Architecture Thread

[Igor]

That's the future we need.

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Some progress updates...

London Shard

I walk past the Shard twice a day, going to and from work. If you want any photos taken, let me know.

Shanghai in 1984

Shanghai in 2014

Criminal.

Anyone else think that a city skyline with two or three buildings that dwarf the other skyscrapers just looks stupid?

Shanghai is still work in progress...

[Alvin Flummux]

Yay, light pollution.

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Some updates...

Shanghai Tower


Tokyo Sky Tree


London Shard


North Korea Tower of Doom

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[John Galt]

I saw The Shard as I was coming in to London the other day. It looks absolutely boss on the skyline and I'm sure it'll soon be adopted as one of the city's iconic landmarks.

[jamcc]

Those photos were taken today, right? That's how the shard looked today and the scaffolding was there on that pub (in the second photo) too.

That first photo actually shows the route of my walk to the tube from my office.

[Slartibartfast]

I saw The Shard as I was coming in to London the other day. It looks absolutely boss on the skyline and I'm sure it'll soon be adopted as one of the city's iconic landmarks.

When I was last in London I was looking around for it, then realised it was fooking massive on the skyline and couldn't understand how I hadn't seen it before that moment.

Looks amazing.

[Igor]

It's not a new building, in fact it no longer even stands today; it only today features in nursery rhymes and history books. As far as I know there are no plans or even thoughts to bring it back, but I would rather like to see the old London Bridge be rebuilt and adapted to cope with today's river traffic.

It wouldn't serve any great transportation need, but it would serve as another tourist attraction for the city and it'd look bloody amazing too.

That would be strawberry floating awesome.

Some progress updates...

London Shard

I walk past the Shard twice a day, going to and from work. If you want any photos taken, let me know.

Shanghai in 1984

Shanghai in 2014

Criminal.

Anyone else think that a city skyline with two or three buildings that dwarf the other skyscrapers just looks stupid?

Shanghai is still work in progress...

Needs more flying cars.

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http://m.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/j ... to-fanfare

[Alvin Flummux]

So, the Shard can be used as a Doctor Who-style weapon of mass destruction with lasers?

Cool.

[jamcc]

I only remembered that the Shard opened today as I got on my tube train at London Bridge. Forgot to even look at the thing during my walk from the office.

[Vermin]

http://m.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/04/london-shard-opens-to-fanfare

I like it. It looks beautiful in that pic. As much as it stings many of us that a foreign-owned symbol of inequality was officially opened to Fanfare for the Common Man, one only has to take a look back at the petition against the Eiffel Tower launch at the World's Fair to get the idea that time will be be the official judge, as it's how the structure stands compared to older and newer buildings within context.

Are we going to let all [the sights of Paris] be desecrated? Is the City of Paris going to keep on associating itself with the baroque and mercantile imagination of a machine-maker, irretrievably losing its beauty and honour?

The Eiffel Tower, which business-like America itself would reject is, make no mistake, the dishonour of Paris. Everyone feels it, everyone reads it, everyone is deeply sad about it. When foreigner come to visit our World Fair, they will shout in astonishment: “What? Is this horror what the French have come up with to give us an idea of their good taste?” And they will be right to mock us, because the Paris of sublime gothic architecture, the Paris of Jean Goujon, of Germain Pilon, of Puget, of Rude, of Barye etc… will have become the Paris of Mr Eiffel.

To understand what we are talking about, all you need do is figure a dizzyingly ridiculous tower domineering Paris like a black and gigantic factory chimney, crushing with its barbaric mass Notre-Dame, the Sainte-Chapelle, the Tour Saint-Jacques, the Louvre, the Dôme des Invalides, the Arc de Triomphe, all our monuments humiliated, our very architecture shrunk, disappearing in this mind-boggling dream.

[Cheeky Devlin]

http://m.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/04/london-shard-opens-to-fanfare

Crackdown 3: The Agency Moves To London

[Madness]

The Shard is such an eyesore So is the gherkin. Hate both of them. The Shard doesn't fit in to London's skyline at all.

[Alvin Flummux]

Skylines change and evolve over time. Get over it.

[Frank]

The Gherkin is rubbish though. Awful name, awful shape.

[Peter Crisp]

The Walkie Talkie is going up fast as well . I know it's not everyone's cup of tea but I love it.



http://www.urban75.org/blog/walkie-talk ... into-life/

[jamcc]

'The Gherkin' is a nickname...

To be honest, I don't particularly like it. If I could have London my way I'd go back and prevent the bombings WWII and retain as much glorious pre-war architecture as I could. Pretty much everything we've built since then has ranged from utterly disgraceful and pathetically misguided to decent, at best.

[Pontius Pilate]

Watched a video of the laser show. Looked pish. The Impact Zone does it better. That pictures is cool though.