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Architecture, Nevar Forget.

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  • YoSoyTheWalrusYoSoyTheWalrus Registered User regular
    peticanoe wrote:
    My guess is they aren't even thinking about the WTC. America: Not Everything Is About You (TM)

    HOW DARE YOU

    Where are you, we are invading

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  • LarlarLarlar consecutive normal brunches Moderator, ClubPA mod
    We're in China.

    Go take over China.

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  • YoSoyTheWalrusYoSoyTheWalrus Registered User regular
    nevermiiiiiind

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  • Spectre-xSpectre-x Rating: AWESOME YESRegistered User regular
    Rolo wrote:
    dubai is crazy

    Dubai is a shithole

  • FirmSkaterFirmSkater Registered User regular
    I hope if they redesign that Korean building they do it with the block-y cloud thing again - it looks really awesome.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Spectre-x wrote:
    Rolo wrote:
    dubai is crazy

    Dubai is a shithole

    oh certainly

    I mean if you're a rich oil prince it's not bad

    but if you're an indentured migrant worker oh man are you screwed




  • FirmSkaterFirmSkater Registered User regular
    edited December 2011
    Spectre-x wrote:
    Rolo wrote:
    dubai is crazy

    Dubai is a shithole

    Pretty much this. All that awesome shit you see in Dubai is built by the thousands of Indian immigrants working for pennies on the dollar, living in tenants, basically stuck in the city because they either can't afford to leave or they have their passports forcibly taken from them.

    e: welp should have refreshed

    FirmSkater on
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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Yeah, my dad refuses to work there now, he used to be in emerates pretty often to set up networking equipment. The last time he went was when they were starting construction of the Burj Dubai:


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    The total cost for the project was about US$1.5 billion; and for the entire "Downtown Dubai" development, US$20 billion.[13] In March 2009, Mohamed Ali Alabbar, chairman of the project's developer, Emaar Properties, said office space pricing at Burj Khalifa reached US$4,000 per sq ft (over US$43,000 per m²) and the Armani Residences, also in Burj Khalifa, sold for US$3,500 per sq ft (over US$37,500 per m²).[14]
    The project's completion coincided with the global financial crisis of 2007–2010, and with vast overbuilding in the country, led to high vacancies and foreclosures.[15] With Dubai mired in debt from its huge ambitions, the government was forced to seek multibillion dollar bailouts from its oil rich neighbor Abu Dhabi. Subsequently, in a surprise move at its opening ceremony, the tower was renamed Burj Khalifa, said to honour the UAE President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan for his crucial support.[16]
    Due to the slumping demand in Dubai's property market, the rents in the Burj Khalifa plummeted 40% some ten months after its opening. Out of 900 apartments in the tower, around 825 were still empty at that time.[17][18]

    When he visited the manual labor construction workers were forced to stay on-site, and they'd alternate on 10 hour shifts. You could choose to use most of your day's wages to rent out room and board (workers made US $15/day, rent was $12/day) in temporary bunkers that were kept on the construction site. Or if you wanted to actually save any sort of money, you could literally sleep in a ditch that was across the street from where the tower was being built. Most workers would take the room and food one night out of three, and then sleep in the ditch for the other two. The workers aren't allowed to leave the camps or talk with Dubai citizens.

    The rooms look like this:

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  • LTMLTM Bikes and BeardsRegistered User regular
    I'd never actually want to go to Dubai. Nor do I condone how they've done what they've done.

    But I do admire their interest in creating a spectacle.

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Hmm, the wiki article says they were paid $4.40 USD, but I guess that might be factoring in the room and board deductions.

  • LTMLTM Bikes and BeardsRegistered User regular
    Also, since I left it out of the OP, we aren't only building up. Like the dwarven empire before us, we're also digging some crazy ass tunnels.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel
    The Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) is a new railway tunnel beneath the Swiss Alps, expected to open in 2016.[3] With a route length of 57 km (35.4 mi) and a total of 151.84 km (94.3 mi) of tunnels, shafts and passages,[2] it is the world's longest rail tunnel, surpassing the Japanese Seikan Tunnel.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    oh man

    that reminds me of

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    G CANS

  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    What's that from, Rolo?

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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    what a majestic sewer

  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    MIT has some weird buildings

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    I really dislike rooms with odd angled corners because dammit, everything is made for square rooms

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Darmak wrote:
    What's that from, Rolo?

    G-Cans project in Tokyo
    The Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel (首都圏外郭放水路 shutoken gaikaku hōsuiro?), also known as the G-Cans Project, is an underground water infrastructure project in Kasukabe, Saitama, Japan built for preventing overflow of the city's major waterways and rivers during rain and typhoon seasons.
    Work on the project started in 1992; it consists of five concrete containment silos with heights of 65 m and diameters of 32 m, connected by 6.4 km of tunnels, 50 m beneath the surface, as well as a large water tank with a height of 25.4 m, with a length of 177 m, with a width of 78 m, and with 59 massive pillars connected to a number of 10 MW pumps that can pump up to 200 tons of water into the Edogawa River per second.


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    The G-Cans project is also a tourist attraction, and can be visited for free; however, as the tours are conducted in Japanese, a Japanese speaker must be present in the group to act as a translator for non-Japanese speakers.
    [edit]In media

    The main water tank resembles a temple and has been used in some movies and TV programs to create mystic scenes. In 2006, a Land Rover television commercial and print campaign was produced using G-Cans as a location.[citation needed]

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited December 2011
    Cool, thanks Dru
    edit: and also thanks Rolo

    Darmak on
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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    From what I have read it is more fun to see pictures of than to actually visit.

    As it is wet, cold, and there is quite a bit of a smell.

  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Rolo wrote: »
    From what I have read it is more fun to see pictures of than to actually visit.

    As it is wet, cold, and there is quite a bit of a smell.

    So it's like having sex with Keith?

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    hahahahaa

  • Spectre-xSpectre-x Rating: AWESOME YESRegistered User regular
    edited December 2011
    I think that might be a reservoir or some kind of storm drain, not a sewer.

    well now I look dumb

    thanks a lot Dru

    Spectre-x on
  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    Mysst wrote:
    I really dislike rooms with odd angled corners because dammit, everything is made for square rooms

    Denver Art Museum

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  • LTMLTM Bikes and BeardsRegistered User regular
    Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn.

  • Spectre-xSpectre-x Rating: AWESOME YESRegistered User regular
    Mysst wrote:
    I really dislike rooms with odd angled corners because dammit, everything is made for square rooms

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  • sponospono Mining for Nose Diamonds Booger CoveRegistered User regular
    Disney Concert Hall

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    the inside looks like you're in a giant wooden ship

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  • peticanoepeticanoe Registered User regular
    JoeUser wrote:
    Mysst wrote:
    I really dislike rooms with odd angled corners because dammit, everything is made for square rooms

    Denver Art Museum

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    Daniel Liebeskind is kind of a one-trick pony. He did the ROM in Toronto, too:

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    comics monday to friday
    Rolo wrote:
    what's the deal with nerds and cthulu
    when C'thulhu rises all those jocks will finally get what's coming to them
  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    God damn it Gehry!

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  • peticanoepeticanoe Registered User regular
    edited December 2011
    Also the ROM is lousy gallery space. The heating/ventilation don't work right, the lighting is bad, it's hard to put things on the wall when the walls are all ////// \\\\\\\\

    edit: the only Gehry building I like is the EMP in Seattle (which Dru posted above). It looks like a smashed guitar from above which is what he was using as inspiration. All his stuff is ridiculously inefficient.

    peticanoe on
    comics monday to friday
    Rolo wrote:
    what's the deal with nerds and cthulu
    when C'thulhu rises all those jocks will finally get what's coming to them
  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    Haha, I like the idea of an architect having one "thing" and using it over and over for every kind of building.

  • LTMLTM Bikes and BeardsRegistered User regular
    That's not even the least attractive angle of EMP...

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited December 2011
    JoeUser wrote:
    Mysst wrote:
    I really dislike rooms with odd angled corners because dammit, everything is made for square rooms

    Denver Art Museum

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    That's kind of like

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    the Royal Ontario Musem

    Which is a few blocks from me

    There's actually a lot of this going down in Toronto.

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    The Art Gallery of Ontario, which is literally across the street from where I live.


    and then this silly ass building

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    OCAD, which is where I went to school.

    Brolo on
  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    JoeUser wrote:
    MIT has some weird buildings

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    About this: Mr. Gehry once said that it “looks like a party of drunken robots got together to celebrate.”

  • peticanoepeticanoe Registered User regular
    JoeUser wrote:
    Haha, I like the idea of an architect having one "thing" and using it over and over for every kind of building.

    That's what Gehry does! I think some parallel lines killed his parents or something.

    comics monday to friday
    Rolo wrote:
    what's the deal with nerds and cthulu
    when C'thulhu rises all those jocks will finally get what's coming to them
  • YoSoyTheWalrusYoSoyTheWalrus Registered User regular
    JoeUser wrote:
    Mysst wrote:
    I really dislike rooms with odd angled corners because dammit, everything is made for square rooms

    Denver Art Museum

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    I live two blocks from here

    Denver has some decent architecture for being in the middle of nowhere
    The cash register is the most obvious
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    And the airport
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    But there's also cool stuff like the bear at the convention center
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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    that is
    a giant blue bear peering into that building

    huh

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  • LTMLTM Bikes and BeardsRegistered User regular
    Dude just wants to attend the expo, man.

    Stupid 'no shirt, no shoes' rule.

  • YoSoyTheWalrusYoSoyTheWalrus Registered User regular
    He's adorable. I always giggle a little bit when I go by there

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  • HeadCreepsHeadCreeps NOW IS THE TIME FOR DRINKING! Registered User regular
    "Aww, everyone's having so much fun.

    It's ok, I'll have fun watching everyone else have fun.

    out here.

    in the cold.

    alone."

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