Buildings and architecture - good and bad

[Bonefish Blues]

I am getting worse at mis - reading things.
I had to do a double take at the thread title as I read

'Bulldogs and architecture'

Bonehenge:

https://www.dezeen.com/2022/06/08/bonehenge-birds-portchmouth-russum-architects/

 

[bitsandbobs]

I didn't get off the train. Is there a backstory then?

Quite a number of his projects have had "issues". Leaky roofs, collapses during construction, slippery bridges, cladding falling off...

I visited his Oculus building in NYC last year, a major transport hub and part of the ground zero redevelopment. It's less than 10 years old and the floor is already crumbling. And that's aside from the design issues which make it ludicrously difficult to get from the street to the trains.

 

[briantrumpet]

Quite a number of his projects have had "issues". Leaky roofs, collapses during construction, slippery bridges, cladding falling off...

I visited his Oculus building in NYC last year, a major transport hub and part of the ground zero redevelopment. It's less than 10 years old and the floor is already crumbling. And that's aside from the design issues which make it ludicrously difficult to get from the street to the trains.

Ah, thanks. I remember something about a Zaha Hadid fire station where it was apparent she'd focused on the aesthetics more than the practicalities of what a fire station needs to do and the safety aspects required... possibly not an overly rare tendency amongst big name architects...

 

[ColinJ]

Ah, thanks. I remember something about a Zaha Hadid fire station where it was apparent she'd focused on the aesthetics more than the practicalities of what a fire station needs to do and the safety aspects required... possibly not an overly rare tendency amongst big name architects...

Strangely, YouTube recently decided to present me with this video about the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse...



A shocking example of powerful clients pressuring an architect to make changes to a design, structural engineers not pointing out weaknesses in that changed design, a construction company asking for changes to the changes, the structural engineers not checking the changed changes properly, and the architects by then apparently completely out of the loop.

Result - 114 people died!

 

[accountantpete]

Sadly the brutalist Police Station in Wrexham was demolished in 2020

 

[briantrumpet]

I'm not sure if @rjsterry is still of this parish, but this will appeal to him and others, I think:

https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/architectural-and-interiors-photography-2/

Some gorgeous architectural photography.

 

[rjsterry]

Ah, the architectural 'honesty' debate 😀. Always up for a bit of artifice if skillfully deployed.

I'm not sure if @rjsterry is still of this parish, but this will appeal to him and others, I think:

https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/architectural-and-interiors-photography-2/

Some gorgeous architectural photography.

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I'm still around, just stupidly busy with work. Very nice.

 

[briantrumpet]

Ah, the architectural 'honesty' debate 😀. Always up for a bit of artifice if skillfully deployed.


I'm still around, just stupidly busy with work. Very nice.

Glad you've not yet evaporated into the ether or the Escher.

I'm not sure about the efficiency of the Hadid design, but it makes a cracking photo!

 

[briantrumpet]

Ooh, this is a delightful Bluesky feed...

https://bsky.app/profile/modinmetro.bsky.social

 

[swee'pea99]

I'm not sure if @rjsterry is still of this parish, but this will appeal to him and others, I think:

https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/architectural-and-interiors-photography-2/

Some gorgeous architectural photography.

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If you ever visit that there instagram, you might look up...

She definitely has 'a look'...