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Old 12-13-2018, 01:11 PM   #211 (permalink)
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It's loads and loads of little lights I think, pretty sure anyway. It has advertisements and tourist information on it.
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Old 12-19-2018, 06:44 AM   #212 (permalink)
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That's a bunch of nice pictures, Fluff, all on the theme of buildings illuminated at night. TBH it's not my favourite way to look at buildings, as a fair bit of colour and detail is lost. Still, a well designed building should look good in all circumstances, and in your photos at least, the buildings you chose past the test.

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Managed to see some of the progress on some buildings being constructed right now and they're coming along very nicely, and took a couple of pictures of a couple of my favourite new buildings here also. There's a few I didn't get to see though.



^ I think these first two were my favourites; the second, not so much for the building as for your very well-composed photo, which has caught a canal boat and the reflections of elec light in the water. Nice.



^ There's something very satisfying in the way this building goes round the corner without any break in the pattern of the facade. It works the same way that a slatted place mat can either be flat on the table or rolled up. That's good design; simple but effective for the purpose in hand.

I wasn't quite so keen on the JLP building tbh. It seems like a lot of glare, a lot of electricity to illuminate what? A drab staircase that you might find in any Underground railway station...
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Cheers for the comments Lisna

It was that building I was most excited about, the one that goes round the corner without any break. Well there are several buildings going up here, it's a big development, that building in particular is nearing completion now and it looks fantastic in real life. I did want to see the skyscrapers but as they're still in the early phases, you can't see anything at night time as they aren't lit up and that was the earliest I could get there.

Re: JL, I like the media eyes, I have always liked Piccadilly Circus in London and the advertising there and felt we should have more of that and this is a start. This is what it looks like in the daytime - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._Sept_2015.jpg
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Old 12-19-2018, 08:07 AM   #214 (permalink)
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Thanks! Now I understand what that panel of light really is - I though it was an illuminated ceiling!

Walking through the Elephant and Castle area of London as a child, this is the building that first made me realise that modern buildings can be exciting. It had a silvery finish and no windows, which made it unlike anything I'd ever seen before:-



It was only by writing this post that I learned that it is an electrical substation (hence no windows) and includes a neat bit of design that can only be appreciated from above:-



( In case the two pictures don't make sense, one of the four black legs in the bottom picture is seen on the left-hand side in the top picture, ok?)
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Very cool exo-structure Lisna. A creative approach to lessen the impact of an otherwise bland industrialized form. I drew up a few sub-stations in my time with a well known power company here in the states. Seems like a lifetime ago. They were tucked back away from the sprawling metropolis's so they were just cookie-cutter, more-function-than-form style. I've been drafting for so long and with so many different companies, I forget exactly what I've done sometimes (all the drugs I've done doesn't help either lol). Looking into this thread sometimes helps jar the memories, so thank you for that.

Edit: I should be thanking Fluff, actually.
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Old 12-19-2018, 08:15 PM   #216 (permalink)
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I live about 20 miles from Columbia, MO. This is what stands in front of their City Hall. It has different colored lights inside of it that light up at night.

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^ That's a nice addition to the streetscape, [MERIT]. In England we often give irreverent nicknames to bits of architecture: as I think as Fluff has mentioned we have the Gerkin and the Walkie-Talkie among others. In the same spirit, I wonder if people in Columbia call your structure "the Keyhole"?


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Very cool exo-structure Lisna. A creative approach to lessen the impact of an otherwise bland industrialized form. I drew up a few sub-stations in my time with a well known power company here in the states. Seems like a lifetime ago. They were tucked back away from the sprawling metropolis's so they were just cookie-cutter, more-function-than-form style. I've been drafting for so long and with so many different companies, I forget exactly what I've done sometimes (all the drugs I've done doesn't help either lol). Looking into this thread sometimes helps jar the memories, so thank you for that.

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^ Thanks Plankton - you make me wish I'd thought of "exo-structure" myself.
You and me both on the drafting! Although I've stopped now, I spent 13 years man and boy at the drawing board. So many projects and buildings that I've forgotten most of them. Not that I was doing grand design stuff: looking back it seems that I was usually put in charge of sorting out staircases or toilets, though I did have a few more challenging responsibilities too.
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^ That's a nice addition to the streetscape, [MERIT]. In England we often give irreverent nicknames to bits of architecture: as I think as Fluff has mentioned we have the Gerkin and the Walkie-Talkie among others. In the same spirit, I wonder if people in Columbia call your structure "the Keyhole"?
We have Cloud Gate, otherwise known as The Bean.

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The city built this HORRENDOUS art piece outside of the city's library. What is it, you ask? Your guess is as good as mine. A gigantic waste of tax dollars comes to mind.

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I'd only fault its placement.
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