks... and it has a whiff of 90s whimsicality" then that's raw postmodernism, baby

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Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Kirk Vikernes posted:

I'm feeling a bit turgid.

That's just the juffo-wup filling your fibers. Get some violent action in, you'll be fine.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2021 21:04

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

I live in the toboggan hill

# ¿ Sep 22, 2021 03:36

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

John Dounce posted:

Meet the Bierpinsel ("beer brush") in Berlin, a 70s brutalist sci-fi tower. It used to house a club and a restaurant, now it's abandoned. It was on the market for like 3 million euros a few years ago, I think they're planning on using it for office space now

Goddamn, is that brutalist or is it cassette futurist? (or can it be both)

# ¿ Sep 23, 2021 17:33

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

I've been out of skiing for a long time, so I guess there's artificial grass that can be used as a ski slope now? Cause they sure don't show the building with any snow on it on the website.

Does it even snow in Copenhagen or does it get that gulf-stream moderated climate like the rest of Western Europe

# ¿ Jan 4, 2022 18:27

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

My dumb rear end thought those were succulents

# ¿ Feb 11, 2022 07:06

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Milo and POTUS posted:

It looks cool but I don't want to have to wear an arrest harness just to grab a copy of Typee

# ¿ Feb 16, 2022 18:22

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Pleads posted:

Look the cookie cutter hotels on Banff Trail may be boring and ugly but you're slightly less likely to get stabbed at them after a Stamps game than the dingy dive bars they replaced.

Are you more likely to get hotel stabbed in the Banff Trail ones or in the motels on 16th in Montgomery

# ¿ Mar 5, 2022 02:39