Degenerate Architecture

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Stony Brook University Hospital. Architect: Bertrand (((Goldberg))). What do I win?

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>>1303507
(((Frank Owen Goldberg))) better known as Frank Gehry.

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>>1303512

>>1303514

pretty cool. Gives vibe of "ministry of truth"

>>1303507
coulhouse. He's dutch isn't he?

>>1303520
>coulhouse
*koolhaas

>>1303514
Looks like an extremely crude 3D render

>>1303516
>a fucking death star

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inside malta parliament

>>1303510
That's fuckin sick dude, get some taste.

>>1303507
Penn State Millennium Science building. I did some work there when it was under construction. It features a huge cantilevered front entrance, which is a total waste of usable space....all at the cost of tax payers.

>>1303509
That one is roughly a million times better than the first two.

>>1303524
looks like some sort of repurposed prison shower

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>>1303507
why is this degenerate? It has a great circulation path that allows you to continuously walk around all book sections from the lobby to the top floor. The multi-height space at the west entrance is very impressive as well and connects the different levels to the lobby.

>>1303508
>>1303512

at first I used to think Gehry was degenerate but he is a victim of his success. Gehry has become a brand in architecture, that you can describe his architecture as a Gehry building. That leads to clients going to Gehry for a "Gehry" building rather than allowing him to do something he wants. Walt Disney Concert Hall is still one of the best buildings both in form and function though. The same applies to Zaha Hadid, Morphosis (to an extent but he does what he wants), and Coop Himmeblau. Jean Nouvel manages to escape this by having pretty much no signature style.

>>1303517
One issue I can understand that critics have of BIG is that he tends to recycle concepts and have similar looking buildings. With that said, he represents what every young architect (myself included) wants to be, successful at a young age BUT still down to earth. I heard Thom Mayne lecture a week before hearing Bjarke Ingels and I was turned off by Mayne's arrogance and use of big terminology to explain a simple concept. Bjarke explains his work in easy language terms that anyone, both architects and non-architects can understand. His work analyses the surrounding context and responds to it, though I do wish he would be more meticulous about it rather than using the same finishes. His buildings end up as large scale diagrams.

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Commieblocks are the worst type of architecture

>>1303507
The seattle public library is the best building built in the states in the last 25 years.
Fuck off.

>>1303507
posvar hall at the university of pittsburgh

>>1303507
Seattle library?

>>1303530
https://www.google.rs/maps/@44.800689,20.370139,3a,75y,358.26h,79.73t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1sO-Qq8WhsxK_lP9K_28SL1g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i49
someone actually thought this shit was a good idea. just let that sink in.

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>>1303512
This is another one by Frank (((Gehry))), who was born as Frank Owen Goldberg.

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>>1303528
top lel

>>1303528
It looks like docking plate found in the bed of a pick up truck.

is anyone in this thread an architect?

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Science Centre Norway

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>>1303507
Architect name: Burger Dixon.

>>1303507

I never thought I'd see a /pol/ OP featuring the Seattle Public Library.

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>>1303541
>Burger Dixon

>>1303509
I like this one, urban areas don't have enough trees.

>>1303540
Reminds me of Flymuseet in Bodö.

>>1303528
top fucking kek

>>1303529
In an interview Rem describe that intent of his design as a constant tension and constant uneasy feeling from the people looking at it as a dynamic element of his design.

As for Gehry, he willfully distort and misshape his building to denote movement and energy. See Sydney Polllak documentary that have him not know the buildings circulation and basic functions and leave it to his assistant to work it out with great pain in thier part. I suspect that his decline in visual showmanship is the fact that one of his senior designer left his office.

>>1303540
aka the fidget spinner

>>1303508
This building looks like someone's Nvidia Quadro barfed all over the screen while the doing the CAD work for this building

>>1303509
>>1303511
>>1303515

I don't mind these if nothing decent had to be destroyed in order to build them.

>>1303524
Aaaand we got our 2nd worst govt building after the Boston Town Hall.

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The worst is when (((they))) infect old architecture.

Let's take a gorgeous building with a rich heritage and attach a festering tumor to it.

>>1303551
Who even thinks that looks good?

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>>1303551

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>>1303510
>confusing god-tier brutalist with postmodern horseshit
get reel

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Renzo Piano

>>1303510
Reminds me of Simon Stålenhag art.

Check it out, it's really cool stuff: http://www.simonstalenhag.se/

>>1303515
Looks like a giant CPU heatsink

>>1303558
elegiggle

>>1303553
Good god, why?

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I like the BlackRock building

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Slettebakken church in Bergen. Built in 1970. Altar on the right

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>>1303556

Wow fuck the mods

>it's another "/bant/ is /pol/'s rubbish bin" episode

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>>1303622
>/bant/ elitists

>>1303597
dam

>>1303678
That's pretty neat though. Not degenerate.

What's actually degenerate about all this?

Like, a ton of it is FUCKING UGLY (I know ugly most of all, I live south of Toronto and our Museum was parasitized by a big crystalline tumour) but what about it is morally wrong or literally degenerate?

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>>1303507
Modern day architecture sucks, simply as that.

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>>1303507
you post the library but not this monstrosity.

>>1303750
This looks like an imported thread from /pol/.

>>1303622
What the hegg is imptrash?

>>1303515
>let's destroy the structural integrity of our building for no good reason

I wasn't prepared for the rage this thread brought me.

>>1303547
Is Gehry the Tomas Edison of Architects?

most of these are pretty cool, stop whining.

>>1303536
Wow. I didn't know buildings this shit actually existed.