Music Banter - Architecture

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Originally Posted by Mindfulness (Post 2061212)

i gotta analyze this house for my test in a class :cool:

^ Like structure/materials? Aesthetics/architecture? It's probably the most written-about house on the planet, so you shouldn't be short of sources.
Good luck!

Plankton posted it here a while back, so he must like it, and it was very innovative for its time, but I'm a closet iconoclast, so I can always find something to grumble about:-

i) it's ok if you're super-rich
ii) "the sound of falling water is everywhere"= bl**dy annoying I should think
iii) it was here I believe that FLW had the tables and armchairs bolted to the floor because there was only one position that looked right to him: very impractical, reduces the versatility of the spaces to zero, and is called meglomania not architecture.

Nonetheless, can't really deny that FLW was a genius.

^ So not actually a castle then, Mindfulness. Sorry to be pedantic but a castle is constructed for purposes of defense, which your photo clearly shows is not the case here. Just because some business magnate slaps the word "castle" on his architectural folly don't make it so imo!

There you go, I've written the opening sentence of your report for you! ;)

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5...8ef4cb~mv2.jpg

^ But, yeah, it looks super-unusual and must've been a fascinating place to look around. I hope your report goes well. :)

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Originally Posted by Mindfulness (Post 2063334)

i learned a lot in this humanities class. its over since it was a hybrid class, just half a semester.

^ Well, I hope it's given you a lasting interest in architecture, Mindfulness. AFAIK there aren't many topics that so completely meld art, engineering and history all into one.
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https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cp...s151410683.jpg

This pic shows a type of building that you can see scattered all over England: an old house (right-hand side, with pitched roof) that has been enlarged and re-purposed with a more modern extension (left-hand side with flat roof). It's brick, it's traditional and to me looks both familiar and attractive, perhaps because my first full-time job after high school was in a government building quite like this.

Of course the boarded up windows also give it a sinister look, and sinister it will now remain because it's the site of this news story: a care home that for five decades covered up the sexual abuse of hundreds of children.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-...shire-49177145

Anyone else got some spooky buildings to share?

I'd love to see this in person. Maybe skate or bike down that dragon tunnel too.

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Originally Posted by Wat Samphran Temple

With the Wat Samphran Temple, what you see is what you get: while a smattering of awed visitors across the web have expressed admiration for this impressive work of architecture, details such as when it was built, who designed it, or why this 17-story tower is in the clutches of a massive, beautiful dragon are nowhere to be found.

The Wat Samphran Temple is rarely featured in guidebooks and is considerably removed from the typical tourist track. Travelers who’ve happened upon the temple in their journeys have described an interior in mild disrepair but filled with stunning statues and shrines, including a giant bronze Buddha. The dragon itself is reportedly hollow, and visitors are able to walk some sections of it, though other parts of the temple remain closed to the public.

https://i2.wp.com/thevalemagazine.co...80%2C655&ssl=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORbHVzrvKp0

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Originally Posted by Plankton (Post 2070951)

I'd love to see this in person. Maybe skate or bike down that dragon tunnel too.

https://i2.wp.com/thevalemagazine.co...80%2C655&ssl=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORbHVzrvKp0

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In 2004, Luang Phor Pawana Buddho, a former abbot of the temple, was sentenced to 160 years in prison for raping nine underage girls who had lived in the temple, in a total of 28 cases. He now has to spend the maximum Thai sentence of 50 years in prison. Some former nuns, who are said to have lured the girls for the abbot in the temple, were sentenced to between 10 and 30 years.

Wholesome.

Tbh it looks like a big gaudy piece of **** like someone painted some Detroit fu ckhole pink and pinned a dragon on it.

If I were in Bangkok I still might go check it out, though.