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5th April 2012, 09:01 PM #1
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Architects get paid to put some of this insulting stuff on our landscapes.
Some of these [buildings are so bad](Are these the ugliest buildings in the world? - Telegraph if they were an animal the kind thing to do would be to put them down.
#1 looks a lot like the Queensland A L P at the moment.
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5th April 2012, 09:53 PM #2
Definitely some shockers there, but #3 (the disc) is mad.
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5th April 2012, 10:00 PM #3
#8 I think they lost the assembly instructions.
I don't know. I think there is room for the odd odd building. What I think is worse is the miles and miles of big ugly soulless houses I have to drive past on the outskirts of Melbourne. All with no room for trees let alone a garden around them, and airconditioners sitting on the roof.anne-maria.
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5th April 2012, 10:13 PM #4
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I love #5 - how many get to miss out on a view from up high, just to suit the outside scheme?!.
Some doozies to be found here, going back: Eyesore of the Month by James Howard Kunstler
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5th April 2012, 10:28 PM #5
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I think Fed Square does it and it replaced the old gas and fuel building, pulled down because it was comnsidered ugly. Give me a break.
I have seen the disc in Abu Dhabi and it actually looks good in real life. It is noticable that telco buildings are overly represented in the outlandish stakes.Last edited by 3RU; 5th April 2012 at 10:29 PM. Reason: Typo
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6th April 2012, 12:45 AM #6
The "dropped from a great height" Fed Square thingo is my pick
the others range from the brutalist through to the whimsey, but Fed Square ???
but have to agree with anne-maria about general suburbia -- my pet hate are the "archetect designed" 3 storey walkupsregards from Alberta, Canada
ian
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6th April 2012, 05:23 AM #7acmegridley Guest
I think the use of LSD is prevalent among architects
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6th April 2012, 05:50 AM #8
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I don't know Bluegum. I thought that #4 was more to the point. They are a basket case after all!
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6th April 2012, 05:57 AM #9
I am looking at it from the perspective of let's push the design limits.
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6th April 2012, 09:41 AM #10
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6th April 2012, 10:07 AM #11
Fed square is great when you are in it. Better in real life than in pics. On hot days though the paved areas around it are a little TO much like a hot desert. :melt:
anne-maria.
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6th April 2012, 01:43 PM #12
Fed Square is the worst by a long chalk; it's downright embarrassing! I really like the Disc.
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I know you believe you understand what you think I wrote, but I'm not sure you realize that what you just read is not what I meant.
Regards, Woodwould.
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6th April 2012, 05:15 PM #13
I have not seen any of those buildings except in the pictures.
I rate them as follows
1 x Excellent (The disc at Abu Dhabi, although I would be interested to know the direction of the prevailing winds)
4 x Good (As in interesting).
3 x Mildly Indifferent
13 x Fugly.
I have to declare my predjudice and say this comes from someone who thinks the phrase "city views" is an oxymoron.
Regards
PaulLast edited by Bushmiller; 6th April 2012 at 05:16 PM. Reason: edit unwanted smiley
Bushmiller;
"Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely!"
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6th April 2012, 06:19 PM #14
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6th April 2012, 06:47 PM #15
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Architect Quotes:
If I can draw it you can build it.
Of course a 600mm dia duct will fit in a 600mm dia hole.
I'll have you know, I spent 6months working with a builder, so dont tell me I dont know how to build.
Timber has a beautiful supplty about it.
I never said that. I would never say that, because I dont know anything about that.
If there were no architects nobody would have anywhere to live.
You wouldnt understand, you're only the builder.
Put it up and I'll have a look tomorrow. If it looks too grose you can pull it down.
I didnt realise he was the bricklayer. I thought he was just someone who doesnt wash.
Dont ask me, read the drawing.
And the best of them all when, on a 40degree day, the brickies downed tools early, the architect's comment was, "But its their trade,they should be used to it."
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