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Post by kathleensamazing on Aug 29, 2007 16:43:26 GMT -5
Honestly, I've never met one! lol
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Post by Swoosh on Aug 29, 2007 17:10:58 GMT -5
I really don't get architecture geeks. =/ Tyler and Ebola have their snipers in position.
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Post by {joy the hideous new girl} on Aug 29, 2007 18:51:07 GMT -5
I'm sorry! >.< I'm sure you guys don't like lit geeks, but I just... don't get architecture.
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Post by Swoosh on Aug 29, 2007 19:25:51 GMT -5
Well, I'm definitely not as bad as Tyler or Ebola, but if I definitely love seeing beautiful buildings in person - architecture is very much a form of expression and art, and I appreciate it. But yeah, I don't sit and pore over blueprints like Tyler.
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Post by Ebola on Aug 29, 2007 21:06:43 GMT -5
Pfft, I really don't care what a building looks like, as long as it's very big, very tall, and shiny. Extra points if it shows off structural elements. Extra points if the external design is good.
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Post by tyler on Aug 30, 2007 8:04:27 GMT -5
^I like all those things as well. But I think that in an urban setting, the ground floor is much more important than all the floors above it. If the building has no interaction with the street, it forms a black hole in the urban fabric. Imagine walking next to a 100-story building, but there's only one entrance and no windows on the ground floor. Now imagine walking down a street like Elm St. in downtown Greensboro, filled with much shorter buildings, yet each building contains stores, cafes, and loft apartments above.
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Post by Ebola on Aug 31, 2007 17:31:29 GMT -5
100% ture. Well, all buildings designed to be 100+ floors tall have an amazing lobby and good grade interaction with the area around it. Take Tower 3 for example: No building in the world will come close to it. And you haven't seen it all. I hear it will have massive plasma screens all over the street level and dozens of fountains that squirt up colored streams of water from the floor inside and outside the glass shell. I think 3WTC will become the greatest building in the world when completed. The Trade Center is unlike everything else. Even the Freedom Tower base has 1,000s of rainbow colored pieces of glass that glitter, and you can actually see the steel beams holding it up. The low point may be tower 2 from Greenwich Street: There's no detail to the base... I hope they do something. New renderings of all these builings will be out soon. It's a major strain on the designers and architecs. Not only are they being forced to complete the WTC 100% by December, but most of them are also working on other megaprojects around NY.
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Post by Ebola on Sept 5, 2007 22:41:32 GMT -5
Woooo, she has grown since the last time I've seen her!!!! ^2nd tallest building in NY, Sept. 2 There so much tower stuff going on right now that it's making Ebola go nuts.
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Post by Swoosh on Sept 6, 2007 5:57:11 GMT -5
And Swoosh.
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Post by tyler on Sept 6, 2007 8:15:54 GMT -5
Is that One Bryant Park?
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Post by Swoosh on Sept 6, 2007 14:18:03 GMT -5
Coolness. I stayed near Bryant Park, by the way, at the Marriott Residence Center. Cool park!
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Post by Ebola on Nov 1, 2007 0:24:32 GMT -5
These two new supertall towers will be going up in 2008. Both are larger than the Empire State Building: The one on the right is mixed and it has a tree garden on its roof and the one to the left is mainly office.
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Post by Elphie_Enthusiast on Nov 1, 2007 14:35:12 GMT -5
its so beautiful. i have always wanted to go there. One of my good friends lives there. She is so lucky.
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Post by Ebola on Nov 2, 2007 16:48:22 GMT -5
Yeah Manhattan and even the rest of NYC's all about the towers.
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