Just Architecture
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shakahislop
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been watching these get built over the past couple of years on the north brooklyn waterfront. this is something that happens in nyc that i don't think happens in london, that whole area was low rise even five years ago, and now there's a load of massive towers like this. new people about in the area obviously, coz the kind of people who like this stuff are not the same people who like living in old houses where you have to take your own bins out, with the cockroaches at night and lugging laundry to the laundromat, which is most of what you get round there.
the cantilevered thing is at least a bit interesting, they look a bit less like dicks shooting up into the sky than some of the others. still the same social process at work though, even if you cover it up with some vaguely cool design.
one of the other ones round there has a KAWS sculpture outside, it's the right level of bad art for the building i think
IdleRich
IdleRich
This sort of lego bricky piecemeal type thing like in the first ones I posted is one of the few ways you can make buildings look totally new so it wouldn't surprise me to see quite a lot of it in the future. By the time we realise we're bored of it there will be so much in construction that we're gonna be swamped.
version
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There's that ridiculously tall building in NYC that apparently moves in the wind - 432 Park Avenue.
www.telegraph.co.uk
Billionaire skyscraper residents in New York sue for $125m, claiming they are trapped in a nightmare
The 85-floor building allegedly sways in wind and its residents have been trapped in lifts. Zoe Dare Hall uncovers a litany of similar cases
www.telegraph.co.uk
william_kent
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this Manchester landmark is under threat
The Gamecock pub
evil developers want to stick a horrible high rise student tower on this iconic spot
estate pubs are under attack
The Gamecock pub
evil developers want to stick a horrible high rise student tower on this iconic spot
estate pubs are under attack
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Yeah my relatives there complain about how it ruins the skyline - and I don’t disagree.
william_kent
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The Spinners, Hulme, Manchester
A long lost to "gentrification" Manchester estate pub - should have had a blue plaque: "Nico, ex-velvet underground, scored here"
( sure it's ugly, but estate pubs are slowly being wiped out and their memory needs preserving )
IdleRich
IdleRich
No doubt converted into much needed luxury flats (like the one I used to live in).
william_kent
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The Eagle Pub, Hulme, Manchester ( lower right )
I can see my old flat in this photo, long gone due to the evils of "gentrification"
shakahislop
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that's herat in afghanistan but it's the same style. presumably there's a historical reason why that specific part of the world all has the same style, it's definitely done differently by the time you get to pakistan to the east or jordan to the west, i don't know what that reason is though
hard to think of buildings from the last fifty years or whatever which are as beautiful as the old stuff. the innovation seems to be in the big skinny towers at the moment. but then i guess a lot of what gets put up is to a large extent an expression of the values of whoever has a fuckton of money at the time, serves the function that they want it to serve
I love Freddy Mamani's stuff. Bolivia on the list, it will get done one day.
www.dezeen.com
Freddy Mamani's New Andean Architecture adds colour to Bolivian city
Bolivian architect Freddy Mamani is aiming to imbue culture, colour and personality into the "monochrome" city of El Alto.
www.dezeen.com
shakahislop
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there's a load of them now, well several at least, the skyline has changed a lot over the last five years. the empire state still stands proud but the chrysler stands out a lot less. they've really let loose.There's that ridiculously tall building in NYC that apparently moves in the wind - 432 Park Avenue.
Billionaire skyscraper residents in New York sue for $125m, claiming they are trapped in a nightmare
The 85-floor building allegedly sways in wind and its residents have been trapped in lifts. Zoe Dare Hall uncovers a litany of similar cases
i noticed recently that there's a big discrepancy between what manhattan looks like from a distance, where you can see this really quite beautiful collection of lights, the whole skyline thing, it looks quite peaceful, quite elegant. when you're actually in it though at street level its nothing like that at all, it's total carnage, disorganised, intense.
hmg
Victory lap
3D-printed moon architecture firm won a big contract from NASA today
www.axios.com
Looking forward to deep learning algo buildings sprouting up, and a new era of 3D printed neoneobaroque exterior decoration, supplanting the horrible, planar modernist shit.
Austin-based ICON could soon build lunar homes
"We're not just doing this for ourselves, we're giving humanity the capability to build on other worlds."
www.axios.com
Looking forward to deep learning algo buildings sprouting up, and a new era of 3D printed neoneobaroque exterior decoration, supplanting the horrible, planar modernist shit.
shakahislop
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Reading station is an interesting one coz it's (I'd imagine) public money and a public building built to provide obviously a public service, but visually it looks more like something that's directed towards a london imagination than a reading one. it suits the fancy first great western trains that take people wearing suits from here into london offices, fits very well with that aesthetic i think, i don't think that's accidental. Reading itself as a place feels like its being propelled into the london orbit now, rather than what i think it used to be, which was a less fancy place that served the countryside around it rather than london. the old station looked more in keeping with that.
Leo
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funny, I described it as a transportation hub and you called it a shopping center with subway lines. I was surprised I liked it, just imaged it would be some typical shopping mall but it has a pleasant vibe. again, maybe I'm just projecting the Matthew Barney element to it but think it's kind of cool inside.
btw, I don't know one NYer who has been to the 9/11 Museum, I've never even walked up to the memorial footprint of the towers. I agree, based on photos I've seen, that part is much better done than expected.