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Uzique wrote:

i think dropping ultra-modern or different buildings into a traditional space discursively is great. keeps your senses awake when you're walking around, adds a bit of excitement. my uni has a super-modern building right next to a chateau. walking from one to the other is great. are you advocating traditionalism and monotony, shocking?

That's nice and all, but old, almost monumental, buildings shouldn't be a victim of modern (even ugly in our case) architecture.
Our old city centre is cramped, so you can't add new buildings to it without tearing down a few from the 1800's.

Shocking wrote:

dude...

Shocking wrote:

uzique wrote:

i think dropping ultra-modern or different buildings into a traditional space discursively is great.

I don't.

why? reasons? justifications? i'm interested. if london was still completely victorian today, i'd be bored to tears. it would also be a dirty shithole, and all the buildings would be cold and expensive.

Jay wrote:

Shocking wrote:

dude...

one of the wonderful buildings on the uni campus.

as is this



and this

Uzique wrote:

Shocking wrote:

uzique wrote:

i think dropping ultra-modern or different buildings into a traditional space discursively is great.

I don't.

why? reasons? justifications? i'm interested. if london was still completely victorian today, i'd be bored to tears. it would also be a dirty shithole, and all the buildings would be cold and expensive.

Because new for the sake of new is stupid. It's childish to want to completely overturn what already exists for no other reason than excitement. I don't think he wants all new buildings to be built from the same materials and in the same style as some 17th century town hall, but to make some reasonable attempt to not be its garish antonym. The architecture style you're praising is to me nothing more than an attempt to troll the world.

Uzique wrote:

Kampframmer wrote:

Uzique wrote:

i think dropping ultra-modern or different buildings into a traditional space discursively is great. keeps your senses awake when you're walking around, adds a bit of excitement. my uni has a super-modern building right next to a chateau. walking from one to the other is great. are you advocating traditionalism and monotony, shocking?

That's nice and all, but old, almost monumental, buildings shouldn't be a victim of modern (even ugly in our case) architecture.
Our old city centre is cramped, so you can't add new buildings to it without tearing down a few from the 1800's.

some buildings get too old and dilapidated to repair, or become too expensive or unmanageable. lots of old buildings are outright abandoned and left to rot. i see no problem in tearing them down, then, and putting up something new. our cities would be scummy holes if we never flushed out the old and brought in the new.

I'll give you (little) know fact that will support your argument.
99% of those old houses in our city centre are slanted, some to such a degree (but this is because of recent tunneling close to them) that they can no longer be lived in and have to held uo by wooden posts and boards. Shame really....

We really tend to keep out modern and traditional area's seperate. Right now, I wouldn't mind them putting down some new and refreshing buildings, but I'm just glad that they didn't do it in the 60's-90's.

Shocking wrote:

Jay wrote:

Shocking wrote:

dude...

one of the wonderful buildings on the uni campus.

as is this

and this

Is all of that on Science Park or a different uni?

Uzique wrote:

Shocking wrote:

uzique wrote:

i think dropping ultra-modern or different buildings into a traditional space discursively is great.

I don't.

why? reasons? justifications? i'm interested. if london was still completely victorian today, i'd be bored to tears. it would also be a dirty shithole, and all the buildings would be cold and expensive.

It's the city center, as kampf said these places are near monumental and when you walk around in the cobblestone streets and look at the buildings it has a special feel to it. It's a part of the city that has barely changed in hundreds of years. It's beautiful. Dumping that blue monstrosity in the same street as aformentioned buildings is well, disrespectful.

and it's plain ugly.

Kampframmer wrote:

Shocking wrote:

Jay wrote:

dude...

one of the wonderful buildings on the uni campus.

as is this

and this

Is all of that on Science Park or a different uni?

uithof, utrecht

oh this also i like



old building old building old building insane skyscraper old building old building

Trotskygrad wrote:

Shocking wrote:

mother of god

that thing's upkeep must be pretty expensive.

They don't bother with it.
that pic is has been taken when right after completion i reckon.
I bet it's becoming more bland and gross every day.

All they do with those po-mo buildings is hose em down with a small high-pressure hose (the one you use to clean you car you know). They can all burn (or rot most likely) to the ground as far as i'm concerned.

Shocking wrote:

Kampframmer wrote:

Shocking wrote:

one of the wonderful buildings on the uni campus.

as is this

and this

Is all of that on Science Park or a different uni?

uithof, utrecht

strange.
I was in utrecht's uni district a few weeks ago and it looked great. The had renovated all the old building, but just large parts of the inside. keeping that traditional look on the outside, but with a modern and practical interior.

Good thing i didn't see those, that would've turned me off on that uni for sure.

This museum in the city centre is being rennovated (not on the side shown in the pic) and it will get a new structure attached to the side.
Guess what it will look like?



Ta-Da!!

there's your modern amongst the traditional Uzique.
We just can't pull it off.