![Military-History-Museum-in-Dresden-3[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/XdNlphc.jpg "Military-History-Museum-in-Dresden-3[1].jpg")
The moral steadfastness of a modern society is represented by its architecture.
So the western world is fucked.
Architecture thread.
This monstrosity was done by Daniel Libeskind, a german jew architect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Libeskind
/pol/ was right again
>>34133225
Everybody should watch this - it explains everything wrong with modern architecture and art. It's one of my favourite documentaries.
http://documentaryaddict.com/Why+Beauty+Matters-542-doc.html
>>34133821
>destruction of the old traditional values
Huh? If you look at the order of ascension, it mirror typical Vitruvius construction: heavy on the bottom, and slimmer at the top [masculine to feminine].
Whatever's inside isn't really my care; the outside looks fine and architecture can't always cling to tradition -- despite what /pol/ idiots love to think.
>>34133225
>>34133612
Notice the imposing modernity shears and pierces through tradition like sword delivering a death blow to an enemy.
>>34133553
Who needs tradition and culture when you're rich?
>>34134198
gr8 b8 m8
I'm studying to become an archetect.
I like traditional archetecture but also elements in modern archetecture. I want to create a whole new innovative archetectural style that combines the asthetics of both.
What do I need to know?
>>34133612
This actually happened.
>>34133821
>On completion in 2019 the building will house a modern museum containing collections of African and other non-European art.[8]
When will the Jews stop fucking up my country? It's been 70 years you dumb kikes, you can stop punishing us for trying to stop you getting typhus now.
>>34134272
This entire thread will help you:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1022349
And for fucks sake please get yourself every book about Vitruvius.
Keep in mind that there is NO school in this world anymore which teaches everything about classical architecture.
You have to learn it all by yourself.
Please learn classical architecture proportions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvius
>>34134270
Yeah, I was being sarcastic there.
>>34133821
I looked it up and this shit is real. Consider me butthurt.
>>34134272
Learn about how humans actually use spaces. Buildings are for people. If its more about making yournown personal statement, it's just self indulgent jacking off. As for form and aesthetic, study pre-modern artistic sensibilities.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0sspv5npis
Here is a discussion of the break of modernity with pre-modernity. Focus on his description of art.
>>34134272
Learn the fucking golden ratio and apply it when you're designing buildings. Also incorporate classical ornaments please.
>>34133821
holy shit. i cried a little
>>34134505
>everyone looking to the side, or at their feet, and ashamed
Fags
>>34134272
How do you feel about the fact that this is being build currently in moscow while you have to learn postmodernist shit at school?
What are some good additions to existing buildings?
Frank Gehry built a new building and then connected it to the old building by sticking a spiral stair in the atrium.
/pol/ keeps proving true, like a law of nature, an inexplicable phenomenon that keeps turning up again and again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Libeskind
^the addition of that hideous arrow-thing was made by a whiteculture-hating kike.
>>34134555
I don't *have* to learn post modern bullshit. They just won't teach classical, beautiful archetecture that doesn't make you feel like you're living in a police state.
>>34134272
> I want to create a whole new innovative archetectural style that combines the asthetics of both.
Don't do that please. Don't be the cancer. Instead try to relearn traditional styles.
>>34133612
I bet the evil kike took great pleasure in ruining that beautiful piece of European work.
>>34134345
I live next to this monstrosity
>>34134634
>What are some good additions to existing buildings?
Stone fireplaces at appropriate locations, uhh... that's all I can think of right now. It really depends on the building, and any building worth its materials would only have glass for windows IMO.
>>34133553
I know what point that's trying to make, but it kinda fails, since England and Germany look pretty similar in the "Tradition" box..
>>34134705
Must be nice to live in such prime real estate...
How much is your condo? $2 million?
Or, do you live in a tiny dorm at the Trinity College?
>>34134645
I agree with your sentiment. Are you american? European? You know what you could do? get yourself access to the old european archives. They have tons of blueprints of neo-baroque buildings which they never build because of modernism. Just get yourself access to it and LET GO OF YOUR STUPID EGO. Just because you're getting yourself ideas from past architects doesn't mean you have to be butthurt about it.
You need to learn how they designed in the past. That's the only way how to learn it.
Pic related: that's how they look like
>>34134681
Like a sore thumb. How did anyone conclude this was a good idea? Absolutely disgusting.
>>34134499
>apply classic ornaments please
Why?
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~andre/courses/CS294F98/parthenon.html
>>34134756
that's because western europe adopted neoclassical style influenced by greek/roman shit.
>>34134868
>written by Any Rand
She's a fucking kike. No wonder she disagrees with classical building style.
/pol/ was right again
>>34134658
I want to incorporate glass and metal into the designs tastefully. I think it's possible, but I want to do it while following traditional theory and asthetic, so it becomes a new style of our own age. Bringing traditional archetecture into a new generation instead of throwing out the golden ratio and just shoving random ass wedges of metal into things.
>>34134773
British. Prince Charles seems to be fighting the faggotry. I don't know where to acquire archives of anything traditional.
>>34134960
>jew
great argument.
>>34135002
yeah because jews can be trusted, see >>34133612
get fucked kike
>>34133225
The building represents tradition and that revolting thing represents cancer.
>>34134868
I think the fountainhead is probably the quintessential jewish book. Veneration of selfishness, out of control self-regard, cult of the genius that conveniently leaves european traditions as the ones to be destroyed and of course the jewishly warped view of sexuality.
>>34135002
There's litteraly no reason why I should give a fuck about what a kike has to say about European traditional culture. So fuck off.
>>34133225
jewish modernism slicing like a knife through actual beauty. fuck i hate everything
![Leon_Krier_1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/iDgG45O.jpg "Leon_Krier_1[1].jpg")
Leon Krier dump.
>>34133225
I don't wanna get a accused of white knighting in here but I'm pretty sure these architects should be chemically castrated and locked up for raping buildings.
![tumblr_m1100kTx3q1r0egoqo1_1280[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/bqRxrSe.jpg "tumblr_m1100kTx3q1r0egoqo1_1280[1].jpg")
>>34135178
>>34134998
You're in the process of getting redpilled so I understand you still cling to glass and metal but you will see after getting through the reading material that its not how it should be. Classical architects have defined european architecture very strictly and given guidelines which you have to follow in order to design buildings which appeal to the human eye and are beautiful. You have learn the right proportions. Modern architects don't get them right or they *think* they get them right because they have never really learned the right proportions. Read the thread link I gave you a few posts ago, you will understand.
![tumblr_m5ldb2FnaG1rrtfifo1_1280[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/VhRZFyP.jpg "tumblr_m5ldb2FnaG1rrtfifo1_1280[1].jpg")
>>34135200
>>34133225
>>34133612
LMAO this is repugnant, not only do the facades look like chinese replicas, it's like the jew couldn't make up his mind
u like?
![OneWorldTradeCenter[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/MG9cEy2.jpg "OneWorldTradeCenter[1].jpg")
Freedom Tower, er wait, not anymore. It was changed to the One World tower.
>>34133225
I agree. England's degeneration is correlated with the change in the london Skyline
>>34133225
i mean is it relevant and totally descriptive of our time? yes, is it ugly? yes
This was build in 2012 in Saint Petersburg.
IN 2012.
>>34134998
>I want to incorporate glass and metal into the designs tastefully
Fair enough. Classical buildings already started to be crafted with steel framework in the 19th century. Study the guts of classic building, the engineering, and the instead of stone and cement, consider how glass and iron can be used for the walls and ceilings. However, even back when castles were still being built, the interiors were plastered and decorated with aesthetically pleasing art. The very idea of harsh industrial materials in living spaces if a modern concept that may be inately contradictory to classic architecture.
>>34134645
>>34135349
Beautiful.
>>34134998
Glass and Metal are not as durable as granite or limestone. Also limestone ages beautifully. These buildings with stone look even better when they age.
>>34135349
That's... that's actually kinda cool.
![krier20cartoon2-thumb1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/6W2t3wc.jpg "krier20cartoon2-thumb1[1].jpg")
>>34135245
>>34135349
nice
>>34135447
Moar
>>34134505
>>34133821
>>34133225
just made this
![tumblr_m8qi6t3Soj1rrtfifo1_500[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/S4PRNR7.jpg "tumblr_m8qi6t3Soj1rrtfifo1_500[1].jpg")
>>34135447
>>34135349
Very nice.
>>34135349
>not having the columns go all the way to the foundation, or at least to a staircase upon the foundation
![screen-shot-2012-05-06-at-11-09-07[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/D4vSQh0.png "screen-shot-2012-05-06-at-11-09-07[1].png")
>>34135505
>>34135542
>>34133821
>>34133934
>>34134402
>>34134473
>>34134505
It gets better
http://www.no-humboldt21.de/resolution/english/
The whole African stuff is part of the Humboldt-Forum named after Alexander von Humboldt, a naturalist and explorer
>>34135614
I agree, they make still some mistakes but at least they're trying.
Pic related: finished in 2009, somewhere in the US
>>34135199
what the fuck. just
WHY?
>>34135629
That's it I can't find more images. Buy his book it's only drawings and no text, it's also very cheap.
You can mix modern and old no problem. Anything can look good if you take the time to design it like it grew out of its plot.
Modern architects issue is they have been taught that paying attention to genius loci is literally being a fascist. The first essay they asked me to write at university pitted Heidegger against Bauhaus and the internationalists and the reading material supplied didn't waste any time insisting that the man was worse than Hitler.
>>34135542
The problem with this is that it damns vertical expansion by linking it at the same time with over horizontal expansion. Vertical is the best way for a post agrarian society to live. Sub-urbanization was a failed experiment of a post world war age. Of course concentration means higher risk from those who would want to harm society, but there could be steps taken to limit such threats.
>>34135653
why did they steal mercedes benz hood ornaments and put them on top of the turrets
>>34135653
This is smelling 19th century pastiche
>you will never live in this street
>>34135701
True; it is a step in the right direction.
As for your pic, I very much like that! I really love how so many older buildings here in the US imitate the old Greco-Roman Classical style.... which, when history repeats itself (Rome declining -> America declining), it makes the analogy all the more acute.
>>34135264
>one world
who says they're not trying to create such a thing? why name it that if not so?
>>34135653
Aren`t those houses of so called gypsy kings?
The ones that get all the movie from beggars
>>34135779
That's fucking disgusting
This is a good thread
>>34133225
That pic is a very cool mix of postmodern deconstruction ism and neo-classical. The contrast of the symmetrical original and asymmetrical addition are visually appealing and work manifold.
10/10 would want in my city
>>34133225
>>34133612
Looks like a fucking tumor growing out of the perfectly fine building
>>34135779
Not enough ornaments
>>34135897
A+ Work Jimmy
- Professor Shekelgrubber
>>34135687
wait,...
this african arts thing is legit?
I know about the stuff regarding the fasade but inside?
do you have any more sources?
>>34135840
That's fine, I already live on this street.
>>34135764
this was built in Saint Petersburg in 2013.
And that's not just some building - this monstrosity is the second scene of Mariinsky Theatre
>>34135841
I concur.
The revival is very nice in the US. Especially in New york. You should take a look. They are building completely new neobaroque and roman/greek inspired buildings everywhere. It's crazy.
Pic related, build somewhere around 2008
>>34135975
>african arts
It is stuff some of the greastest German of all time collected.
The collection also has Asian, Austrailian and American stuff
>>34135998
Cool. Doesn't change the original statement.
>>34135897
You forgot to mention that "juxtaposition" is beautiful and it doesn't mean that the styles are clashing into a monsterous post modernist tumor that makes people want to an hero.
Baroque main refectory of the Cistercian Lubiaz Abbey, one of the largest monasteries in the world.
>>34135238
Doric Ionic and Corinthian
Azerbadjan is building a fuck lot of new traditional style buildings.
Freaking Azerbadjan.
>>34135957
Enjoy your stagnation
>>34134345
Oh, FUCK.
I visited the ROM years ago before that happened and it was a beautiful old building.
>>34135954
Hnnnggggg
>>34136025
That's beautiful!
Kazan, Azerbadjan. Newly constructed.
Art Deco needs a revival. It embraces technology without sacrificing ornamentation.
>>34135425
>>34135360
Art deco is pretty suited for glass and metal in hi-rise builds. 1920 futurist is pretty similar in that way a well. It can be done, modern architects are just going full retard and cannot into metal and glass ornamentation.
>>34136137
Summer refectory.
>>34136169
Stagnation is preferable to throwing everything down the shitter anon.
>>34135954
>3MB
Stop that
>>34135997
I like how the lifts fit together with the original building
>>34136230
They just built an Art Deco opera house here in Vegas called The Smith Center.
>>34135840
that looks just as gaudy as these horrible modern art buildings. uniformity isn't good either.
>modern architecture
http://www.rense.com/general32/americ.htm
>22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
>23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
>>34136152
10/10 apartment
Could work at Wal-mart and not feel depressed when I come home to it
I'd have a house with honest material and local integrity over;
a pastiche that accidentally disrespects an original by being made of cinder blocks and in the wrong ratios
Or a deliberately disrespectfully building that has a gull wing roof because its neighbors have a typical pitched.
>>34136152
Wow, this is wonderful.
Would enjoy living in.
>>34136137
aaaand I have a new wallpaper
>>34136169
I know what you're trying to say, and to some extents I agree, but really regression =! stagnation.
Stagnation implies no movement whatsoever, whereas regression implies movement towards a previous state.
Regression often follows too rapid progression. See: the rise of anti-liberal regimes in the aftermath of WWI as a regression to the liberalism that dominated Europe previously
>>34134634
Looks like a pigs dick penetrating the old building.
Would you live here?
>>34136213
>Azerbadjan
Those buildings look great.
How is the quailty of structures in Azerbadjan?
>>34136380
I would love too.
>>34136230
Ornamentation is the frivolous noise of a degenerate culture.
>>34134345
>>34134345
>>34133612
how do people even find this attractive? i thought "eh modernism is ok it's about using the least effort/cost to build something usually" this though? it's not even remotely practical wtf
>>34136232
I agree with this. Glass and metal were absent in classical architecture due to engineering limitations. Art deco was a good early attempt to integrate new materials. Unfortunately that all ended after WWII.
>>34136241
>shitty
how is this for vertical expansion
>>34136384
Its allright as far as I know, they're using good stone material (not like the chinese). Seems like they want to go full neoclassic in their cities. Its crazy.
Pic related: Azerbadjan, new construction.
>>34136029
just gimme a source.
wont the internals be reconstructed?
>>34133612
/pol/ is always right
>>34136380
If it's in a good neighborhood, then I would consider it, though the countryside is my preferred choice.
>>34136492
who are azerbaijanis? turks or something?
>>34134634
>Frank Gehry
>>34136213
>>34136380
>>34136152
I'll let you know in 20 years when the concrete it's made of starts spalling.
Seriously if you're not going to build these things properly you shouldn't build them.
>>34133612
http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/8/5592844/battersea-power-station-designed-by-foster-and-gehry
Can you spot the kike?
>>34136528
they're some weird mix of russians and tatars I think
![Ilham_Aliyev_060109_1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/oepfCZ7.jpg "Ilham_Aliyev_060109_1[1].jpg")
>>34136528
>Azerbadjan
President looks like a turk
>>34136536
>not combining past and future styles of building for the capitol of your technocratic empire
>>34136557
Nope, they're simply Turkic people.
>>34136550
That's not concrete, its limestone. They will last for centuries and will age beautifully.
>>34136553
This shit is getting boring.
>>34135701
now I know why I love the face of this car
>>34136574
M-maybe because they are?
>>34136520
hhahahaha MY SIDES
>>34136536
The world of computing has Moore's law - the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years.
The world of architecture has Frank Gehry, who will find a way to be worse year after year no matter how improbable that seems.
>>34136553
This shit is getting boring. And the modernists accuse classicists of wanting everything to look the same. At least classical forms can be recalled by the brain.
![522935-deus-ex-human-revolution-windows-screenshot-adam-jensen-s[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/tPZxPpm.jpg "522935-deus-ex-human-revolution-windows-screenshot-adam-jensen-s[1].jpg")
>>34136584
If done right, this is literally perfection.
Something like Adam Jensen`s apartment in Deus Ex HR
But newer stuff should only be an addition to the older stuff without overpowering it
>>34134868
>reading a book by a jew cunt
>not reading the fountainhead
You niggers disappoint me.
![Teatro_alla_Scala_2007[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/4YccC59.jpg "Teatro_alla_Scala_2007[1].jpg")
>>34134756
Depends where in England, really. Can't speak for Germany.
>>34136590
Having some kind of Atrium is great
>>34136553
>that trademark jewish look of disgust
>>34133553
china didnt get bombed
>>34136800
well Dresden got bombed and still...they rebuild everything in the old style
>>34136770
>>34133898
watching it now, brilliant
>>34136865
>>34136865
WOW ..
Schloss neuschwannstein?
>>34133898
Thanks will watch it
>>34136169
Anon in 50 years these glass shitstains will become obsolete just like the blocky concrete buildings from the 60's and 70's. Yet traditional buildings will still be desired like they always have.
Thoughts on Wawel cathedral?
>>34136889
brutalism over all
>>34136724
Imagine what our cities will look like circa 3,000 AD
>tfw not living in futuristic space city with flying car and waifu-bot
![1024px-Wawel_katedra2[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/TlED0KI.jpg "1024px-Wawel_katedra2[1].jpg")
>>34136930
lost muh pic
>>34136944
>>34136920
THIS.
>>34136964
They will look like thousand year old ruins of what we enjoy today.
We've just about reached the limits of growth.
Collapse soon.
![die-leuchtenburg-d0f26f9e-f32f-4505-b44a-9ef1511b3205[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Zs3wRsH.jpg "die-leuchtenburg-d0f26f9e-f32f-4505-b44a-9ef1511b3205[1].jpg")
>>34136964
>not using holograms as art installations
Does anyone else rate fascist architecture highly?
Say what you want about their politics, but damn do I think they really got that "simple yet robust" look down-pat.
It combines the strength and imposing nature of traditional architecture with the elegance and grace of more modern schools of thought.
If I was to become an architect, I'd take heavy ques from it I feel.
>>34136673
Modern architecture is all the same in a way, the common feature all modern architecture has is rejection. Rejection of any pre conceived idea, rejection of place, neighbours, culture, I've seen a lot of models and buildings take it so far as to reject the ground itself as something that the architect will let influence their exhibition in how nuts they are.
>>34137011
Maybe on earth. Things will be better in space
>>34136967
>>34136977
>>34136983
>>34136889
>>34136849
>>34136770
Absolutely beautiful. Seeing our land and our buildings makes me very happy to be a European.
![1408293239560[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/yMBK3TB.jpg "1408293239560[1].jpg")
>>34137073
Eh, not beautiful enough. A bit too simple, and too brutish. The Fascists were onto something generally, but they missed the mark with a lot fo their stuff.
>>34137066
2weirdeightiesdune-esquevisionsofthefuture4me
>>34134272
Watch the BBC documentary "Why Beauty Matters". It definitely shown me why many modern styles in architecture and art are garbage.
>>34137137
>>34137186
And Americans say they hate communism
>>34137073
Speer was a good, classically educated architect, and the German spin on neoclassicism+simple art deco looked nice.
>>34137191
>A bit too simple, and too brutish
That's exactly what I like about it though. To me it feels as though it's "traditional architecture for modernity." Like, I understand the respect for tradition buildings, but the simple reality is they look out of place in today's world of cables, technology and high-tech infrastructure.
If you appropriate the good parts of traditional construction and make them more suitable with modern aesthetics, then you have things that not only look good and last for centuries, but also feel "in place" in society.
>>34136983
Modern traditional buildings always look really kitsch, they always use low quality "fake" materials too. I agree with >>34136920's statement though.
>>34137186
nightmare/10
James Kunstler: How bad architecture wrecked cities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ZeXnmDZMQ
>>34137297
You could have said the same thing when they invented electric lamps, or telegraph lines. Many of these conventions go back after two thousand years and their relevance is not effected by the existence of a computer.
>>34137297
No, what the anon you're replying to wanted to say is that NS architecture lacks ornaments and is too brutish. But still it got a bit of hellenistic touch. Its okay but not perfect. The Germania welthauptstadt was a pretty nice idea though.
![Auschwitz-Birkenau1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/rMES8tj.jpg "Auschwitz-Birkenau1[1].jpg")
aesthetic as fuark
>>34137304
>they always use low quality "fake" materials too
Because they don't build anything to last because the assumption is in another 20 - 40 years some other jackass is gonna come along and want something new with his name on it
So our buildings much like everything else suffer the consumerist mentality that all is disposable in the never-ending lust for having something new.
>>34137073
It's a shame they knocked so much of it down, socialist sculpture is alien.
>>34137409
I know, and I'm saying that the lack of ornamentation is what, in my eyes, makes it aesthetically appealing.
>>34137406
The thing is those technologies have since progressed, so the traditional ornamental street lamps have since been replaced by modern steel poles, horse carriages now replaced by sleek modern cars, etc.
For me, personally, I guess I feel that as much as traditional buildings still command a lot of power and emotional invocation, they look kinda silly being full of server rooms and surrounded by hyper-modern electric buses, etc.
Modernist pastiche of a neo-romanesque facade in a 1910s Catholic cathedral.
Yay or nay?
>>34137471
Those rails are /fa/ as fuck; not matching and fucked up.
SEIG HEIL
>>34137581
That building looks like it can't decide if it's a church, lighthouse, roman wall or prison tower.
Nay.
>>34137394
"You're ability to define space and create places that are worth caring about all comes from a body of culture that we call 'the culture of civic design'. This is a body of knowledge, method, skill, and principle that WE through in the garbage after world war II."
noice
>>34137581
Ugh. Do one style all the way through
I have to drive past this every day. I have to attend alot of events here. I am even somewhat friends with the guy this building is named after (or rather his son, because the benefactor named the place after his dad).
I hate you so much Frank Ghery. So. Much.
>>34137666
What's it like inside of there?
>nice devil get
![ed36bf62845d69706bba68fb5db347a8[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/QtBr4UD.jpg "ed36bf62845d69706bba68fb5db347a8[1].jpg")
Hello there, I am a water-tower
>>34137580
>For me, personally, I guess I feel that as much as traditional buildings still command a lot of power and emotional invocation, they look kinda silly being full of server rooms and surrounded by hyper-modern electric buses, etc.
That is simply because you have grown up in a world dominated by modern architecture. You associate the two because that is what you are used to. Its an illusion based on your experiences, which is why things that differ from that seem odd.
The continuation of modernisms depend on habits and biases like this.
>>34137394
"We have about 38,000 places that are not worth caring about in the United States today, when we have enough of them, we're going to have a nation that not worth defending, and I want you to think about that when you think about those young men and women that are over in places like Iraq, spilling their blood in the sand and ask yourself what is their last thought of home? I hope its not the curb cut between the Chuck E. Cheese, and the Target store, because that's not good enough for Americans."
![v2-skyscraper-melting-cars-v2[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/lnCEEpb.jpg "v2-skyscraper-melting-cars-v2[1].jpg")
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/03/world/europe/uk-london-building-melts-car/
>"Reflected light from London skyscraper melts car"
>>34137236
gremany is still obsessed with jew
>>34133225
Hopefully in france it's forbidden to build ugly buildings in typical town, especially in alsace and Provence.
>>34136242
welcome to 2014
>>34133225
There is no way that is real, has to be a shoop.
I mean, who the fuck would design that shit? And who the fuck approved it?
>>34137843
What? It's not that I associate traditional style buildings with modern infrastucture by their nature (I actually really like old timey photographs of the grand European capitals of the Victorian era), it's that you literally can't remove one from the other in this modern world.
I'm saying that if I had a say in the direction of contemporary constructions, I'd push to have large, traditional-proportioned buildings that lack all the decorative facades.
![poster[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/dwS2SWR.jpg "poster[1].jpg")
>>34138019
>>34138082
>who the fuck would design that shit? And who the fuck approved it?
Is my late renaissance town hall cute?
>>34138182
I like the glass pyramide.
a picture at my homeland
also relevant at /pol/ our radical nationalist party is currently in power
:)
>>34138108
Ah, you mean sculptures and ornamentation? Considering most of these additions are mass produced now a days and that artisans and craftsmen of them are all but nonexistent, I don't totally disagree with you.
I wouldn't make a hard and fast rule of it, but ornation simply as some historical anachronistic roleplay is not what we need.
One other thing: its not always clear where classical forms end and extraneous ornamentation begins.
>>34138225
>2 clocks
I love it.
>>34135954
The worst thing about the cathedral in Cologne is that it's surrounded by shitskin drug dealers, the fountain in front of it is full of cigarette butts and the pavements around it are littered with bottles and dog (I hope it's dog) shit.
Posting some Pyoongyang stuff.
Sure it may look kinda old but it still looks cozy to me in some way.
Video: http://vimeo.com/102051605
>>34137394
This seems good. Man, America looks grim. Sorry Ameribros, I'm sure you have some nicer bits. London is largely fucking horrible as well, if that makes you feel better.
>>34138381
Cozy in a horrific gulag way.
>>34138251
more
>>34138467
You can say what you want but their statues and propaganda posters are 10/10
>>34138503
The building in the background is simple yet it doesn't look "modern/minimalistic/boring".
this isn't built where you would think it would be
>>34138251
>>34138486
>china eclipsing the west when
>>34138503
They're mostly just copying the ruskies though.
>>34138574
that looks a lot like my city's old town hall, i guess its built somewhere in the midwest
>>34138675
But the russians have this super boring/sombre soviet feel to them. To me >>34138654 >>34138616 >>34138559 & >>34138503 look pretty cozy. I know the 90% of NK is total crap but pyongyang is a beautiful city IMO
![550x325_88fdc38c-3440-4aab-9291-fbd824a1dbe0[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/HcH8o38.jpg "550x325_88fdc38c-3440-4aab-9291-fbd824a1dbe0[1].jpg")
>>34138317
The lower clock includes mechanical goats which have a fight every noon.
They sometimes get stuck but hey, they've been there since 1551.
>>34138630
>>34133898
Excellent so far, thanks for sharing anon.
![wichita_city_hall[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/qKyc18X.jpg "wichita_city_hall[1].jpg")
>>34138574
>>34138182
The pyramid du Louvre is okay. That's how ou do it right.
It didn't change the palace itself, it just added something in the courtyard as well as a new entrance for the basement of the museum.
Paris still look great and traditional, with few exceptions (the Tour Montparnasse which look like shit), all the modern towers are only in the buiness district of La Defense. Whn you have a city that is 2000 years old, you respect it.
>>34138616
is that north korea's single functioning station?
>>34138616
>>34138654
Would visit if not for risk of imprisonment
Is the email field renamed to "options" for anyone else?
>>34138743
close
i'll give you a hint
>>34135853
Are you fucking retarded? It's called One Wolrd Trade Center because it is the number one building of the world trade center complex, which is made up of 5 skyscrapers. Just like how the North Tower's actual name was also One World Trade Center. You people are so fucking stupid sometimes it's not even funny.
>>34138941
Dallas?
>>34138877
The pyramid in the louvre is one of very the few "modern architecture mixed with traditional architecture" done right, the inside is also really beautiful (yet simple).
>>34138920
I don't think the risk is that high, probably MUCH lower than countries luke turkey. from what I know there is only one foreigner in a north korean prison, and like 2000 people go yearly.
I live in a town near bath so go there alot and it is the most butiful city I have ever been to, even the shit parts are mlg pro
>>34136553
meh it doesn't look so bad
>>34139030
Nice google reverse image search :^)
![1024px-Wroclaw-Rathaus[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/X1MFBrj.jpg "1024px-Wroclaw-Rathaus[1].jpg")
>>34139030
yes
>>34138978
WTC cannot into architecture
