Taking it upon myself to start a part 2 of a thread I started lurking just as it got archived.
Post architecture you either love, architecture that you hate, or both.
I'll get us started. Here's the city court building in my city of Buffalo, NY. It's quite the eyesore, and I see this ugly concrete slab of shit every single day.
old bread
Here's a building not far from the court building, also in downtown Buffalo, the St. Louis Catholic Church. Old photo, but the church is still standing tall to this day right in the middle of the hustle and bustle of downtown Buffalo. I love this building.
This is the long since abandoned Grand Central terminal on the east side of buffalo. Absolutely gorgeous.
Bump. C'mon guys. Architecture thread.
My City Hall
Same deal.
Boulee's shit was intense. Probably inspired Albert Speer
More from Etienne Bouleee
My brain is fried right now from a porn session hangover and I prefer the OP pic. The ornate classical one hurts my eyes now (but not usually). Almost like I’m a demon blinded by light.
Every day I think about whether Frank Lloyd Wright was really the best. So far he is my favorite.
San Diego still here. We have a good mix of old world and new world.
Bump
This is lovely desu
I think ornate goes too far really easily, especially considering the impracticality. Where I live there's a lot of pic related and it gets really old.
I can't wrap my ahead around how any human being can spend their entire workday in a building with virtually zero natural light or windows
Imagine if this is how all the architecture across California looked. I wish the Spanish would've kept control tbqh.
That's just because that's the West side. Western light sucks because it heats up buildings in the afternoon when they are already warm and comes in at a low angle with a lot of intensity. This is the south side
Thats the point. Modern architecture is designed to oppress and stifle you. Monolithic slabs of bare concrete, harsh steel, and sterile glass illuminated by glaring unnatural white flourescent light. Work spaces are tiny, cramped, and monotone. Public spaces are monolithic and soaring, but bland and bare. This is all to remind you that you are but a chip in a computer, or an insect in a hive. It increases anxietey so that you will rush along to where you are going, and stifles thought by ensuring you will never stop and just think.
Part of me has a soft spot for brutalism desu. I know what they were shooting for with the clean forms, but it doesn't go too well in practice
You hypocrits want the buildings to be as in the old age but want to keep the modern lifestyle. Back then you would be dead by 40 from working in the field 12 hours a day
Modernist interiors with curtain wall glass were FAR more open and had more natural lighting. If done properly. You should see the first floor of the Monadnock building.
We have a lot of colonial Spanish styles around the city. But we also have a lot of other things like, you know, a bunch of really rich Mormons.
Lookin sharp
we recycling, or nah?
Hear me out - architecturally picrelated isn't all that impressive, UNTIL you come to grips with the fact that ALL OF THAT, a fully functioning city with all the comforts found in the west, was built and functioned in the absolute heart of Africa. Salisbury before independence rivaled any city in the west as far as how well it operated, and was a shining beacon of civilization in a continent that, one by one, fell to communism.
Also happy UDI day, wish I could go back.
Jesus it's like Douglas Adams' Vogons built it. Fitting since it's a bureaucracy.
>one by one
*one by one, country by country
>That SRT4
The civic center in Marin County, California. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and used in the movie Gattaca. Absolutely based building; Wright's tenacity in getting it built the way he wanted it was legendary. This is why Howard Roark, the main character in The Fountainhead, is based off of him.
Love this building and love my county (the natural and architectural beauty, at least, not the people).
Great stuff
>it's a "retard spouts garbage about modernism without even understanding what brutalism is" post
>getting it built the way he wanted it was legendary.
idk if its true or not and I'm too drunk to google it, but my dad told me FLW used to design the dresses of the wife of the guy who bought the house for the open house party so it fit with the design of the house. It's probably true becuase hes a pretty smart guy (my dad, not Frank). Too bad Frank didn't understand waterproofing though. I prefer classical American themes.
There's a bunch of old original Victorians around me. I used to live next to this one.
america has shit tier architecture outside of New england, the rust belt and SF
Curently across the street from this lol
imagine painting these fuckers, or working on the chimney..
I've been inside of it. There's a giant baptism jacuzzi tub thing. It's all metal plated with these huge metallic bulls holding it up. The windows and ceilings all have the strange four pointed square star design they use. It feels odd.
charming. i love the chimney
What's weird is that outside they look like a Disney take on a house castle. Then inside they're awkward and cramped.
bed time thanks for the comfy threads OP 1 and 2
It's true. Man was unbelievable
>bed time thanks
same
Awesome building
Turf houses look cool imo
I’ve got some NYC architecture I can post.
I like how this looks. Want.
Really unique composition. I like how square and rectangular it is at the same time. Really nice building, I think it's nice. I like nice things.
This kind jewish man is honest and speaks the truth. We cannot have beautiful buildings with traditional European aesthetics, it's not compatible with our modern lifestyles and progress. I like progress it's very nice.
Does the New World combonation of gothic and neoclassical structures in the same vicinity just appear like a totally fucking seamless blend of impossible beauty that should be the basic fucking standard of this entire fucking country? I feel like I'm taking fucking crazy pills why is anything else even fucking allowed here?
That's pretty sexy, especially in that enviromental context.
US embassy to Canada. Straight outta Half-Life 2
I agree, a few other styles can be allowed, though.
I think the rotunda in my state capitol building is gorgeous. (Montana)
better pic of montana capitol building interior.
why don't you want to live in an asymetrical box-house goyim? don't you like cultural marxism?
My favorite building in my favorite season. I love that pic.
Nicely done.
I quite like brutalism tb/h
Spastic.
Looks like the secret lair of the Decadently Fabulous Fundamentalist Christian Willy Wonka
Zaha Hadid's building's are cool. Very futuristic.
Some of the WPA projects turned out alright. I think the brits did rhe same thing during the famine. Wonder if any stand.
A little comfy corner of NYC.
nuh uh it's aesthetically pleasing
check out his miami plans
Absolutely hideous.
how long you think before a kid dies trying to skateboard down it?
For a nut-guzzling homosexual, perhaps.
Your telling me you wouldn't want to wake up to this every morning?
It looks like a landfill.
It looks like a port.
Always liked this pic, makes the skyscrapers look like mountains.
when every building in your city looks like this
This thread now belongs to Brutal Gang
That's every Midwestern city over 75,000
Such retarded architecture.
The worst part is that they look even worse when it rains and they’re located in Britain.
IMO brutalism only goes wrong when it's two repetitive or chaotic. With the right forms, it comes out elegant.
where are mormons getting all their gold? are they like scientology?
You bastards are inhuman.
Why even bother cleaning it? It'll always look like shit, no matter the amount of polish.