I enjoy concrete buildings. Post your favorites in this thread.
Here's the Edmonton Law Courts building.
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"Favourite" isn't quite the word I'd choose to describe my feelings for this building...
Do WWI and WWII era forts count? Seems like they had lots of steel and brick in there :hmm:
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Dallas City Hall
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1158/5151455407_f09b896c0b_z.jpg)
It was used for the street-level and lobby shots of OCP headquarters in RoboCop. The rest of the tower was added in post-production.
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Spokane County Detention Services Jail
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Spokane Regional Public Health Center
Edmonton Police Headquarters - the building I look at out my window every day.
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Well you just have all the beautiful vistas BB.
I don't know if it's concrete enough, but this is one of my favorites in Stockholm.
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Brain's building would be cool if the entrance were actually a pile driver you could use to mush unwelcome visitors.
Genex Tower in Belgrade:
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The Wotruba Church in Vienna:
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Building of Belgian mail in Ostend
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Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 03, 2016, 02:51:11 PM
Brain's building would be cool if the entrance were actually a pile driver you could use to mush unwelcome visitors.
I've never been inside.
Quote from: Martinus on May 03, 2016, 02:54:34 PM
The Wotruba Church in Vienna:
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This shows one of the inherent flaws in brutalist architecture. Even if you have a design that is kind of interesting, concrete just stains, gets moldy, and generally just looks like shit over time.
Quote from: Barrister on May 03, 2016, 03:41:06 PM
This shows one of the inherent flaws in brutalist architecture. Even if you have a design that is kind of interesting, concrete just stains, gets moldy, and generally just looks like shit over time.
Like humans. Do you hate humans?
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Druzhba Holiday Center in Yalta
Quote from: The Brain on May 03, 2016, 03:47:56 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 03, 2016, 03:41:06 PM
This shows one of the inherent flaws in brutalist architecture. Even if you have a design that is kind of interesting, concrete just stains, gets moldy, and generally just looks like shit over time.
Like humans. Do you hate humans?
Most of them.
Quote from: Barrister on May 03, 2016, 03:41:06 PM
Even if you have a design that is kind of interesting, concrete just stains, gets moldy, and generally just looks like shit over time.
Not if you're willing to invest in regular renovations. Which not many people are, when it comes to brutalism.
Quote from: Maladict on May 03, 2016, 03:55:46 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 03, 2016, 03:41:06 PM
Even if you have a design that is kind of interesting, concrete just stains, gets moldy, and generally just looks like shit over time.
Not if you're willing to invest in regular renovations. Which not many people are, when it comes to brutalism.
You can't renovate exposed concrete.
You can put up some kind of cladding overtop of the exposed concrete, or you can paint it, but it's the concrete itself that is stained.
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Bookstorage of the university in Ghent, Belgium. Being creative souls we call it the booktower.
I this was going to be about poetry. :(
Quote from: Barrister on May 03, 2016, 03:59:04 PM
You can't renovate exposed concrete.
You can put up some kind of cladding overtop of the exposed concrete, or you can paint it, but it's the concrete itself that is stained.
Well that's what I meant, you can restore its original appearance.
Quote from: mongers on May 03, 2016, 04:52:33 PM
I this was going to be about poetry. :(
I was hoping for an abstract thread
Not a building per se
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Le velodrome
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I liked my college dorm:
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This Soviet monstrosity in Tbilisi is cool, too:
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