#modern architecture

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NEAT

i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

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My Mind Is Absent.

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New Formalism Link with Definition and Photo Example

Another New Formalism Definition if you don't like the first one Link

A fascinating, informative, and relatively quick read on the history of the towers and their architect, Minoru Yamasaki

From the above article, "Ultimately, Yamasaki believed, what would be important was not how the buildings met the sky but how they met the ground: 'I had long felt that it doesn’t really matter in Manhattan how high you go up; what really matters to people using buildings is their scale at or near the ground.'

With that in mind, the team also began to work on the public space at the base of the towers, with Rockefeller Center and Venice’s Piazza San Marco in mind. Versions from 1964 show two-story galleries or arcades with shops and restaurants ringing the open plaza between the two towers and lower, L-shaped buildings. One version of the plaza has it set off from the buildings by a moat, to be crossed by bridges; another shows a Dan Kiley-like nine-square grid, with trees in all four corners. In the end, none of these designs came to fruition: As the Port Authority cut costs, the trees, pools and arcades were eliminated. The shops, catering to commuters coming off the three subway lines below, were moved underground, and the five-acre plaza got barer and barer: just pavement, with a single circular fountain aligned with the north tower."

Also, this bit on the structure of the towers that includes the insult of them being dainty: "The “daintiness” of the column-to-column span, as revealed on the façade by the narrow windows, was the source of their power, not ornamental filigree. The Twin Towers were both structurally daring and strong, if not strong enough to withstand catastrophic damage and uncontrollable fire. Their structure, developed by engineer Leslie E. Robertson, was intended to free the floors of unnecessary columns: the perimeter of the building was designed as a giant steel tube, stiffened by the exterior columns spaced just over two feet apart. The cores of the buildings, made of steel columns, carried the rest of the weight, with steel trusses spanning between the outer and inner tubes."

Since the towers had some "flare" that from afar made them look like massive steel columns, and since they were constructed with steel, I feel like they are a strange toss between New Formalist and Brutalist architecture. But I don't know much about architecture to have a solid opinion.

But how the fuck do you see two steel columns from a distance with a strange sort of ridge-like pattern to them, two iconic towers mind you, and think "oh those are effeminate" jfc. (This isn't directed at OP or the commenter, this is directed at the early critics of the Twin Towers which you read about in the article I linked.) I personally don't think they are pretty, but a glance at them every now and then is cool.

i feel like we don't appreciate these days how much the twin towers sucked, like, design-wise

they were contemporarily hated for just being these giant grey monoliths

like there probably could've been an easier way to get rid of them, but they probably needed to go either way

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The hall of Wallace’s office in Blade Runner 2049, concept art based on a design by Estudio Barozzi Veiga for the unbuilt Neanderthal Museum in Piloña, Spain, Peter Popken, 2016

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Sino-french Science Park Church Designed by Shanghai Dachuan Architects — 2019 Image © Archexist

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Yes…….. I really like this home design!!!

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My escape.

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~ Orange and White ~

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House in Yanakacho, Japan - Taiga Kasai + Chong Aehyang Architecture KACH

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Open-air relaxation at its finest !!

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This home is mental. They started building it in 2023 on this tiny plot of land, it's 5 stories high, and isn't finished yet. There is an elevator shaft, so if you don't want to run up and down 5 flights, you will have to install the elevator yourself. It's in Dallas, TX, has 5bds, 6ba, 4,293 vertical sq. ft., and they're asking $999k, so $1m for this!

I thought that those were garage doors, but they're not.

The main entrance doors are right off the sidewalk. I don't like that feature. What a monstrosity.

You enter this foyer. I see that there's a coat closet.

Straight ahead is the main room and the stairs (there are a lot stairs).

You're in this ground floor room that looks like a garage, but isn't. Maybe it's a rec room, I don't know.

This must be a main living space, either a family/dining room or both.

And, this is going to be the kitchen. Are those the elevator doors above there? It's weird how they made the kitchen 2 stories high.

Must be the primary bedroom. You can tell by the billboard outside that we're going higher up.

This bath looks small and cave-like.

For some reason, I wasn't expecting the stairs to be one continuous structure. I guess there're also going to be murals along the way.

The larger bath has high ceilings. It must be part of the primary bedroom.

Since the house has 5 bedrooms, this must be one of them, or maybe not, b/c it has stairs.

This building is tall- it has 5 floors with very high ceilings.

All the baths, some floors, and the kitchen feature this black tile.

I'm thinking that these rooms with the terraces are bedrooms.

The back of the home. Is it me, or do the terraces look like they're bowing in the middle already.

I hope that they're going to put railings on the terraces. I think that where the green sod ends is the property line, so there's very little outdoor space. 2,639 sq ft lot

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1401-Seegar-St-Dallas-TX-75215/251446117_zpid/

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