The architecture feels futuristic, but it also feels like something that could be built today if one wanted to

>the architecture feels futuristic, but it also feels like something that could be built today if one wanted to
>it's not coldly robotic, and it feels "human"

How did they do it?

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I love you, architecture otaku.

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>futuristic
Futuristic is just hipster fashion. That doesn't necessarily mean it's bad, but it usually is bad (and absolutely impractical).

Brutalism will never not be the best.

I miss the soviet union

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unlike akira with the skyscrapers that would fit a billion people inside.

Well, GitS also has those, but things are a lot more varied.

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Because diagonal buildings

Commie blocks are the worst
t. ivan

Sorry that some have subs on them; I can't retake those right now.

you mean the best

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>t.
Go back to Cred Forums.

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Nah.

A hint of commieblocks?

Y-yamete

Well its kinda meh that they have no materials besides concrete+glass to build with.
All the variation narrowed to those materials.

That's all for now..

I agree, but it's still well made for what its' worth.

it's*

its'*

Art Deco>Brutalism

Still better than this faggotry I've seen built around the city over the years.

>things are a lot more varied.

This answers OP's question.

So how do you like Putin as your king?

This would've looked decent if it weren't for those curvy things that pop out of the building itself.

Brutalism is the worst architectural movement

Gits Architecture is shit.

If you want architecture watch/read Appleseed.

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Perhaps, if they were built in some designated area. Thing is, they're pretty much always in the middle of residential areas filled to brim with soulless concrete blocks, so it looks quite ridiculous.

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Also nothing beats Utena architecture wise - its case studied by proper architectors.

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The movie was fucking nxtlvl in that respect.

Thats so stupid design tho.
Random circle design with water pools in em for no reason, incredibly high buildings when nearby areas are completely empy.

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Thats Poseidon, floating City build on ocean surface.

Jesus fucking CHRIST

More Appleseed

Whats the point of "fantasy" architecture, yeah the artist imagined a silly looking city without any care for realism.

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How is this architecture style called, architecture nerds? It's rather plain-looking, but it has a certain impression on you.

What's the point of anything?

leaves*

Gundam

Patlabor has best architecture

It's a robot whose head is stuck in the ground.

it's a giant Schuko Plug

Why it has cymbals installed on the pillar-like parts?

How the fuck would one get here? Shit looks too thin and flimsy to house an apartment.

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Because it's basically modern Japan through a near future filter. It's why the show feels so grounded.
>Posting Appleseed XIII
Leave.

Brutalism is shit. Soviet architecture since the death of Stalin and till the late 80s is horrifying and represents a death of the nation's soul during this very period.
t. gommie

What is this, user?

SHAFT fag (especially Pornogatari fag) can't reply to this thread.

Though sometimes it falls into the so-bad-its-good category

Shaft architecture is good

Shaft does it the best, man

Is THORA the best release of Stand Alone 2nd gig?

What is the worst board? Cred Forums or /his/?

That's the government building, not apartments.

I wouldn't be surprised if those are elevator shafts.

What was the professors house from Psycho-Pass based off? Which style is that?

Communications equipment?

>tumblr
Makes the movie look like shit, use webm instead

I like looking at pictures of architecture, but imagining being surrounded by nothing but concrete and steel makes me uncomfortable as hell.

t. Kumamiko

>imagining being surrounded by nothing but concrete and steel makes me uncomfortable as hell
You live in the countryside or something?

The brick needs to make a return.
It's a glorious tool and has been ignored for far too long.

>Everything built in soviet era is brutalist
kek

In Japan you are never really surrounded by nothing but concrete and steel.

Might as well construct buildings out of gold.

No, gold is actually shit tier building material.

Another advantage of bricks is that sand is slowly becoming expensive on account of all the concrete being used all over the world.

I have lived in the countryside, but right now I'm in a small town. My school's library is this 6 story concrete lego block and even that bugs me at times. I like to be able to see the horizon.

brutalist architecture is love

>Be a civil engineer
Don't understand architects that want crazy as fuck designs.
They just become inefficient and significantly more expensive.

Sounds like when I lived in Youngstown, Ohio. School's library is an ugly 6 story, brutalist slab just assaulting everyone's eyes. It's the kind of place you look at and go "yeah that would make a good fortress after the apocalypse"

But anime is to make people dream and escape for their monotone and shitty daily lifes, not to show realistic shit.

You can't build tall buildings out of brick though. You can have brick walls resting on concrete beams but an entire building out of bricks can't stand up to earthquakes and for medium to tall buildings, the lower floors would have to be super thick.
Eg: A two storey building out of bricks would require the lower floors to be roughly two or three layers thick at least, as long as the top floor is only one layer.

It's basically what Brutalism was supposed to be if it used steel as originally intended by Le Corbusier instead of the cheaper raw concrete it became infamous for.

you seem to have the impression that all architects design like the Frank Gehry

That's not a design, that's just a retard not realizing he was supposed to unfold the blueprint before starting to work.

Well most are ok, but I've met architects with strange designs that would just blow any budget.
Also that building would've costed a bomb.

well it seems to be the fad among the architecture stars of this generation

What the fuck?

I wouldn't want to be the guy who has to get a lawnmower through those tiny grass steps

Oh that's not so bad if it's the Maag one that shows up on google images. At least it has windows! Here's the one I was talking about.

You wish you could do something as revered and as amazing as the Bilbao you dumb autist.

Stick to continuing your muh engineering meme in your containment board and fuck off.

a soviet monument somewhere in yugoslavia, google it

That's a uni/college library, isn't it? Because there's no way that's a high school library.
If you think that's what concrete can only do then I can only say I feel sorry for you.

I really hope it's synthetic grass

>hurr durr me civil engineer look at me my opinion is above everyone else
eat shit and die, leech

Because what you posted looks like somthing designed by Sant'Elia.

I can't into architect, but I think it looks kinda 80s.

>[angry war kazoos playing in the distance]

Cred Forums - Architecture

>hating brutalist architecture
>2016

>this was demolished

Reunification was a mistake

Brutalism is garbage

I think I saw a bunch of buildings just like that on the train to tokyo Disney.

Every political change comes with a symbolic end to the old terror regime.
When the GDR was founded they blew up the palace.
When the GDR ended, some other building had to be flattened.

Now they're rebuilding the palace though. I wonder if that is a good thing.

>Reunification was a mistake
true
we should have burned the whole east to the ground and replaced it with automated factories for tearing down the Stadtschloss

ur garbage

Except it was demolished 18 years after the reunification
fuck off prussiafag

Are you retarded

>fuck off prussiafag
you first gommunist

How do I into GitS? Can I just watch the movies? I already have them downloaded

they just knew their shit and used their
>imagination

Watch the movies, then watch Stand Alone Complex, then watch the original series on reverse broadcast order, then watch the movies again.

Are you pulling my cock?

>Reunification was a mistake
unification was a mistake
if it weren't for butthurt prussians the 20th century wouldn't have been such a big fucking mess

>tfw my city was a free imperial city
>no one remembers it, it's not even on that map

no one cares hans

Prussia is our clay

Holly Roman Empire
>holly
>roman
>empire

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>holly
anyway that was before napoleon invaded, he basically rekt lil prussia and made them angry for 2 centuries. maybe it all boils down to him being retarded

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Man I wish I could afford to live near cool looking architecture.

Instead back to commie blocks I go.

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I want to visit that pool at the top.

It's pretty cool, built so that the edge looks like you'd fall right off after it. It's called an infinity pool if I remember correctly.

I've been on top of that and it's really thicker than it looks
also the night view is amazing

Cred Forums- architecture and buildings

>brutalist
>good

Cred Forumsrchitecture

>filename

heh

I like the buildings themselves, but the guy went full retard near the center.

you are correct.

>a soviet monument somewhere in yugoslavia
>soviet
>yugoslavia

uwatm8?

>people could be building cool buildings like these to give us an amazing skyline
>instead they build cartoon
shit like this

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Look at the building, and then the cars. It almost feels anachronistic.

Imagining myself in there makes me feel nostalgic as hell. In my country (it was also on the soviet side) there was a building with a similar design in my town, and I pretty much spent my childhood near it.

Then they demolished in 1997 to make a new building in that place - a big-ass office centre for a bank. The design was pretty similar, but something about it just didn't click anymore.

this being said, I like the old-looking building to the right

Forgot the image there.

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Imagine all the nudes and dick pics the boys and girls in there are masturbating to

Who architect here?

Weeb metabolism shits are so Showa, Shiggy Ban is truly a savior of Japanese Architecture.

It's probably like working in a porn shop or for tech support for a porn site.

They're building dangerous-looking, gravity-defying buildings instead, to prove themselves in a way.

"Why make efficient buildings when you can build anything you can imagine nowadays" sorta thing.
(look at that ball, it makes me a bit uneasy)
To contribute to the thread, pic related is my love.

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>wanting to depress your citizens with shitty brutalist buildings

Go to the Brasillia (the best place on Earth) and then go back to whatever shithole you're from. Once you've seen it you'll never be able to look at brutalism like you did before.

GO cry me a river Post-Modernist shit head.

reminds me of Misato's apartment on Neon Genesis Evangelion

It's surprisingly civil as fuck.

It is indeed

>tfw will never live here

design aside why would you want to live in an appartment building?
houses are so much comfier

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Not him, but the only times I would live in a house is when it either oversees a city, or it's in a rural place. A house in a city isn't really worth it.

I'm not a fan of apartments, either, but when living in a city I prefer these.

But man, learning about the architecture styles really makes you appreciate what you see every day. I'm thankful to you, lads.

Wait, that building looks awfully familiar. Is it Fumoffu?

I wish neon would make a comeback.
All the hippies and soccermoms in my city tore down all the neon signs in the 70's.

This still exists,but is slowly dying

I want to ride a bmx bike or skateboard all over that building.

Brutalism a shit

this

neo-modernism a best

>not recognizing that building
For shame.

awwww shiet is that some Big O

But I do recognize it; I just don't remember where it was from. Sorry.

Functional designs with distinct stylistic choices are considered to be post-modernist.

That's not architecture, that's minecraft.

Evangelion. Apply yourself.

The lens flare gave it away for me, but I wasn't completely sure.

>seen that building so many times in my life
>now I'll think of it like someone's shitty minecraft project

damn you

>internal courtyards never again
:(

Don't use emoticons on Cred Forums.

>guy
>Zaha Hadid

Everyone is a little girl on Cred Forums.
Conversely, everybody is a bulking dude outside of Cred Forums.

Why are germanposters so moe?

You all have shit taste. GiTS stuff is just unimaginative and tacky, Apleseed is Dubai-level flashy and tacky. Utena is nice, but unrealistic. Anime can't into architecture. Can't even remember an anime with non-tacky but still realistic buildings.

I think that's just prejudice on your part.

>not wanting a childhood friend of the opposite sex that lives in the apartment next door and which can jump over the balcony to sneak into your room when you are both teenagers

>forcing an ugly, soulless, radical equality on its inhabitants
Just like the dumpster-fire politics of the human garbage who built it

Both world wars were the result of democratic aggression.

They still make efficient buildings
That's the problem with modern buildings
Everything needs a function and a use and has to be built within a decade

Psycho was pretty okay on that front from memory. Professors house is a 10/10 would retire into and read books all day in

Psycho Pass. RIP me, have a qt for my mistakes.

I'd dump my brutalist folder if this wasn't Cred Forums, but have a GANTZ ball.

We are almost 200 posts into it
I think you can safely do it

I unironically love apartment life (provided you have great neighbours)

Everything is so nearby and cheap (except the apartment itself)

It's the unique metabolist style of Kenzo Tage

Look it up

love japanese architecture honestly

taipai 101 is also standout

They're as cheap as they look.
I like the padoga influence

Akira?

some OC just for my boys

What city?
Helicopter or drone?

Do it, worst case scenario: you'll get warned.
Or you could just upload whole folder somewhere.

Is that you lain?

Tokyo on top of the Tokyo Skytree

Vancouver's my guess

now this is kinda awkward...

You guys should go to Cred Forums and visit /urban/ once in a while

art deco

Is it bad that I love the inundation of power lines you sometimes see in photos of japan, just thick streams of cabling running through the sky. I dunno why I love it so much, but I do.

too much dubai, poland, and muh skyline

you are not alone

Posting this sexy mofo

Yeah, it's gone a bit stale now though.
[hums at 100hz]

Yep, you're that guy. Archives don't lie. Are you still tripping on /p/? Haven't been there in a while.

You all should google "singapore architecture"

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Would you guys live here? There's a shopping mall under it.

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Man, why does Houston have the best skyline?

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Looks Like Japan

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This thing just looks like an accident waiting to happen.

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Fire Punch

likely

rarely dude too much negativity. I had a pretty big thread with some other peps about your norway trip tho

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Most of those buildings just look like current day tokyo you retarded plebs.

I think someone comitted sudoku there once

Anywas, Singapore is dreamy

That ugly pile of crap's an enviromental hazard too.

Fucking concave mirror focusing light down into streets below sends the temperature above 100c. Shit was peeling paint and warping body work on cars. Asshole who designed it said
he had no idea it could happen dispite having built another concave mirror building and it having the same fucking problem.

Taxpayer had to cough up cash to put a protective screen on the concave side of the building. They should have sent the bill to the architect. Bet he'd remember not to build
these stupid fucking things with a multi million pound bill.

I live in one right now. It's not really good at all, friend.

yeah its pretty shit and simplistic

Thats cultural marxism for you.

Nah it's the utter lack of well thought out planning in London. They just stick shit anywhere so you have ugly glass dildo's and concrete turds between victorian streets
and historic medieval buildings.

If you believe in your penis anything is possible.

It really helps when you have one person calling the shots on what shit's going to look like.

Cultural marxism again.

Marxism implies this is planned. It isn't It's cultural anarchy.

that kind of stuff is my favorite, architecture that tries to incorporate green spaces into the building itself, along with high ceilings and large open volumes.

libshit degenerate arquitects are destroying aesthetic buildings.
How can anyone like these ugly concrete boxes?

This is a good thread.

fuck off. nothing political about it. it's all about money and business

power lines overhead bother me so much, if it was up to me, ALL power lines would be underground

That pics really nice.

Implying it wasn't garbage during staling also

me too, that's why a lot of Singapore buildings are my favorite. People think all crystal or concrete building are better but holy fuck the weather gets completely screwed for anyone who lives around

Don't talk shit about Stalinist Classicism.

This library feels kinda anime futuristic, too bad the sky view of it looks terrible.

>Too bad the sky view of it looks terrible.

How so? Do you have a pic?

Ive rewatched gits too many times for the architecture alone.

I wish motoko would have jumped around the city more. It looked comfy as fuck in the winters

Well, there are mountains nearby, so it has this going for it at least. Otherwise your typical neo-commieblock. Would keep the blinds closed permanently.

Top Keiko. I thought architects have to study physics and stuff. Was it nepotism?

Its the round building

Recommended read for everyone

>architects
>physics
That's the structural engineer

No idea how he got job but the fact not one person thought his giant concave mirror was a bad idea says it all about the people incharge.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23930675

Forgot link

urbankchoze.blogspot.ca/2015/08/point-of-view-matters-scourge-of.html

that looks nuts. Wish more public spaces had the balls and vision to always go for that kind of "grand" architecture. Makes you feel like you live in an important place.

Where are the books? It should have tall bookcases full of books. So tall you have to climb a ladder to get the top ones.

/arch/ at 8ch needs more of you Cred Forumsrchitects

Is this supposed to be an homage to bamboo or some shit?

They're on the right side of the picture. Also most of the books are in special collections which require an appointment to view.

popsicle sticks

In the 1960s, Kenzo Tange and the metabolists proposed a development plan for Tokyo Bay.

Although the plan was never realized, it had a major impact on how people thought about future cities. You can see homages to Tange's plan in dozens of anime from Akira to Guilty Crown.

Today that plan is finally being realized. The new development will have a mile-high apartment complex, it will gather energy from tidal movements, and will protect Tokyo from tsunamis.

Tange was fucking based.

>tidal
Wouldn't a small nuclear reactor make more power and sense?

This is a good read

So many styles in this thread are disgusting. No better than suburbia made vertical

> mile-high apartment complex
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

>season 3 gits will never be as good as the previous seasons just because they won't spend two weeks per episode and gets loads of money again

>I miss the soviet union
No, you don't.

>Tange was fucking based
Yeah he was. This church blew my mind.

Wow. It's feels like you're going to see space marines and the Emperor himself any time when you're there.

the lights really make it

Is Oshii even involved this time?

I like how the author states that high-rises aren't bad in themselves, giving Vancouver as an example, but in the way people place them. Other authors just bash high-rises as a whole.

Meanwhile, have a sexy building

Isn't this basically the Babylon Project from Patlabor?

>the architecture feels futuristic
are you fucking dumb

that architecture in pic is low tech and low production irl

>"Why make efficient buildings when you can build anything you can imagine nowadays" sorta thing.
I like this. Lets push the boundries of what we can build

This is very interesting and educational.

It is definitely true. Many parts of NYC have that feeling, where there are huge skylines but completely comfy streets surrounding them.

How about no because that looks like fucking shit and is a waste of resources. Bourgeois scum.

Another thing about Vancouver the author didn't mention is that the urban planners put a height cap on certain neighborhoods, so the city doesn't turn into a dick height competition. Everyone's dick is the same height, therefore everyone is happy.

What is so special about it? I only see rectangles in that pic. Big cities are soulless.

easy my friend you sound like you're on fire

I can hear Origa's voice every time when I saw a picture of metro HK/Tokyo

I like diagonal buildings as much as the next guy but the roof not covering your balcony? What's the fucking point in that?

It's a skyline, it isn't meant to have a soul. Look for street level pics of Tokyo for the soul

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The key is making the street level vibrant. Many cities which have that comfy feeling have storefronts on the first floors of their buildings, it fosters that comfiness, removes the need for ugly-as-fuck strip malls, and brings in money. It also makes things safer and feel safer, crime doesn't happen when you have multiple witnesses.

And if we stopped subsidizing roads then we'd have more cities like this and no cookie-cutter suburbia.
Arcology wannabe?
Ehh, height limits are one of the causes of high housing prices in NYC, so I wouldn't support it.

> Lets push the boundries of what we can build
It would probably be great in a futuristic city built from the scratch where every building is a work of art, but when they smack this absurdly-looking shit between some old buildings that were made in totally different style, that's another story and I hate it.

>Arcology wannabe?
Netherlands has lots of neat buildings like that

>Ehh, height limits are one of the causes of high housing prices in NYC, so I wouldn't support it.
Then how do you explain hideous looking shit like pic related? The least expensive residence offered is $17.5 million.

Where is this? Taipei?

> Then how do you explain hideous looking shit like pic related? The least expensive residence offered is $17.5 million.
>Why do people buy overpriced shit when they told it's an exclusive shit and not everyone can afford it
Jee, I don't know.

You make a good point, but its really difficult to have buildings like that when most places are occupied by buildings made in the 70s

Rotterdam got bombarded into oblivion during the second world war, its the main reason why so many futuristic looking buildings popup there, so the architects could go wild.

Is that china? I heard about the legendary ghost cities that nobody lives in

>grand
Grand is the opposite extreme of brutalism
Instead of huge, industrial concrete making you feel small and worthless you have huge regal palaces making you feel small and worthless

>when they smack this absurdly-looking shit between some old buildings that were made in totally different style, that's another story and I hate it
I agree with you on this...

>It would probably be great in a futuristic city built from the scratch where every building is a work of art
But this is wrong. When every building is it's own unique stand-alone work of art, the city looses its cohesiveness. If every building had a yard and podium what you get is a "suburban" city. That's a city that is incredibly inefficient at moving goods and information because the distances between any two buildings is so great. The result is traffic jams, high energy prices, and derelict streetscapes. Cities need density to function.

Source: Brasilia was the worst mistake ever in urban planning.

NYC has funny zoning.

And that's how construction works, one person builds a big dick example, and other firms copy it until it gets successively cheaper. Supply and demand. A chinese company wants to build a 1000m tower in just a year, using prefab, it would be much cheaper than this monstrosity.
Kornhill Hong Kong

Philly a cute

I don't know why but I love super huge futuristic skyscrapers in my cyberpunk settings. I'm not even an architectfag so I can't completely articulate my thoughts on why it's so appealing to me. It just sorta is.

It just is.

With all honesty, this looks like shit. I don't like "cubism" and minimalism. Probably because I was born and lived all my life in a city with buildings like these.

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thanks for the article user.

Sorry this is from fb

I'm inclined to agree. It's a bit disappointing seeing generic-looking skyscrapers in the middle of somewhere like Paris.

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So comfy. Would totally buy a house and live on a second floor in a room with a balcony.

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It's funny seeing the statue of William Penn crowded out by all the skyscrapers that have sprung up around it. The city always looks so small from I-95 too, mostly because it's just a huge sprawl of row homes and cathedrals outside of the downtown area. I hate to say it but there's nothing really special about the buildings there unless you go hunting for the old churches.

That's fine, that looks nice user. I'm not a fan of minimalism either but sometimes it works.

Did you know Peter was a big fan of Holland and you can see a little bit of that in Saint Petersburg?

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>city of london.jpg

wut

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Tianjin's a pretty interesting city. All the former European settlements have their own distinct architecture.

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nice pic. I like the dark ambience of it, because of the weather.

This could come straight out of fate stay

He was a huge fan of Holland and everything European, and I say thank God for that. He managed to extract the very essence of building fashion of those times and put this jewel in a middle of a land of snow and swamps. You won't see this architecture in any other Russia cities and I love Saint-Petersburg just for that.

Sternbild city it's a beautiful disaster

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If you want real life cyberpunk go to Tsukiji Market in the afternoon when everyone has left.

user WHERES THE PIC user

Pics of hermitage for an eye candy.

>cities need density to function
They also need tourist spots to showcase the wealth. Everyone wants to feel like they are living somewhere 'important' in a dense urban sprawl, it encourages investment and population in the first place. This is why the richest city in the history of mankind has a giant park in the middle of it.
No easy answers.
I would post that awesome school from tanaka kedaurge but I can't find its real name.

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I used to work on the 53rd floor of that building, view was cool.

W-what do you guys think of me?

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Actually, now that I think about it, shouldn't cities like Montreal with a natural vantage point actually care about modelitis? Will have a interesting walk to school tomorrow

I am very confused at people implying my city looks good but here's some SFU

Mmm yes, corporate sponsorship.

I'm not really a fan of futuristic = round/curved. It makes everything look dreamy and, oddly, retro.

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metropolis had a nice city

unbearable heat/10

Zinger's house.

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yesterday it was 110, you aren't wrong

HL3 confirm?

Reminds me of how every building in Dominion had this weird bulbous shape to it.

Ahh, look at that, beautiful. Would visit someday

/end

Some random house I pass when I go to work. I believe there's a theater on the firs floor.

The cars in the future scenes really make it look retro, like they took cars from 40 years ago and made them float.

The pain just won't go away

>The record high temperature at the National Weather Service office in San Diego of 111 °F (44 °C) was on September 26, 1963. The record low temperature was 25 °F (−4 °C) on January 7, 1913.[4] The record high temperature was tied only once and happened on September 27, 2010, 47 years and two days after the set record. Several cities near San Diego broke their all-time records that day.[5]

IT KEEPS HAPPENING

is that where they distribute the fish stuff

Too bad, clean and curved is literally the future.

ENDLESS SUMMER!

TIME FOR THE BEACH!

UMI ~DA

Urban skylines give me a sense of peace. I hate the fucking city so much because of all the everything, but watching it from afar makes me feel like its no big deal. I live in the suburbs and the highest building is this huge hospital and they have giant glass windows, when you look out of them you just see a forest with little strips of roads and a few downtown areas with chicago just barely out of view. Its a magical place, especially when you're close to death and pondering the worth of your meaningless existence.

Yeah. I went there three times. Once in the morning when it was super busy, once at noon when they were cleaning up, and once at 3pm. The afternoon visit was by far the best.

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Lately they added really cool lighting to some buildings. Looks great.

>that image
wait a minute

Nah, future is minimalism and creating a sense of space. They just opened a new ALDI near me and the entire thing is practically empty with a giant high ceiling and these really cool freezer doors that are lightweight as shit. When I first went there, I thought it was the coolest shit ever. Too bad like 90% of the store is sugar.

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Alexandrinsky theatre.

Hot damn that's beautiful

I could hear the glorious chanting just looking at it

That's very cool user

*Espantoso Intensifies*

And this is a subway station.

It sure was...

what about it user? I don't think its from fate/stay night, I got it off of a random Cred Forums post

Neat. Looks like that theme continues even underground

I'm not the guy you're replying to but I'm pretty sure that's the Verrazano Bridge.

Great view, but when you're working on a computer the sun is annoying.

it feels like this building is being suffocated by the roads being so close to it.

Well, there are old stations and new, that looks good but not gorgeous.
I like small details very much. When you can look at building or any structure for minutes and still find it interesting.

Unfortunately it is as you say. The old part of town was build with a very small roads between the buildings, so the roads you see around this theater were considered wide at that moment. It's because you don't need 5 lines for a dozen of horse carriages. Now, all the buildings around it are considered as history monuments and protected from demolition by the law, so there's no way to make space.

The power lines kinda ruin the view.
Also how come there is an architecture thread on Cred Forums?
It's a miracle.

> The power lines kinda ruin the view.
It's because there are trams and trolleybuses(yeah they troll us) everywhere. They're apart of old town as much as an architecture.
Also, have a pic of bridges pulling apart. I remember someone painted a giant dick on a road and when it got up... well, it was a biggest boner I've ever seen.

It's better than generals for love live

perhaps hiro should start an architecture board

>just kill me now

That would be nice, but it would also be pretty slow.
Maybe make architecture part of some other board.

>Skyscrapers general, post your biggest.
>Renaissancefags vs modernfaggots
>Not liking a balcony is a shit taste
Would be glorious.

he should turn the failure of /news/ into an architecture board, or at least an architecture/building art board,

>imperial boy
good taste
check out feigiap too
No board is really applicable
/n/ has urban planning
Cred Forums is just shitposting
/his/ would hate modern architecture
and /p/ is just widely for photography
So how do we forward this idea?

First you need a demand big enough. Five or ten people that want new board will just be ignored. I don't know, make a poll and ask if people want architecture board? See how many voted "yes" and then think further.

/cls/ Classical Art/traditional art
>fuck modern art
>architecture
>sculpting
>paintings
>carvings
>technical designs
>plans
>designing shit like this and working out how to make it
>shit you Know Took Skill to do,
feel free to add stuff

by referencing real life examples

Careful with the word "architecture"
Computer programmers think they're architects too. They would invade the board.

add engineering marvels

let them have a few threads, stuff like pic related would be alright...right?

One of my favorites

One of the nice things about Hong Kong is that, while it is certainly planned from a vantage point, the culture, history and density of the city means that the average pedestrian isn't perturbed by this. Unless of course they're one of those people that hate concrete and buildings on principal.
Most streets in the city offer active and interesting sights from top to bottom. At the base there are the crowds of people, shops and stands line so many of the sidewalks, along with the facades of old-school and colonial buildings. As your eye moves upward you can see the disrepair of these aging structures, countless neon signs and rows upon rows of air conditioning units. Finally above it all are the top floors of residential skyscrapers, commercial towers and offices

Sadly I lack the language to specify exactly what I like about it, but there's so much in Ottawa that's absolutely beautiful.

>TFW plebs hate on brutalism.

If Brutalism makes you feel oppressed, you're probably a pussy.

Beautifully summed up.

I'm going back to NY in November. Seeing this made not only nostalgic, but make up a survival game in my mind.

I know it's basically a fancy office building, but this style in particular is stunning. You feel its size when you look at it in a way you rarely do with modern skyscrapers.

Also, this is somehow the comfiest thread on Cred Forums right now. Weird how that happens.

I agree, but lands are more expensive nowadays, and I want to live near my workplace at least

Most people i know don't like the looks because it seems unfinished/abandoned to them.

Those are filling up now.

Wasn't this complex once home to actual affluent people? Amazing what gentrification does huh.

Is that pic end of evangelion?

Still is, compared to other parts of Harlem. It's been eight years since.

I don't think so, Isn't that the mega block type structure that was made to funnel lower income people into. They would demolish old neighborhoods of minorities and shit, then make these soulless buildings for them in exchange.

TRADITION!

How did they get that ship on those buildings?

they actually built a bridge to it a few years ago, what a bunch of shitheads.

Fuck, I want to live there.

... for my sanity i choose not to believe that.

Seriously if not a board then where else could there be general architecture threads? It seems to me like /trv/ or maybe /his/ would really be the only suitable places. I'm in my first year of studying architecture and it would be cool to have some useful resources for later on down the line.

Not joking here, Cred Forums.
They are always down for these kind of threads.
Especially if used to bash the modern style of giant glass dick
or worse, the modern art building.

>Especially if used to bash the modern style of giant glass dick
>or worse, the modern art building.

That's kind of what I'd like to avoid though. I'm not trying to suck modern architecture's dick but it would nice to have civil (as civil as you could expect from Cred Forums) discussions about old and new.

Post your uni buildings. Judge others.

i think modern art in general is a money laundering scam, has japan fallen into it yet? inb4 yoko

France has lost its way

>Built a bridge to Saint Mont Michel
>Destroying centuries old churches

This
Disscussing old architecture styles and techniques is great but there are always new discoverings and not being able to discuss those because some don't like things from modernism onwards would suck.

The mothership

>Destroying centuries old churches
I dont believe that. Why?
France is so important in the history of architecture it would be stupid to destroy those.

Yep.. fuck France. Fuck socialists. Fuck globalism that seeks to erase any shred of native culture. And FUCK THAT BRIDGE! holy crap it looks like it was made on the budget of a indie movie!

to make room for mosques... not even joking, though other areas it was deemed "to expensive' to maintain. Its bullshit.

FUCK

Yeah, that bridge is grating. I like seeing isolated structures and such. This just misses the point.

At least the Cornish equivalent of this place has a nice walkway.

>mfw jellyfish there
NOPE.EXE

>mosques
They are destroying churches for those? Fuck them.
At least adapt them, im sure you can adapt churches to the needs of a Mosque.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed it

Fucking hell, what a shitty bridge. Couldn't they have made it a bit older-looking to match the island's architecture, at least?

disgusting

That church wasn't isolated per se, at low tide there was a connecting sand bar that you walked or drove on.

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How is this inside?
That cost money and architecture nowadays has to be funtional first, nice looking later.

Like being in a spaceship.

IT ALL RETURNS TO NOTHING
IT JUST KEEPS TUMBLING DOWN
TUMBLING DOWN
TUMBLING DOWN

please stop nodding

The beauty born from functionality is what I like most about architecture. There is always an intersection between the two, and it is the job of the architect to find it.

>spaceship

more like gendo's room.

Is this Eva?

It is nice, true.
But Form should be with fucntion and not under it.

I don't know much about architecture, but Kizu had some nice buildings.

Comfy.

...

thevoyageur.net/2015/04/30/feels-special-reiyukai-shakaden-temple-tokyo-japan/

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I want to live in their

...

A night time shower in the city is the best.

Kenzo Tange's house.

That's actually kinda impressionist.

What Uni user?

Mine's UTD. The campus is a little underdeveloped so no bully.

Comfy is right. That seems really nice. The first in particular gives the sense that you're actually inside. Although I suppose you basically are.

That's not Impressionist at all.

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If you ever get the chance, take a trip to Japan.
Even aside from all the weebshit, its a really nice country.

Brutalism is garbage.

>tfw took up a study abroad opportunity to study in Singapore exclusively because I wanted to see this sort of architecture
>Most of the condos/hotels/apartments were pretty nice in the rich areas and were extremely brutalist in the """"cheaper""""" areas

I plan on studying abroad in Nagoya or Kyoto a few years from now.

wow thats pretty at night, goddamn.

Why do Japan street pictures generally look so tight and cozy? Is it the norm over there or just well picked photos?

I always imagined Japan being cramped and all about maximizing cramming people into tiny spaces. I guess that's true for the cities and in general everything is smaller, but seeing random shots of towns makes me feel like it's not too different from where I live.

I'd still hate staying Tokyo though, I hate being crowded. Thank god burgerland has more space than we know what to do with.

>mfw that sphere is about as big as spacex fuel tank

Nice.
It sure is.
Space is at a premium.
Also yes, these photos are cherrypicked, but it really is that tight and narrow over there, at least in all the cities I've visited.

Kyoto is the best girl.
>that cyclist on the left
very fast cyclist racing at incredible hihg speed

Are there any cyberpunk like cities in the world I can wander around at night wearing a trench coat and sunglasses?

You can cherrypick nice photos for basically any country. Pic related is in Moldova, the poorest country in Europe.

Even the gazebo has a golden hat. How cute.

Yes, I would never want to actually live there, I like muh North American BIG EMPTY FREEDOM far too much.
Of course.

Tokyo at night desu

Hong Kong

Kowloon is kill unfortunately

>mfw America did brutalism better than the Soviets

Go to the poorer areas of HK and you'll get a similar vibe.

Please don't go wear those clothes, though. Go with a beige/brown/black track suit, it will be somewhat less humiliating.

>BIG EMPTY FREEDOM
It works on far too many levels

>Go to the poorer areas of HK
those exist? I thought everyone was rich there

Google Moscow International Business Center
It's looks cyberpank as fuck in foggy weather

jesus those are some tall as fuck buildings
you sure there isn't an island behind it? it isn't shopped or anything?

>Please don't go wear those clothes, though

Whats wrong with sunglasses and trenchcoats? And why would I wear a tracksuit? I'm not a slav.

>Please don't go wear those clothes, though. Go with a beige/brown/black track suit, it will be somewhat less humiliating.
>Not wanting to channel your inner Chow Yun Fat

My favourite building I've actually been to.

Wait, that's fucking Moscow?

my nigga

yes

>we will never get SAC 3rd Gig

Well we will, its just that now we´re worried if they´ll be the same quality. Since the first two had two weeks per episode spent on them and lots of money

How come batou has those borg eyes when everyone else can get different prosthetics?

Surroundings make it looks even more cyberpunk

Maybe.
animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2016-09-25/kenji-kamiyama-teases-ghost-in-the-shell-news/.106884

muh ranger muh sleepless eyes

I wouldn't mind if they did them OVA style like Arise was if we get something like SAC at the end

In fact I think doing OVAs was probably the only correct thing Arise did right

>[subtle russian chanting in the background]
youtu.be/dTnxFgmQLKc?t=12

Whats it like in that part of moscow? I want to visit. Are slavs nice to weeaboo spics? Do they look as silly as I've heard?

Will people laugh if I walk around in a trenchcoat and glasses?

>tfw listen to the same tracks autistically on repeat
send help

>This entire thread
The last thing I thought I'd be interested in was fucking buildings, and yet I'm completely captivated by this thread. Tomorrow is going to be an interesting commute.

My uni built this a short while ago for no good reason. Unfortunately most students don't really get to use it, so it goes virtually unused. Not sure how I feel about the whole boat in a glass box is somehow a concert hall thing.

What uni?

Next to it is this wonderful brutalist building, which is somehow a library.

You'll probably fare better than I would, relax amigo

Life is interesting that way

>no cyberbird
>no rise

The dutch just give zero fucks

>tfw I can't be cool isn't without available without the drums

goddamn it.

I never used either of those. Then again, I hardly left my room for anything.

This is a couple weeks late, but its sorta related.
I'll never forgive those terrorists for ruining NYC's skyline forever.
The One World Trade Center is sorta lame compared to the OG WTC's. I do like its symbolic height of 1776 ft though.
youtube.com/watch?v=x4plUKqJnuA

Muh. Dick.

There a whole world outside user, you will never know what will cathc your attention.
Also architecture exists for a reason, otherwise there wold only exist construction workers and civil engineers.

Something like this would fare better youtube.com/watch?v=3j8DSUGwSsk
Nobody would bat an eye, muchacho. There's already enough hairy eurasians as it is.

On one hand that looks really comfy, all that natural light

On the other I value my privacy way too much for a completely open dwelling

I want to explore Dubai at night while playing this
>youtu.be/-aGEmhzQFr8?t=855
in my car.

I don't live in Moscow but relax. It's capital and center filled with tourists, buisnessmas, sportcars etc. Even if you somehow meet gopniks you will be okay. I never hear a stories where gopniks beat tourists. Just ask people how reach Buisness Center. It's around third ring road as I remember

>not commuting

Spotted the pleb.

Hong Kong is more than just Central and Wan Chai
7 and a half million people live there. It may be expensive as fuck per square foot, but even so people have to live there somehow. Usually crammed in high-rises full of ~150 sq. ft studio apartments at around $750 per month. And those are the high-end places. Neighborhoods like Sham Shui Po (lowest median household income in the entire SAR), Mong Kok, and yes, Kowloon City (though the infamous walled city is no longer around) are still full of seedy shithole apartments, bums, drug dealers and dive-bar noodle places

Picked up on spotify , thanks user

I felt that way too, but that house is on a private space and was the house and thesis of the architect.
He created the Brick House for the visitors.

This library is one of the newest in my univ, the rest is old building.

Google the filename. AKA the most depressing school in the country.

Dude that's like over half the school

oh my god that's not what I expected at all

I wonder how often he had birds flying into his walls.

Did a typhoon hit that place or something

gets worse when you know that subdivided flats exists and what's inside them

you're gonna get mugged dude

Lots of generic buildings, I'm partial to this one.

>mfw architects get to create their own crazy world and live in it
slightly jelly I wont lie

Not OP, but I've been to major cities all over the world, and nothing has blown my mind like Hong Kong did when I first drove in from the airport.

How many people actually live like that? I thought the majority or the lower class/ poor live in government subsidized housing which is insanely cheap compared to market value.

Some do, but some others either can't afford it or don't want to design their own howses.

Our library was built to be a "tree of knowledge." It even has a snake path leading up to it on the other side.

Pic related would be even more confusing to birds.

How would the major react if I walked up to her and slapped her ass? Like out of the blue.

I feel you user. I love small towns and the countryside myself, old homes have a warmth to them unmatched by anything in a city.

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You'll never know where this building is made and what its for!

Are there slums in Dubai yet?

scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/2022430/theyre-just-us-exhibition-shines-light-hong-kongs
>Almost 200,000 people were living in some 88,000 subdivided units last year, according to the Census and Statistics Department. But these figures do not include those living illegally in industrial buildings, which SoCO estimates could be up to 10,000.
you have to wait literal years for public housing though, pretty sure my family has been doing that anyways

Is very good art!

Gotta love simbolism in architecture.
That is confusing for me.

Damn it user

Did someon say persian architecture?

>nothing has blown my mind like Hong Kong did when I first drove in from the airport
Could you elaborate?
I'm hoping to visit this winter

Man imagine how much more cool architecture we would have if the Muslims hadn't gone full retarded fundi.

What do you mean by that?

Good, less smog.

I can imagine walking through there with youtube.com/watch?v=nBPK_oXeJgA playing.

Right? Fuck me

>X-Seed 4000, Nikitin tower and other megastructures will never come true

It's not quite there yet. The tall buildings don't have the right street level feel. You need super tall buildings with bottom full of weird alleys and shops etc and mid rise buildings.

>manmade mount fuji
well shit

We should have a general design board. /des/ or /ds/ to discuss all things involving physical design. Industrial design, furniture design, interior design, architecture, urban planning, etc. I've been craving for years what all you you stupid uneducated fucks have opinions on involving my industry. I'm tired of criticism and praise from professors, colleagues, clients, and contractors.

t. Urban Planner/Architect

Post on /qa/ I'm sure hiro will take notice

Sounds like humanities.

>furniture design

Oooh, this, I've made some beautiful furniture. It would be fun to talk about it on the chans.

I mainly work with wood, but I've dabbled in other stuff.

>I've been craving for years what all you you stupid uneducated fucks have opinions on involving my industry.
alas the first thing I could think of were dick jokes if such a thing did happen

Basically Muslims were the world leaders in architecture, science, and mathematics during the middle ages. Then the Mongols happened. Then a wave of itinerant preachers went about convincing everyone that science and numbers were the devil and you get roughly the middle east we have today, full of over zealous religious assholes. It's like the opposite of what happened in Europe.

This
Places like Tokyo, New York, and Hong Kong have grown into what they are organically over the course of centuries. The problem with so many American business & finance districts, the "downtown"s that compose the majority of each city's skyline, is that they were built specifically for that purpose and nothing else. They're entirely empty, soulless and boring places to be otherwise. The most interesting thing that happens is the occasional beggar hanging out on the curb. I was in Minneapolis/St Paul the other day, and on the weekend the whole downtown district was a fucking ghost town. Not a soul. It was terrible, and not in a good way

I feel like that's what Moscow's financial district would be like

I know thread is diying but do you have a pic?

shoe..

That was more than I was expecting (I thought it was around 100k) but that works out to about 2% of the population. Still an incredibly shitty situation.

The skyscrapers looked taller, thinner and closer together than anything I have ever seen. In the busier areas, the streets are like a giant mall, most metro stations also have giant malls built on top of them, so getting around is really easy. Awesome food everywhere, whatever your budget. There is also surprisingly a lot of wilderness for hiking and outdoors stuff as well. You can also hit up Macao if you want to see Las Vegas on steroids. You will most likely have to settle for living in a closet sized room while you are there but honestly it didn't bother me since I rarely spent time there when I wasn't sleeping.

But architect is serious business.

Yeah, right? Try to post about anything other than arduino/homebrewing shit on /diy/ and you get bunch of notools fagging up threads.

I kinda knew they were good but that sucks.
>Mongols
The fuck was wrong with them?

Why the fuck aren't there more interconnected skyscrapers? Think Petronas towers, but more modular.

>There is also surprisingly a lot of wilderness for hiking and outdoors stuff as well
Fun fact actually, roughly 75% of Hong Kong's land is undeveloped forest. And camping in country parks is completely free

They like to conquer stuff.

Aside from Khan's monstrous brutality, he was a pretty chill guy, religious tolerant, silk road stuff, etc

I believe it's pretti hard to built the bringes and tho manttain them at such heights.

That is fantastic to hear. I have no qualms with sleeping in such cramped quarters, in fact I'm almost looking forward to it. I'd like to check out the Chungking Mansions and see just how cheap I can find a place to stay for a couple nights, just for the experience.
Any places you would recommend? To eat, shop, see etc

Can you imagine somebody actually building something that was made/suggested on Cred Forums?

They don't work. Skyways in others cities have failed because they lack connection to transit and other services found on the street level. Also coordinating buildings that may be built from different eras with different owners/developers/contractors is a fucking nightmare.

Build a dome
made out of OBSIDIAN

A year ago I would have said no, but fucking Pepe is a topic of conversation in our presidential election, so fuck it, all bets are off.

Yes, weird shit happens all the time.

Do you remember?

>The mayor has asked people to respect the robot
MY SIDES

I hope he had a good reason to do that.
Other than robots are cool.

>you will never be an autistic mayor
thank god

Only reason I would want to go to Russia.

Sorry, I don't really have any good photos on this computer.

My next project is going to be turning a sakazuki on a lathe. I was going to use red milk paint, but I found a beautifully figured piece of walnut the right size, so I'm going to finish with many coats of tung oil instead.

Getting the lines right is going to be super hard, but if it comes out right I'll find some way to post it.

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what does Cred Forums think of green cities? Plan to have this as a setting for a 2050 fictional capital.

The follow-up is even more interesting.

HAHAHAHAHAHA
FUCK

And not for Moscow's gorgeous, efficient, and historic metro system?

What about the Catherine Palace?
Or the churches?

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Not enough brut 2/10 would not survive bombings.

Tokyo's metro system is ten times worse than that

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I think the concept is neat, and probably the way things will go in the future. If you want some inspiration, look up some screenshots the Eco faction in Anno 2070

>brutalist fags in 2016

metabolist movement. Its pretty much the "hipster" part of Japan culture.

"we cant deal with designing International nor disgusting neo futurism buildings, so we decide to mix them up and call it metabolist after World War 2. They dont want to associate themselves with the gaijins at that time.

Saint Petersburg is worth it. But prepare for "meme weather"

>"meme weather"
english please

>twitter.com/metesohtaoglu/status/593529810426593281/photo/1

my fucking SIDES

What a based mayor.

>all the news sources refer to it as a "Transformer"

Have you ridden the T in Boston?

Go look at pictures, it is fucking disgusting.

Wonderful thread lads.

It depends on how long you plan to stay, but typically Id check out Central (affluent area) and Mong Kok (super dense population, closest to cyberpunk). There is tons of great food too, everything from cheap eats to Michelin star affair (even cheap Michelin star restaurants). Honestly its hard to recommend things (aside from general tourist things), there is so much, and it is so dense that the whole thing is just an experience.

Something like this
>alphyna.megus.org/comics/2009-03-17-piter.jpg
Because of Neva river weather in Petersburg is always shit.

I was under impression people in US avoid public transport for some reason, if possible. Or maybe it was just NY.

This. Burger public transportation is complete shit. Made me extremely jelly when I visited a friend in Europe.

gross as fuck

NY would be one of the few places public transport isn't garbage.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy
lel

Off-topic threads are always the best threads. See you around.

>page 10
Thank you for the nice thread, anons
Maybe someday we'll get a proper board for architecture / civic engineering

Cheers luv, was good.

>Maybe someday we'll get a proper board for architecture / civic engineering
It'd be dead and garbage.

Russian tramways are cute.

I've never understood why Americans were poking fun at the european people for using public transport; it's not like ours is that bad.

I got in a bit late, but this was a gorgeous thread. I'm gonna look at everyday buildings a bit differently now.

last for brutalism

Nice indeed, i learned some new things and laught at some mayor.

>wake up just outside Dusseldorf
>take train to Hauptbahnhof
>get on different train
>take nap
>arrive on Trier
>have dinner by the Mosel
>total trip was like 60 euro

10/10

Holy shit, this thread went by fast.

I'm surprised there was no powerline dump.

If only more thread can have this much civilized discussion.

>fast
literally 23 hours user

>600+ posts
>150+ IPs
who knew Cred Forums was so full of architecture & city planning fags
i thought it was all the stereotypical programming otaku

Art Deco is better. I gotta hand it to the american people for popularizing it.

It was fast to me. And comfy.

I know shit all about architecture

I just like to see cool buildings.

This thread changed my life.

Same here anons. I don't know anything about architecture this seriously changed my perspective on things. thanks Cred Forumsrchitects

Cred Forums is pretty good about everything other than anime and manga.

Isn't that true for almost every board though?

Damn, this thread is more inspiring than my group discussion when I'm actually majoring in architecture.

Nani?

Those are nice

>manga
General manga threads just don't really happen anymore. Or die even more faster.

Yeah, I only really included it to complete the joke, manga threads have always been comfy.

Yep, each board is pitiful when it comes to their opinions on their own subject.

The miracle of imageboards.

It comes from only people who care about the subject have odd and unique opinions to argue about. Cred Forums has pretty normal opinions in archatecture, but disagrees with pretty much the rest of the world in terms of anime/manga.

But 'robots are cool' is the best reason.

>there is tons of people from different countries around the world
>world is big as fuck, all towns are different
>you can go outside and start making photo of architecture, nature etc
>it will be intresting for other people even if it's shit or pretty common in your hometown

At times like this, I really feel like I belong here. I don't like everybody's opinions on anime, but the fact that we had a peaceful discussion about archeology is heartwarming.

we could have a peaceful discussion on architeture*

>archeology
That might be good too.

>archeology
SOON MY FRIEND

>archeology
user... I...

architecture*
Damn it

>archeology
Indy, go to bed, you're drunk.

This is how it is on reddit all the time.

Architecture is just loli archeology

Architecture is still too niche for a board has the right idea

Yeah, actually..

Is there an anime which brushes over that subject?

Meanwhile Cred Forums was surprisingly good for it.

>high school
....
>with archeology as its main subject
FUND IT

Jackie Chan Adventures

/his/ and Cred Forums have varying quality architecture threads

>teachers' names are based on famous archeological findings

T-Tutankhamun-san?!

>highschool goes to trip to the middle east
>stumble upon ancient uruk ruins

G-GIRRUGAMESHU?!

I've never been to Cred Forums, but the threads over there sound like dick-measuring between countries to me.

it is, and lots of bants

Best thread on Cred Forums all week.

Mongolia would be fun. With their nomadic traditions and all, think of all the things that haven't been found yet.

they are but interpals and urban/architecture threads can be good

Crystal Triangle

Right? And Siberia too. What great treasures must be lurking beneath those frozen lands

I imagine /his/ would be too conservative on the subject, (have no problem whith old architecture, but I like modern stuff too) and for Cred Forums I think said it best.