hm.Start with suburbia(cookie cutter housing, stereotypical shopping complexes, fast food chains) then work the way to the city(block offices, block skyscrapers)..
oh we can't leave all the god of them all.. WAL-MART SUPERCENTER
Well, to clarify, I would bulldoze savoy because I'm sick of hearing about it in school, and I just think it's ugly. There were a lot of neat ideas there, but it's just not my cup of tea.
After Orhan posted that picture, it reminded me of the exact replica of the Roby house someone is building in Lubbock...only with 10' ceilings. I'll post pictures sometime tomorrow. That's my new vote.
what's wrong with the oma project, meta? i've visited those in berlin and, while the eisenman is a stinker, the oma wasn't. didn't see the zaha; it may not have been there in 1990. doesn't look bad from here.
you guys who would bulldoze capital 'a' architecture - whether you like the work or not - are nuts! i'm no fan of ricardo bofill, but the worst bofill is better than the best stucco developer special.
metamechanic, sorry to get a bit personal, but i'd look into my own backyard before wanting to 'bulldoze' architectures which do make a case in point. Just glancing through the 'metamechanics llc' site i dont see any thing i would not bulldoze after they get built.
Nashville celebrates the Tomato (A Uniter, Not a Divider - Bringing Together Fruits and Vegetables) by holding a Tomato Art Festival across the river in a historic neighbordhood called Edgefield. One of the events during the festival includes a tomato toss at a building that will soon be demolished.
The demolitions are somewhat symbolic for this neighborhood that has turned around significantly in the past 5 years. The structures that have been removed had a reputation for being the breeding grounds for drugs and sex. As gentrification sweeps up the neighborhood, more and more developers are purchasing such establishments only to tear down and create a snazzy new mixed use building.
So as the story goes, the Farmer's Market donates their overripe (please note: never use the word rotten in front of a farmer) tomatos for the event. It starts early with tons and tons of little kids standing in front of their buckets of tomatos. Then we toss and toss and toss until all 200 lbs of overripe tomatos are dripping down the exterior walls of some dilapidated structure. Then the crowd stands back while a big Bobcat takes it swings at the building. It's a great event. And it deals with bulldozing so I felt it belongs in this thread.
what building would you bulldoze
Suppose you could destroy any building, which one would you choose?
Plenty that my firm has designed.
Oops, did I just write that?
ren cen...detroit
The White House
the Lourve
mdler stole my idea, so i guess i'll use my bulldozer to bulldoze rfuller's bulldozer before he bulldozes villa savoye.
bulldoze!
rfuller...you want to bulldoze savoye?
you must have real high standards for design...so i assume you dont live in the US, right?
tilt up concrete office parks.
all of them.
i'm riding shotgun with cris!
and then we'll get the faux stucco shopping centers!
we'll be very busy.
yes!!! those will have to go for sure!
can we ride around with flame throwers too?
like the chick in the j.geils song? sure!
She's a flame - flamethrower
She's a flamethrower at night
She's a flame - a red-hot glower
She's a flamethrower at night
just one?
nice, but corbu can trump that!
i'll do this one...
no way! hahahaha!
That is insane. I bet it's across the street from a Jiffy Lube.
hm.Start with suburbia(cookie cutter housing, stereotypical shopping complexes, fast food chains) then work the way to the city(block offices, block skyscrapers)..
oh we can't leave all the god of them all.. WAL-MART SUPERCENTER
DIE DIE DIE!
Oh what fun it would be..
Well, to clarify, I would bulldoze savoy because I'm sick of hearing about it in school, and I just think it's ugly. There were a lot of neat ideas there, but it's just not my cup of tea.
After Orhan posted that picture, it reminded me of the exact replica of the Roby house someone is building in Lubbock...only with 10' ceilings. I'll post pictures sometime tomorrow. That's my new vote.
rfuller, i'll do (bulldoze) 10' robie too.;.)
what's wrong with the oma project, meta? i've visited those in berlin and, while the eisenman is a stinker, the oma wasn't. didn't see the zaha; it may not have been there in 1990. doesn't look bad from here.
I, too, am waiting on Trump to finish something before my bulldozer moves in...
...OH, where did the IBM building go?!?! Guess Trump owns Chicago, now.
(might as well let him drop of ton of his vulgar money before getting the deed done!)
Every mall in New Jersey.
This:
And This
walmarts.......mwahahahhahaahaha
you guys who would bulldoze capital 'a' architecture - whether you like the work or not - are nuts! i'm no fan of ricardo bofill, but the worst bofill is better than the best stucco developer special.
peru, you're joking about razing ando's church of the light, right? right!?
nah, guess I'm just trying to balance things out a bit. Side note; both autodidacts
metamechanic, sorry to get a bit personal, but i'd look into my own backyard before wanting to 'bulldoze' architectures which do make a case in point. Just glancing through the 'metamechanics llc' site i dont see any thing i would not bulldoze after they get built.
Personally, The Dancing House, makes me want to vomit. I am actually interested in the Engineering of this building than the architecture.
oh man...
please make it stop...
does this count??
Harvard's great, but Gund Hall isn't:
Peru, the church of light? blasphemy, sheer blasphemy.
I believe the inspiration for Gund Hall was a fishing tackle box.
I love breaking glass.
ooh, the crystal cathedral! nice one, waterhouse. Having grown up 15 minutes from that monstrosity, I'd happily join you with a sledge hammer in hand.
They should tear this down just for the fact that the Knicks are such a joke;
wait, can we specify that Schuller stays inside during the demo?
this could be anywhere, so I say anything like this...
jwillefo, its already being taken care of.
http://www.realestatejournal.com/columnists_com/plotsploys/20070719-plots.html
Nashville celebrates the Tomato (A Uniter, Not a Divider - Bringing Together Fruits and Vegetables) by holding a Tomato Art Festival across the river in a historic neighbordhood called Edgefield. One of the events during the festival includes a tomato toss at a building that will soon be demolished.
The demolitions are somewhat symbolic for this neighborhood that has turned around significantly in the past 5 years. The structures that have been removed had a reputation for being the breeding grounds for drugs and sex. As gentrification sweeps up the neighborhood, more and more developers are purchasing such establishments only to tear down and create a snazzy new mixed use building.
So as the story goes, the Farmer's Market donates their overripe (please note: never use the word rotten in front of a farmer) tomatos for the event. It starts early with tons and tons of little kids standing in front of their buckets of tomatos. Then we toss and toss and toss until all 200 lbs of overripe tomatos are dripping down the exterior walls of some dilapidated structure. Then the crowd stands back while a big Bobcat takes it swings at the building. It's a great event. And it deals with bulldozing so I felt it belongs in this thread.
Here are some pics from last Saturday's event.
all those deliscious looking tomatos!
Architectress870 , not the batman building!
come on, i have a dresser like this damn philip johnson building
I think people are bulldozing the capital "A" architecture here for the laughs and keeping in the spirit of the thread.
So I'd bulldoze:
Just because its so damn pretty and everyone seems to love it.
I second that Johnson Chippendale ATT Building.....I think this might have been his work at the lowest point of his life.....
Yep, the Batman Building...I wish I'd known about the tomato throwing...maybe I could've hit that damn ugly building with a bunch of tomatoes...
i should get my physics notes out, make a little cannon for those metal balls, and shoot a bunch at the buildings mentioned above
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