I'm assuming this is one of those things where the Chinese government spends ludicrous amounts of money of public development that is entirely needless so that a bunch of people can have work and their GDP can continue to rise.
100 year plan! some day, they'll be glad they built that!
you know, we joke, but I'm guessing that is completely accurate, what with mass immigration around the region as a result of climate change and all
china, like western corporation, looked at the data and said "well, fuck, this is totally going to happen and there's nothing that we can do to stop it"
but instead of "how do we profit from it" they went "how do we adapt to it"
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100 year plan! some day, they'll be glad they built that!
you know, we joke, but I'm guessing that is completely accurate, what with mass immigration around the region as a result of climate change and all
china, like western corporation, looked at the data and said "well, fuck, this is totally going to happen and there's nothing that we can do to stop it"
but instead of "how do we profit from it" they went "how do we adapt to it"
Shit, they've got dozens of empty cities just waiting for people to move in.
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100 year plan! some day, they'll be glad they built that!
you know, we joke, but I'm guessing that is completely accurate, what with mass immigration around the region as a result of climate change and all
china, like western corporation, looked at the data and said "well, fuck, this is totally going to happen and there's nothing that we can do to stop it"
but instead of "how do we profit from it" they went "how do we adapt to it"
oh no i wasn't being facetious. at all. i genuinely believe that china is and has been playing a longer game than anyone currently on the board and will continue to do so.
edit: this is a thing that will derail this thread for fucking pages though, so...
flying buttresses, huh! that sure is a fun architecture phrase.
I envy the survivors who gets to discover and adventure in the lost ruins 500 years later after most of us die off in 2040 and no one knows how to make anything advanced anymore
100 year plan! some day, they'll be glad they built that!
you know, we joke, but I'm guessing that is completely accurate, what with mass immigration around the region as a result of climate change and all
china, like western corporation, looked at the data and said "well, fuck, this is totally going to happen and there's nothing that we can do to stop it"
but instead of "how do we profit from it" they went "how do we adapt to it"
oh no i wasn't being facetious. at all. i genuinely believe that china is and has been playing a longer game than anyone currently on the board and will continue to do so.
edit: this is a thing that will derail this thread for fucking pages though, so...
flying buttresses, huh! that sure is a fun architecture phrase.
New mass transit stations are a huge boon for creating a local economy. There are many NoVa communities that were just open empty fields before they got their metro stations in the 70’s and 80’s
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I envy the survivors who gets to discover and adventure in the lost ruins 500 years later after most of us die off in 2040 and no one knows how to make anything advanced anymore
I think the more tragic thing is we will absolutely remember. Documentation is so ubiquitous these days, and while books don't hold up so well over time in most environments and digital information will certainly not be recoverable, there will be records. Pictures. The edifices of our past and the documents exhaustively detailing their construction. It'll be up to our descendants to piece it together if everything ever goes toes up, but I believe they can do it. I know they can because human beings have done so with far less before, rebuilt their world from ashes without even the benefits of literacy or widespread information. The tragedy will be our great great great grandchildren looking back at us as the people who could have changed the world and didn't, or who tried to and were ignored, or who didn't even care, and know that it all could have been different.
Then they'll saddle up their pteranodon and fly into the Waste-Skies to do battle with the cannibal pirates of the Poison Coast.
It’s going to be wild when humans from 20,000 years ago fly their space colonies back to Earth to see how little progress we made in our time compared to them
I envy the survivors who gets to discover and adventure in the lost ruins 500 years later after most of us die off in 2040 and no one knows how to make anything advanced anymore
I doubt it'll last that long. I suspect that regular maintenance isn't a priority for the station and it'll decay in less than a decade.
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Building new, the Gusts were able to do some things Wright didn't, such as install an elevator and create large rooms that suit entertaining three generations of family, and use high ceilings and walls of windows to "fill it with light and views of the creek" that runs south of the house, Dave Gust said. The 15,000-square-foot house on a little more than an acre took about three years to build, he said.
I kinda can't stand the faux brickwork so thin that it looks like stripes. And instead of creating a counterpoint to that, they went with striped furniture and wood.
It'd probably be better if there was something other than stripes to look at, or if they were more subtle, or if they were at least directing the eye like a competant designer.
I hate it, but I also hate everything by Wright, so I assume that my hating it is achieving the desired effect.
I'm not a fan of Wright's aesthetic, but spaces he designed do tend to be friendly to the people living and working in them. Which is more than I can say for nearly every building I've ever been in.
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I actually am a huge fan of Wright.
And that interior should be burned so no one has to see it.
How did they manage to make it look SO busy and cluttered?
E: to be clear, I'm a huge fan of his architecture/design
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as long as I get the best identical castle
I'm assuming this is one of those things where the Chinese government spends ludicrous amounts of money of public development that is entirely needless so that a bunch of people can have work and their GDP can continue to rise.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
you know, we joke, but I'm guessing that is completely accurate, what with mass immigration around the region as a result of climate change and all
china, like western corporation, looked at the data and said "well, fuck, this is totally going to happen and there's nothing that we can do to stop it"
but instead of "how do we profit from it" they went "how do we adapt to it"
Shit, they've got dozens of empty cities just waiting for people to move in.
oh no i wasn't being facetious. at all. i genuinely believe that china is and has been playing a longer game than anyone currently on the board and will continue to do so.
edit: this is a thing that will derail this thread for fucking pages though, so...
flying buttresses, huh! that sure is a fun architecture phrase.
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
Flying buttresses are the best, though!
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
If only!
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I think the more tragic thing is we will absolutely remember. Documentation is so ubiquitous these days, and while books don't hold up so well over time in most environments and digital information will certainly not be recoverable, there will be records. Pictures. The edifices of our past and the documents exhaustively detailing their construction. It'll be up to our descendants to piece it together if everything ever goes toes up, but I believe they can do it. I know they can because human beings have done so with far less before, rebuilt their world from ashes without even the benefits of literacy or widespread information. The tragedy will be our great great great grandchildren looking back at us as the people who could have changed the world and didn't, or who tried to and were ignored, or who didn't even care, and know that it all could have been different.
Then they'll saddle up their pteranodon and fly into the Waste-Skies to do battle with the cannibal pirates of the Poison Coast.
I doubt it'll last that long. I suspect that regular maintenance isn't a priority for the station and it'll decay in less than a decade.
morons
This is some primo cyber punk dystopia architecture right here
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
Probably easier just to strap rocket engines to the bottom and send the whole thing into orbit.
One billionaire at a time.
But...I don’t believe these are actual arcologies yet
I mean if you want the people inside to survive that's a whole different process, I'm just talking efficiency.
This $3.5 million home is an over-the-top homage to Wright
Emphasis mine.
he'd have probably liked the furniture though
It'd probably be better if there was something other than stripes to look at, or if they were more subtle, or if they were at least directing the eye like a competant designer.
I'm not a fan of Wright's aesthetic, but spaces he designed do tend to be friendly to the people living and working in them. Which is more than I can say for nearly every building I've ever been in.
And that interior should be burned so no one has to see it.
How did they manage to make it look SO busy and cluttered?
E: to be clear, I'm a huge fan of his architecture/design
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
It's certainly unique and as much as I like that his homes exist, I absolutely wouldn't want to own one.
http://www.arts-crafts.com/archive/sears/
Or maybe build one?
Well, hell. There goes my whole day.
Scandinavian and German kit houses are still easily available across Europe (dunno about the US but it should be do-able)
http://www.scandinavianhomes.com/