Dude, if I ever get rich, I'm gonna build some EPIC lego creations.

^ HaHa! I don't know if you have DT's or Cabin Fever, but either way I don't think anyone in America will be playing disc golf until the polar weather blows over!

^ Yes, this turned up in another thread recently - it's one of my favourite toys - as a child, then again as a father.

^ They look nice, mindfulness, especially the lower one with its chic design, but unfortunately small is still small and it never feels good to live in a restricted space for long imo.

These ideas are interesting too, but again I wouldn't like to live in one myself:-

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p06yw...ild-themselves

They were so tiny, we couldn't see them.

^ Very good, [MERIT] ! Anyone else like me, suddenly missing Trollheart's jokes?

Well, there's this guy:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1wtGXwhT-U

I do, but c'est la vie.

This new primary school in Kelso, Scotland is up for some architectural awards this year. What's clever is the way the three roofs, and even the building itself, have a completely different appearance depending on where you stand:-

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...andrew-lee.jpg

https://www.mclh.co.uk/media/7266/br...y-school-3.jpg

Like everyone else, I thought this Architecture thread was all about how buildings look - well, how superficial we have been!

This vid clip is about building use and although here in Mexico new shopping malls are still being built (and draw in the crowds too), in the US shopping malls are usually talked about in the past tense:-

Make sure you properly analyze what’s a noun and what’s a verb when you write your essay

^ 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.

What castle was it?

^ 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. :)

^ 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.

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


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

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.

lol

I mean just for the conversation.

Hey, that's a spectacular building, plankton! I like the bit at the top, with the little temples and the dragon's front legs, but it is also, as OH says, "a big gaudy piece of ****". To me it's like some Epcot Center Buddha-meets-Disney exhibit.

On the same theme, but not as dramatic, is this working Helter Skelter ride temporarily erected in Norwich Cathedral. I'm squinting at the photo, wondering if JC has been booted off the altar in favour of effigies of Paul McCartney and Charlie Manson.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/...eg?imwidth=450

Shock! Horror! and Outrage! from England as people are forced to actually use one of Plankton's buildings :laughing:

In Amsterdam shipping containers are used to house college students, and it's not considered abnormal. I've been in one of those places, it seemed fine

Those things are engineered to be air and water tight for shipping. They have small vents to let excessive heat build up escape but they need more air flow for humans to be able to live in them, and in most residential/housing configurations, HVAC needs to be considered. Reflective colors help a little too, so we try to keep that in mind, but sometimes the customer just has to have black or dark blue, which can be deadly in certain extreme heat situations without proper venting/cooling. They weren't engineered for humans to live in them as-built, so we use them as a base structure to mold into something inhabitable.

If they're just throwing people in connex's with no modifications, then yeah, that's quite inhumane. That picture is very misleading in that scenario.

^ That's interesting. I can imagine that there are probs trying to keep them warm in winter or cool in summer, but I like the idea of stacking simple boxes together. Did you know that Plankton designs similar container buildings for a living?

EDIT: OOPs! @ Marie

I'm designing a plane to burn up atm.

Yeah? Just burn up I presume because a flying container might have a couple of aerodynamic probs that would need to be tweaked.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's the case
I did not, that's really cool. As an enginieer or architect or something?

lol yeah

Plane on a tarmac simulation. Like this:

https://prosafefire.com/wp-content/u...18/05/01_1.jpg

Non-degree'ed structural engineer. I do all the drawings and put everything together in a pretty picture, then an actual PSE stamps them for about 10x what I get.

https://i.imgur.com/Aq6uPnu.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/8f4N8m1.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/nottPIf.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/p6zEqsj.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/7WdTmPv.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/rx5GFP1.jpg

Is that...

Your Father smelt of elderberries?

^ Those are nice photos, Fluff. Is the name of the castle going to remain a secret?

Here's a strange-looking group of buildings - also a secret, unless you are curious enough to click on the link to a 3-min video below:-

:D

Cheers mate, I liked it a lot.

@Lisna no not a secret :D it's Dudley Castle.

https://i.imgur.com/dRUkdh3.jpg

It's always a shame to see an old building go up in flames, as this hotel has done today:-

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cp...grahamlyn1.jpg

At least Britain still has a lot of these white stucco terraces left, and tbh they are not my favourite style.

This pic is a longshot that also shows a pretty typical seafront street in Britain. This was how architects originally responded to demand when visiting Britain´s cold coasts for pleasure first became popular (round about the 1800s I think).

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cp...ne_fire_05.jpg

As well as the cliffs of stucco terraces, they would often build a modest row of cabins/toilets/storerooms just above the beach itself, and then of course (front centre) a more frivolous, ornate building which I suppose was a nod to the sedate fun that was permissible at that straightlaced time. It was a king (George IV says wikipedia) who started that fashion, with his Royal Pavilion at Brighton:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...EU47GLUh7rSl&s

Seafront architecture is a whole subgenre to itself. Anyone got some interesting pics?

I supposed when one lives where it is cold and wet one might as well holiday where it is just as cold but more agreeably wet.

^ HaHa! Yes, that was exactly the attitude!

https://live.staticflickr.com/3091/2...c56656b4_z.jpg

What you on about? The Royal Pavilion is stunning :confused:

Yes, I was also surprised at elphenor's comment. I wonder if he can be convinced to change his mind with some better pictures of this admittedly bizarre buidling:-

https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/royal...-entrance-.jpg

http://www.brightonvisitor.com/wp-co...V-1024x560.jpg

No need to fly to Disneyland or the Taj Mahal; the Brits can get a taste of those places by train, especially if they go to the light show:-

https://live.staticflickr.com/7636/2...568c76f4_b.jpg

What an eyesore.