Skyscrapers in London

[laurentius]

@ Dis yeah yeah so your hometown is full of plastic replicas, who the **** cares

[:) Smiley]

Originally posted by mrmitchell
I heard they were going to build a big apartment tower in Little Rock a while back, which would be a big step in moving LR up to a larger class of city. Most of the skyscrapers in this picture if not all of them are offices or hotels.

Walmart expanding into housing?

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by alva
Skyscrapers are ugly!!!

Paris

How does the height of a building intrinsically effect it's beauty? Is there anything else in which beauty relates to scale?

[Geronimo]

The Minneapolis Skyline

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Half the Boston skyline (the part that people are usually familiar with, looking East):



Boston from the North (looking South), the Financial district (with the Hancock and Prudential in the background):



We have way more skyscrapers than some people think:

[Dis]

Originally posted by laurentius
@ Dis yeah yeah so your hometown is full of plastic replicas, who the **** cares

the buildings are not made of plastic (except maybe New York New York )

You guys are just jealous because I live in such a cool city.

I've been to other cities in the U.S. and they are just boring compared to where I live. That's the reason I left the navy. Norfolk sucked. Orlando was the best of where I lived, but even that couldn't compare to Vegas. Charelston, SC wasn't too bad, but still can't compare. Pascagoula MIss- yeah living in a small town away from traffic was cool- but the rednecks were nasty down there.

And other large glamorous cities I have been too didn't seem so great. Chicaog, Dallas. What's to do there? The only city that can compare is New York city. They have more entertainment than we have. But I'm not sure if I care for broadway shows.

[Eli]

You know, with people always commenting about how this and that skyscraper is ugly, I dont think I've ever said the same on any skyscraper? They're all pretty. Is there something wrong with me?

[Dis]

yes, I find most manmade objects ugly. I just happend to like the beer colored hotel.

Technically Mandaly Bay is beer colored (actually it's gold), but that's cheap beer. Wynn Las Vegas reminds me of Newcastle Brown Ale.

Actually I do like MGM grand, but not really the building itself, but the lighting on the building. It's pretty cool looking, and I still wonder how they accomplish it.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison


Oh bloke with a bird's name, don't be so utterly pretentious and arrogant. If you don't agree with me, say so. These issues are so subjective anyway, I just happen to think you're speaking out of your arse

Pathetic.

You know you've lost the argument when you descend to playground insults.

The 'issues' aren't subjective, which is why we have planning laws and building regulations and public consultation and a friggin' Department of the Environment !!!!

Had you worked in a planning department you might realize that.


Have a tissue P.H.

[Provost Harrison]

Of course I don't work in a planning department, I have a proper job...

And people say worse things about me every day. You should grow a sense of humour

[Sikander]

Originally posted by laurentius
@ Dis yeah yeah so your hometown is full of plastic replicas, who the **** cares

Hey, some of those breasts are real! Just not many of them.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Of course I don't work in a planning department, I have a proper job...

And people say worse things about me every day.

You should grow a sense of humour

You first.

I simply don't like being misrepresented. I couldn't give a flying f*ck about your insults.


Perhaps now you could profitably spend your time educating yourself about architecture and buildings and the built environment before speaking Analinguish.

[Sikander]

I'm not a big fan of sky scrapers. They are simply not any fun to be near unless you are actually high up in one. In places which have a view of something interesting (mountains, seashore etc.) they tend to block that view, as well as a good deal of sunlight. I'm much more comfortable in a city with buildings that are 4-5 stories tall on average. That's not to say that some of the designs aren't cool.

[Provost Harrison]

You know molly, you're a snob of the worst kind

Yet still, it is all completely subjective, whether you like it or not...

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
You know molly, you're a snob of the worst kind

Yet still, it is all completely subjective, whether you like it or not...

Why am I a snob ?

Because I'm interested in what I'm talking about and don't readily resort to your level of childish insults ?


And I can assure you it isn't by any means completely subjective- planning applications and designs go through a complex process of consultation and revision between developers, planners and residents groups, amenity societies, and public bodies such as English Heritage, The Twentieth Century Society, The Georgian Group, et cetera.



Don't be an ass.

Public consultation:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations/planning/roap-03.asp

http://www.scilly.gov.uk/islands/downloads/spg.pdf

http://www.woking.gov.uk/council/planning/dcapplications/consult.pdf

across the United Kingdom.