Dubai: the most bonkers skyscraper ever

[Belushi]

Your jumping on Godwin's Law in search of a cheap point demonstrates your cuntiness.

Well done.

 

[Vintage Paw]

I think you're right, OU. I just did a google image search for 'non-shiny skyscraper' and there were 0 results

I like a lot of New York's skyscrapers. They have a lovely mix of brownstone and glass. Look lovely

 

[Belushi]

Looks quite shiny to me

It has windows, since when have you disliked glass?

 

[Yossarian]

There's something about the way Dubai does these big shiny trinkets and everyone coos and stuff and turns a blind eye to their general atrocious behaviour in other regards that reminds me of some other regime that used to be good at engineering

?

 

[Orang Utan]

It has windows, since when have you disliked glass?

Glass is ouchy when it smashes

 

[8ball]

?

This is a good point.

 

[Belushi]

I like a lot of New York's skyscrapers. They have a lovely mix of brownstone and glass. Look lovely

The Art-Deco ones are great.

 

[Orang Utan]

?

What a massive cunt he was - fucking engineers!

 

[Belushi]

Glass is ouchy when it smashes

Have I ever shown you my scar? dangerous stuff in the wrong hands glass.

 

[8ball]

Glass is ouchy when it smashes

I always wonder about these huge glass buildings - whether the stuff is treated to be less breakable, or at least less lethal when it breaks, beyond normal 'toughening'.

I suspect not, really.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Nom.

 

[Belushi]

Yay! Flatiron Building is one of my faves

 

[Orang Utan]

My building at work is covered in glass - I prefer to go in and out the back cos when I go through the front, I imagine a giant sheet of glass falling and bisecting me and it scares me

 

[8ball]

What a massive cunt he was - fucking engineers!

Ooh.

Not that I'm in the best glass house to be pointing out ropey generalisations . .

 

[Belushi]

My building at work is covered in glass - I prefer to go in and out the back cos when I go through the front, I imagine a giant sheet of glass falling and bisecting me and it scares me

A window fell out of my building on to the main road a couple of months ago, luckily no one was walking beneath!

 

[Vintage Paw]

Yay! Flatiron Building is one of my faves

One of the most "look at me, I'm an arty photographer" photographed buildings I reckon.

Ever since this:

 

[8ball]

Skyscrapers just say to me 'this would have looked totally different if we could afford the land', really.

I quite like them because you can go up really high in them (the really high ones, obv.), but they're more an artifact of market conditions than any kind of noble endeavour, metaphor for anything, thing of beauty etc. etc.

 

[Belushi]

One of the most "look at me, I'm an arty photographer" photographed buildings I reckon.

And the fact that it was in the heart of the Photographers District before it got rebranded by estate agents!

 

[Belushi]

I quite like them because you can go up really high in them (the really high ones, obv.), but they're more an artifact of market conditions than any kind of noble endeavour, metaphor for anything, thing of beauty etc. etc.

I think its often impossible to separate them out from each other tbh, like much architecture.

 

[Vintage Paw]

And the fact that it was in the heart of the Photographers District before it got rebranded by estate agents!

It's the recent photographs really. I try to shy away from photographing things that everyone photographs. I'm admin for my local group on flickr, and the amount of photos people add of this one steel sculpture is ridiculous. It's like everyone buys a camera, then goes and stands beneath it and takes exactly the same photo, thinking they're being dead arty.

A nice one for the family archives, sure. Nothing more.

 

[8ball]

I think its often impossible to separate them out from each other tbh, like much architecture.

Fair point. Architecture being quite a good example of an art form that generates creativity from its inherent contraints.

Or something.

I guess skyscrapers could be an illustration about how great concentration of wealth creates poverty even on its own terms.

 

[rhod]

What a massive cunt he was - fucking engineers!

and another one.....

 

[Belushi]

and another one.....

He's fucking ace

 

[dlx1]

me mate working in Dubai he sent me this of time line of new & pass skyscrapers

http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=23

edit:
forgot to add there meant to be building a underwater hotel soon

 

[Maggot]

There's something about the way Dubai does these big shiny trinkets and everyone coos and stuff and turns a blind eye to their general atrocious behaviour in other regards that reminds me of some other regime that used to be good at engineering and bold forms and zeppelins and stuff.

You're comparing these Arabs to the Prussians?

 

[isitme]

i think it looks awesome

would you not get dizzy tho?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Each floor moves on its own accord so the thing is always changing shape!

http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/twirling_towerconstruction_begins_in_dubai.php

I'd hate to be in there in a hurricane.

 

[WouldBe]

I'd hate to be in there in a hurricane.

Building takes off?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'd hate to be in there in a hurricane.

I don't think Dubai gets hurricanes

Sand storms maybe?

 

[KeyboardJockey]

especially when this technology will filter down in the next couple of years to our own houses etc.

Oh fuck does that mean I'm damned to live in a small house with no eaves and hardly any roof then. Bollocks