Why did the British decide to make a giant buttplug for people

>>66448244
London skyline is so fucking ugly compared to our big cities.

Dubai-tier architecture

>London

Ah, naturally

>>66448244
I don't get the hate for this building, to me it looks like Faberge egg, it's quite aesthetic

>>66448305
more like cheap copy,this building is ugly

"The Shard" is way uglier

>>66448305
A Farrage egg

>>66448269

it's sad, because other buildings here are actually quite nice and historic, and go back to the Victorian era. don't know why people felt like London needed skyscrapers or an eye-catching skyline

>>66448244
Your mum needs something that will touch the sides for a change.

>>66448456
Because "muh financial center". Every city that's at least semi-relevant in banking gets plastered with skyscrapers for some reason, with the exception of Zurich.

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>>66448456
It could have been worse.

>>66448646
That frame with tent inside is the ugliest building in Europe

>>66449106
It looks good from the distance, but up close it's butt ugly.

>>66449176
It looks like shit from the distance too because it's off center and has that shitty fucking tent inside

>>66448269
I prefer Londen over the most American cities. Although I think New York is more beautiful.

>>66449233
Chicago, Houston and Atlanta are better than this shit. LA is kinda underwhelming for its size, though.

>>66448646
At least they didn't scatter them all around the city, they kept them within a containment zone. London is an absolute clusterfuck.

>>66449339
LA didn't start building up until relatively recently (partly due to earthquakes, partly due to cheap land to expand into), so it's skyline more resembles that of a metro area of 4-5 million, not 20. It's also extremely bland and generic.

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>>66449482
The most underwhelming skyline is Phoenix, BY FAR. They are the 6th largest city in the US and have a metro area of 4.5 million people yet their skyline is El Paso tier.

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This one is worse desu. I didn't even know it existed until I went to London and saw it in person, I literally lol'd

>>66448244
This building is nice, though. The facade and patterning are both beautiful, and it's undoubtedly iconic. Think of it as a sugestive object if you will, but that's on you for being extremely childish.
And besides the walkie talkie, there's nothing wrong with London's skyline, aside from there not being nearly enough towers.

>>66449593

Yeah, that's definitely the worst one

Also it melts cars

>>66449581
Adelaide tier (~1 million)

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>>66449827

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>>66449827
>>66449581

It's because the land in the Valley is so cheap there's no incentive to build tall buildings, the whole city is just one gigantic sprawl on steroids.

>>66450110
That is putrid

tbf all american skylines, except for nyc and chicago, look like rows of incongurent cheap playmobil turds

i'm not saying london looks good, but at least there's some unique historic stuff on ground level

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>>66450183
Philadelphia (5th largest) metro: 4,629 sq mi
Phoenix (6th largest) metro: 14,565 sq mi

>>66448456
What is so special about buildings from rhe Victorian Era. We demolish a lot of 19th century to architecture to replace it with something new. People don't want to take time to restore 19th century buildings here. We just care about everything before the 18th century here.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WFleSzODnBM

>>66450424
SF skyline is nice, Golden Gate is iconic of course. Aside from them, Philadelphia, Boston and Seattle are all pleasant enough aesthetically (the former two actually having some nice architecture on ground level too).

don't mind the buttplug one as much as the walkie talkie

the problem with london is the combination of historic city streets and impositional skyscraper being forced by the likes of bojo. if you want the former, you need to keep it to smaller older style buildings . if you want the latter you need a more conventional grid structure.

the other problem is the conflict met between rigid city planning today vs the absence of planning long ago that led to a million towns in the thames valley becoming one giant suburb

london is the worst place to do so well.

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>>66450424
The Victorian stuff in London is nice, but a good chunk of that city are brutalist / functionalist commieblock eyesores from the 60s and 70s, literally Russia tier.

>>66449482
I've heard LA described as more of a giant suburb than a metropolis.

>>66449593
It looks like a paper shredder youd buy out Staples.

>>66448244
>British decide
British don't decide anything. They obey what they Jews tell them to do.

>>66450183
How so? Everyone gets some lebensraum in nice comfy suburbs away from minioriies

>>66450642
Were they trying to bring 1984 to life?

>>66450424
Boston isn't had but that's because it has some historic areas. Beacon Hill is pretty nice.

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>>66450642
i love me some good brutalism

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we blade runner now?

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>>66451112

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>>66451064
>Were they trying to bring 1984 to life?

Maybe.

The actual reason is two-fold

>regulations to protect the sight-lines to St. Pauls Cathedral from various point sin London required the building to curve inwards towards the top
>desire to maximize floor-space from a fixed plot of land made it bulging in the centre desirable

The first point applies to dozens of other buildings, the 'cheese grater' (122 leadenhall) is wedge shaped for the same reason.

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>>66451180
iconic

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>make a shopping centre
>make it look like Chernobyl

bravo

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>>66451608

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I like London a lot more than Paris as a city in general, but the Parisians do a better job of planning out their city center, for the most part anyway..

>>66451608
>>66451657
The bus I take home goes through there, I like brutalism sometimes, but Cumbernauld is really unsurpassed in grimness

I prefer Londons skyline to most other places desu, I think having the skyscrapers spread out makes them stand out more than they do in your average yank big city. I also like the mix of new and old, providing it's not done horrifically

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>>66449339
theyre trying

>>66452010
>>66451608
>>66451657

whoever owns goes bust lol. the new company are doing a lot of investment work rn and which amounts to painting it blue and shutting off a significant wing to streamline footfall.

in the location it didn't make any sense to have a traditional high street but the location should never have been chosen in the first place .

it was just so they could steal the awards from other new towns of the era by building a landmark


the town itself is built surprisingly well with the worst parts being the modern private developments

>>66448244
Only gays think of a buttplug when they look at that building. OP is a faggot.

>>66449866
hideous

>>66450612
Why didn't anybody listen?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iriNIKeBLY

>>66455527
Is that ferris wheel the belfast eye?

I honestly feel like I could design a better building just due to having a mildly artistic sense and possessing eyes.

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>>66449581
>>66449866
Reminds me of Edmonton.

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>European cities typically don't have skylines because it was considered unholy to have buildings taller than the church

>>66455765
wew

I didnt realise Charles was such a good lad

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>>66449413
Frankfurt could be better, there is no containment zone so most of it is in the city center. But at least they managed it to amass the cluster somewhat aesthetically with the tallest tower in the center.

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>>66456561
Why are the royals so based?

>>66455765
Charles has always been based, shame he'll be dead when it's his time to reign.

>>66456599
Why are some of them topped by candy canes?

>>66456483
See >>66455765
We'd prefer no skylines tbf mate. They're hideous.

>>66456720
Those are antennas, and they have to be painted white and red as warning so that no aircraft fly into them. Its a building code regulation thing.

>>66456720
looks like the one that *was* on top of the north tower 2bh

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>>66456865
looked more like a barbell desu

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>>66457003
wrong pic

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Anarcho-Capitalism: the city

>>66457044
confused me there lmao I was going to say

they do still look pretty similar though, probably due to them having the same purpose

>>66456483
Generally they are ugly and overwhelming.
Another thing that is easy to forget is that the further north you get, the more skewed the skyline is.
Since there is no overhead noon for most of the year, a wrongly built skyline will just be a gigantic sun blocker.
Now, Oslo, Stockholm, and cities inbetween is far enough South that its not a super concern, but its a issue. If you go further north, it become a huge issue.
Gavle, Trondheim and Ostersund are all cities thats far enough North for it it to be a issue.
The entire of Finland is so far north its a issue.

It doens't help that a lot of modern architecture is gigantic bricks that looks worse than Lego.

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>>66448244

Germany has an Anal bead.

>>66448536
Dublin doesn't. The council shuts down any attempt at skyscrapers.

>>66448286
london has more mosques desu