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Architectural Discussion Mr(s). Anonymous 03/03/15 (Tue) 17:40:22 No.2810

Let's have an earnest talk about the structures that populate our world, and admire some beautiful examples.

With regards to function and form, which do you believe should take precedence?
Is there a style you find particularly appealing?

Mr(s). Anonymous 03/03/15 (Tue) 17:45:25 No.2811

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I shall add a new image every so often.

Mr(s). Anonymous 03/03/15 (Tue) 17:48:23 No.2812

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>>2810
Here's a comparison between York University and University of Toronto buildings. I'm a student at the latter, so my opinion might seem biased towards the second. That said, aesthetics played a large part in my choice of universities.

Part of the function in any building is its form and how it appeals to people. I like the Annex style houses in particular (3rd pic).

Mr(s). Anonymous 03/03/15 (Tue) 18:16:53 No.2815

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>>2812
That house is quite attractive.

I must admit campus æsthetics were a factor in my choice of alma mater as well, though none of my options were quite as grand.

Mr(s). Anonymous 03/03/15 (Tue) 20:41:16 No.2827

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>>2810
Tall buildings that can remain structurally-sound are the most beautiful things in existence. Also, dynamic architecture is the way of the future.

Mr(s). Anonymous 03/05/15 (Thu) 19:12:57 No.2855

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With its emphasis on bright colors and geometric shapes, 1990s postmodernism has a playfulness which is sorely overlooked.

Lounglie!!QrB/.x4c.U 03/06/15 (Fri) 04:24:45 No.2871

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>>2855
I think there can definitely be a potential beauty to post-modernism in structures, but a bunch of the post-modernist art like vagina eggs has admittedly turned me off to the idea for a while now.

Mr(s). Anonymous 03/06/15 (Fri) 16:17:46 No.2885

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>>2855
My favorite design school by far. This is the building I work in. The shot didn;t urn out great, but you can almost see that the other side of the building - opposite the yellow - is a plumb purple color.

Mr(s). Anonymous 03/22/15 (Sun) 01:02:32 No.3300

>>2871
These two things were done decades apart and under completely different schools of thought.

Aside from the label of "postmodernist", they really have nothing in common.

Mr(s). Anonymous 03/22/15 (Sun) 01:08:38 No.3301

>>2827
I like tall buildings too, not my favorite appearance-wise but they're very efficient at storing people, which leaves more room for undeveloped land.

Mr(s). Anonymous 03/22/15 (Sun) 01:54:59 No.3304

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Storybook Ranch homes were predominantly popular in the '50s and early '60s. Often dressed-up with shutters, birdhouses and diamond-paned windows, they were a charming alternative to mid-century modernism.

While once a common sight throughout the American southwest, intact examples becoming increasingly hard to find.

Mr(s). Anonymous 03/22/15 (Sun) 02:37:57 No.3305

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Utilidors in my old town of Inuvik. A marvel of ingenuity in the north, in my opinion. Not only were they good fun to play around as a child, but they were important to the towns very survival next to the arctic ocean.

In the Arctic Circle, you cannot dig into the ground and place foundations, because the permafrost that lines the ground would melt, and the ground would shift; and with this came the invention of Utilidors to keep important home necessities without putting them underground.

Mr(s). Anonymous 03/22/15 (Sun) 03:44:14 No.3310

>>3305
You use to live there? That's pretty neat, I met someone online who was from Iqaluit once.

Mr(s). Anonymous 03/22/15 (Sun) 19:08:25 No.3321

>>3305
Huh, never knew that. What's it like to live in such a small northern community? Is it more relaxing than inhaling urban smog 24/7?

Mr(s). Anonymous 03/22/15 (Sun) 19:08:53 No.3322

>>3304
This looks beautiful.
>soon they'll be erased from the world by sky-high condos

Mr(s). Anonymous 03/22/15 (Sun) 20:23:21 No.3324

>>3321
Well, I left Inuvik, so that might tell you something.

The community up there is typically poverty ridden, with joblessness and drugs taking hold harder than they would in southern communities, unless they were totally isolated and made alcohol illegal, like Arviat. It's depressing to say the least. I really liked the town.

In other news, there indeed isn't smog; but there isn't good air, either. On top of that, during the summer, because of the permafrost, mud would be everywhere.

And because of the permafrost, there were puddles of water everywhere, making the perfect spawning beds for mosquitoes during the summer and late spring. Permafrost inhabits the just-below-surface dirt, and because of this; water cannot seep into it, it can only dissipate in heat or become mud.

This is also why plants don't usually last up north, or are in sparing parts. It's not the 40 below Celsius conditions, no; it's the lack of soil itself.

~The More You Know~

Mr(s). Anonymous 03/23/15 (Mon) 05:29:30 No.3340

>>3324
Damn, sounds like paradise.

Mr(s). Anonymous 03/23/15 (Mon) 07:03:15 No.3342

>>3340
It's a marvel of the known world, sir.

Mr(s). Anonymous 03/23/15 (Mon) 09:56:32 No.3345

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>>2810
>Posting neoclassical poppycock

Have some class,Mr(s). Anon, please. NEoclassicism is one of the least valuable artistical trends of the XIX century, it only has technical value, since it was able to copy the techniques of the classical authors, but there it goes, apart from that, its just a copy-parte movement that didnt bring nothing of value in terms of artistical evolution and value. Now we have a lot of posh buildings all over Europe and the US that are just the representation of a try-hard wannabe immitation of Rome in terms of imperialism and Greece in terms of Art. So yeah, you couldnt have chosen a worse example.

Pic: Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, one of the three Holy Cities of Christendom. A romanic cathedral with a lot of reforms from different styles, being the most remarkable one the romanic facade, that had a baroque reform, which you can see on the picture.

Mr(s). Anonymous 03/24/15 (Tue) 10:43:08 No.3373

>>3345
>the parthenon
>neoclassical
You're doing it incorrectly.

Mr(s). Anonymous 03/24/15 (Tue) 13:02:01 No.3374

>>3373
I'm more partial to modern functional structures, myself.

Mr(s). Anonymous 03/27/15 (Fri) 05:14:08 No.3388

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>>2827
Dynamic architecture on a massive scale isn't possible with current materials, full stop.

>>2855
Cheap to build, easy to color. Nothing to see here.

>>2871
Post-modern is pic-related. Your video is third-wave feminism reductio ad absurdium.