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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Flannel Boy on June 22, 2007, 10:43:55 AM

Title: Before and After
Post by: Flannel Boy on June 22, 2007, 10:43:55 AM: Before and after photos of a row of townhouses being replaced with a new auditorium for Virginia Commonwealth University.
(http://massengale.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/18/howitzerspark.gif)
:'(
Title: Re: Before and After
Post by: Ichirou on June 22, 2007, 10:44:57 AM: HUAHUAHUAHUAHUA

TOWNHOUSES GOT OWNED
Title: Re: Before and After
Post by: Fragamemnon on June 22, 2007, 10:46:23 AM: Wow, that's terrible. That auditorium looks like some kind of tetris abortion, whereas the townhouses had some real charm to them. :(
Title: Re: Before and After
Post by: Flannel Boy on June 22, 2007, 10:46:57 AM: :lol Tetris abortion.
Title: Re: Before and After
Post by: MrAngryFace on June 22, 2007, 10:53:05 AM: It looks like one of those post apocalyptic future buildings where everyone pics up their meal cube
Title: Re: Before and After
Post by: Flannel Boy on June 22, 2007, 11:00:50 AM: Quote from: Douglas Wambaugh on June 22, 2007, 10:53:05 AM
It looks like one of those post apocalyptic future buildings where everyone pics up their meal cube
I hope the meal cubes look better.
Title: Re: Before and After
Post by: Mandark on June 22, 2007, 11:39:19 AM: I forget the term for this (or if there even is a term), but there's a phenomenon where certain public buildings are designed to look ugly/utilitarian, so the taxpayers don't feel like money is being wasted on frills.
Title: Re: Before and After
Post by: Cyanista on June 22, 2007, 02:36:51 PM: There's a term for spartan architecture being a fad?
Title: Re: Before and After
Post by: TVC15 on June 22, 2007, 02:42:33 PM: Quote from: Mandark on June 22, 2007, 11:39:19 AM
I forget the term for this (or if there even is a term), but there's a phenomenon where certain public buildings are designed to look ugly/utilitarian, so the taxpayers don't feel like money is being wasted on frills.

And the opposite of whatever that term is would be "seattle public library."

(http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/1964/seattlepubliclibrarytl7.jpg)
Title: Re: Before and After
Post by: ToxicAdam on June 22, 2007, 03:17:50 PM: :lol That library is awesome. Looks like an aircraft carrier ran aground.
Title: Re: Before and After
Post by: Fragamemnon on June 22, 2007, 03:20:41 PM: That library rocks-it's like they took a section of 1970s large-scale space station concept construction and slapped a bunch of glass on it.
Title: Re: Before and After
Post by: Mr. Gundam on June 22, 2007, 03:22:49 PM: Quote from: Fragamemnon on June 22, 2007, 03:20:41 PM
That library rocks-it's like they took a section of 1970s large-scale space station concept construction and slapped a bunch of glass on it.

My wife works right across the street from the downtown Seattle public library on 4th Ave, it's a fun place to walk around in when I pick her up to go see a movie.
Title: Re: Before and After
Post by: TVC15 on June 22, 2007, 03:34:47 PM: It is a really fun building to walk around in. The inside is as interesting as the outside, as far as layout goes.
Title: Re: Before and After
Post by: Mr. Gundam on June 22, 2007, 03:45:34 PM: Quote from: TVC 15 on June 22, 2007, 03:34:47 PM
It is a really fun building to walk around in. The inside is as interesting as the outside, as far as layout goes.

The use of extremely bright primary colors to illuminate rooms is interesting.