I'm guessing it's one of those places where people live and grow their own food? Looks like they have several greenhouses. Or maybe it's someones summer vacation home. Is that red circle a helicopter pad? I'm not sure what it is.
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Architecture for the Week
- Thread starter Bosko
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I'm guessing it's one of those places where people live and grow their own food? Looks like they have several greenhouses. Or maybe it's someones summer vacation home. Is that red circle a helicopter pad? I'm not sure what it is.
Aneka
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It looks like greenhouses? On water?
Bosko
Crusader in exile
NOP! It’s a house in Florida for crazy people who wanted to live on water. Only two people by the way
Bosko
Crusader in exile
I hate modern art so much
Bosko
Crusader in exile
It’s a home for two Floridians
Knower of nothing
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I see brutalism continues to be consistently underrated. It's been my favorite style since I discovered it, knocking the gothic attitude of jagged excess of its throne. Here's a single building from a few angles. I hope I can make at least someone recognize the intentional compositional beauty these buildings pull off with such minimalist color and texture. It's almost all done with shape language. Seems they had even more dramatic plans for this one but ended up toning it down because of the building's actual function. A tower was cancelled. Oh well, the great tragedy of architecture has always been that it's so tied to the real world.
Bosko
Crusader in exile
I’m sorry but it’s just not appealing to the eye to look atI see brutalism continues to be consistently underrated. It's been my favorite style since I discovered it, knocking the gothic attitude of jagged excess of its throne. Here's a single building from a few angles. I hope I can make at least someone recognize the intentional compositional beauty these buildings pull off with such minimalist color and texture. It's almost all done with shape language. Seems they had even more dramatic plans for this one but ended up toning it down because of the building's actual function. A tower was cancelled. Oh well, the great tragedy of architecture has always been that it's so tied to the real world.
I see brutalism continues to be consistently underrated. It's been my favorite style since I discovered it, knocking the gothic attitude of jagged excess of its throne. Here's a single building from a few angles. I hope I can make at least someone recognize the intentional compositional beauty these buildings pull off with such minimalist color and texture. It's almost all done with shape language. Seems they had even more dramatic plans for this one but ended up toning it down because of the building's actual function. A tower was cancelled. Oh well, the great tragedy of architecture has always been that it's so tied to the real world.
All right, you got me. There is definitely a beauty to it, and I always value someone pointing out a missed chance for appreciating something that is beautiful. I definitely see what you’re talking about, and I agree brutalism (in my head) has always been associated with bad. Perhaps, no more.
Bosko
Crusader in exile
There’s an extent of uncanny to it that is ironically similar to Gothic architecture that’s what I meant by unpleasant to look at
Knower of nothing
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Uncanny is a great element to some brutalist work for sure! Part of the design airs this sense of alien purpose. Bits we don't quite know why they're there. Look at the stairs for example, spiraling and then echoing its spiraling or clumsily drooping out in a way that almost stops suggesting it was made for ergonomic use. Yet without going into full fluid architecture like other modern works, it still retains a vastness through contrast with all the other forms:
Or maybe the odd waves of wall jutting out, perhaps mimicking the rows of seats:
Or maybe the odd waves of wall jutting out, perhaps mimicking the rows of seats:
Bosko
Crusader in exile
It might just be me, but there’s something so industrial about brutalism it’s no nonsense but still there’s little attempts to make it not just look like a blank slate. It’s well; brutalUncanny is a great element to some brutalist work for sure! Part of the design airs this sense of alien purpose. Bits we don't quite know why they're there. Look at the stairs for example, spiraling and then echoing its spiraling or clumsily drooping out in a way that almost stops suggesting it was made for ergonomic use. Yet without going into full fluid architecture like other modern works, it still retains a vastness through contrast with all the other forms:
Or maybe the odd waves of wall jutting out, perhaps mimicking the rows of seats:
Some real old fashion architecture, this is the Lofotr viking museum at Borg. It's a full-scale reconstruction of the biggest viking longhouse ever found. 83 meters long. It was a chieftains home and judging by the size and splendor of his house, he was a very important guy.
Did you count me in that number of people who care? I definitely care, but I also think it’s perfectly fine for people to disappear for a while whenever they want to.
Bosko
Crusader in exile
Yes it’s just you and Forest Cat
Bosko
Crusader in exile
I hate the last one because it looks like a deformed jenga tower they’re all trippy as hell it hurts to look at them
Knower of nothing
Well-Known Member
That first one is legendary. Could almost imagine it move and re-arrange itself. It's called Habitat 67, another one in the brutalism sphere of architecture.
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