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Man, what is that Soviet-looking monstrosity? :gah: ^^^
Boston City Hall:
http://blog.preservationnation.org/w...08-may-103.jpg
It does look like Cold War-era Soviet construction.Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
One more watch comparo. I really hate these Invictas:
http://www.pbase.com/kpfeifle/image/...3/original.jpg
http://images35.fotki.com/v1154/phot...vLE_jaw-vi.jpg
^^^ They misspelled tacky-meter.
This is the only one I'm not sure of. I like 'em both.Quote:
Originally posted by Oliveloaf
Car guys will recognize the car on the right as a recreation based on Eighties GM architecture. The car on the left, on the other hand, is the Mercedes-Benz 300SL, one of the most beloved vehicles ever built. Not only is it generally regarded as beautiful, it is also--for the day--a technical marvel.
Of course, driven slowly with the top down on a hot, sunny day, either will suffice.
The Palace of Westminster.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...-_Feb_2007.jpg
Dallas City Hall.
http://dextrovert.com/albums/downtow..._City_Hall.jpg
What bridges are those?
http://www.destination360.com/north-...lyn-bridge.jpg
http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/Porta...dig/zakim2.jpg
Even the name is ugly: The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge
Olive, you missed the obvious comparison here:
Tribune Tower:
http://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/...eTower-005.jpg
Sun-Times Building:
http://www.rachelleb.com/images/2004..._sun_times.jpg
The latter one is gone, though...they mercifully tore it down and Donald Trump built a surprisingly attractive building on the site.
The University of Illinois Chicago campus looks like this...the whole campus. It's hideous, but in the 70s it was considered cutting edge, to just make everything concrete. Ugh.Quote:
Originally posted by Oliveloaf
Mudd Learning Center (the main campus library) at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio has a similar vibe:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ing_Center.jpg
Now this is a library:
http://www.visitingdc.com/images/new...ry-address.jpg
Aye, that is the library of libraries in the US at least.
Here is a fair competitor though, named after Dr. Seuss in fact. Well the Geisel Library that is.
http://travel.spotcoolstuff.com/wp-c...-library-3.jpg
On the left you have beast, on the right beauty. Dublin's Liberty Hall and Custom House.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...stom_House.jpg
Not only is the Sun-Times building gone, the paper is pretty much gone, too.
Bridges posted upthread by me:
First one is the Tyne Bridge (in Newcastle).
The other ones I'm not sure of the name, they are in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Originally I was going to put in the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas, which is another croquet wicket from the same designer (Santiago Calatrava), but then I saw those which are three times as fun.
That looks like a house fell on a church that was in the process of being converted into an apartment building.Quote:
Originally posted by Oliveloaf
I think Fresno's old and new city courthouse works well here.
http://www.riderzlaw.com/images/imag...courthouse.jpg
was demolished in 1966 and replaced with
http://www.plannersweb.com/publicbld...thse-photo.jpg
Yep.
That is a weird, lattice-like covering that completely wraps around the building, fyi.
Fallingwater, by Frank Lloyd Wright.
http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/fallingwater-2.jpg
Cabrini-Green, by Pace Associates.
http://re3livingspaces.files.wordpre...rini-green.jpg
^^^ Cabrini Green, as seen in every single documentary about the formative years of rap music, and on at least one album cover I can think of. I imagine it was hideous even when new, and it's a one-jpeg explanation of how the word ghetto made the transition from noun to verb. :)
Cabrini Green featured in this comic in the 1980s set around the millennium. It was this horrible dystopia made up I assumed for the comic. Then in 2004 I was in Chicago and saw it and a man dead on the street beside it.Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
The last of the complex was torn down just last year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini...d_future_plans
Ingrid Bergman.
http://images.zap2it.com/images/cele...id-bergman.jpg
Jocelyn Wildenstein.
http://www.vicioussummer.com/jocylneafter.jpg
^^^ bottom photo there is dead, Oliveloaf.
seems to be working fine for me?
No, I don't see anything there either.
Okay, one more watch. The face of the top watch is a recreation of the dash clock from a late Fifties Mercedes-Benz.
http://s03.trixum.de/upload2/P/4/P4n...03077P4189.jpg
http://forums.watchuseek.com/attachm...500_aa300_.jpg
(But, both are cute.)
Ah, but one is definitely a beast.