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Does FCG stand for "fuck commonsense geometry"? Two bog-standard office buildings connected by a bunch of tinkertoy-looking stuff which is too narrow to contain actual offices -- can't see any practical function for it except maybe to give employees some walking exercise when they go from one part to the other. Then the big spherical thing that has nothing in common with the rest of the architecture. I can only assume it's an alien spacecraft that teleported there and accidentally impaled itself on the tinkertoy.
+ La Città Nuova, Messaggio per Milano. Antonio Sant’Elia e il suo manifesto di architettura futurista portò avanti il suo concetto di La Cittá Nuova. Sant’Elia era più noto per i suoi concetti avanzati che per ciò che effettivamente construì.
The Russian brutalist apartment is brutal in more ways one, even deadly. With Russia being the world’s largest producer of asbestos, you bet this brutalist building is chock full of asbestos from its structural concrete, cement and insulation to its indoor ceiling tiles, flooring and walls. -Rj
GET OUT with Tokyo and Hong Kong... WOW. And that Russian piece of crap... I bet living in that thing is hell with shoddy workmanship and crappy materials.
I like the TGV station. The soaring entrances remind me slightly of Eero Saarinen's Ingalls Hockey Rink at Yale University, a building that you might consider featuring in the future.
FCG is the Fuji tv studio and hq building. That Russian high rise is like those dumps in Pyongyang North Korea where there are either no elevators or they don’t work and the place is ready to burst into a fiery conflagration from an electric short. Rex in DC
Does FCG stand for "fuck commonsense geometry"? Two bog-standard office buildings connected by a bunch of tinkertoy-looking stuff which is too narrow to contain actual offices -- can't see any practical function for it except maybe to give employees some walking exercise when they go from one part to the other. Then the big spherical thing that has nothing in common with the rest of the architecture. I can only assume it's an alien spacecraft that teleported there and accidentally impaled itself on the tinkertoy.
ReplyDeleteOf course, the Russian one would be the ugliest. I'm not in love with any of them.
ReplyDeleteMaddie - But, but that last one is a shopping center!
Delete+ La Città Nuova, Messaggio per Milano.
ReplyDeleteAntonio Sant’Elia e il suo manifesto di architettura futurista portò avanti il suo concetto di La Cittá Nuova. Sant’Elia era più noto per i suoi concetti avanzati che per ciò che effettivamente construì.
Anon@8:45 - Fantasy is often better than reality.
DeleteThe Russian brutalist apartment is brutal in more ways one, even deadly.
ReplyDeleteWith Russia being the world’s largest producer of asbestos, you bet this brutalist building is chock full of asbestos from its structural concrete, cement and insulation to its indoor ceiling tiles, flooring and walls.
-Rj
GET OUT with Tokyo and Hong Kong... WOW. And that Russian piece of crap... I bet living in that thing is hell with shoddy workmanship and crappy materials.
ReplyDeleteI like the TGV station. The soaring entrances remind me slightly of Eero Saarinen's Ingalls Hockey Rink at Yale University, a building that you might consider featuring in the future.
ReplyDeleteFCG is the Fuji tv studio and hq building.
ReplyDeleteThat Russian high rise is like those dumps in Pyongyang North Korea where there are either no elevators or they don’t work and the place is ready to burst into a fiery conflagration from an electric short.
Rex in DC