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Originally Posted by AdrianXSands
fuck skylines. i'm a fan of architecture.
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Oh, god, you can't be serious. Part of architecture is how it interacts with the environment. You can just simply never build a building with total ignorance as to what surrounds it and how its relationship with its surroundings. You make it seem like one must pledge allegiance to one or the other - skylines or architecture, make up your mind. But skylines
are architecture, they coexist with one another. You also make it seem like in order to create a great skyline, one must throw away any architectural principals. Let's take the most obvious example of a great skyline, one that both has great architecture and a great layout of its skyline. Look at
this photo - Look at how Manhattan is like a scale, it balances. Surrounding the Empire State Building there are there are a few scattered mid-level skyscrapers, 30-40 stories, and some shorter buildings, maybe about 10-20 stories, filling in the gaps. Then, right in the middle, like a fulcrum, there's the ESB, all 102 stories,
accentuating the layout of the island, and its pyramid-like progression at the top with the antennae is absolutely crucial for that accent. Now imagine if that building you posted was there, like a square prism rising out of the ground and, worse, with a few funky things in the middle that take out the focus from the top of the building - it takes the focus from its height and its relation to the slightly shorter buildings around it, to some weird gimmick in the middle. It would work atrociously with the Manhattan skyline, and it looks like it works pretty bad with the Bangkok too, considering that it's one of those downtowns with wide avenues, lots of green space, a few short buildings, and some scattered skyscrapers. You say you're a fan of architecture, but it doesn't help that not only does it not fit with that skyline or, really, any skyline (though it
might work better if it was maybe half its height and placed in a district with a higher density), but... it's not a very nice building, in my opinion, like I said earlier, it's gimmicky.
If you're still not convinced, hopefully these photos of New York before its modernist infestation will change your mind:
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/789...e70899_landing
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/2ed...1c21e2_landing
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/6b3...fae9da_landing
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/b15...8eb77e_landing
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