Mindy

Not sure if it's one big building or 3 like in the photo. I think the thumbnail photo is the old/new post office. Not sure which is underground, I been to the old underground Penn station, a very weird and dirty place. Thought I would share the video because of how nice the new one looks. I used to go to NYC a lot but haven't in years. Interesting that Facebook is in the building.

Found this on google

Lisnaholic

For me at any rate, your link is not opening
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Here's a CNN article, "New Buildings Set To Shape 2021": https://edition.cnn.com/style/articl...021/index.html

If your taste in buildings resembles mine in any way, be ready for some visually disappointing projects for the brave new 2021. Of the eight featured designs, there were only a couple I liked. My fave:



A little imagination and colour adds interest to a building that still fits in well with the conventional building, bottom left.

Design fails imo:-



A building so drab and utilitarian that it it resembles an electrical substation, barely distinguishable from the streetlighting poles in front of it. Tacking on a gimmick that looks as grossly out of place as a goitre does nothing to redeem it.



Great - if you want buildings that look like they were designed 50 years ago, when stuff like this was a little more cutting edge.

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Marie Monday

Hey that's in Amsterdam! I know that building well, it next to a station I use a lot when I'm there. I've seen the building process happening but the fun thing was that it got finished after I went to England, so when I came back again to visit the colours were really a surprise

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Lisnaholic

Well, that's a nice coincidence, Marie! It's actually a really big building, isn't it? - of student housing, if anyone is wondering.

I was very surprised when I first realised that you were in England until very recently. The minute I found out, I wanted to ask where you were exactly, but felt that it wasn't a very discreet question on an open forum. But you were at university, right? so that narrows it down.
(*googles UK university towns*)

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Lisnaholic

OK, thanks Marie.

Change of topic, Rudolf Steiner is an Austrian architect who doesn't get the attention he deserves, imo. His buildings, from the 1920s, look surprisingly modern. They were innovative, but didn't spawn any real movements or immitators the way Corb and FLWright did, and so he has been largely forgotten.
Perhaps that's Steiner's own fault, because he only designed 17 buildings, being otherwise busy as an all-round oddball. Theosophy, Anthroposophical Medicine, and Biodynamic Agriculture were some of the ideas that he explored or promoted. The last one, Biodynamic Agriculture, sounded like a sensible idea, or so I thought until I read this, courtesy of wikipedia: " He taught that mushrooms were "very harmful" because "they contain hindering lunar forces, and everything that arose on the old Moon signifies rigidification." Not sure about that, but his buildings are nice:

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Marie Monday

^it's cool that you mention that! Rudolf Steiner spawned a pretty nutty, ****ed up cult, but his architecture is nice and does have some followers to this day. Actually I know just one, but he's pretty established in Holland and did some big projects, one of which I know well:


not as good-looking as the original work by Steiner, but still pretty nice, particularly irl

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Lisnaholic

Everything about your comment surprises me, Marie - starting with the fact that you've heard of R Steiner

I'd have to disagree with this because to me those buildings are just as good as Steiner. Partly because of their extent, so much bigger than anything RS was ever commissioned to do, and partly because of the colours. It's a nice combination, the bluish windows and the walls that remind me of when I've put too much milk in my coffee.
I think the architect has got the lesson of Steiner just right; buildings that are both sensible and strange. I would just love to walk around that whole complex myself. If I was in your company at the time, yeah, I could live with that.
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So yours is a difficult post to follow, Marie! I've been scratching my head for a day or two, but haven't come up with much. There's a video for anyone curious about Washington's civic buildings:


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And an old stand-by of eccentric British architecture to fall back on, Portmeirion, which Plankton and I have both enthused about in the past:-



A village on the coast of North Wales, it became famous as the setting for that stylish tv series of the 60s, The Prisoner:

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Marie Monday

That village looks lovely in the thumbnail already! I'll definitely watch those videos later.
And yeah, I've come across quite a lot of the Steiner sect through some random circumstances, weird ass people

edit: watched the second video, I love how colourful it all looks. It has a bit of a Southern European feeling
the first video is really cool and well made, imagine being able to do something like that :o

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Marie Monday

here's an insane but also beautiful apartment complex from China. I love all the little oddities you can spot.

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