https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fp-fst1.pixstatic.com%2F5254438b697ab0510b003947._w.500_h.375_s.fit_.jpg&f=1BEEP BOOP come inside all are welcome BLEEBOP DEEDOOP
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 12 December 2015 01:26 (eight years ago) link
Aw, I really liked that one, was sad to not have gotten inside the one time I saw it.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 12 December 2015 01:45 (eight years ago) link
I liked catching a glimpse of that from K St. on my morning commute, but really that just says something about the rest of the garbage buildings in this city.
― how's life, Saturday, 12 December 2015 10:09 (eight years ago) link
It was a brutal year for concrete architecture.
― nickn, Thursday, 31 December 2015 00:17 (eight years ago) link
gutting.
― ledge, Thursday, 31 December 2015 14:03 (eight years ago) link
I drove by the OC Government Center fairly recently. It was depressing.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 31 December 2015 14:19 (eight years ago) link
http://www.amsterdamse-school.nl/Content/images/Building/10699/P1040421.JPG
Villa de Oliphant, Haarlem.
― Tim, Monday, 4 January 2016 17:57 (eight years ago) link
Olifant, sorry.
not so much deposed as never posed:
http://www.dezeen.com/2016/01/10/ordos-a-failed-utopia-china-raphael-olivier-photo-essay/
(also not a city but an entire town)
― koogs, Monday, 11 January 2016 12:33 (eight years ago) link
Another building about to be taken down on the former Ambassador College property (two honeycomb buildings I posted above are gone now). No great shakes architecturally, but it will likely be replaced with pseudo-Mediterranean condos.
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/12644997_10207845599511699_8223301925690862262_n.jpg?oh=3b194aa496421da2f535085d527a1a19&oe=576C9EA2
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/12687999_10207845599271693_3113600707136114589_n.jpg?oh=5eb2f47f484a8b9ff922e87626a377b8&oe=57240E08
― nickn, Friday, 5 February 2016 07:08 (eight years ago) link
A William Pereira complex in Los Angeles, threatened with demo. A larger tower on the property has been preserved, and converted to housing.
http://la.curbed.com/2016/8/22/12553868/william-pereira-mwd-sunset-demolition-photos
From its hetday:
https://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/4ZB8Jy4Jd3eXn8q5lk1NMhjrL0M=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6972751/gri_2004_r_10_b289_f12_005.jpg
― nickn, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 06:27 (seven years ago) link
FLW in peril!
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/frank-lloyd-wright-lockridge-medical-building-is-slated-for-demolition-17-million-by-tomorrow?mbid=social_facebook
― nickn, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link
Pictures of some of them (trigger alert).
https://www.curbed.com/2018/4/6/17207934/brutal-destruction-pinkcomma-gallery-photography-exhibit
― nickn, Friday, 6 April 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link
Dammmn, those are some good photographs. Pouring one out over here.
― explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 7 April 2018 00:20 (six years ago) link
CBR Building in Brussels is apparently on the chopping block.
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/34746455_1410096875802208_1678301738412539904_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=07c9eba7cc63e915e4746cee9d3d2fba&oe=5BADB53A
More pics here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:CBR_Building_in_Brussels
― nickn, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
Like a giant cheesegrater full of liquid bronze.
― lana del boy (ledge), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
was talking about this on flickr a while back - this particular type of bronze-colored reflective glass is rare among late-modern/brutalist tics in having basically NO defenders, as of yet....
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
The Founders National Bank of America located in Oklahoma City. Designed by architect Robert Bowlby and completed in 1963. Photo: Julius Shulman
https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/43342632_1541533439325217_6375721720749228032_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&oh=ec30bc000f12f914c0f1fcecfbf26257&oe=5C55E972
And today:
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/43384937_1541533419325219_5432836091285602304_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&oh=8e3d2802e9fb281461a55e4d25e7af27&oe=5C6330D8
― nickn, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 02:17 (five years ago) link
;_;
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 02:31 (five years ago) link
what the fuck
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 03:08 (five years ago) link
an outrage
couldn't they find someone to stick a McDonald's in it
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 03:09 (five years ago) link
savages
― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 14:58 (five years ago) link
, disgusting
I dunno. Lose the arches and it looks pretty much like any other branch.
https://i.imgur.com/m7EzBQ0.png
I dig that building in the background though.
https://i.imgur.com/XBJBZea.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
While undoubtedly controversial, I think the addition of a bulldozer is a bold design element.
― Werther Down the Spiral (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
Developer tears down a Neutra, city orders him to rebuild it.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/City-requires-property-owner-who-demolished-13467909.php?utm_campaign=CMS+Sharing+Tools+%28Mobile%29&utm_source=whatsapp.com&utm_medium=referral&fbclid=IwAR2gEvEvHTM_VH7bmsHC7GF8q3b5gAvyuOhXa7fsPdJOCUL7T9m-YRdycuI#photo-16648644
Zillow of the house pre-tear down.https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/49-Hopkins-Ave-San-Francisco-CA-94131/15131464_zpid/?fbclid=IwAR1QNX7XbsfklJwR6CodJTVKfVcD9PJ6ft4iE03FwAmt7BhYnHNGYXFaNXY
― nickn, Saturday, 15 December 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/may/17/goodbye-to-gomorrah-the-end-of-italys-most-notorious-housing-estate?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
When finished, the corridors were narrower than planned, the tower blocks closer together and the proposed transport links and social spaces non-existent. The effect was to isolate hundreds of the city’s most destitute families without access to work in a vast concrete slum.
a familiar story, but like the parkhill flats in sheffield - despite all the failings of making tower flats that are dignified living spaces - it looks awesome.
― calzino, Friday, 17 May 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
Parker Center, Los Angeles, includes a 1-min time lapse.
https://urbanize.la/post/city-completes-above-ground-demolition-parker-center?fbclid=IwAR1GeaqYbn0AAmU-21u2S7i_Pv866kwUB_oa1Pg2YzcFdTwSnZea71fHNEI
― nickn, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
Oh no! Now they're building it back up!
https://i.imgur.com/1XBShvV.gif
― pplains, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
The ghost of William H Parker is powerful.
― nickn, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
here's a nice wee video depicting the whitevale and bluevale towers which were taken down a few years ago.
they were glasgow and scotland's tallest buildings - or thereabouts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluevale_and_Whitevale_Towers
https://vimeo.com/169669169
30% of Glasgow's high rise flats have been demolished in since 2006. Next on the list are the Whitevale and Bluevale flats - Glasgow's so called Twin Towers. When they were built in 1969 they were seen as the utopian answer to the city’s housing crisis. 45 years later they are a dystopian nightmare after years of crime and neglect..Lights Out is a short film that comprises of 4 years of documentation, timelapse recordings and audio interviews with the first and last residents of the Twin Towers in Glasgow prior to their demolition. Photographed, directed and edited by BAFTA Scotland New Talent award winning filmmaker - Chris Leslie. Soundtrack by John Maxwell Hobbs.
a remember someone who had lived in the lower floors of one of the towers when it was still new and he was young telling me that there were huge cracks up his family's living room wall, so no expense was spared clearly!
must admit some of the views look amazing
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 22:29 (four years ago) link
always remember them from visits to CP - we used to park opposite
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
Whatever you say about how fucked up and corrupted and incompetent many UK social housing projects were in the 50's/60's, at least there was a will to actually build them.
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
xp. i always get to one game at cp when I'm home and walk into town down the gallowgate and I'm still not used to those big behemoths being there.
if they'd actually built them well and thought about the social cohesion and community aspects when moving folk then they could've been a success i reckon
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
The Zack House by Craig Elwood burned by the Getty fire in Los Angeles.
https://www.facebook.com/KCMODERN/photos/pcb.2525595454199945/2525593230866834/?type=3&theater
― nickn, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 22:34 (four years ago) link
An MCM in the So Cal desert is slated for demolition. Probably unavoidable as I can't image anyone with the money to restore it would want to live out there. The "Hilltop House" in Apple Valley.
https://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/newts-paradise-apple-valleys-spectacular-hilltop-house/
― nickn, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 18:43 (two years ago) link
"Marcel Breuer's first binuclear house, Geller I in Lawrence, New York has been demolished in the dead of night."
https://docomomo-us.org/news/marcel-breuer-s-first-bi-nuclear-house-is-demolished
― nickn, Friday, 29 April 2022 17:51 (two years ago) link
This is one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. (Detroit, MI) pic.twitter.com/OHBjTOKuJI— Hayden Clarkin (@the_transit_guy) July 6, 2022
― koogs, Thursday, 7 July 2022 08:13 (one year ago) link
?
― sarahell, Thursday, 7 July 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
"On the subject of tower blocks, streets in the sky, etc, I suppose soon we'll be able to add the Aylesbury and Heygate estates to this thread. So far I think only one of the buildings has been demolished."
I remember the Heygate Estate - it was popular with photographers and film-makers. I remember the final gun battle in a film called The Veteran was shot there. It felt odd because the estate was often portrayed as a drug-ridden hellhole, but the few times I visited there was almost nobody about and it was actually quite pretty because it was being reclaimed by nature.
https://i.imgur.com/K7cKTqY.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/BlBGVao.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/a8Ygn7O.jpg
At least it's now still buildings, although they aren't finished and I imagine they aren't cheap:https://goo.gl/maps/89bAH1MpQzE59NsY8
― Ashley Pomeroy, Thursday, 7 July 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
Top Gear (or whatever the new one is called) did a show that featured that Detroit garage - it was an early 20th century theater that became a concert hall that became a garage IIRC.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 7 July 2022 21:25 (one year ago) link
I did whippets behind this one in San Francisco:
http://photos.cinematreasures.org/production/photos/170048/1465168115/large.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 7 July 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
"In addition to the main sanctuary building locally known as The Egg, there are a trio of additional buildings on the First Christian Church campus, all designed by Conner & Pojezny."
Oklahoma City
https://www.archpaper.com/2022/09/oklahoma-city-egg-shaped-first-christian-church-demolished/
― nickn, Friday, 7 October 2022 21:02 (one year ago) link
Booooooooo!
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 7 October 2022 21:56 (one year ago) link
most thin shelled concrete buildings won't last 100 years tbh
― micah, Sunday, 9 October 2022 10:00 (one year ago) link
Chris Martin Tears Down John Lautner’s Garwood Residence
https://www.dirt.com/gallery/entertainers/musicians/chris-martin-house-malibu-teardown-1203603490/garwood3/
― nickn, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link