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Subject: Buildings That Disappear Posted by: Baldwin - [140312221] Sat, Jan 24, 2009, 21:02 Regional planners have been as far as I can tell mainly focussed on cramming future building into very limited zones, no sprawl allowed. I'm more interested in building seamlessly and almost invisibly into nature and I am starting to run into some like-minded design teams that offer a better plan than empty wildlife corridors and urban ghettoes for mankind. If anyone wants to kick around architecture here with me, great. If not I'll just file my finds here.       | |||||||
| 1 | Baldwin ID: 9123198 Sun, Feb 22, 2009, 17:48 |
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| 2 | Boxman ID: 571114225 Sun, Feb 22, 2009, 19:10 | The ultimate deer stand. Very cool. | ||||||
| 3 | nerveclinic Leader ID: 05047110 Sun, Feb 22, 2009, 23:39 |
That last photo could turn into a caption contest. "Now we know why Baldwin isn't answering emails...he lives in a tree." | ||||||
| 4 | Boldwin ID: 24528715 Mon, Jun 07, 2010, 16:28 | A remarkable website architecture hosting some remarkable architecture. | ||||||
| 5 | Boldwin ID: 24528715 Mon, Jun 07, 2010, 17:08 | Check out the Blur Building in that site. | ||||||
| 6 | Boldwin ID: 24528715 Mon, Jun 07, 2010, 17:39 |
Also Two Way Hotel and Phantom House. Simultaneously intrigued and horrified by the first, the second is much more than just another Johnson House. | ||||||
| 7 | biliruben ID: 34820210 Thu, Dec 02, 2010, 09:02 |
This is often airbrushed out of pictures of Pyongyang, so in a sense it disappears! Now I know why I'd never seen the worst building in the world before. Hotel of Doom! The final video has it disappearing in a different way. Arg... Can't seem to embed the pic. It disappears again! Just click thru. | ||||||
| 8 | biliruben ID: 34820210 Thu, Dec 02, 2010, 09:21 |
Updated photo. Looks like after 20 years, they are close to completion!
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| 9 | Boldwin ID: 53322222 Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 23:32 |
Feeling a bit paranoid today? Push the button.   
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| 10 | Boldwin ID: 53322222 Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 23:35 | Design Fetish | ||||||
| 11 | Perm Dude ID: 5510572522 Sat, Apr 23, 2011, 15:17 | Similarly, I think... | ||||||
| 12 | Boldwin ID: 35615181 Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 08:05 |
 Being built right now in Milan.  Count me as a huge supporter of this. | ||||||
| 13 | Boldwin ID: 35615181 Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 08:15 | Just such a great story in bili#7,8. The music video embedded in the linked article is an all time fav of mine. So funny. | ||||||
| 14 | Boldwin ID: 361015204 Sun, Nov 20, 2011, 05:17 | Organic architecture of the past. | ||||||
| 15 | Boldwin ID: 4111685 Fri, Dec 16, 2011, 12:08 |
Building with bacteria. Living inside dunes that won't shift and force you to move repeatedly. Dunes which permanently prevent creeping desertification. Project by Magnus Larsson | ||||||
| 16 | Boldwin ID: 1557712 Sat, Jun 09, 2012, 17:16 |
 Erreth Unfor by thom | ||||||
| 17 | Boldwin ID: 1557712 Sat, Jun 09, 2012, 17:59 | Music for fine architecture. | ||||||
| 18 | Boldwin ID: 1557712 Sat, Jun 09, 2012, 18:09 |
 Iran - Kashan bazaar - photo/Abbas Arabzadeh | ||||||
| 19 | Boldwin ID: 1557712 Sat, Jun 09, 2012, 18:28 |
 Spanish architecture firm Selgas Cano recently unveiled their new office in Madrid. Located within a forest, the tube-like structure is half-sunken into the ground, giving the illusion of complete isolation. A large window runs the entire length of the structure and forms part of the roof, ensuring workers a panoramic view of the surrounding woods. The office is entered via a partially-hidden stairwell 
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| 20 | Boldwin ID: 1557712 Sat, Jun 09, 2012, 18:49 |
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Einstein ...we should really examine the trend toward urbanization and decide if we shouldn't just take a step backwards and reintegrate society into nature rather than the other way around. It's not necessarily an anti-urban bias, just one pro-nature stance. - Chris Roy | ||||||
| 21 | Tree ID: 17039238 Sat, Jun 09, 2012, 22:41 |
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Einstein ...we should really examine the trend toward urbanization and decide if we shouldn't just take a step backwards and reintegrate society into nature rather than the other way around. It's not necessarily an anti-urban bias, just one pro-nature stance. - Chris Roy you post these, yet you demand we build for more automobile travel, and don't plan for bicycle travel. it makes no sense. | ||||||
| 22 | Boldwin ID: 1557712 Sat, Jun 09, 2012, 22:53 |
Well let's see, we have not necessarily an anti-urban bias and one pro-nature stance Why can't you allow for shades of gray? | ||||||
| 23 | sarge33rd ID: 34536813 Sat, Jun 09, 2012, 22:53 |
actually, I was curious about the apparent contradiction, and wondering when B would refer to those two gentlemen as "enviro-weenies". I dont post it without a purpose B. It is a contradiction, that you find this style of architecture as appealing as you (rightfully I think) do, but then lambast virtually every other sustainable environmental issue out there. | ||||||
| 24 | Boldwin ID: 1557712 Sat, Jun 09, 2012, 23:07 |
It's easily understood. I actually believe is a sustained paradise on earth. I am not like enviro-weenies who are only using the environment as a cloak to bring in marxism and destroy the West. | ||||||
| 25 | Perm Dude ID: 3210201915 Sat, Jun 09, 2012, 23:31 |
Yeah--that's what they are in calling for bike paths. And that is what they are doing. And so they deserve the crap you give them. | ||||||
| 26 | sarge33rd ID: 34536813 Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 00:38 |
I actually believe is a sustained paradise on earth. No you dont. | ||||||
| 27 | Mith ID: 23217270 Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 00:47 |
I assume there's a panoramic-view glass ceiling over the hidden road leading to that office? Maybe you drive through a waterfall to the hidden parking lot?. Sticking a glass ceiling on an an underground bunker in the woods is novel but obviously lacks an awful lot in the way of practicality, like the ability to station several thousand functioning workers in the space of one city block in an immediate area that provides them every conceivable necessary service. B doesn't want to protect nature in any way that hampers industrialization. He's just dreaming of replacing our morally depraved cities with commercially operated Gardens of Eden | ||||||
| 28 | Boldwin ID: 1557712 Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 01:13 | There is unlimited room below the surface. In fact there is room to grow multiple levels of crops and industry and residences. | ||||||
| 29 | Tree ID: 17039238 Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 01:21 |
using the environment as a cloak to bring in marxism and destroy the West. because, of course, people who want bike paths and bike lanes and sharrows are using the environment as a cloak to bring in marxism and destroy the West. i mean, do you honestly believe this? and if so, can you explain your rationalization? because there is no connection there. then again, you're the one who wants to go back to nature by paving more roads to get there. | ||||||
| 30 | biliruben ID: 59551120 Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 08:42 |
Living in a town that's currently spending 10s of billions of dollars and injecting massive amounts of carbon by digging what are very simple tunnels for cars and rail compared to what you are suggesting, I can assure you that messing about below the surface is not easy nor particularly eco-friendly. I appreciate your desire for decentralization, but it turns out we simply have way too many folks on the earth now for us to pursue such a course except for the privileged few. There aren't many wild, yet hospitable, places left in the world. Go take a walk in them and allow yourself to be reminded of once the world once was. Don't build in office park in them, because then they are gone forever. | ||||||
| 31 | Boldwin ID: 18643169 Mon, Aug 06, 2012, 21:47 | Was it Madman or Toral who once scoffed at the idea of resources running out? [Madman, I think] They mentioned nanomaterials as an example. Nano-power multi-tasking materials. Very clever and not far-fetched at all. | ||||||
| 32 | Boldwin ID: 46859128 Wed, Sep 12, 2012, 10:00 |
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| 33 | Boldwin ID: 46859128 Wed, Sep 12, 2012, 10:03 |
I appreciate your desire for decentralization, but it turns out we simply have way too many folks on the earth now for us to pursue such a course except for the privileged few. - bili The power elite have a cure for that and the nicer one is WWIII. The one after that is even more evil. They have no conscience. | ||||||
| 34 | Boldwin ID: 508401917 Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 20:40 |
Transparent Tower, Korea  
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| 35 | Boldwin ID: 508401917 Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 20:59 |
  Brasil Arquitetura inspired by the works of Alvar Aalto. | ||||||
| 36 | Boldwin ID: 291029284 Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 05:29 |
More or less, the world's first real live Ewok Village in Costa Rica.
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| 40 | Boldwin ID: 211040295 Thu, Nov 29, 2012, 13:56 | FORWARD! | ||||||
| 41 | boikin ID: 430211013 Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 11:13 | Korea builds city around airport instead of away from it. | ||||||
| 42 | Boldwin ID: 70101517 Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 18:13 |
Disappearing over the horizon. Project of Milton Freidman's grandson. Son of anarcho-capitalist, David. | ||||||
| 43 | Boldwin ID: 11258617 Wed, Mar 06, 2013, 18:58 |
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| 44 | Boldwin ID: 11258617 Wed, Mar 06, 2013, 19:01 |
Might disappear into a commercial zone...
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| 45 | Boldwin ID: 11258617 Wed, Mar 06, 2013, 19:04 |
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| 46 | Boldwin ID: 11258617 Wed, Mar 06, 2013, 19:14 |
 Tree Hotel, a 4x4x4 meter cube, completed project in Northern Sweden. The plywood interior is designed to accommodate two people, containing a double bed, bathroom, living room and roof terrace. | ||||||
| 47 | Boldwin ID: 11258617 Wed, Mar 06, 2013, 19:17 |
 Sunset Cabin | ||||||
| 48 | Boldwin ID: 11258617 Wed, Mar 06, 2013, 19:22 |
Potential
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| 50 | Boldwin ID: 29621113 Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 14:22 |
 A Cabin you can quickly and easily secure. | ||||||
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