Architecture Thread

[Peter Crisp]

Here's the crappy twisty tower .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Tower

What the hell is that?

Every floor can rotate independently so that everyone can have the view they like the most. All that means though is that you end up with a discordant mess .

[Frank]

All that means though is that you end up with a discordant mess .

Indeedy That's the one thing that really gets me about some modern architecture. Sort of like a lot of the stuff Dual's been posting, it just doesn't look like anything. See: The Selfridges building, for a not quite brilliant example.

That rotate-y tower looks alright in the first two pictures, then it just goes awful. Why not make it entirely round, so when people rotate their floors you can't notice?

[Dual]

It's a technical marvel. And is run from solar power and wind turbines. Having a room which rotates just so you can change your view to suit the mood is pretty much the most outlandish design decision ever.

[Alvin Flummux]

How do you get up the thing if floors are rotating? You'd need a shitload more lifts and stairs than usual, I imagine. What if a plane hits and it threatens to come down, but you can't escape because some bozo on Floor 14 wants to die looking at the river?

Edit: Hang on, it'll have a central column for inter-floor access.

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It's a technical marvel. And is run from solar power and wind turbines. Having a room which rotates just so you can change your view to suit the mood is pretty much the most outlandish design decision ever.

Almost as outlandish as making all the floors circular so it doesn't look like a 3 year old made it.

[Frank]

How do you get up the thing if floors are rotating? You'd need a shitload more lifts and stairs than usual. What if a plane hits and it threatens to come down, but you can't escape because some bozo on Floor 14 wants to die looking at the river?

Some kind of central elevator area that doesn't rotate with the rest of the building, I'd imagine.

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How do you get up the thing if floors are rotating? You'd need a shitload more lifts and stairs than usual. What if a plane hits and it threatens to come down, but you can't escape because some bozo on Floor 14 wants to die looking at the river?

Some kind of central elevator area that doesn't rotate with the rest of the building, I'd imagine.

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Don't you know you shouldn't use those in the event of a fire or an aircraft hitting the building?

[Frank]

It'll have a spiral staircase, too

Or parachutes for everyone inside, so in the event that the building is inescapable in a fire, you can just leap out the window.

[Dual]

It's a technical marvel. And is run from solar power and wind turbines. Having a room which rotates just so you can change your view to suit the mood is pretty much the most outlandish design decision ever.

Almost as outlandish as making all the floors circular so it doesn't look like a 3 year old made it.

It's the height of extravagance, which suits Dubai quite well I think.

[Peter Crisp]

I think the reason it's not round is so the can show off that it's a rotating tower even if that does mean it looks a mess. If it was round how would people tell that it's rotating as it would always look the same.

[Frank]

The people inside would know, and the people outside wouldn't think "Gosh, that looks hideous".

[Dual]

MAXXI National Museum Rome



It won the 2010 RIBA Stirling Prize

[John Galt]

Anyone interested in architecture should read The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. It's got a very good story behind it and hopefully you'll come away from it with a completely new take on the world.

[Qikz]

Here's the crappy twisty tower .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Tower

What the hell is that?

Every floor can rotate independently so that everyone can have the view they like the most. All that means though is that you end up with a discordant mess .

I actually really like the look of that. It'll look amazing with real sunlight bouncing off the glass and whatever.

[Igor]

Here's the crappy twisty tower .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Tower

What the hell is that?

Every floor can rotate independently so that everyone can have the view they like the most. All that means though is that you end up with a discordant mess .

I actually really like the look of that. It'll look amazing with real sunlight bouncing off the glass and whatever.

It's probably not going to happen.

'He [the architect] is the perpetrator of one of the largest cases of corporate fraud in the history of Israel, and has been sentenced to three years’ prison in April 2010.'

[Alvin Flummux]

Maybe it'll appear in an episode of Fringe.

[Frank]

I actually really like the look of that.

Kiss of death, right there.

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I just realised what it reminds me of! A stack of flotation aids at a swimming pool!

[jamcc]

MAXXI National Museum Rome



It won the 2010 RIBA Stirling Prize

How did that win an award. It's strawberry floating awful.

[Carter]

Anyone interested in architecture should read The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. It's got a very good story behind it and hopefully you'll come away from it with a completely new take on the world.

It's an infinitely better book than Atlas Shrugged, but I'm a dirty, horrible, centrist/centre-leftist and I still managed to take away a positive message.

Rand is a terrible author with an even worse ideology, but whether by accident or design, her works occasionally have a powerful line or quote hidden amongst bad, clunky prose and rambling, incoherent objectivist ideology.

Disagree? Explain to me, then, the villainous weapon of mass destruction from Atlas Shrugged... Or, indeed, any of Atlas Shrugged.