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Ironicwarcriminal posted:

stegosaurus posted:

my community colleges library is sick tho

my uni library sucks: one of these shitty postmodernist things where they tout how 'green' and 'clean' it is and it win awards but they give no thought to how people actually use it? it's boiling inside and there are never enough powerpoints.



yuk



my undergrad library lol

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pretty standard. about half of it is actually underground, though
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national library of belarus
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VoxNihili posted:

pretty standard. about half of it is actually underground, though



which half

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Superabound posted:

VoxNihili posted:

pretty standard. about half of it is actually underground, though

which half



the expansive lower portion that can best be appreciated in the following image, my curious friend!

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kitsch is cool I guess
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the occasional sharp disconnect between nuanced theory and shit practice in architecture is depressing to me (which why goofy aesthetics-only nerds like Hernan Diaz Alonso are so great- they perform as advertised). a prime example of this is peter eisenman's work when he first began leaving the academy behind to primarily work on larger stuff.

this is the monograph that deals with the work that i'm thinking of here
http://books.google.fr/books/about/Blurred_Zones.html?id=zDJyPwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

he comes up with a lot of cool ideas about the performative nature of the role of the architectural observer, and this book's most interesting stuff describes some thoughts on how to fuck with that role. The only stuff that really stuck with me was the nuanced way he approaches temporality within the experience of a building, but there was more.



anyway, he's got all this interesting theoretical framework, but the koizumi sangyo office building, one of the larger works within the book, is nothing but a slightly tweaked office building. that's it. maybe eisenman's formidable intellectual arsenal was worthless in the face of salaryman restraint, or something (if this actually was the case then good for them, as eisenman's more elaborate flights of fancy are prone to physical failure)

he's gone on to do more ambitious works, including the berlin holocaust memorial (the grey slabby field thing) and a bunch of things that have been way over budget and structurally flawed. such is the life of a genius, i guess.
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roseweird you realy shouldnt have downvoted that post. bIG fuckup. gonna regreat that
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when arewe gonna live on th e moon already
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wasted posted:

kitsch is cool I guess


wheres kitsch

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the interior of that one looks like it was really badass


more bulgarian monuments: http://www.nikolamihov.com/forget_your_past.html
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my favourite library building is this one i saw in pristina, kosovo, an extraordinary piece of yugo-futurism that now shares a decaying square with the concrete shell of an orthodox cathedral that was being built by the serbian government when the war broke out and that nobody has the heart to complete or demolish

yeah!!! libraries!!! pyf libraries!!!!!! go to the library! TAKE A TRAIN!!!!!
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more like fartchitecture
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roseweird posted:

Squalid posted:

I picked up those images from the D&D pictures thread while it was trapped in one of those cycles where everyone starts posting their community college's library, deriding anything remotely interesting and defending the boring products of disinterested committees, designed to mollify the conservative tastes of the octogenarian donor whose name hangs above the door.

it looks gross imo and nothing worked in naked glass and steel will ever be really beautiful. like most such buildings to me it only expresses greed and hastiness



duh that's why it's good. I like an honest building.

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Panopticon posted:

when arewe gonna live on th e moon already





bush wanted us to but then obama came and ruined everything to leave it as a sacred site for moongod worshiping muslims

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but really lunar base building is hard. i've seen a good few concepts for making structures from lunar regolith and sintering it into place.

http://ascelibrary.org/action/showAbstract?page=188&volume=18&issue=3&journalCode=jaeeez&

def a few ideas for living in lunar caves as well for free radiation shielding.

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/decadal/leag/AndrewWDagaFINAL.pdf
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after seeing all these various libraries, i've come to the inexorable conclusion that the nazis were right.
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epic ugly libraries and stalinism for the win
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here's my school's library. it's hard to get a good picture of it, but when you enter the front entrance you feel like you're in a terrible valley of death, it's really good



then it's got this goofy elliptical glass dome of a reading room attached to it. it's kinda cool to be in when there's a blizzard
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htat terran player better watch out, theres a hatchery morphing right next to his base
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if any of you post any more photos of your dumb boring school libraries in this thread i will spam it to fuck with high-res pictures of semi-detached homes in bromley
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where's the hellish industrial waste in your sig, deadken. it's a good pic.
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deadken posted:

if any of you post any more photos of your dumb boring school libraries in this thread i will spam it to fuck with high-res pictures of semi-detached homes in bromley



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What VWhat TRAINS Crew in da buildin'





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deadken posted:

if any of you post any more photos of your dumb boring school libraries in this thread i will spam it to fuck with high-res pictures of semi-detached homes in bromley

that was a municipal building you pizza shit

IDK im mad aboutsomething today. Dunto what

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i feel nothing for these affronts to God
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front of the french government tourist office in london


everson museum of art (if this didn't have skylights it would be Shit)


unfinished home in greece



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pilgrimage church, neviges


marcel janco- villa in the city


valentina kulagina- dynamic city
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guidoanselmi posted:

but really lunar base building is hard. i've seen a good few concepts for making structures from lunar regolith and sintering it into place.

http://ascelibrary.org/action/showAbstract?page=188&volume=18&issue=3&journalCode=jaeeez&



DID SOMEBODY SAY 3D PRINTING???