Now its been cleaned up, it looks great, but I can't find a picture :'(
they've turned the Palais into a Sainsubury's? :shag: me
they've turned the Palais into a Sainsubury's? :shag: me
Yup. And student accomodation. :'(
The Sinclair Building on West Street in Wad-Town is rather lovely.
they've turned the Palais into a Sainsubury's? :shag: me
And here is the city's big one, the Daddy, the wartime command centre: an amazing brutalist structure.
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:
The Sinclair Building on West Street in Wad-Town is rather lovely.
Disagree with you on that one.
It's fairly hard not to like the Guggenheim, isn't it?
The Friendly Alien as its endearingly known by its admirers.
I don't know who designed this, and care less, it's the scene of my last windowcleaning job. Fucking terrifying when you've been issued w/ a worn STOP (AKA GO) only rated for 100m or is it (150?) drops . . .
It's huge.
Beetham Tower, Brum c.200m
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Ugly as sin, why must it be this way?
Anyone else stumped?
"Can't you put your karabiners on lanyards?" :lol:?
that's a bit unfair re rip-offs. wilkinson eyre (who did the one in newcastle, not sure about manchester) have been designing bridges for years. their canary wharf one is semi-ancient.1997 according to their website, Calatrava designed the 'harp' bridge in 1987. Sorry if I sounded harsh Yoss, I'm not knocking WilkinsonEyre or any decent practices that push out original work rather than the choss we ususally have. I don't doubt they have done some superb work, but Calatrava was doing ground breaking work a full decade before many of his competitors/copiers. Did you ever see his design for the Thames crossing? Can't currently find a pic of it. If only we had the guts to commission work like than instead of spending £800m on a tent.
Modern classic: Zaha Hadid, Phaeno Science Center, Wolfsburg, Germany.
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Modern classic: Zaha Hadid, Phaeno Science Center, Wolfsburg, Germany.
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That lost out to my airport I couldn't find...for that award I couldn't remember
Hope they have A Sterling Effort written in silver on the bog door . . .
I should have remembered it was a Richard Rogers project ::):
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Man that's sweet! Party HQ.
New skyscrapers planned for chicago.
It's a fucking ski slope.
They're made in China, but I think Denmark would have been more appropriate though :lol:
Well that undermines the whole point of using them in the first place, idiots, I hate sustainable developments and carbon neutral and all that schabang because people always do sh*t like this.
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Have you seen this monstrosity in the monstrous place that is Dubai?[
Some funky stuff in Beijing...
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Cool, pigs might fly after all!
http://noquedanblogs.com/?p=4230 (http://noquedanblogs.com/?p=4230)
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my christmas holiday in canada. royal ontario museum.
amazing!
Check out this cabin a family have spent 9 years building in Minnesota.
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The idea of using shipping containers as a habitable space is an attractive one and it's nice to see someone who's done it so well.
Beats the pants off of the "advertising on every available square inch" approach on the London Underground.
Is that part of the shape? It looks like it might be just painted like that.(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Beekman_Place_New_York.jpg/400px-Beekman_Place_New_York.jpg) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beekman_Place_New_York.jpg)
Adore every single one of these incredible, beautiful Brutalist churches.Awesome!
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/mar/07/the-heavy-hand-of-god-europes-brutalist-churches-in-pictures
Love them. Lots of these places have an amazing beauty and warmth inside them.
Worth looking inside if you ever pass them.
They’re universally awful !!!!!So is religion TBF...
Thanks for the link fd, the church of storms in the extract is just down the road from where I grew up and return there pretty much every year, I've always loved it.
You need to look at these places in context of the era they were built in. The great cathedrals and monuments that still exist today were built in a time that is simply not possible to recreate now, nor was it in the 50s60s. The architects of the time were trying to create the same impression on a vastly smaller budget.
Durham cathedral, York minster or St Paul’s could not be built now.
. Prior to the Eiffel Tower, the tallest building in the world was the Great Pyramid.Don't forget Lincoln Cathedral - tallest (known) building in the world at 160m from 1311 to 1549 when the spire collapsed, and not actually surpassed in height until 1884 when the Washington Monument was built (5 years before the Eiffel Tower blew them all out of the water at 324m).
Don't forget Lincoln Cathedral - tallest (known) building in the world at 160m from 1311 to 1549 when the spire collapsedPhotos or it didn’t happen! :)
You need to look at these places in context of the era they were built in. The great cathedrals and monuments that still exist today were built in a time that is simply not possible to recreate now, nor was it in the 50s60s. The architects of the time were trying to create the same impression on a vastly smaller budget.
Durham cathedral, York minster or St Paul’s could not be built now.
Part of this is the overall importance of ecclesiastical architecture today. Building a giant cathedral isn’t the same flex it was in the 1200s. Through the 1960s the US spent 5% of GDP, every year, on sending people to the moon. So perhaps it was more a question of their spending priorities, rather than the absolute affordability of enormous stone monuments.
More cost efficient ways of building tall impressive stuff obviously exist now too. Prior to the Eiffel Tower, the tallest building in the world was the Great Pyramid.
Humans (or something that would become human) started making stone tools, what, 250k years ago?I really liked the series of podcasts about archeological objects in the British Museum. It starts with a 2M year old hand axe https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pwn7m
Humans (or something that would become human) started making stone tools, what, 250k years ago?I really liked the series of podcasts about archeological objects in the British Museum. It starts with a 2M year old hand axe https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pwn7m
Prior to the Eiffel Tower, the tallest building in the world was the Great Pyramid.
From many places on the moors above Sheffield, on a clear day, you can make out a low ridge on the horizon, far to the east. At it's southern tip, just visible, is the pimple of Lincoln Cathedral. In the modern era, despite the lights of Emley Moor (tallest freestanding building in the UK 1971-present) peeping over the moor to the north, I find it very hard to imagine looking across this view in the 1400s to the tallest building in the world, the GOAT of medieval architecture. I've seen the Burj Khalifa rising over distant desert sands, but from the air-conditioned cabin of an intercontinental jet. Whose mind would have been blown the most?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGKtEB-8IXE&t=186s
Always worth sharing this in case anyone hasn't seen it. John Redhead climbing Norwich Cathedral
Whose mind would have been blown the most?
"Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" cried Michael Owen as he arrived in his chopper with "special powers".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFnymJDZAS8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFnymJDZAS8)
Portland aside, it’s hard to imagine it’s due to the quality of the building material.
Portland aside, it’s hard to imagine it’s due to the quality of the building material.
I think the reference to the limestone must be the Jurassic oolitic limestone belt that Bath and many other places are built out of, which runs diagonally up the country?
Portland aside, it’s hard to imagine it’s due to the quality of the building material.
I think the reference to the limestone must be the Jurassic oolitic limestone belt that Bath and many other places are built out of, which runs diagonally up the country?
Yeah that’s the Cotswold vernacular for sure. For some reason always looks fancier than the Carb Lime and Gritstone equivalents
Bugger
Loving the intersection of lithostratigraphy, locality and industry, antcedence and inheritance working across temporal, geological and cultural palimpsests.
Portland aside, it’s hard to imagine it’s due to the quality of the building material.
I think the reference to the limestone must be the Jurassic oolitic limestone belt that Bath and many other places are built out of, which runs diagonally up the country?
Yeah that’s the Cotswold vernacular for sure. For some reason always looks fancier than the Carb Lime and Gritstone equivalents
As JB hints, this is as much or more socio-economic as geological in explanation. In the medieval period these were all very wealthy wool-producing regions and the backbone of the Medieval English economy. I suppose that - ultimately - that is also tied somewhat to geology, but I wouldn't know about that.
Portland aside, it’s hard to imagine it’s due to the quality of the building material.
I think the reference to the limestone must be the Jurassic oolitic limestone belt that Bath and many other places are built out of, which runs diagonally up the country?
Regional wealth and influence must play a significant part in the distribution of the ‘top fifty’, however the South East is conspicuous by its absence. Perhaps London had mitigating circumstances – what with the whole city burning down – but I’d have thought Kent would have been well-heeled, being productive farmland and home to the most important cathedral in the country. But when it came to church steeples, it seems they had neither the masons nor the materials to produce works of lasting significance.
Apparently the Normans imported their own stone of choice for Canterbury https://info.amarestone.com/blog/caen-limestone-its-place-in-english-historyIndeed, oolitic again.