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Title: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 13, 2011, 10:24:43 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16161065

 ???
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: drew on December 13, 2011, 10:31:41 AM
the dude who designed it is too close to his work to even see it.  a phenomenon that anyone who has ever sketched seriously will know.  you literally won't see glaring faults in your shit unless you take a day or two without looking at it.  never doubt the power a fresh set of eyes has.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 13, 2011, 10:31:50 AM
First I've heard of it.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Mupepe on December 13, 2011, 10:34:24 AM
I think it's pretty gorgeous but I can see why certain people might find it offensive.  I doubt it was really a case of wanting to be offensive. 
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 13, 2011, 10:34:53 AM
Quote from: Count Drugula The Satanic on December 13, 2011, 10:27:00 AM
I'm more pissed that Korea decided to rip off Middle Eastern art.

Its a Dutch design.

Dude says it never crossed his mind when he was designing it.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: brob on December 13, 2011, 10:35:56 AM
It's pretty expensive to build buildings so I doubt they'd really go for tastelessness deliberately. I think it looks kinda wonky from the frog/street perspective but it's cool with the gardens and stuff from the birds view.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Brehvolution on December 13, 2011, 10:36:50 AM
Why should Korea care what Americans think?
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Momo on December 13, 2011, 10:39:36 AM
Whe cant go changing everything anytime someone gets offended
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: MrAngryFace on December 13, 2011, 10:46:24 AM
Don't care
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: drew on December 13, 2011, 10:49:15 AM
Quote from: Borys on December 13, 2011, 10:44:47 AM
Every single architect designing twin, towering buildings post 9/11 thinks about the NYC ones.

except this one literally looks like it, not that thats wrong, its just that the damage control itt is pretty funny. come on
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 13, 2011, 10:50:48 AM
Its been 10 years, he's not american, I believe him.

I also dont think it looks similar, except that its two towers.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: drew on December 13, 2011, 10:53:24 AM
really? it even has the plumes of flame from when the jets slammed into the sides, one is taller than the other, they are staggered in a similar fashion. if you really don't see any similarities you're eyes might be distinguished mentally-challenged :dur
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Momo on December 13, 2011, 11:07:43 AM
Quote from: drew on December 13, 2011, 10:53:24 AM
really? it even has the plumes of flame from when the jets slammed into the sides, one is taller than the other, they are staggered in a similar fashion. if you really don't see any similarities you're eyes might be distinguished mentally-challenged :dur
More of a case of you guys projecting an image burned into your contentiousness onto other things than the architect being a deliberate douchebag   
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Don Flamenco on December 13, 2011, 11:13:59 AM
it's an impossibility to me that they just didn't notice this when designing it.  I'm not offended and I know this building will never get built which they would know too, so it just seems like a publicity stunt. 
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 13, 2011, 11:20:00 AM
Looks kind of dumb anyway, to be honest.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: drew on December 13, 2011, 11:20:09 AM
Quote from: Momo on December 13, 2011, 11:07:43 AM
More of a case of you guys projecting an image burned into your contentiousness onto other things than the architect being a deliberate douchebag

actually i think its just because they look alike.  very much so, in fact.

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Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: brob on December 13, 2011, 11:21:00 AM
to be fair to momo there is a lot of contentiousness in this thread.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: tiesto on December 13, 2011, 11:22:06 AM
I'm not offended, it seems Americans were in need of something to morally outrage about this month and these buildings took the hit. The up-close look at the boxy "cloud" area looks awesome, though.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: drew on December 13, 2011, 11:23:48 AM
the awesomeness is offset by the extreme inherit danger, for me at least, anyway.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 13, 2011, 11:27:01 AM
Danger of what?

Nice to see different opinions, at least no one normal is offended.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: drew on December 13, 2011, 11:28:55 AM
of falling to a horrible death, i see little people standing next to where there should be a barrier, but lo there is not.

wait i just noticed that there are barriers, glass barriers.  glass. the strongest substance in construction history.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Don Flamenco on December 13, 2011, 11:34:30 AM
the trees and people and shit on top of those boxes seems like a little architectural fantasy.  it would be windy and cold as fuck up there.  even if there are glass boxes fully encapsulating each one, the wind noise would be a huge pain in the ass.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Momo on December 13, 2011, 11:37:48 AM
Fucking auto correct bullshit.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: demi on December 13, 2011, 11:42:49 AM
Great, more high ledges for Asians to toss themselves from.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 13, 2011, 11:42:50 AM
Quote from: Momo on December 13, 2011, 11:37:48 AM
Fucking auto correct bullshit.

This thread is actually about auto correct, how ironic.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Diunx on December 13, 2011, 12:39:30 PM
That looks ugly as fuck.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: brob on December 13, 2011, 12:44:49 PM
they grew up in a world drawn and built by communists, cut them some slack :(
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Boogie on December 13, 2011, 12:47:13 PM
Quote from: The Business on December 13, 2011, 12:41:53 PM
Do Polish people really find this building beautiful?


Looks like ass to me.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: CajoleJuice on December 13, 2011, 01:19:32 PM
Looks pretty stupid.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: CajoleJuice on December 13, 2011, 01:24:34 PM
do you also like this

(http://www.thecityreview.com/phaid41.jpg)
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Don Flamenco on December 13, 2011, 01:29:39 PM
Quote from: Brobzoid on December 13, 2011, 12:44:49 PM
they grew up in a world drawn and built by communists, cut them some slack :(


dat communist architecture.   

(http://i.imgur.com/fPqqU.jpg)


this is in the outskirts of Prague.  it's just big and yellow.  and the inside made me feel like I was in The Road....not exactly what I'd call "up to code" with light flooding everywhere even though it was just drizzling out and it had the smell of burning dust from the lights in every room.  There was an art exhibit and I was one of the only people there...creepy.    You get a view of a huge abandoned greenhouse area from it...all rotting plants and rusted exoskeletons of greenhouse covers, along with other rusty equipment.  It's where you'd fight dogs, insects, and poisonous plants in a resident evil game.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Flannel Boy on December 13, 2011, 01:39:30 PM
Quote from: The Business on December 13, 2011, 12:41:53 PM
Do Polish people really find this building beautiful?

It's clearly the Dutch part of him that likes this design.

edit: Forgot about Borys.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 13, 2011, 01:50:02 PM
Wouldn't it be super cold on those blocks...?

oh south korea, you so crazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r7BB78mk34
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Flannel Boy on December 13, 2011, 01:52:19 PM
Quote from: Borys on December 13, 2011, 10:30:38 AM
(http://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2011/12/The-Cloud-MVRDV-2.jpg)
Just noticed the Tetris blocks on the building on the left below the cloud of smoke--I mean apartment cubes.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Brehvolution on December 13, 2011, 02:05:32 PM
Quote from: CajoleJuice on December 13, 2011, 01:24:34 PM
do you also like this

(http://www.thecityreview.com/phaid41.jpg)

Looks like the Weezer logo. The nerve of these people.  :yuck
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: tiesto on December 13, 2011, 02:31:23 PM
Quote from: CajoleJuice on December 13, 2011, 01:24:34 PM
do you also like this

(http://www.thecityreview.com/phaid41.jpg)

Was that built with K'nex....?
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 13, 2011, 02:31:41 PM
(http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k33/GreatRumbler/ryugyong-hotel-lg.jpg)

"A wonderful work of architectural genius, very fluid with an eye-catching design."

~Premium Lager
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Himu on December 13, 2011, 03:11:21 PM
The building looks amazing.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on December 13, 2011, 09:19:11 PM
Looks like shit.

Anyway, I'm not offended but at any given moment, someone somewhere is asshurt over something.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: The Sceneman on December 13, 2011, 10:37:22 PM
amazing building, leper boogie
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on December 14, 2011, 01:06:22 AM
I love stuff like this. I'm fascinated by this too:
(http://www.arcspace.com/architects/kurokawa/nakagin/2nagasin.jpg)
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: chronovore on December 14, 2011, 02:04:11 AM
Broken link on the img. for me.

Building is beautiful, but I also find it hard to believe that the connection wasn't made, pardon the pun.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Trent Dole on December 14, 2011, 04:59:19 AM
That looks stupid.
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 14, 2011, 05:14:15 AM
Comparing this to socialist architechture  :lol

Also the US has its fair share of lousy shit too, I dunno what you guys are feeling smug about.

Kazakstan or New York?

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Wagner_Houses.jpg)

(http://parmenides.wnyc.org/media/wp-images/lehrer/files/2010/02/chicago-suburbs-blog-photo.jpg)
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 14, 2011, 05:29:24 AM
Business, I'm just saying that bitching that ugly isnt confined to Eastern Europe since the world is full of uninspired designs (or what we now consider uninspired).

Btw this is how Kazakstan looks

(http://i41.tinypic.com/3581kdx.jpg)

(http://i39.tinypic.com/ebbl2p.jpg)

(http://i42.tinypic.com/a9peno.jpg)
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 14, 2011, 05:41:58 AM
I have this cool book about Sovjet architecture at home, some cool designs there. I'd recommend it if you like architechture.

(http://www.weareprivate.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/cccp_book_t010211.jpg)

Examples from the book:

(http://cloud.kapilsoni.com/2011/02/Taschen-book-of-Soviet-architecture-002.jpg)

(http://cloud.kapilsoni.com/2011/02/Taschen-book-of-Soviet-architecture-004.jpg)

(http://www.metalocus.es/content/en/system/files/file-images/page_fo_chaubin_communist_constructions_06_1012131653_id_402322.jpg)

Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: T-Short on December 14, 2011, 07:04:41 AM
Quote from: Premium Lager on December 14, 2011, 05:14:15 AM
Comparing this to socialist architechture  :lol

Also the US has its fair share of lousy shit too, I dunno what you guys are feeling smug about.

Kazakstan or New York?

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Wagner_Houses.jpg)

Isn't that the building right next to Rucker Park? :drool

edit: seems not. building on the left doesn't make sense after checking
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 14, 2011, 07:06:15 AM
Rukker Park?

:drool
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: Reb on December 14, 2011, 07:15:16 AM
Dutch joke!
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: CrystalGemini on December 14, 2011, 07:59:19 AM
Quote from: The Business on December 14, 2011, 05:20:43 AM
Comparing one building in New York to all the buildings in Kazakhstan is a little unfair.  That picture on the bottom is the American dream: big houses, big yards, and tree lined streets.

The American Dream = Cookie Cutter Houses  :yuck
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: CrystalGemini on December 14, 2011, 08:32:35 AM
Oh wow.  I didn't realize that thread was back.  :O
Title: Re: Are americans really offended by this beautiful building?
Post by: tiesto on December 14, 2011, 08:53:56 AM
Quote from: Premium Lager on December 13, 2011, 10:34:53 AM
Quote from: Count Drugula The Satanic on December 13, 2011, 10:27:00 AM
I'm more pissed that Korea decided to rip off Middle Eastern art.

Its a Dutch design.

Dude says it never crossed his mind when he was designing it.

Ahh, the Dutch... masters of subtlety.

A lot of buildings in Astana (Kazakhstan) look amazing.