HecticArt Wonderful Architecture Work

Four hundred million dollars sounds like a lot of money – and it is – but the asking price sounds much higher when converted to Qatari riyals: 1,462,580,400.

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Qatari royal family lists Bel Air megamansion for $400 million, now America’s priciest listing

The Al Thani family’s 8-acre Los Angeles compound includes 39 bedrooms, 50 bathrooms, three pools, a private cinema, medical room and underground garage for 25 cars; brokers say more than $350 million was spent building the estate
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On California's June 2 ballot is another half-cent sales tax hike. I'm voting no. I hope the measure fails. The money raised will supposedly go to help the homeless but will likely be wasted, same as all the billions of dollars raised from previous sales tax hikes. When I was a child, Glendale's sales tax was 4%. It's now 10.5%! Every few years another sales tax hike is on the ballot – and our stupid, gullible voters keep approving them: "Oh, we don't pay nearly enough taxes. Let's raise them."

Here is another story about the Bel Air megamansion:

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This $400 Million Bel Air Megamansion Could Become the Nation’s Most Expensive Home

The 8-acre Bel Air estate could become the nation's most expensive home.
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I drive past this building a lot and today I noticed it while I was at a light and it made me all mad. Is a cool looking freaking building. Go look at a bank that was built in the past 20 years and it looks like a tiny little piece of shit whereas this thing looks like a beast. And it is a beast. It has survived every hurricane since 1972 and is still standing, whereas today's banks are basically built of straw.

I know it's survived since 1972 because I asked Gemini when it was built and I gave the intersection it's on. After that I was grumpy for the rest of my ride home about how current shit is built terribly and looks horrible compared to this thing that has survived past 54 years.

Make stuff that looks like this Hectic.
 
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HecticArt said:
It's kind of a dated brutalist thing.
I like brutalist stuff, but that could use some windows or something.
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Yea, that's what Gemini said. "mid century modern brutalist" which apparently can be from the 50's to the 80's. That's when I gave her the cross streets to narrow down the exact date cause 30+ years is a wide spectrum.

Anyway I like it. It's angry but cool and somewhat pretty all at the same time. Shit. I should have moved this to the girly things thread.
 
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I was just now looking into brutalist buildings and a lot of them suck. But the good ones are really cool.

Check out this one in GA. The Woodruff Health Sciences Center:

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It's like art for men. The dude who designed this building was into Football and F1 and Hockey. It doesn't make you feel all feminine and force you to think girl thoughts to understand it like looking at a landscape or abstract painting.

Like how Van Gogh obviously needed a shrink to talk about his inner turmoil. His sunflowers were filled with his crybaby, woe is me, I'm gonna cut my ear off cause the world doesn't understand me.......type feelings. Van Gogh would have been into Ice Dancing and Dressage.

This building, on the other hand, says:

"Here I am motherfucker. I'm fucking cool and sexy and functional art and if you don't like me I don't fucking care you pussy. Hey Art Deco/Miami Modern.......Wanna talk shit about me? I'll kick your ass you little bitch."
 
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Here's a few fun ones.
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That's an epic example of brutalist architecture. It's a heroic display of dominance, permanence, and futuristic enthusiasm.
It's meant to show off what construction technology could do with concrete by turning it's back on traditional forms and preconceptions of what architecture could be. It was unapologetic and honest by exposing the raw structure as the finished material. It was also a way to explore how shapes, light, shadow, and space could be sculpted in ways that couldn't be done before.

For as ugly as it seems, there really are some cool things going on that I've grown to appreciate with this one. Where it sits in the middle of historic Boston is still very unsettling, as is they way that it treats the vehicle. There are always a jumble of cars parked right outside with no way of dealing with them that is organized or even looks good.
 
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That's an epic example of brutalist architecture. It's a heroic display of dominance, permanence, and futuristic enthusiasm.
It's meant to show off what construction technology could do with concrete by turning it's back on traditional forms and preconceptions of what architecture could be. It was unapologetic and honest by exposing the raw structure as the finished material. It was also a way to explore how shapes, light, shadow, and space could be sculpted in ways that couldn't be done before.

For as ugly as it seems, there really are some cool things going on that I've grown to appreciate with this one. Where it sits in the middle of historic Boston is still very unsettling, as is they way that it treats the vehicle. There are always a jumble of cars parked right outside with no way of dealing with them that is organized or even looks good.
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I also think the wasteland of brick acreage it sits on is off-putting. Although it allowed it to be the home of the Boston Calling music festival for several years.
 
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