This blog is dedicated to all the good architects (or folks who think they are good) out there who for whatever reason are unable to create their architectural masterpieces and who spend day after day PISSED OFF to see CRAP being built ALL AROUND THEM!!! Who Builds this SHIT?
This is AWESOME... They tried to build this shit but it didn't work. This is a hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea apparently it was never finished and has sat there as an eyesore since the 80's. I LOVE THIS!!!
"In 1987, Baikdoosan Architects and Engineers put its first shovel into the ground and more than twenty years later, after North Korea poured more than two percent of its gross domestic product to building this monster, the hotel remains unoccupied, unopened, and unfinished."
You have to read the whole story that was in esquire here. The best part about this building are all these renderings I found online, people love this building obviously ha ha ha ha! Who TRIES to Build this SHIT!
This video is even better:
As Esquire so elegantly puts it: "The Demolition S How video by the Italian architects Extraneo might not be as conceptual as Ryugyong.org, but this piece of architectural porn sure is fun to watch. The video (which you can watch above) was mounted as part of the exhibition Fiction Pyongyang, curated in part by Stefano Boeri, who also collected 120 speculative designs for the hotel in the June 2006 domus magazine. The designs, he says, "have forced it to reveal its icy nature, its irresistible fascination as a fragile alien meteorite." The worst building in the world is also, we now know, "the only built piece of science fiction in the contemporary world." And it's true. Demolition S How is all Blade Runner-style flying ads and soaring concrete, and the video reminds us that the worst building in the world is the closest humans have come to building a Death Star."
This is a rendering of the USA Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo. This was submitted to us from a concerned reader. They were concerned for the following reasons:
1. This USA Pavilion was designed by a Canadian Architect. We love our Canadian neighbors but this is the USA pavilion - shouldn't it be designed by a USA architect?
2. Other country pavilions are so much cooler! Expo's should be a place where the best of the best is shown... such a missed opportunity. Check it out!
I dont know what I am looking at, but these two structures are FREAKING COOL! Why is the USA Pavilion at the top of the page so LAME! Obviously, this is not a case of architects having clients that lacked vision - the USA Pavilion is a case of an American developer who somehow got the contract that only had a vision of cash! That's the only excuse I can think of...
Condos have a tendency to pop up like mushrooms, and like mushrooms some of them can kill you. Okay they wont kill you but they can be pretty DAMN UGLY! I missed the day in architecture school where we were told to use 10 different materials in place of good design, has anyone else noticed this lately? It is just too easy to splash materials on a Sketchup model - wait a minute these actually ARE Sketchup materials!!! Maybe we should solicit Google to have a better material pallet for Sketchup it might help some of these developers... (yes i blame the developers not the architects on this one). Who builds this Shit?
The Domain in Austin Texas could be anyWHERE. It could be anyWHEN. Is it brick? Is it wood? Is it a scale model? Is this really responsible urbanism? okay okay okay we will give it some props - it combines the "Live" with the "Work"... but that does not get it off the hook - What is it with the 50 materials on one surface, did they think you wouldn't notice it was all built in a week not over a period of years? Did they think you wouldn't notice that if you huffed and you puffed you could blow it all down? What happened to integrity of materials? HELL What happened to integrity at all? Who Built This Shit?
