Architecture thread
Architecture thread
Post pics of architecture you like/dislike and comment why you like/dislike.
Notre Dame du Haut, a chapel designed by Le Corbusier and built in 1955, in France. Normally, I don't like modernism in architecture and I think Le Corbu's influence in architecture was terrible. To give you an idea how terrible, his ideas on building the city like "a machine for living" had a major influence on Communist architecture, which spawned those grey and ugly concrete apartment buildings that are so common in Eastern Europe.
However, I think this work by Le Corbu is one of the few times when modernism got it right.
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What I like about this building:
- despite being a borderline modernist building, it avoids the typical boxy shapes
- it has a slight prehistoric, monolithic appearance
- the windows pattern, which seem random, but Le Corbu claimed were calculated based on the Golden Ratio
- it looks like the product of some alien metaphysical cult, but it's actually a Catholic chapel
What I dislike:
- the tower structure which looks like an industrial silo
Anyway, post pics of architecture you found living or eyeworthy.
Notre Dame du Haut, a chapel designed by Le Corbusier and built in 1955, in France. Normally, I don't like modernism in architecture and I think Le Corbu's influence in architecture was terrible. To give you an idea how terrible, his ideas on building the city like "a machine for living" had a major influence on Communist architecture, which spawned those grey and ugly concrete apartment buildings that are so common in Eastern Europe.
However, I think this work by Le Corbu is one of the few times when modernism got it right.
Exterior
Interior
Seasonal lighting intake
What I like about this building:
- despite being a borderline modernist building, it avoids the typical boxy shapes
- it has a slight prehistoric, monolithic appearance
- the windows pattern, which seem random, but Le Corbu claimed were calculated based on the Golden Ratio
- it looks like the product of some alien metaphysical cult, but it's actually a Catholic chapel
What I dislike:
- the tower structure which looks like an industrial silo
Anyway, post pics of architecture you found living or eyeworthy.
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Interesting thread.
It looks indeed like a dolmen. Still an absolute eyesore to my conservative taste, like all his works.
It looks indeed like a dolmen. Still an absolute eyesore to my conservative taste, like all his works.
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I have always been a little warm on this old local halftimbered brickhouse.
What really sells it for me is the handcrafted wooden pieces that each represents a different craft.
Half stone bond with scraped joints.
Might be a little dull in the colors, but it is a well crafted building with some beautiful details.
What really sells it for me is the handcrafted wooden pieces that each represents a different craft.
Half stone bond with scraped joints.
Might be a little dull in the colors, but it is a well crafted building with some beautiful details.
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Yesh, le Corbu's works are mostly horrible, soulless industrial boxes, sometimes with a few panes of colour thrown in there to make the building look like it's not really a decommissioned prison.
I mean
There is an explanation for this, thou. All these modernistic architects were coming after centuries, or even two millennia, of nonstop curvy, sculptured architecture overloaded with embellishments, sometimes to the point of stomach sickness.
Is there anything that classical architects didn't put on a building as ornament: stone grapes, stone mermaids, stone flowers, stone angels, stone men and women, stone geometrical patterns, everything that was in nature was set in stone on a moffo classical building.
It was reaching weeb levels of qtness and fantasy. Eventually, they said: fug this, we've had it with the fruits and all that tinsel crap on buildings, let's kill all ornament and create a new style, that reduces everything down to geometrical planes, something that reflects this new age of science and machines and blablablah.
And that's how Corbu and the other master of minimalistic boredom, Mies van der Rohe, came up with these boxes. They thought "less is more", if we build the simplest forms, this means we are saying more than it shows.
But what happened is that, like any past trend, eventually it was adopted by less talented mainstream normies and became a parody and a recipe for building Commie neighbourhoods, because it was cheaper.
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Yeh, half-timbered buildings are an old European tradition, especially in Germanic countries, but it goes way back even to ancient Rome. They found some of them even in Pompeii, that used timber logs to uphold the structure.
Yesh, le Corbu's works are mostly horrible, soulless industrial boxes, sometimes with a few panes of colour thrown in there to make the building look like it's not really a decommissioned prison.
I mean
There is an explanation for this, thou. All these modernistic architects were coming after centuries, or even two millennia, of nonstop curvy, sculptured architecture overloaded with embellishments, sometimes to the point of stomach sickness.
Is there anything that classical architects didn't put on a building as ornament: stone grapes, stone mermaids, stone flowers, stone angels, stone men and women, stone geometrical patterns, everything that was in nature was set in stone on a moffo classical building.
It was reaching weeb levels of qtness and fantasy. Eventually, they said: fug this, we've had it with the fruits and all that tinsel crap on buildings, let's kill all ornament and create a new style, that reduces everything down to geometrical planes, something that reflects this new age of science and machines and blablablah.
And that's how Corbu and the other master of minimalistic boredom, Mies van der Rohe, came up with these boxes. They thought "less is more", if we build the simplest forms, this means we are saying more than it shows.
But what happened is that, like any past trend, eventually it was adopted by less talented mainstream normies and became a parody and a recipe for building Commie neighbourhoods, because it was cheaper.
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@voigt1240
Yeh, half-timbered buildings are an old European tradition, especially in Germanic countries, but it goes way back even to ancient Rome. They found some of them even in Pompeii, that used timber logs to uphold the structure.
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Maison Heler Metz, by Philippe Starck
Basically an Alsatian rustic house plopped on top of a 14-floor tower building.
Some sort of metaphor for uprooted roots elevated on top of a modernist glass-and-steel box.
The view from that top mansion must be pretty good ngl.
I kinda liked the idea of building a castle-like house on top of a platform, like a fortress. But the elevation of the base should have stopped at 2 storeys.
This is a hotel project, it needed to make more money per constructed footprint, so it went with a taller structure.
Which makes the outome more cringe than interesting. It should have stopped right at what the first pic shows.
Basically an Alsatian rustic house plopped on top of a 14-floor tower building.
Some sort of metaphor for uprooted roots elevated on top of a modernist glass-and-steel box.
The view from that top mansion must be pretty good ngl.
I kinda liked the idea of building a castle-like house on top of a platform, like a fortress. But the elevation of the base should have stopped at 2 storeys.
This is a hotel project, it needed to make more money per constructed footprint, so it went with a taller structure.
Which makes the outome more cringe than interesting. It should have stopped right at what the first pic shows.
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bruhhh
al wakrah stadium in qatar
al wakrah stadium in qatar
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bruh are the people supposed to cross that mile of asphalt by foot in a summers day?
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Yea, teams are getting their warm-up by just walking up to the stadium.harcha wrote:bruh are the people supposed to cross that mile of asphalt by foot in a summers day?
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Architect's eye-popping 688ft-tall New York space-age skyscraper
More terrible mammoth glass and steel structures.
More terrible mammoth glass and steel structures.
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these things never get built
doesn't look like it's commissioned, just an architect doing online marketing
also, I can't imagine a more complicated curtain wall ngl
doesn't look like it's commissioned, just an architect doing online marketing
also, I can't imagine a more complicated curtain wall ngl
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Imagine trying to fly a plane into that building and accidentally flying through it instead
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Maybe a Calabi–Yau manifold.deleted_user wrote:I can't imagine a more complicated curtain wall ngl
But this kind of shapes is completely impractical for habitation.
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I was wondering the same, about the implications of trying to see if fuel can melt steel beams in such a shape.lejend wrote:Imagine trying to fly a plane into that building and accidentally flying through it instead
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This
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- This not only looks awesome but is designed to avoid flooding and hurricanes. It has survived 2 high intensity hurricanes
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What is impressive is that this building is supposedly in North Korea
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Normally, I think any structure made of reinforced concrete with proper pillars should withstand a hurricane without any serious structural damage.princeofcarthage wrote:This
Having an aerodynamic shape would reduce the force of the wind mass that would collide against the house, though.
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Why would you deliberately decrease the square footage of an office building.Dolan wrote:Architect's eye-popping 688ft-tall New York space-age skyscraper
More terrible mammoth glass and steel structures.
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Dunno, maybe those who have the money to invest in such a project (if it gets built, it might be just a demo) think that having an eye-catching building design gives your company prestige and it promotes the brand. The more striking and unique the design, the more it would be likely for people to take selfies with it, for the media to feature it as a defining landmark in a city, etc. Eventually it would create mindshare among the public, everyone would know "yeah, that's company X's headquarters" or they could even use it as a meeting venue.
This could have a pull effect on local rent prices and the owners could charge more for office space that previously was cheaper in the same area.
Dunno, maybe those who have the money to invest in such a project (if it gets built, it might be just a demo) think that having an eye-catching building design gives your company prestige and it promotes the brand. The more striking and unique the design, the more it would be likely for people to take selfies with it, for the media to feature it as a defining landmark in a city, etc. Eventually it would create mindshare among the public, everyone would know "yeah, that's company X's headquarters" or they could even use it as a meeting venue.
This could have a pull effect on local rent prices and the owners could charge more for office space that previously was cheaper in the same area.
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I feel like that melting building would create lenses and melt things. Also that ruff is completely unrealistic as it is not accessible and doesn't house any lightning drain structures.
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To this day this is my favorite bit of architecture trivia. How can one forget to consider that the glass building might function as a giant lens that will literally burn cars and shit.harcha wrote:I feel like that melting building would create lenses and melt things. Also that ruff is completely unrealistic as it is not accessible and doesn't house any lightning drain structures.
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Cuz things like that had never happened before. It is easier to say in hindsight but you also would have likely made the same mistake if you were in his shoes.RefluxSemantic wrote:To this day this is my favorite bit of architecture trivia. How can one forget to consider that the glass building might function as a giant lens that will literally burn cars and shit.harcha wrote:I feel like that melting building would create lenses and melt things. Also that ruff is completely unrealistic as it is not accessible and doesn't house any lightning drain structures.
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