Thread: Architects get paid to put some of this insulting stuff on our landscapes.

Definitely some shockers there, but #3 (the disc) is mad.

#8 I think they lost the assembly instructions.

I don't know. I think there is room for the odd odd building. What I think is worse is the miles and miles of big ugly soulless houses I have to drive past on the outskirts of Melbourne. All with no room for trees let alone a garden around them, and airconditioners sitting on the roof.

I love #5 - how many get to miss out on a view from up high, just to suit the outside scheme?!.

Some doozies to be found here, going back: Eyesore of the Month by James Howard Kunstler

I think Fed Square does it and it replaced the old gas and fuel building, pulled down because it was comnsidered ugly. Give me a break.

I have seen the disc in Abu Dhabi and it actually looks good in real life. It is noticable that telco buildings are overly represented in the outlandish stakes.

The "dropped from a great height" Fed Square thingo is my pick

the others range from the brutalist through to the whimsey, but Fed Square ???

but have to agree with anne-maria about general suburbia -- my pet hate are the "archetect designed" 3 storey walkups

I think the use of LSD is prevalent among architects

I don't know Bluegum. I thought that #4 was more to the point. They are a basket case after all!

I am looking at it from the perspective of let's push the design limits.

I like Fed. Square - it's better than cruddy rectilinear buildings. Also like the disc.

Fed square is great when you are in it. Better in real life than in pics. On hot days though the paved areas around it are a little TO much like a hot desert. :melt:

Fed Square is the worst by a long chalk; it's downright embarrassing! I really like the Disc.

I have not seen any of those buildings except in the pictures.

I rate them as follows

1 x Excellent (The disc at Abu Dhabi, although I would be interested to know the direction of the prevailing winds)

4 x Good (As in interesting).

3 x Mildly Indifferent

13 x Fugly.

I have to declare my predjudice and say this comes from someone who thinks the phrase "city views" is an oxymoron.

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

.... although I would be interested to know the direction of the prevailing winds

I was wondering about Sun direction with all that glass (like, in the middle of the desert, you know).

Architect Quotes:
If I can draw it you can build it.
Of course a 600mm dia duct will fit in a 600mm dia hole.
I'll have you know, I spent 6months working with a builder, so dont tell me I dont know how to build.
Timber has a beautiful supplty about it.
I never said that. I would never say that, because I dont know anything about that.
If there were no architects nobody would have anywhere to live.
You wouldnt understand, you're only the builder.
Put it up and I'll have a look tomorrow. If it looks too grose you can pull it down.
I didnt realise he was the bricklayer. I thought he was just someone who doesnt wash.
Dont ask me, read the drawing.

And the best of them all when, on a 40degree day, the brickies downed tools early, the architect's comment was, "But its their trade,they should be used to it."