Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
Apparently this one was built on land belonging to a neighbouring house, by that house's owners. I guess they just wanted a nice house to look at out of their windows?
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
power substations should be in brutalist concrete bunkers imo
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
edited September 2018
i kinda wish that we'd just say "fuck it" and start building shit that makes no sense
like, oh this electric substation? yeah it's fully fucking exposed and being held in the palm of a giant bronze hand sticking out of the fucking ground
hey have you seen the new school they're building on the north side of town?
oh you mean the one shaped like a heptagon balancing precariously on a single point and it's made of screaming faces?
no the other one that looks like a split open hotdog being eaten by a huge steampunk centipede
let's go nuts!
edit: architects and city planners are gutless and shameful cowards is what i'm saying
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
i kinda wish that we'd just say "fuck it" and start building shit that makes no sense
like, oh this electric substation? yeah it's fully fucking exposed and being held in the palm of a giant bronze hand sticking out of the fucking ground
hey have you seen the new school they're building on the north side of town?
oh you mean the one shaped like a heptagon balancing precariously on a single point and it's made of screaming faces?
no the other one that looks like a split open hotdog being eaten by a huge steampunk centipede
let's go nuts!
edit: architects and city planners are gutless and shameful cowards is what i'm saying
Architects and city planners would fucking LOVE to do awesome shit like that.
It's real fucking hard to get planning approval for an elementary school that will cost 7 billion dollars to build, though.
the middle one of those is cool as heck, the other two are cool looking but also feel kind of like I'm looking at a serial killer wearing their victim's face skin like a mask
i kinda wish that we'd just say "fuck it" and start building shit that makes no sense
like, oh this electric substation? yeah it's fully fucking exposed and being held in the palm of a giant bronze hand sticking out of the fucking ground
hey have you seen the new school they're building on the north side of town?
oh you mean the one shaped like a heptagon balancing precariously on a single point and it's made of screaming faces?
no the other one that looks like a split open hotdog being eaten by a huge steampunk centipede
let's go nuts!
edit: architects and city planners are gutless and shameful cowards is what i'm saying
Architects and city planners would fucking LOVE to do awesome shit like that.
It's real fucking hard to get planning approval for an elementary school that will cost 7 billion dollars to build, though.
Yeah, building complex structures is expensive and they often leak.
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
edited September 2018
OUR NATION'S CHILDREN DESERVE TO GO TO SCHOOL IN A BUILDING SHAPED LIKE A GIANT STEEL PINE TREE
Edit: we'll find the budget somewhere! We'll have a bake sale.
i kinda wish that we'd just say "fuck it" and start building shit that makes no sense
like, oh this electric substation? yeah it's fully fucking exposed and being held in the palm of a giant bronze hand sticking out of the fucking ground
hey have you seen the new school they're building on the north side of town?
oh you mean the one shaped like a heptagon balancing precariously on a single point and it's made of screaming faces?
no the other one that looks like a split open hotdog being eaten by a huge steampunk centipede
let's go nuts!
edit: architects and city planners are gutless and shameful cowards is what i'm saying
Architects and city planners would fucking LOVE to do awesome shit like that.
It's real fucking hard to get planning approval for an elementary school that will cost 7 billion dollars to build, though.
just tell them its a new, very stealthy fighter jet
i kinda wish that we'd just say "fuck it" and start building shit that makes no sense
like, oh this electric substation? yeah it's fully fucking exposed and being held in the palm of a giant bronze hand sticking out of the fucking ground
hey have you seen the new school they're building on the north side of town?
oh you mean the one shaped like a heptagon balancing precariously on a single point and it's made of screaming faces?
no the other one that looks like a split open hotdog being eaten by a huge steampunk centipede
let's go nuts!
edit: architects and city planners are gutless and shameful cowards is what i'm saying
Architects and city planners would fucking LOVE to do awesome shit like that.
It's real fucking hard to get planning approval for an elementary school that will cost 7 billion dollars to build, though.
just tell them its a new, very stealthy fighter jet
If they put it in an affluent neighbourhood, they can use all the little unvaccinated kids as bombs in a biological warfare attack!
I agree 100% with Tom. Old buildings need to be knocked down, but beautiful old brickwork with modern, efficient buildings behind them are better than a grey rectangle any day of the week.
In a storied history spanning four centuries, Boston Common has played host to grazing cows, a military encampment, victory gardens, and a bandstand modeled after a Greek temple.
Soon, the iconic park could feature one of its most dramatic additions: a large, visually striking memorial to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King.
Five designs selected by a committee of city officials, artists, and academics will be unveiled Tuesday, giving the public a chance to comment on the proposals before the panel picks the winner in November.
The mirrored-bronze interlocking arms, by Hank Willis Thomas, a Brooklyn-based conceptual artist, working with the MASS Design Group.
The “Empty Pulpit” sculpture by the writer and sculptor Barbara Chase-Riboud.
The “Avenue of Peace” by Yinka Shonibare, a British artist of Nigerian descent.
The two “beacon towers” that emit light and sound are part of a sprawling proposal by the Cambridge-based firms Wodiczko + Bonder and Maryann Thompson Architects, working with Walter Hood, the founder of a California designer firm.
The black stone bridge is a collaboration between several artists and design firms: Adam Pendleton, Adjaye Associates, David Reinfurt, FuturePace, and Gilbane Boston.
I like the idea of the Empty Podium, but I don't get the execution. I get that it is supposed to abstract, but it reads almost like a Native American totem pole.
The beacon towers remind me of the MLK Memorial here in DC, so that one would grab my vote. Similarly I cannot see a black stone wall in a memorial without thinking of the ones to the wars in Korea/Vietnam.
Someone on another forum mentioned they don't like this proposal because it partially blocks the view of the State House. When someone else pointed out that the designers may have done that on purpose, it made me appreciate it even more.
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Indie Winterdie KräheRudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered Userregular
Luoyuan Anglican Church: Make it like that Zumthor's Caplutta Sogn Benedetg, but bigger. Way bigger.
Speaking of Zumthor, we visited his Bruder Klaus chapel this year. That building is an actual revelation. Pictures don't do it justice. The actual approach to the building, entering it, going inside, walking through it and sitting down in were a real experience.
Afterwards we also had a picknick watching people arrive and leave at the chapel. That was fun, too.
Despite the issues of size and being in China, their libraries feel like the ones I'd most want to read in. If the architecture is too experimental, I care more about the building, if it's too modern it feels oppressive. Gimme dark wood and lower ceilings.
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Yeah that place was rumored to be a power substation or something, which all the rich folks in the area complained about being an eyesore
It was a very believable story in that town
like, oh this electric substation? yeah it's fully fucking exposed and being held in the palm of a giant bronze hand sticking out of the fucking ground
hey have you seen the new school they're building on the north side of town?
oh you mean the one shaped like a heptagon balancing precariously on a single point and it's made of screaming faces?
no the other one that looks like a split open hotdog being eaten by a huge steampunk centipede
let's go nuts!
edit: architects and city planners are gutless and shameful cowards is what i'm saying
Architects and city planners would fucking LOVE to do awesome shit like that.
It's real fucking hard to get planning approval for an elementary school that will cost 7 billion dollars to build, though.
Yeah, building complex structures is expensive and they often leak.
Edit: we'll find the budget somewhere! We'll have a bake sale.
Kinetic 20 ton wind sculptures in the playground that can and will crush people not paying attention
The Spikeyard
just tell them its a new, very stealthy fighter jet
Strandbeests will claim the sandboxes as their own and defend it against intruders.
Also modern architecture unrestrained wants to kill your children
If they put it in an affluent neighbourhood, they can use all the little unvaccinated kids as bombs in a biological warfare attack!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyL5mAqFJds
I agree 100% with Tom. Old buildings need to be knocked down, but beautiful old brickwork with modern, efficient buildings behind them are better than a grey rectangle any day of the week.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
https://youtu.be/J5jwEyDaR-0
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
They're a couple, he always wears blue, she always red.
The mirrored-bronze interlocking arms, by Hank Willis Thomas, a Brooklyn-based conceptual artist, working with the MASS Design Group.
The “Empty Pulpit” sculpture by the writer and sculptor Barbara Chase-Riboud.
The “Avenue of Peace” by Yinka Shonibare, a British artist of Nigerian descent.
The two “beacon towers” that emit light and sound are part of a sprawling proposal by the Cambridge-based firms Wodiczko + Bonder and Maryann Thompson Architects, working with Walter Hood, the founder of a California designer firm.
The black stone bridge is a collaboration between several artists and design firms: Adam Pendleton, Adjaye Associates, David Reinfurt, FuturePace, and Gilbane Boston.
Project Website:
http://mlkboston.org/art/
More Renderings:
http://www.wbur.org/artery/2018/09/18/mlk-memorial-boston-common-artist-proposals
Direct link to each .PDF:
The Ripple Effects
Avenue of Peace
The Embrace
Empty Pulpit Monument
Bridge
Personally, I prefer the Bridge. The hands sculpture is my second choice. It is iconic in the way the Cloud is in Chicago.
the others look nice, but don't remind me of MLK so much as generic (but nice looking) parks or 9/11 monuments
If only the empty pulpit was pulled off better
Though I think if you combined the black stone bridge and interlocking arms proposals it could be a very striking memorial.
Someone on another forum mentioned they don't like this proposal because it partially blocks the view of the State House. When someone else pointed out that the designers may have done that on purpose, it made me appreciate it even more.
Speaking of Zumthor, we visited his Bruder Klaus chapel this year. That building is an actual revelation. Pictures don't do it justice. The actual approach to the building, entering it, going inside, walking through it and sitting down in were a real experience.
Afterwards we also had a picknick watching people arrive and leave at the chapel. That was fun, too.
God I love gloomy European libraries
Tama Art University Library
Sendai Mediatheque
https://youtu.be/NZJSjTIm2Uk
Also how that building came through the 2011 earthquake:
https://archdaily.com/120114/video-experiencing-the-japan-earthquake-from-the-sendai-mediatheque
Okay who wants to live in a series of castles with me