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Nine Bizarre Buildings
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 18, 2009 -
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Category: Architecture
But Where Did They Get The Concrete?
Posted By: Dumbfounded - Tue Jul 07, 2009 -
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Category: Architecture, History, Goofs and Screw-ups
Inventions of Buckminster Fuller, Part 6: Geodesic Domes
This is one of Bucky's inventions that actually went into practical use. Also, many people are actually somewhat familiar with this one (think Spaceship Earth at Epcot).
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Posted By: fyshstyxx - Tue Jun 16, 2009 -
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Category: Architecture, Buildings and Other Structures, Futurism
Inventions of Buckminster Fuller, Part 4: The Dymaxion Bathroom
This was the finishing touch to Fuller's Dymaxion House.
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Posted By: fyshstyxx - Wed Jun 03, 2009 -
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Category: Architecture, Bathrooms, Futurism, Inventions
Inventions of Buckminster Fuller, Part 2: The Dymaxion House
Problem: Quality housing is too expensive for the average person.Answer: The Dymaxion House!
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Posted By: fyshstyxx - Tue May 19, 2009 -
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Category: Architecture, Buildings and Other Structures, Futurism
Weird Florida, part 1: Carrabelle
Carrabelle is a small town about 20 miles from Apalachicola. It is also home to the world's smallest police station
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Posted By: fyshstyxx - Mon May 18, 2009 -
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Category: Architecture, Buildings and Other Structures, Communications, Cops, Sightseeing
Murals That Move
Posted By: Nethie - Fri May 15, 2009 -
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Category: Architecture, Art, Inventions
Buy Your Own Piece of Armageddon
Be the envy of every other survivalist and have your own converted cold-war Atlas-F missile silo home! You too can live in complete cold war safety and luxury. The converted missile launch site is marketed as a getaway, luxury home, and in my opinion is every survivalist’s dream. The property includes its own private runway, 2000 square foot luxury home above ground with master suite, a private airstrip, and a hangar/garage. Below ground, past the 2000 lb. blast doors and three feet of reinforced concrete built to withstand brutal missile assaults lies two additional stories of space in the converted control room where you will find two additional suites with luxury marble Jacuzzi baths and an escape hatch to your private hangar.
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Posted By: chris_cantwell - Wed May 06, 2009 -
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Category: Architecture, Armageddon and Apocalypses, Buildings and Other Structures, Destruction, Flight, Government, Military, Real Estate, Science, War, 1950s
Lloyd Brown’s Globe Theater
Apparently this theater was never constructed, but it's an interesting idea. Though anyone with a fear of heights would want to avoid the ceiling seats. From the Chicago Tribune, May 26, 1901:A Globe Theater Which is Really a Globe
Many theaters have been called "The Globe," which name, as describing their shape, is a misnomer, but a Kansas City man has planned the real thing in a globe theater, for the interior is spherical. The great advantage which this ingenious man, Lloyd Brown, asserts for this theater is not only that the stage will be visible from all seats, but what is said on the stage may be heard equally well in all parts of the house. The acoustic properties of a theater are as important as the stage properties and are harder to obtain. Frequently persons sitting back under gallery or balcony are unable to hear the players.
The seats in this "globe" theater will begin at the stage, which will occupy the usual place, and rise gradually, going backward on the interior of the sphere until the highest point is reached. There will be only two rows of seats all around, and the upper hanging ones will be suspended on steel beams.
Many theaters have been called "The Globe," which name, as describing their shape, is a misnomer, but a Kansas City man has planned the real thing in a globe theater, for the interior is spherical. The great advantage which this ingenious man, Lloyd Brown, asserts for this theater is not only that the stage will be visible from all seats, but what is said on the stage may be heard equally well in all parts of the house. The acoustic properties of a theater are as important as the stage properties and are harder to obtain. Frequently persons sitting back under gallery or balcony are unable to hear the players.
The seats in this "globe" theater will begin at the stage, which will occupy the usual place, and rise gradually, going backward on the interior of the sphere until the highest point is reached. There will be only two rows of seats all around, and the upper hanging ones will be suspended on steel beams.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Apr 17, 2009 -
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Category: Architecture
Young Man Standing on His Head
From the Feb. 9, 1948 issue of Life magazine:Young Man Stands on Head Before 48 State Capitols
For years sensitive citizens have loudly deplored the antique ugliness of the country's older state capitols. Now a hardheaded young Chicagoan named John G. Nichols, who appears upside down all over these two pages, has discarded words for drastic action. To illustrate his monumental distaste for the architecture of most state capitols he has managed to have his picture taken standing on his head before all 48 of them... He stood on his head in rain, snow, slush and mud and often had a terrible time getting people to take his picture. "They thought I was crazy," he explains modestly.
For years sensitive citizens have loudly deplored the antique ugliness of the country's older state capitols. Now a hardheaded young Chicagoan named John G. Nichols, who appears upside down all over these two pages, has discarded words for drastic action. To illustrate his monumental distaste for the architecture of most state capitols he has managed to have his picture taken standing on his head before all 48 of them... He stood on his head in rain, snow, slush and mud and often had a terrible time getting people to take his picture. "They thought I was crazy," he explains modestly.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Feb 06, 2009 -
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Category: Architecture, 1940s
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