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  • This horror, the Cameron offices is a personal favorite because the architects love it but the people who work in it hate it.

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    The reason is the architect went for this "hanging gardens" effect, bring the outdoor, indoor.

    Of course what happened when real people moved in was, contrary to the photo, all the greenery died. Its a great place to work if you like huge courtyards full of barren dirt and dust all over your work station and personal stuff
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    Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

    Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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    • Another view of the Cameron offices, and a less sympathetic review - its in the late 20th century "Brutalist" style - I kid you not - the horror, the horror....

      The story of modernist residential architecture and the development of Canberra
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      Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

      Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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      • definition of disgrace

        In the city formerly known as Königsberg, the commies dynamited the old castle and built this, "The house of Soviets" instead.
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        • The exterior of the Cameron Offices as it is today - covered in filth. If you fill a concrete buidling with dirt and plants the moisture is going to rot the concrete. Duh - but I'm a famous architect so shut up.

          Yes, people still work there - why? because the friggin architects won't let the government tear it down!!!! It has preservation order on it - presumably because it shows man's architectural inhumanity to man
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          Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

          Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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          • Re: definition of disgrace

            Originally posted by Gangerolf
            In the city formerly known as Königsberg, the commies dynamited the old castle and built this, "The house of Soviets" instead.

            Reminds me of a Chris Foss cover for a science fiction novel about post-Apocalypse earth...


            For fellow Foss-lovers:


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            Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

            ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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            • Re: definition of disgrace

              Originally posted by Gangerolf
              In the city formerly known as Königsberg, the commies dynamited the old castle and built this, "The house of Soviets" instead.
              Looks awesome



              Seriously, could you bring a bigger pic? It's possible that it needs better tiling cover, perhaps.
              urgh.NSFW

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              • Originally posted by Gangerolf
                teh winner
                Looks like a giant frog has taken a sh*t in the courtyard
                Speaking of Erith:

                "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                • Re: Re: definition of disgrace

                  Originally posted by Az


                  Looks awesome



                  Seriously, could you bring a bigger pic? It's possible that it needs better tiling cover, perhaps.
                  awesome? it's fricking insane. you don't blow up an 800 year old castle to make way to that thing. even if your name is leonid brezhnev

                  it's hard to find good pictures of it though. wonder why
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                  • Agbar Tower, Barcelona.


                    KIO towers, Madrid. (Not at same bad taste level but not very far IMO)
                    Ich bin der Zorn Gottes. Wer sonst ist mit mir?

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                    • I like that one.
                      "The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.

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                      • Arndale centre in Manchester, one of the few places that improved after the IRA blew it up. It's truly horrendous I found, no natural light at all inside, not much ventilation so smells linger etc. It's been 5 years since I was last there, and it was changeing for the better then (rebuilding after the 96 bomb), but it was a hole, though there's lots and lots of these kind of things about in the UK (saw one in Leicester yesterday).

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                        • To be honest, there's nothing worse than a 60's architect with too much concrete.

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                          • University of East Anglia... I am sure it seemed like a good idea at the time to make a compeltely interlinked building with random floor numbers and room sequences out of unpainted grey concrete, but I bet they didn't take into account what it would look like on (normal) gloomy day. Tis like camouflage... My girlfriend is there now, after being at cambridge, the buildings actually got her depressed after the spires of cambridge.

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                            • Originally posted by lightblue
                              To be honest, there's nothing worse than a 60's architect with too much concrete.

                              Except for a 70s' architect who didn't learn from the mistakes of the 60s, of course, .


                              I used to live in Hulme, in Manchester, redeveloped in the 1960s :

                              The "Hulme Solution"
                              by Anna Leach

                              In the 80s and early 90s Hulme was every middle-class mother's worst nightmare, as visibly plagued by poverty and gun crime as its notorious neighbour Moss Side, this was the closet England came to the Bronx.

                              "It was just a concrete mass," Manchester resident Louisa Garston remembers of the area. "There weren't even proper pavements in places, the place looked like a bomb site. It seemed almost uninhabitable, you don't see anything like that in Manchester now."

                              When the area was rebuilt in the post-war period, bad choices were made in the construction of poor quality housing made of pre-cast concrete. Not only did these look unbelievably depressing, they were prone to flooding, draughts, damp problems and vermin infestations. These multi-deck properties were so badly made soon there were sites where they just collapsed, leaving derelict shells and rubble. Only the poorest people who had no choice lived in such an area.

                              "The community felt excluded from mainstream society," says Bob Goodwin of Moss Side & Hulme Community Development Trust, "then the final catalyst was the riots that happened about fifteen years ago."

                              A government task force was brought in and £250 million was invested in the area from 1992 to 1997. The housing was pulled down and completely rebuilt, a tactic which has since become known as the "Hulme Solution" and the project has become an international model for regeneration.
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                              Still everything's looking much rosier now, especially with public art like this:
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                              Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

                              ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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                              • Gangerolf: as I thought, the problem with it is that it barren concrete. If a different exterior cover was choosed, it could have plenty potential. Destroying the castle sucked, tho.

                                Israeli government buildings vary in quality:

                                The government complex in Haifa is ok.

                                arcs in the small plaza, and the courts building in the background


                                the main building
                                urgh.NSFW

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