Reply With QuoteJyväskylä does kind of pale in comparison...
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Jyväskylä does kind of pale in comparison...
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Why have both of the Israeli towns pictured in this thread been so bland? They seem well laid out but with very boring minimalist architecture consistaning of identically styled, identtically colored, generic boxes. Surely the Israelis could do better if they tried.
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Have you seen Reykjavík? That must be the ugliest city ever built by humans.Why have both of the Israeli towns pictured in this thread been so bland? They seem well laid out but with very boring minimalist architecture consistaning of identically styled, identtically colored, generic boxes.
Ef þú getur lesið þetta þá kanntu kannski íslensku. Það getur verið að þú sért að vera sniðugur eins og viss herramaður sem ég nafngreini ekki. Eða að þú sért Færeyingur eða Nojari.
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Cuz most Israelis are ex-Soviets?Originally posted by Oerdin
Why have both of the Israeli towns pictured in this thread been so bland?
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I don't think Israeli towns are particularly ugly... they seem densely built, so I'm questioning whether they have enough parks and playgrounds, but the architecture is OK. I mean nothing spectacular, but not ugly either.
It can't be worse than some of the new Chinese cities, where they build bad copies of famous skyscrapers from other places.Originally posted by Herra Gautason
Have you seen Reykjavík? That must be the ugliest city ever built by humans.
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Why have both of the Israeli towns pictured in this thread been so bland? They seem well laid out but with very boring minimalist architecture consistaning of identically styled, identtically colored, generic boxes. Surely the Israelis could do better if they tried.
It's called modernism.
Plus contractors and the government construct entire blocks at a time, so this is what you get.
Be honest and only post pics from your borough.Originally posted by Provost Harrison
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Capitalisation - The difference between helping your uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse
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My hometown is crappy for architecture and visiting, but it has a breed of chicken named after it:
Orpington's most famous export.
Capitalisation - The difference between helping your uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse
Grammar - The difference between knowing your $hit, and knowing you're $hit.
Spelling - The difference between being literate, and being Dinner.
It appears there is also an Orpington Duck.
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/poultry/ducks/orpington/
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Its funny how European cities (even large ones like London) lack substantial amounts of skyskrapers. That picture sort of reminds me of Pittsburgh, which is a fraction of the size.Originally posted by Provost Harrison
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Cool anýmalOriginally posted by Dauphin
My hometown is crappy for architecture and visiting, but it has a breed of chicken named after it:
Orpington's most famous export.
Serb! I want pýcs of your town!
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Part of a problem of a city being originally built on marshland. Skyscrapers are coming, but restrictive planning regulations have stopped them until recently. Docklands is the area which has the big buildings (at the moment), although once London Bridge Tower is built, that will be the biggest (just over 400m IIRC).Originally posted by JimmyCracksCorn
Its funny how European cities (even large ones like London) lack substantial amounts of skyskrapers. That picture sort of reminds me of Pittsburgh, which is a fraction of the size.
http://www.emporis.com/en/bu/sk/st/sr/
London is listed as having over 1300 high-rise buildings (12 floors and higher) surpassed by only several cities. Maybe it doesn't have a lot of really tall buildings, but it evens out by having proportionally less low-rise. Consider Atlanta, a city about half the size of London, which is listed as having 6 times as few highrise buildings.
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There are some biggies on the way. And I do apologise, London Bridge Tower is due to be just over 300m, not 400m...was getting a bit carried away then
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Is it this one? The shard? I though it wasn't going to be build.
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It's got approval and I believe construction is going to start later this year...
Speaking of Erith:
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Cool. I like it.
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...pretty much the same for Bishopsgate Tower...(it's the one in the middle)
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith
There is nothing to see, really. It's an old provincial city (yep, Asher that sh!thole is older than Canada) full of heavy industry, trees, bears and beer.Originally posted by Heresson
Serb! I want pýcs of your town!
But if you insist...
City hall
Just a small chapel at winter
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A monastery near my country-house (there is a complex of alike buildings and this is the main one).
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Just a nearby church
One of the largest mosques beyond the Ural (at least it was the largest in 1998. The mosque can seat four thousand people).
Last edited by Serb; June 29, 2006 at 19:12.
the first pic by serb
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