Music Banter - Architecture

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 1880734)

How should a building look ?

If you think the principal goal is to catch people's attention, this one must count as a winner. It's in Melbourne, and it exploits a famous optical illusion; although it doesn't look that way, all those thin orange lines are parallel. You can check it yourself (as I did); your eyes may say "no" but your ruler will say "yes."

https://www.weekendnotes.com/im/007/...docklands1.jpg

For me, it's a bit too much, and the ground floor of the long side just looks like a mess of electrical transformer boxes or something, painted in airport-safety orange. One feature I quite like are the blue circles that look struck-on and not related to the facade. I'd like to see more of those, perhaps in different sizes. And if they were made to be movable, they could be slid around the facade by a strong guy with a very long pole. That would surely catch people's attention.

Repulsive visual pollution. Having to see that everyday would be about as nice as having a Flock of Seagulls CD stuck in your car stereo.

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 1880901)

Repulsive visual pollution. Having to see that everyday would be about as nice as having a Flock of Seagulls CD stuck in your car stereo.

^ :laughing: Yeah, in the end it's too distracting for its own good - you have to look at it even when you don't want too.

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Originally Posted by Qwertyy (Post 1880758)

the third one down is brilliant. love how smooth it looks. the grass hill on the far side is nice as well.

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 1880776)

Yeah, I like that one too, Qwertyy. It has a very pleasing shape, which you can see clearly in the video clip. I like how the building is a bridge too.

Same, don't like that red thing though.

Anyone got any 'most hated' buildings?

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1881616)

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/...7576630919.jpg

Not the World Trade Centre then?

That one wasn't really the building's fault.

now that's what i call the super bowl

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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey (Post 1881615)

Same, don't like that red thing though.

^ Well, it's another example of a building inspired by Lego, which seems to be a cliché of post-modern architecture.

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1881766)

Singapore

https://careerwith.me/column/wp-cont...78_960_720.jpg

^ Yeah, no interesting color, and a confused jumble of unrelated shapes, especially on the waterfront to the right - while the dominant bit to the left reminded me of a bunch of bananas.

It must be depressing enough to be a worker drone in Eastern Europe, but you really don't need architecture that throws that fact in your face every day. Here are some housing blocks in Zagreb: -

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/732/32...9b5580a8_z.jpg
http://www.thebohemianblog.com/wp-co...i-Zagreb-3.jpg

Making an multi-storey carpark look attractive is a challenge, but not impossible. Rather than meet the challenge, Glasgow decided to go with ugly commonplace tat instead:-

http://www.ardrossanherald.com/resou...onsive-gallery

What these buildings have in common is the determination to avoid any color except Concrete Grey, and any architectural element beyond the minimal requirements of function.

It may be confused by some standards but it's cool as **** imo. You know it's two different buildings, right?