This building is pretty bad, its even got its own website.
http://www.thejetsetter.co.uk/concretejungle.html
http://www.thejetsetter.co.uk/concretejungle.html
Last edited by daffytag (2008-02-01 05:49:49)
See the car park at the very bottom of that link, I pass that eyesore every day on the way to university. It's due for demolition this year, about time I say.daffytag wrote:
This building is pretty bad, its even got its own website.
http://www.thejetsetter.co.uk/concretejungle.html
http://www.thejetsetter.co.uk/hpbimg/co … rnsign.jpg
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
I like Brutalist style architecture. It's the Neo-Classical Greek shit you see all over Washington DC and London that pisses me off.daffytag wrote:
This building is pretty bad, its even got its own website.
http://www.thejetsetter.co.uk/concretejungle.html
http://www.thejetsetter.co.uk/hpbimg/co … rnsign.jpg
tower of babel
After reading that construction has never been completed, the N.Koreans should turn it into a paintball/airsoft park. I would love to rappel from one floor to another.
Fun is prohibited in DPRKloubot wrote:
After reading that construction has never been completed, the N.Koreans should turn it into a paintball/airsoft park. I would love to rappel from one floor to another.
what a buzz-killMek-Izzle wrote:
Fun is prohibited in DPRKloubot wrote:
After reading that construction has never been completed, the N.Koreans should turn it into a paintball/airsoft park. I would love to rappel from one floor to another.
Yeah its hella uglyjamesb wrote:
I think that looks quite good.
This does not, it's in Sheffield.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/eug/archives … munion.JPG
Nope, cranes like that can hoist themselves up for a new section to be inserted.Magpie wrote:
HelicopterzHakei wrote:
How'd they get the shit to assemble it up there? Did they use a crane?Gawwad wrote:
Assemble it there?
Crazy Azns.
And I do fondly remember smacking a cruise missile into the thing. Unfortunately, I stood too close to it and caught myself in the blast, losing most of my health. It was a rather harrowing scramble back to my tank to find a spot I could call in supplies without it being shot down.
Well that was in the article, giving her opinion and telling a story, but that was not the title was it? This is what I was trying trying to talk about. You have to consider looks and the utter failure financially.Mek-Izzle wrote:
Anyway, I also think it aint ugly. Just that it's a big pile of fail because so is the country it was built in. Man, North Korea .....that place is just fucked.
"North Korea poured more than two percent of its gross domestic product to building this monster, the hotel remains unoccupied, unopened, and unfinished.
Looks like a super hero fort or sumthin'. Kick ass!
more like / tower is /
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