Post #423,069
3/26/18 8:19:05 PM
3/26/18 8:19:05 PM
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What an odd article.
He seems to really have it in for Frank Gehry.
I think DA was wrong about airports. Airport terminals can be beautiful, but are often not for a variety of reasons. Incheon (Seoul) is marvellous, for instance, but Kingsford-Smith (Sydney) really needs tearing down and starting again.
I have a friend who loves Brutalism. She frequently burbles quite happily about it on Twitter.
Wade.
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Post #423,080
3/26/18 10:51:38 PM
3/26/18 10:51:38 PM
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Well, here in Los Angeles . . .
. . Frank Gehry's Disney Hall has been such a stunning success it is being imitated elsewhere. Some neighbors have complained about reflections of the sun off of it though.
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Post #423,081
3/27/18 2:07:13 AM
3/27/18 2:07:13 AM
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I can understand that.
Kind of glad that Jørn Utzon clashed with those funding the building of the Sydney Opera House. It meant no-one tried to copy it. :-)
Wade.
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Post #423,088
3/27/18 7:55:43 AM
3/27/18 7:55:43 AM
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Atlantikwall architektur
With the distinction that the bunkers were generally better integrated with their environment. Question of not standing out too much to passing bombers...
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Post #423,090
3/27/18 9:54:53 AM
3/27/18 9:54:53 AM
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I too enjoy brutalist architecture
I wouldn't want everything to look like The Barbican Estate in London, but I'd be properly miffed if nothing looked like it.
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Post #423,092
3/27/18 10:53:35 AM
3/27/18 10:53:35 AM
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I agree some of it looks cool, when it fits the environment
But this is shit no matter where they put it. 
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Post #423,096
3/27/18 1:04:55 PM
3/27/18 1:04:55 PM
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Oh get out, that's awesome.
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Post #423,100
3/27/18 3:36:40 PM
3/27/18 3:36:40 PM
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Agreed minimalist lines where function follows form
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #423,105
3/27/18 5:34:25 PM
3/27/18 5:34:25 PM
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Cool to look at, not to live in
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Post #423,112
3/28/18 12:51:43 AM
3/28/18 12:51:43 AM
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Ya think?
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Post #423,113
3/28/18 1:04:26 AM
3/28/18 1:04:26 AM
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Well, the added greenery does tend to hide the transistorized mindset
but it can't make it go away. That one of these plots exceeds $1M.. posh millennial techno folk?
(Everything is a Rorschach, innit?)
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Post #423,115
3/28/18 9:22:21 AM
3/28/18 9:22:21 AM
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The greenery helps a ton
Changes the feel from "Soviet prison block" to "hanging gardens of Babylon". I do appreciate the brutalist aesthetic, but generally wouldn't want to live in it. For instance: 
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Post #423,116
3/28/18 11:27:59 AM
3/28/18 11:27:59 AM
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I can feel the tetanus and lead poisoning through the screen.
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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