Architecture

OccultHawk · 10-08-2017, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

How should a building look ?

If you think the principal goal is to catch people's attention, this one must count as a winner. It's in Melbourne, and it exploits a famous optical illusion; although it doesn't look that way, all those thin orange lines are parallel. You can check it yourself (as I did); your eyes may say "no" but your ruler will say "yes."

For me, it's a bit too much, and the ground floor of the long side just looks like a mess of electrical transformer boxes or something, painted in airport-safety orange. One feature I quite like are the blue circles that look struck-on and not related to the facade. I'd like to see more of those, perhaps in different sizes. And if they were made to be movable, they could be slid around the facade by a strong guy with a very long pole. That would surely catch people's attention.

Repulsive visual pollution. Having to see that everyday would be about as nice as having a Flock of Seagulls CD stuck in your car stereo.

Lisnaholic · 10-08-2017, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Repulsive visual pollution. Having to see that everyday would be about as nice as having a Flock of Seagulls CD stuck in your car stereo.

^

Yeah, in the end it's too distracting for its own good - you have to look at it even when you don't want too.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 10-10-2017, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Qwertyy

the third one down is brilliant. love how smooth it looks. the grass hill on the far side is nice as well.

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

Yeah, I like that one too, Qwertyy. It has a very pleasing shape, which you can see clearly in the video clip. I like how the building is a bridge too.

Same, don't like that red thing though.

Anyone got any 'most hated' buildings?

**Frownland** · 10-10-2017, 02:00 PM

~~Cuthbert~~ · 10-10-2017, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Not the World Trade Centre then?

**Frownland** · 10-10-2017, 02:03 PM

That one wasn't really the building's fault.

**Frownland** · 10-10-2017, 11:14 PM

Singapore

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 10-10-2017, 11:46 PM

now that's what i call the super bowl

Lisnaholic · 10-11-2017, 06:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey

Same, don't like that red thing though.

^ Well, it's another example of a building inspired by Lego, which seems to be a cliché of post-modern architecture.

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Singapore

^ Yeah, no interesting color, and a confused jumble of unrelated shapes, especially on the waterfront to the right - while the dominant bit to the left reminded me of a bunch of bananas.

It must be depressing enough to be a worker drone in Eastern Europe, but you really don't need architecture that throws that fact in your face every day. Here are some housing blocks in Zagreb: -

Making an multi-storey carpark look attractive is a challenge, but not impossible. Rather than meet the challenge, Glasgow decided to go with ugly commonplace tat instead:-

What these buildings have in common is the determination to avoid any color except Concrete Grey, and any architectural element beyond the minimal requirements of function.

**Frownland** · 10-11-2017, 06:14 AM

It may be confused by some standards but it's cool as **** imo. You know it's two different buildings, right?

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	It may be confused by some standards but it's cool as **** imo. You know it's two different buildings, right? __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x