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1-27-2013 @ 02:39:04 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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I've seen some pretty ugly apartments in my time, but those just might be the worst that 1975 could have possibly offered..........
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1-27-2013 @ 07:28:35 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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Eh, I'd live in 'em. Wood-paneled walls, cut-pile brown carpeting, avocado green bathroom fixtures, and all.
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1-28-2013 @ 04:44:05 AM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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#5, And to think there was a time people actually wanted to LIVE in a building that looked like a McDonald's designed by George Orwell
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1-29-2013 @ 10:19:14 PM |
| Posted By : Obsidian |
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#6, It's what has become of the mass known as modernism.
Alternatively - nobody wanted (or wants to) live in a structure that is ornamentally decorated with design elements echoed from a European period 200-300 years ago in America - then or now.
That's you're choice in architecture nowadays. You get dated features that make your structure look like it's there to celebrate Europe's past - or something made from abstract geometric forms that are ultimately dictated by how that materal can be molded (ex: pouring concrete - stacking bricks etc.)
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1-29-2013 @ 10:34:51 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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#7, We don't get much pretentious modern architecture here, most stuff, even the "modern" stuff is :
"Here's the building, we can offer you a variety of masonry and/or concrete finishes, but, yeah, here it is, it's a box, if you ordered it via mail, it would come in a box very similar in shape to what it looks like now, so red brick or off-white stucco finish then?"
The only major offender was one of the churches that was built around 1970 or so and went REALLY wacky with the poured and molded concrete, and as a result, looks like a church made of candle wax that was left in the sun too long...
There's a lot of old campus buildings still around that reflect the early 60's "Just get it up NOW, it's an engineering building fer chrissakes!" style.... ya know? square steel box with square sheet steel panels alternating with square windows, not ugly, but man is it drab, unintentionally bringing a little of the "glorious worker's paradise" look to the US.
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1-29-2013 @ 11:26:30 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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#9, I've noticed Federal buildings are frequent offenders in the ugly building category.... they tend to look like concrete cheese graters at best........ though that works in their favor. In an unfamiliar city and you lost your social security card/need the FBI's help? Just look for the hideous concrete box with strange windows!
[Edited by Low-Tech Redneck on 1-29-2013 @ 11:28:23 PM]
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1-29-2013 @ 11:49:31 PM |
| Posted By : Obsidian |
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#8, Sounds like you've described functionalism - the kind of building where all the vertical metal exterior elements are just tracks for filler panels and glazing. They were usually done on the cheap.
As for the concrete campues - A-bomb's examples - and as LTR put it "concrete cheese graters" - all those buildings are filled under the coolest name in architecture - Brutalism.
It was hugely popular in the 60's and 70's. It ruined skylines - they filmed the orginal Get Carter in a brutalist carpark - many north american college campuses at the time made unachedemic structure with it - and the J. Edgar Hoover makes the FBI look really out of date. The whole style itself was centred around the ease of moulding concrete - thus it isn't uncommon to see the wood formwork cast into the walls. Virtually all windows are fixed shut and the buildings rely on AC systems to circulate air flow - all of which is done by ducts - all of which can make the buildings quite dusty. Major stair cases all feature the same problem - long treads and short risers.
The only way to reconsile their "inhuman" nature is to let vine plants grow over them and hide the concrete with greenery. Many brutalist structures feature an inner courtyard - a prime place for greenery.
And finally - if you've played NFS:MW 2012 - google "Boston City Hall". The building makes a cameo in the game - as does the Toronto City hall - a non-brutalist structure.
[Edited by Obsidian on 1-29-2013 @ 11:54:19 PM]
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1-29-2013 @ 11:55:47 PM |
| Posted By : Obsidian |
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#11, Oh yeah - I forgot the use of red brick and static concrete for an ugly contrast - and the concrete recessed cellular array ceilings.
[Edited by Obsidian on 1-29-2013 @ 11:57:25 PM]
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1-29-2013 @ 11:58:03 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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#11, They were indeed supposed to be temporary, to handle the sudden influx of students that came in the early 60's.... but, as buildings tend to be, well, permanent, even when supposedly "temporary", they're still up, and one is a particular 3 block-long eyesore that the town wants torn down because it's, well, a big long shoebox that blocks the southern entrance to campus off the downtown, but, since that "temporary" building has been holding the engineering department since at least 1969.... well, they're kinda stuck with it now, they've been promising to tear it down and build something more pleasing "next year" for about 20 years now.
Most of the neighborhoods are one of two varieties, 50's suburban sprawl: ranch, ranch, ranch, oooh... split-level ranch.... ranch, ranch, ranch... but at least they now have 60 years of vegitation so the yards have some very nice looking trees/hedgerows going on. The others are right out of the 30's, all that distinct PA yellow-brick and red-brick
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1-29-2013 @ 11:59:36 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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#13, Anything house-wise built since 1990 is one of the "country" suburbs, full of cul-de-sacs and McMansions, as uninspired as they come.
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1-31-2013 @ 05:37:19 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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#15, My old grade school was exactly like that. Octagonal gym/cafeteria/office at the center, with 4 octagonal "clusters" of 5 rooms each off long connecting hallways radiating outward (if you viewed it from the air, it would look like a trimmed-down snowflake) with every interior wall on a foldable track, must've been a period thing, that building was just as old but still around today. It was all brick though, no concrete, and the wall that faced the outside of each classroom was cieling-to-floor glass with a sliding door you could open in the summer. It was actually pretty nice. The interior however was the uninspiring formica floor and cheap plaster wall sections in those BEEE-YOTEEFUL 4 shades of the period, off-white, off-yellow, red-orange and avacado.......... yuck.
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