I really like it - it shows that interventions in improving areas can be cheap, you just need a bit of paint/wetpour, a good design and some hoops to transform a space. There are so many spaces in our cities between buildings that are empty and need something temporary or to fill the gap. Why not do something to make people happy and encourage coming together instead of it sitting dead.
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EncA Fool with CompassionPronouns: He, Him, HisRegistered Userregular
How do they trim it?
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If they even have to trim it I assume they'd just run one of them window washing platforms up and down the side only theyd have hedge clippers instead of water buckets
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Milan skyscrapers Bosco Verticale were named Best Tall Building Worldwide in 2015 by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, beating out 120 other contenders.
The two towers, 111 and 76 meters tall, are covered top to bottom with more than 900 trees, which attenuate noise, produce oxygen, and regulate temperature: During the summer, the leaves shade the apartments, and during the winter the leaves drop, allowing sunlight in. The building’s irrigation system directs water onto the porches to sustain the plants.
Each tree had to be pruned to fit within its balcony, a process that took two years. If all of them were transplated to the ground they’d make a forest of nearly two acres.
And “The Vertical Forest increases biodiversity,” architect Boeri Studio told Arch Daily. “It promotes the formation of an urban ecosystem where various plant types create a separate vertical environment, but which works within the existing network, able to be inhabited by birds and insects (with an initial estimate of 1,600 specimens of birds and butterflies). In this way, it constitutes a spontaneous factor for repopulating the city’s flora and fauna.”
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The third eye on the carved faces are visually reminiscent of the Buddhist Yakshi sculpture, though the faces are sculpted and painted as if they were solely intended to be interpreted as white people and don't include the full body depictions common of Yakshi. And below the pseudo Egyptian capitals the columns are painted in a manner reminiscent of Roman republic era frescos if you had blasted away most of the artwork and only left the top and bottom registers.
Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
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Do y'all ever get on real estate apps and just look at ridiculously expensive homes near you? Like... 10-20 million dollars expensive.
It's weird. Like, so much of me is like "who needs a house like this" and then I'm also like "Oh god look at that staircase and the patio area and Jesus Christ those parquet floors!!!!"
Do y'all ever get on real estate apps and just look at ridiculously expensive homes near you? Like... 10-20 million dollars expensive.
It's weird. Like, so much of me is like "who needs a house like this" and then I'm also like "Oh god look at that staircase and the patio area and Jesus Christ those parquet floors!!!!"
Edit: this place also isn't actually near me but a boy can dream
Do I ever!
PALAZZO SACCHETTI, A PEARL OF THE LATE REINASSANCE IN THE HEART OF ROME
PRICE UPON REQUEST
15 BEDS
8 FULL BATHS
32,291 SQ FT.
ABOUT VIA GIULIA, ROME, ROME
Palazzo Sacchetti is a late Renaissance building among the most beautiful of Rome. Its construction was carried out in 1542 on a project of Sangallo, the architect of Palazzo Farnese and coadjutor of Raffaello in the construction of St. Peter's Basilica. Sangallo built it for himself, dedicating the last years of his life to make it the "perfect building." In 1608 it was bought by the Archbishop of Naples, who built the chapel frescoed by Agostino Ciampelli. Later, in the second half of the 17th century It was purchased by the Marquis Sacchetti of Florence. The noble floor has an area of 2025 sqm, with a magnificent terrace of 275 sqm plus four balconies, while the courtyard has a marvellous garden of 688 sqm plus the beautiful nymphaeum of 70 sqm.
This part includes 12 wonderful noble halls, with their marble statues, ornate ceilings, and stained glass windows, all 12 painted according to some of the most significant cycles of mannerism. Among these are works by Francesco Salviati, like the enchanting frescoes in the astonishing Globes hall, and those of Pietro da Cortona and Jacopino del Conte. On this floor there is also another big hall, a small utility room, plus the kitchen and pantry area which includes 6 rooms plus a bathroom.
Another wing of the main floor is developed as an independent flat, composed of 4 rooms, a bathroom and a kitchen area. The long and beautiful corridor serves the entire floor, running around the noble rooms, allowing access to them but without crossing them. From this corridor, thanks to comfortable invisible doors, one can access all the utility rooms as cloakrooms, studies, bathrooms, as well as the beautiful chapel frescoed by Ciampelli. In the same building, on the ground floor, the property has large storehouses and in the courtyard there are three convenient parking spaces.
The property is completed by several separate units but all adjacent the noble floor: - A building of three floors with independent entrance in Vicolo Orbitelli, comprising 5 apartments, garret and attic, two basements and a garage (for a total of 650 sqm) - An apartment adjacent to the noble floor with independent entrance in Via Giulia (130 sqm) - A two-story unit (ground floor and basement) with access on Vicolo del Cefalo but adjacent the nympheum (240 sqm) - A three-story office, with access from the courtyard, whose top floor is adjacent to the noble floor (100 sqm). Palazzo Sacchetti is a pearl in the heart of Rome, not surprisingly it has been used as a set for some scenes in the Oscar winning film The Great Beauty of which the eternal city is the real protagonist.
Designed by German architect Ole Scheeren, Singapore’s Interlace apartment complex was named 2015 World Building of the Year for its innovative form, which resembles 31 conventional buildings stacked atop one another, like Jenga blocks. Each block comprises six stories, but they’re stacked four high, so there’s a maximum of 24 floors, and nearly every unit has an excellent view. Viewed from above they form eight hexagons, each with a swimming pool, and the stacking ensures that light and air can flow among the blocks.
In Architecture Review, Laura Raskin wrote, “Architect Ole Scheeren hypothesized that dense urban residential living didn’t have to occur in an isolating skyscraper — and he was right.”
Don't know what it says about the US that our only award is stacking two rocks in the middle of empty prairie.
The no state income tax is tempting!
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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edited December 2017
Central Florida, home to several of the largest hospital complexes in the country! And with such lovely night time lighting. For scale, this is all just one Hospital in the cluster:
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And yes, you get lost very easy in that mess. It's super neat in its own organic way though. The whole thing started with the brick complex, then a couple of towers, then infilled to become this tangled mass of healing.
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naw they living in it
and you can insulate shipping containers very well, if you put some welly into it. But they're still likely gonna need some hefty solar banks.
Looks nice, though.
Its hard to actually make my brain think thats real
I really like it - it shows that interventions in improving areas can be cheap, you just need a bit of paint/wetpour, a good design and some hoops to transform a space. There are so many spaces in our cities between buildings that are empty and need something temporary or to fill the gap. Why not do something to make people happy and encourage coming together instead of it sitting dead.
gonna get this statue in my house
I have his book!!
https://www.archdaily.com/883471/the-simpsons-home-as-it-would-look-in-8-popular-architectural-styles
Now you and your team of judges must fight your way to the top of the tower, to confront the drug lords and end the threat to Mega City One.
It is an amazing building with an amazing history which was explored in a recent 99% Invisible
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
It's weird. Like, so much of me is like "who needs a house like this" and then I'm also like "Oh god look at that staircase and the patio area and Jesus Christ those parquet floors!!!!"
https://m.trulia.com/property/3240136701-814-E-Highland-Dr-Seattle-WA-98102
LOOK AT THIS PLACE
Edit: this place also isn't actually near me but a boy can dream
Do I ever!
PALAZZO SACCHETTI, A PEARL OF THE LATE REINASSANCE IN THE HEART OF ROME
PRICE UPON REQUEST
15 BEDS
8 FULL BATHS
32,291 SQ FT.
ABOUT VIA GIULIA, ROME, ROME
https://www.sothebysrealty.com/eng/sales/detail/180-l-4133-6jvrng/palazzo-sacchetti-a-pearl-of-the-late-reinassance-in-the-heart-of-rome-rome-rm
http://www.landezine.com/index.php/2017/06/bethlehem-steelstacks-arts-culture-campus-by-wrt/
RIBA Announces 2018 RIBA International Prize Longlist for World's Best Building
Some good buildings in there
You should move to Florida, Bowen. Anything not theme park plaster or bungalo here is that spanish tile.
Don't know what it says about the US that our only award is stacking two rocks in the middle of empty prairie.
The no state income tax is tempting!
Central Florida, home to several of the largest hospital complexes in the country! And with such lovely night time lighting. For scale, this is all just one Hospital in the cluster:
lord, don't I know it