Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Its got mental security, felt less intimidated last time I went abroad.
Behold 1 Undershaft; tallest skyscraper for the City Of London looks dull, dull, dull
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Its got mental security, felt less intimidated last time I went abroad.
ska invita
back on the other side
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i used to get royally wound up by each and every skyscraper that went up - first blood for me was canary wharf, but each one after hurt as much....the thing is if you're any kind of a londoner you have to see these buildings all the time and it gets exhausting hating on them and getting depressed by them,,,so ive tried to make my peace...but despite that my heart of heart position is fuck them all...yet some times i think, which is the nicest out of the them all, but its a bit like choosing the favourite bar on your prison cage...
im with hipipol on this one - fact is i hate everything they represent and the way they represent it...whether its quirky, square, rounded, asymetrical, i look forward to the day they're all leveled
also this:
i used to get royally wound up by each and every skyscraper that went up - first blood for me was canary wharf, but each one after hurt as much....the thing is if you're any kind of a londoner you have to see these buildings all the time and it gets exhausting hating on them and getting depressed by them,,,so ive tried to make my peace...but despite that my heart of heart position is fuck them all...yet some times i think, which is the nicest out of the them all, but its a bit like choosing the favourite bar on your prison cage...
im with hipipol on this one - fact is i hate everything they represent and the way they represent it...whether its quirky, square, rounded, asymetrical, i look forward to the day they're all leveled
also this:
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
meanwhile in NYC they plan for the 'Khaleesi'
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
What's that?meanwhile in NYC they plan for the 'Khaleesi'
It's hideous. Looks like it was designed by ambitious seven year old.
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
Completely speculative design. Not attached to any real development.
However, as robotic manufacturing becomes more sophisticated, I expect we'll start seeing more of this sort of maximalist design. If a robot builds your cladding panels, and no shape is more or less expensive than a flat sheet, and software can generate endlessly complex geometry, then I think we'll see a resurgence of surface detail. It'll be shit, of course, because the surface detail of old buildings was carefully honed over hundreds of years with a grammar and meaning to it. But still, at least the glass curtain wall will finally be passé.
This sort of thing
However, as robotic manufacturing becomes more sophisticated, I expect we'll start seeing more of this sort of maximalist design. If a robot builds your cladding panels, and no shape is more or less expensive than a flat sheet, and software can generate endlessly complex geometry, then I think we'll see a resurgence of surface detail. It'll be shit, of course, because the surface detail of old buildings was carefully honed over hundreds of years with a grammar and meaning to it. But still, at least the glass curtain wall will finally be passé.
This sort of thing
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
I'm all for imaginative architecture, but all we get is the dregs of capital-approved imagination, filtered for profitability in this extreme circumstance, and basically, well, crap.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Look no further
Always reminds me of this
Although, Bolland was most likely influenced by Gaudi...
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
A perfect example. They're making breakneck pace on Sagrada Familia precisely because they have robotic stonemasons.Look no further
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
It's because increased tourism to Barcelona is leading to increased donations for construction.
Crispy
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Well that too
But the computers and robots do help
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
Well that too
The joke in the city has always been "it'll be ready in ten years." Could actually be true now. Incredible the speed it's going up. The melted wax candle parts against the new smooth bits look a bit incongruous but there's no way round that after so much time has passed.
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
I'm worried about the main facade at the South end. Gaudi had finally reached Full Bonkers when he designed it. I don't think it'll look very good.
They're not captions, they're actual warped sheets of steel with words stamped on them :-/
Half of what's going up isn't Gaudí's anyway so it's going to be a hotch-potch. Don't know what they're going to stick to and discard.
Sorry for thread tangent.
The new City skyscraper is perfect. Purposeless, vacuous, massive, transparent cock. Just like the people that will fill it up.
skyscraper101
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"The Trellis" is officially green lit
Plans to build City of London's tallest skyscraper given green light
Plans to build City of London's tallest skyscraper given green light
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Presumably named for Mrs Ivy Trellis of Mornington Crescent fame?
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hiraethified
It's a fucking box with struts.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
You should visit specsavers
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
I kinda like that. Reminds me of Gothic architecture.
CrabbedOne
Walking sideways snippily
The Tard.
CrabbedOne
Walking sideways snippily
Mind, it all looks like shite besides 30s New York anyway.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Apart from the zig-ziggy bits, it looks like another generic skyscraper. Ho-hum.
CrabbedOne
Walking sideways snippily
They could just put a giant effigy of Farage waving a pint on top of it.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Whats the betting it'll end up being charged for?
Anyway something thats starting to annoy me with these buildings is how little care is given to making them use renewable energy or sustainable, look at the side of the Cheesegrater or the Shard, it'd be perfect for some Solar Panels to go in on places and you could even make interesting patterns out of the things. Its all glass and steel and that can't be good for insulation either.
Crispy
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Redesign time. Same architects, but no more bold X-braces, and the building gets fatter as it goes down, which eqauls more floor space and less (privately-owned-)public space at street level. Hard to tell from the handful of images on their site, but I think hthe materials are the same (white ceramic and corten steel)
1undershaftconsultation.co.uk
Our Vision - One Undershaft
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May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I do like that the name is so blatantly phallic though. At last a skyscraper is owning it.
