‘Monstrosity’: R1bn V&A Waterfront hotel sparks backlash

[itareanlnotani]

if I was a scientologist heading to the mass suicide pact with my cult to usher in the return of xenu ... this is exactly the design of building I'd expect to arrive at

Are you sure? I'd be all over that place on Rosmead Avenue - Novalis Institute.

 

[borro]

Reminiscent of a sound stage.

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

Are you sure? I'd be all over that place on Rosmead Avenue - Novalis Institute.

too small to land a DC-10 on

 

[Grant]

the amish have arrived and are taking up residence in the waterfront !

 

[Jakobus-9]

This design looks like the "duiwehokke", (pigeon holes). Nickname for municipal flats for poor people in Parow West Cape Town.

 

[warrenpridgeon]

too small to land a DC-10 on

SUCCESSFULLY. lol

 

[FiestaST]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2086127868963156479

 

[Grant]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2086127868963156479

more like an amish barn

 

[PlanesTrainsAutomobiles]

Please tell me you at least made it to the Budovar Brewery ! The most beautiful copper Tanks

We did !

 

[hexagon]

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Most dorm rooms look beter.

Airbnb style.

How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world

How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world

www.theverge.com

Looks like the Minecraft generation has entered the workforce...

 

[OutlawJoseyWales]

What a shocker.
For a billion you could have made something beautiful and attractive.
Who gave the go-ahead for that?

 

[vigras rojara]

What a shocker.
For a billion you could have made something beautiful and attractive.
Who gave the go-ahead for that?

Sorry mate, it was me. I won't do it again.

 

[longboy]

Ah welcome back Julius!

 

[OutlawJoseyWales]

Sorry mate, it was me. I won't do it again.

It all makes sense now!

 

[Splinter]

This is London's Trellick Tower, one of a few Brutalist creations designed by architect Erno Goldfinger.

Ian Fleming hated Goldfinger's architecture so much that he chose to name his Bond villain after him. True story.

Perhaps a future Bond villain will be named after the Marriott chap.

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I actually quite like this. Very different

 

[vigras rojara]

I actually quite like this. Very different

You aren't alone. His architecture has quite a following now and flats in that building aren't exactly cheap.

 

[Grant]

I actually quite like this. Very different

looks very "brutalist"

 

[HAL 9000]

looks very "brutalist"

Basil Fawlty: "Don't mention the word 'brutalist' - I did, but I think I got away with it..."