architecture appreciation thread

[pete]

Because soccer is boring as fuck.

cunt

 

[KingOrfeo]

Because soccer is boring as fuck.

Then why is it so popular everywhere else?!

 

[KRCummings]

Then why is it so popular everywhere else?!

Have you been to other countries? They're boring as fuck.

 

[pete]

http://assets.inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2010/04/Transbay-Transit-Center-8.jpg

http://www.staplenews.com/storage/post-images/San%20Francisco%20Breaks%20Ground%20On%20Green%20Transbay%20Transit%20Center%202.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1282207773230

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/autopia/2010/01/transbay_transit_center.jpg

san francisco bay area transit center (clarke pelli clarke architects)

$1.9B project. to cut costs, much of the exterior glazing was changed to painted aluminum (boo!)

 

[KingOrfeo]

http://assets.inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2010/04/Transbay-Transit-Center-8.jpg

http://www.staplenews.com/storage/post-images/San%20Francisco%20Breaks%20Ground%20On%20Green%20Transbay%20Transit%20Center%202.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1282207773230

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/autopia/2010/01/transbay_transit_center.jpg

san francisco bay area transit center (clarke pelli clarke architects)

$1.9B project. to cut costs, much of the exterior glazing was changed to painted aluminum (boo!)

Why do the buses run on the top level rather than the street level?

 

[girlsmiley]

Have you been to other countries? They're boring as fuck.

Fuck you crack me up sometimes.

 

[Wings]

I'm developing a new appreciation for architecture.


Just not spelling that fucking word.

 

[Saint Peter]

Architects are a bunch of jack offs.

The engineer crunched the numbers. Let him put the lipstick on that pig and be done with it.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Architects are a bunch of jack offs.

The engineer crunched the numbers. Let him put the lipstick on that pig and be done with it.

Don't architects crunch their own numbers?

 

[pete]

Don't architects crunch their own numbers?

yes, we do. engineers double check our math, and pray they find a mistake so they can feel special and important.

 

[pete]

exhibition in Los Angeles

Never Built: Los Angeles at the architecture and design museum revives a century of ambitious schemes that might have been...

http://archrecord.construction.com/news/2013/08/unbuilt/1_ss.jpg

http://archrecord.construction.com/news/2013/08/images/slideshow/130801/2.jpg

http://archrecord.construction.com/news/2013/08/images/slideshow/130801/3.jpg

http://archrecord.construction.com/news/2013/08/images/slideshow/130801/7.jpg

http://archrecord.construction.com/news/2013/08/images/slideshow/130801/8.jpg

 

[pete]

http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/lighting/2013/images/08/John-and-Frances-Angelos-Law-Center-Behnisch-Architekten-main.jpg
angelos law center, univ of baltimore (behnisch architekten)

 

[monique1971]

Eichler homes.

 

[pete]

Eichler homes.

very interesting, thanks

 

[RobDownSouth]

i always think it's ridiculous when i see stadiums so close to each other, like we have here in sunny baltimore

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2013/0319/nfl_a_camdenmtbank_600.jpg

I grew up with a multipurpose stadium (Atlanta Stadium). It was a soul-less empty place, too far away from the field for football and too generic for baseball.

I like having single-purpose stadia.

 

[KRCummings]

http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/lighting/2013/images/08/John-and-Frances-Angelos-Law-Center-Behnisch-Architekten-main.jpg
angelos law center, univ of baltimore (behnisch architekten)

See, I find that to be inspired but ugly. Coulda, woulda, shoulda but something fell short in the early stages. It has an unfinished look that I don't care for.

 

[CHNOPS]

It looks like an ugly fat kid wearing an old leather football helmet.

 

[KRCummings]

Architects are a bunch of jack offs.

The engineer crunched the numbers. Let him put the lipstick on that pig and be done with it.

Kinda, yes. I don't deny that at all because for the most part it's true. Nothing gets done without the engineer who is able to tell the architect, "You can't fucking do that." Not always but often enough to matter.

 

[KRCummings]

It looks like an ugly fat kid wearing an old leather football helmet.

No, you're thinking of a pic from WQ's orgy.

 

[pete]

See, I find that to be inspired but ugly. Coulda, woulda, shoulda but something fell short in the early stages. It has an unfinished look that I don't care for.

it's interesting, but i agree that the finishes on the lower sections are lacking something. i think all those dots jump out and distract from the façade.

the interior's a little better

http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/lighting/2013/images/08/John-and-Frances-Angelos-Law-Center-Behnisch-Architekten-3.jpg

 

[pete]

Kinda, yes. I don't deny that at all because for the most part it's true. Nothing gets done without the engineer who is able to tell the architect, "You can't fucking do that." Not always but often enough to matter.

pfffft
the structural engineers who gripe are just lazy fucks, and don't want to run the calculations of a complex system.

and don't even get me started on MEP, those punk bitches.

 

[KRCummings]

it's interesting, but i agree that the finishes on the lower sections are lacking something. i think all those dots jump out and distract from the façade.

the interior's a little better

http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/lighting/2013/images/08/John-and-Frances-Angelos-Law-Center-Behnisch-Architekten-3.jpg

That's actually really nice even though I think spiral stairs are incredibly overused. Sometimes they work though.

 

[KRCummings]

pfffft
the structural engineers who gripe are just lazy fucks, and don't want to run the calculations of a complex system.

and don't even get me started on MEP, those punk bitches.

They are indeed little bitches but the fact remains they perform a vital function and are sometimes right.
Engineers have the most fragile egos in the world so one must tread carefully around them but they do sometimes earn the respect they demand.

 

[thør]

Engineers have the most fragile egos in the world so one must tread carefully around them but they do sometimes earn the respect they demand.

Then, work without 'em.

 

[KRCummings]

Then, work without 'em.

I was saying we need them.