Im excited to trick out a basement workshop in 4 months
I've got a band saw, circular saw, jig saw, mitre saw, table saw, planer, drill press, wood lathe, grinder, and a dremel with a plunge router attachment
Next up I'm looking into a better router and maybe a radial saw
Indie Winterdie KräheRudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered Userregular
edited February 2017
From the 1950s to the 1980s, Paris was booming. Foreign migration and urbanisation of the city caused a huge surge in population and a crisis for housing. France’s solution came in the form of vast housing projects and so during this period massive, modernist and really quite unique estates sprung up across the city — aiming for a new way of living.
Just a few decades later and these towering buildings look dated, discarded and forgotten. Often stigmatised by the media, they divide opinion in France and have been left mostly occupied by the ageing community of ‘urban veterans’ who first made it their home, as the younger generation are drawn to more contemporary city living.
Local photographer Laurent Kronental has become fascinated by the ‘ambitious and dated modernist features’ of these estates, known locally as ‘Grands Ensembles’. Since 2011 he has developed ‘Souvenir d’un Futur’, a series of stunning photographs documenting these neglected communities and capturing what he calls ‘the poetry of ageing environments’.
From the 1950s to the 1980s, Paris was booming. Foreign migration and urbanisation of the city caused a huge surge in population and a crisis for housing. France’s solution came in the form of vast housing projects and so during this period massive, modernist and really quite unique estates sprung up across the city — aiming for a new way of living.
Just a few decades later and these towering buildings look dated, discarded and forgotten. Often stigmatised by the media, they divide opinion in France and have been left mostly occupied by the ageing community of ‘urban veterans’ who first made it their home, as the younger generation are drawn to more contemporary city living.
Local photographer Laurent Kronental has become fascinated by the ‘ambitious and dated modernist features’ of these estates, known locally as ‘Grands Ensembles’. Since 2011 he has developed ‘Souvenir d’un Futur’, a series of stunning photographs documenting these neglected communities and capturing what he calls ‘the poetry of ageing environments’.
I started liking juiliets better when I realized they were just guard rails for big open windows. The... protruding? is just an architectural artifact I (and presumably Xaquin) can live without.
Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited March 2017
When Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill stumbled upon an abandoned cement factory in 1973, he saw opportunity in the ruins. Bofill bought the early twentieth-century compound and, together with local Catalan craftsmen, transformed the sprawling structure of silos and compounds into an incredible fairytale home that blends surrealism, brutalism, and modernism.
As far back as the 18th century, people have been fascinated with ruins as picturesque compositions, but our collective obsession with the shells of forgotten architecture is not limited to quaint abbeys, run-down warehouses, and rural cottages.
In the town of Fregene on the outskirts of Rome, Italy, photographer and urban explorer Oliver Astrologo has been documenting a very different kind of deteriorated building: architect Giuseppe Perugini’s Casa Sperimentale (experimental house), a wild, eclectic ode to Brutalism that is slowly crumbling away on a wooded plot near the coast.
I think the graffiti actually improves it
like I'm not even saying that as a diss against brutalism, I genuinely think the graffiti adds an interesting element to the aesthetic
The triangular neighbourhood at the back of the picture – another hillside site with few entrace points – is one of Greater Mexico City’s most dangerous neighbourhoods, La Presa in Ecatepec.
The city centre seen from La Caldera volcano in La Paz. The bright lights are the headlights of cars driving back to the city’s poorer eastern periphery as they come back from work in central parts of the megalopolis.
Self-built stairs – such as these in Ecatepec – are one of the most successful adaptations made by communities in hilly neighbourhoods.
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Indie Winterdie KräheRudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered Userregular
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I'm like two months late to the depressing American mall talk but a few years ago one of my city's older malls closed up and I was waiting for my wife one day, for...I don't remember why.
Anyway, I decided to kill some time walking around the empty mall and maybe eat at the food court. I was just about to leave when I passed the greatest store I'd ever seen. It was an old art gallery selling paintings and posters and the like. The sign said "Going out of business. Art for sale." It was a professionally made sign.
Below it, in hastily scrawled letters on a white banner, was "Also Scooters." Sure enough, there were about two dozen moped scooters just like chilling in the art gallery ready to be sold.
I'm not sure if two stores combined to save rental costs or if the art gallery owner decided to branch out and it failed and he was trying to liquidate or what.
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Also I am having difficulty thinking of a worse case scenario for having to share your living space with bugs and flying insects.
Stupid student debt. I pay more for loans than I do in rent right now.
Uuuuuuggggghhhh I need work space.
I've got a band saw, circular saw, jig saw, mitre saw, table saw, planer, drill press, wood lathe, grinder, and a dremel with a plunge router attachment
Next up I'm looking into a better router and maybe a radial saw
Definitely need a better work bench
My exact first thought as well. That house is one giant bug trap (though it does look cute)
http://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/neglected-utopia-photographer-explores-the-forgotten-modernist-estates-of-paris/
Her "What The Hell Is...?" series is a wonderful little Pop-Arch101 course.
burn it all to the dystopian ground
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Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
I'm more impressed that that balcony is functional. More often than not when I see that on a building it's inaccessible.
those false balconies are called juliets or balconets
I don't much care for them
They were originally actual balconies, but the budget went down and they were pretty quickly turned into juliets
We also lost the super cool green roof portion
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I don't know what thread to put this in but apparently the dude also wrote one about landscaping so I'm putting it here
like I'm not even saying that as a diss against brutalism, I genuinely think the graffiti adds an interesting element to the aesthetic
It also includes a guest house over the garage
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
"in the Guest House"
...with the horses..
Yes, exactly. See, totally worth it.
Anyway, I decided to kill some time walking around the empty mall and maybe eat at the food court. I was just about to leave when I passed the greatest store I'd ever seen. It was an old art gallery selling paintings and posters and the like. The sign said "Going out of business. Art for sale." It was a professionally made sign.
Below it, in hastily scrawled letters on a white banner, was "Also Scooters." Sure enough, there were about two dozen moped scooters just like chilling in the art gallery ready to be sold.
I'm not sure if two stores combined to save rental costs or if the art gallery owner decided to branch out and it failed and he was trying to liquidate or what.
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neat bike bridge in Utrecht