Architects, is there a technical term for holes in buildings

[rich p]

Talking of architects, Zaha Hadid's death has just been announced. Only 65.

Blimey, she was on Desert Island Discs a few weeks back.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

cripes, what's holding that up up, magic?

Harry Potter with his cloak on

 

[DRM]

[QUOTE 4217585, member: 45"]This is the one I find most uncomfortable. Not least because it's in Benidorm...

[/QUOTE]Theres room on the left to build an "O" shaped building, and on the right for a "G" shaped building.

 

[John the Monkey]

[QUOTE 4217585, member: 45"]This is the one I find most uncomfortable. Not least because it's in Benidorm...

[/QUOTE]
Presumably the town is just waiting for delivery of the top half of their giant robot sentinel.

 

[irw]

Presumably the town is just waiting for delivery of the top half of their giant robot sentinel.

I'm having trouble deciding if that's a real building or a computer generated image...!

 

[subaqua]

I am told this is nick-named the Philishave building. There are three wind turbines in those holes. Originally the building was intended to face into the prevailing wind, but for commercial reasons it was turned around, which may, or may not, be why I have never seen the turbines move.

Nope . The turbines don't turn because they have been locked into place as the vibrations and noise from them were greater than the designer anticipated and the residents complained.

 

[AndyRM]

[QUOTE 4218810, member: 45"]I think that pic is CGI, but the monstrosity is real.[/QUOTE]

An absolute blight of a building.

A guy I know came close to buying a flat in there (he's a classless fud with far too much money) but decided against it when the arse fell out of Spanish property.

They were after something like £250,000 for a one bed place which looked, from his pictures, about the size of a shoebox.

 

[Piemaster]

Rio, a place where brutalist architecture and buildings with holes in sit side by side

 

[slowmotion]

Nope . The turbines don't turn because they have been locked into place as the vibrations and noise from them were greater than the designer anticipated and the residents complained.

I can see St George's Tower, Vauxhall from work. It too has a useless, greenwash turbine. Anyway, while trying to find some information about how little energy it generated, I came across this rather fine article in The Architects Journal....

http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/...aign-a-tale-of-two-towers/8661388.fullarticle