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...here to hear...
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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. ![]() __________________________________________________ __________ 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: __________________________________________________ ___________ 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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#432 (permalink) | ||
the bantering battleaxe
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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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#433 (permalink) | ||
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here's an insane but also beautiful apartment complex from China. I love all the little oddities you can spot.
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wow^ those are interesting^
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oh I'm glad that I'm not the only one immediately getting into dark speculations like that lol. The building definitely speaks to the imagination. I think life in a Chinese city is fascinating anyhow; it must be so different from what I'm used to.
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No Ice In My Bourbon
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If I lived at that apartment complex and had a couple drones, it'd be a great place to record and film a DJ set. |
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Zum Henker Defätist!!
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Or you deposit your dog's poo on their balcony without it being obvious it was you.
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Two things I like most: that it doesn't take much tweaking of conventional geometric shapes to come up with something completely new, and that the architect is modest enough to let the tenants' choices dictate how his building will ultimately look. Famous for the opposite approach, to the point of bolting furniture to the floor so that tenants wouldn't move pieces around and "spoil" his building, is Frank Lloyd Wright. Plenty of other architects see a commission as an opportunity to thrust their ego and arrogance on others imo. Still, to go back and defend FLW, his designs could be incredible. In this thread, 15 minutes is a long time to spend on one building, but when you see what an absolute jewel this building is, I hope you'll consider it justified: By today's standards, there's perhaps too much inventiveness in this building: decoration everywhere you look, and rather cleverly, the only rest from it all is in the hotel bedrooms.
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