Unusual architecture

[Kyriakos]

Maybe we can have this kind of thread (again). It's been years since the last one

You can post pics and/or discuss.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Guangzhou Circle Mansion

Italian architecture firm AM Progetti has recently completed this round skyscraper, which has been dubbed "The Doughnut", in China's southern town of Guangzhou. The inner hole is unique in building design, and has a diameter of almost 50 meters. The architects say that they wanted to create a landmark building which would defy the western skyscraper stereotype, and were inspired by jade discs and numerological tradition of feng shui.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Habitat 67

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Maybe we can have this kind of thread (again). It's been years since the last one

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You can post pics and/or discuss.

At least say what the item is and were it is.

 

[Kyriakos]

At least say what the item is and were it is.

I think it isn't a real building. https://www.researchgate.net/figure...s-Fictions-2007-Filip-Dujardin_fig1_275247072

 

[Ferocitus]

This is one of the more beautiful buildings I've seen.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

This is one of the more beautiful buildings I've seen.
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What and where is it?

 

[Birdjaguar]

Changsha Meixihu International Culture and Art Centre, Changsha China

 

[Josu]

What and where is it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Arts_and_Sciences

 

[Samson]

A Poo Emoji on Edinburgh’s skyline voted worst building in the world

Spoiler More pics :

 

[EnglishEdward]

A Poo Emoji on Edinburgh’s skyline voted worst building in the world

From that article:

Beyond all this, the development has benefited from £61.4m of public money in the form of Growth Accelerator model
funding from the Scottish government, via the city council, for public realm and road junction upgrades. Like the controversial
US system of tax increment financing, the idea is that the initial public outlay will be repaid by increased revenues from business rates.
Advocates argue the model stimulates investment in rundown areas, while critics say it is an opaque developer giveaway without
much public benefit. In Edinburgh, it seems odd that a huge retail and leisure development in the city centre, projected to receive
25 million visitors a year, should be deemed to require such lavish public subsidy – particularly when it’s spent on encouraging
more people to drive into town.

I am sure that the SNP will find some way to blame it upon the English.

 

[tjs282]

Just found an article on Wiki about the Little Island Park (former Pier 55) in New York, which opened to the public a couple of months back. Not sure if it counts as Architecture-With-A-Capital-A, but I thought it was interesting. This URL links to a (huge) pic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Little_Island_Panorama_(50236511951).jpg

The GoogleMaps view shows it still under construction; but OTOH, also provides a plan view of how the "concrete flowers" fit together:

https://www.google.de/maps/search/p...,148a,35y,40.85h,58.53t/data=!3m1!1e3!5m1!1e4

A Poo Emoji on Edinburgh’s skyline voted worst building in the world

OMG. WTH were they thinking/smoking?

 

[Kyriakos]

The Scottish Parliament isn't that great either, imo.

 

[Birdjaguar]

The new meets the old in Edinburgh! I like the building, but it does look very out of place.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Simmons Hall undergraduate dormitory at MIT. Built in 2002 at a cost of $78m.

Each of the square windows is set in a little recessed "cubby" that's painted a different color.

(Big photo)

Spoiler :

 

[GinandTonic]

When they built my local park -

They wanted a gothic church, but the area had a surfeit of churches. So they built a house with random gothic clock tower into the edge of the park and sold it. The whimsey appeals to me.

 

[AmazonQueen]

Guangzhou Circle Mansion

Italian architecture firm AM Progetti has recently completed this round skyscraper, which has been dubbed "The Doughnut", in China's southern town of Guangzhou. The inner hole is unique in building design, and has a diameter of almost 50 meters. The architects say that they wanted to create a landmark building which would defy the western skyscraper stereotype, and were inspired by jade discs and numerological tradition of feng shui.

Screams inspired by ferris wheel to me

 

[GinandTonic]

When they redeveloped Kings Cross the victorian gasholders were listed so they had to keep them. Reflecting the areas passage through time and all that malarkey.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Guangzhou Circle Mansion

Italian architecture firm AM Progetti has recently completed this round skyscraper, which has been dubbed "The Doughnut", in China's southern town of Guangzhou. The inner hole is unique in building design, and has a diameter of almost 50 meters. The architects say that they wanted to create a landmark building which would defy the western skyscraper stereotype, and were inspired by jade discs and numerological tradition of feng shui.


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It took me a second to realize how big that is.

Habitat 67

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67

I've visited Montreal. I don't know how I missed that thing. I like the walkways between the buildings. There's something about elevated walkways that speaks to me. No idea what or why. I heard a podcast not long ago, might've been an episode of 99% Invisible, about the networks of enclosed, elevated walkways above the streets of Minneapolis. I guess they're little used now, but they were once hopping with activity.

Changsha Meixihu International Culture and Art Centre, Changsha China
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From the ground-level angle in the second picture, it looks like a big cruise ship to me.

 

[GinandTonic]

Fighting Napoleon they decided to make a chain of artillery forts around the coast. They were redundant and near obsolete before they were completed. Many are now houses - so many the unconverted are now protected.

My plan for the zombie apocalypse starts with my local Martello Tower.