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Houdini

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A thread for those interested in architecture.


I'm fascinated w/ wartime bunkers. Lucky me, I'm in the right place for it as they're plastered all over my city. Why there is one not 100m from where I sit now:

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As you can see clearly, this bunker is in the process of conversion into two flats: each will have two floors, and they're already on the market @ €190,000+ which is a fine price in the current climate (imagine buying a haus guaranteed not to have any structural problems - at least for many a generation).

And here is the city's big one, the Daddy, the wartime command centre: an amazing brutalist structure. After WW2, the authorities wanted to raize it to the ground on the grounds it was a strong Nazi symbol - alas - she was built to last and it was calculated the amount of TNT required would send it into orbit, not the ground. I'm glad they let it stand for many reasons, one of which is that a techno club called Übel und Gefährlich (Ugly & Dangerous) is based here. As you can imagine, there are zero noise issues w/ local residents.

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And LR shot showing zee Überbunker and the 200m HH fernsehentürm (tv tower). A cracking structure it is too (a while back the München-based firm I worked for were due to have the concrete inspection contract for the underside of the large dish of the München TV tower, which would have meant muggins 'ere would have needed to aid from the stem to the lip drilling & bolting my way across the underside. Guts me they lost the contract, what a wild job that would have been!)

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And this is the HH Chilehaus - included as it's a stunner - check out that arete! :eek:

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Does anyone have any favourites in their own manor?
 
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Speaking of concrete, Wormesley's big mess in Sheff holds a strange facination for me. I'm looking forward to seeing how the renovation goes. Ugly, but appealing (definition of "cute"?)
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Redolent of a smooth Selfridges in Brum. I like.



I'm a doity bandwidth buster :whistle:

Here's the Chilehaus once more *fingers crossed*

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And @ night

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The Sinclair Building on West Street in Wad-Town is rather lovely.
I like the black bricks and curves.
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Nothing architecturally interesting or innovative up here, unless you like granite. Nice and sparkly on a sunny day (I remember them), but in bad weather I swear it absorbs light.
 
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This was interesting when it looked like this
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Now its been cleaned up, it looks great, but I can't find a picture :'(
 
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Where to start...

One a day perhaps. Today, Studio Sanaa: Christian Dior-Tokyo.

Sanaa produce the most incredible weightless-looking structures I can care to name.

 
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My manor for 17 years was Lewes and I grew up just up the road from this.........

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Went to Seattle as a kid and was really impressed by this..........

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But the ultimate for me is still this.........


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.......after seeing so many pictures of it, when I finally stepped out of the tube station and saw it I was properly gobsmacked. I also like the fact that it is still a building site and will remain so for a very long time to come.

In Sheffield (apparently)this has been approved.........

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.......101m tall. 31 floors. Looks pretty fucking bland to me.

But I do like this bad boy in Manchester.............

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.....very Blade Runner.
 
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lagerstarfish said:
Now its been cleaned up, it looks great, but I can't find a picture :'(

Not one of mine but here it is with the new bling...

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That's the one, Slackline.
W-w-w-w-wad for that, thanks.
 
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Jaspersharpe said:
rich d said:
they've turned the Palais into a Sainsubury's? :shag: me

Yup. And student accomodation. :'(

what a nighmare. Used to go there in early nineties, easy d, asterix and space etc, then onto CJ's.
 
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lagerstarfish said:
The Sinclair Building on West Street in Wad-Town is rather lovely.

Disagree with you on that one.

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^ better inside than out
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I also love that airport (Barcelona?) that won an award a few years ago, colored columns and very fancy air conditioning system that they designed to look really smart. Can't find it though :(
 
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rich d said:
they've turned the Palais into a Sainsubury's? :shag: me

Yep, and with a big fuck-off Waitrose across the road :shrug:

Although I guess given the motivation many of the students on the blocks behind are likely to lack they'll probably do quite well. :thumbsdown:
 
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Nice thread. Fuck me it's cultural on here. Black metal and contemporary architecture side by side.

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Houdini said:
And here is the city's big one, the Daddy, the wartime command centre: an amazing brutalist structure.

Woah yeah. A particularly harshly bland and bulky look. Like it.

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Sagrada Familia (would you believe I guessed the spelling right first time!!), amazing. My brother who lived there for a year or so carefully guided me down various obscure streets to get the full effect of seeing it at night. Particularly impressed by how monsterous it is....it gives the impression of having very little concern for human niceties and subtleties....a definitely massive and obnoxious celebration of OTT grandeur.

The building in Manchester....impressive when driving in on the A57. The cut-away lower section, distinctive and intriguing.

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In return may I offer you a solitary (more coming when I twiddle with them) photo of the beautiful star-trek-esque buildings in the central park running through Valencia:

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Fiend said:
In return may I offer you a solitary (more coming when I twiddle with them) photo of the beautiful star-trek-esque buildings in the central park running through Valencia:

Wow, that's beautiful Fiend. I am bowled over by that photo/building. Thanks for posting that.
 


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