The Ponte saga is a classic South African story. Once a Jacuzzi-filled playground for the segregated white elite in the apartheid era, then falling into chaos in the 1990s as the wealthy fled to the suburbs, then the object of failed luxury-condo schemes, the tower is now undergoing a renaissance as an icon of Johannesburg’s urban revitalization. [...]
The hollow core began to fill with garbage and rubble – several stories high.
— theglobeandmail.com
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that is an interesting building...
This was used to great effect in the film Chappie.
You watched chappie? You?
yo boy? I google the Chappie with Ponte and got this
is this Die Antwoort?
Wahnsinn!
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random note...with a little money i am going to build this somewhere sometime
got it now Boy!
nice!
'I FINK U FREEKY'
wait am I talking to myself, could be....
roots : http://www.rogerballen.com/
and some keith haring . .. .
thanks for the link....
documentary is interesting
In the Archinect The Movie Chris would be played by Bruce Willis.
when we making the movie? btw i get that occasionally, but i like a big Bruce Willis...what about Miles?
bjarke ingels would play Olaf.....
Feldman and the other fellas should be persecuted like the Nazis for crimes against humanity. Beause for conceiving such an abort you either have to be deeply hopeless for Architecture, or you have to do it with the intention of doing your job in the worst possible way.
In both cases, license revoked.
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