Architecture

Mindy · 01-02-2021, 03:20 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1TUAn6t-Fg

Lisnaholic · 01-02-2021, 05:29 PM

That's interesting, Mindfulness! Like any big, old building, I feel that it needs a book full of diagrams to explain properly what has gone on with Penn Station, and what New Yorkers have there now.

Do you think this is the new Penn Station, with 3 separate buildings? Or is Penn South underground?
And how about the impressive original: has it been completely destroyed? I'm going to go all-out ballistic, with a "mad" emoji for the 1963 planners:

Mindy · 01-02-2021, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

That's interesting, Mindfulness! Like any big, old building, I feel that it needs a book full of diagrams to explain properly what has gone on with Penn Station, and what New Yorkers have there now.

Do you think this is the new Penn Station, with 3 separate buildings? Or is Penn South underground?
And how about the impressive original: has it been completely destroyed? I'm going to go all-out ballistic, with a "mad" emoji for the 1963 planners:

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 · 01-03-2021, 07:28 AM

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Found this on google

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.

OccultHawk · 01-03-2021, 07:36 AM

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goitre

**Marie Monday** · 01-03-2021, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

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

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

Lisnaholic · 01-03-2021, 04:16 PM

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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

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*)

**Marie Monday** · 01-03-2021, 10:16 PM

Yep I'm at university. I usually talk more openly about these things on discord because it's less public but I'll pm you

Lisnaholic · 01-04-2021, 08:57 AM

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** · 01-04-2021, 11:39 AM

^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 ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	That's interesting, Mindfulness! Like any big, old building, I feel that it needs a book full of diagrams to explain properly what has gone on with Penn Station, and what New Yorkers have there now. Do you think this is the new Penn Station, with 3 separate buildings? Or is Penn South underground? And how about the impressive original: has it been completely destroyed? I'm going to go all-out ballistic, with a "mad" emoji for the 1963 planners: __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953

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Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	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: ............. __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953