Still for me one of the most impressive buildings i've ever seen
Battersea Power Station
Inside of whetherspoons in bank. Shit photo but its amazing inside, i think it used to be a bank
He could've just said they came from another planet but seems keen to convince people with his bullshit pseudoscience that he knows stuff. I wouldn't trust him with my lunch. - SG
Also Bath Abbey is my favourite religious building in the uk. It isn't the most beautiful from the outside although I love the courtyard and surrounding part of the city. But the inside is the mode decadent and beautiful of all of them. Its perfect, not to big, not to small and the acoustics are fantastic.
He could've just said they came from another planet but seems keen to convince people with his bullshit pseudoscience that he knows stuff. I wouldn't trust him with my lunch. - SG
Yea, part squat, part community centre. It stands out a mile in the gentrified Schanze. Rich neighbourhoods need more poor amongst them, not fewer, which would have evidently been the case once they knocked it down.
I might be wrong, but i was under the impression the local authorities enforced some sort of compulsory purchase of the building following the riots when they wanted to close it down. Good decision. That place feeds and houses a lot of hungry people who can't otherwise afford to eat or find shelter. It's run almost entirely by volunteers, hence all their exhibits and parties are funded through donations. It's even a tourist attraction, so making way for posh flats or whatever would have been very short-sighted.
There's a decent bar just a block up from there, has a foosball table in the window and bands sometimes play- it''s grimey and I like it quite a bit. Hamburg is a wash with mainstream or tacky establishments, not including the vegas-cum-amsterdam area, so it's nice there's some relaxed places. Loads of vegetarian restaurants tho.
Architecture is great round there too, some proper brutalist flats about.
Must remember to download that docu gurt mentioned, before it gets taken off of iplayer. Ta for that btw!
"Better than a tech demo. But mostly a tech demo for now. Exactly what we expected, crashes less and less. No multiplayer." - BnB NMS review, PS4, PC
What's weird is that those flak towers came before brutalism was even a thing, the germans just wanted some big ass fortresses they could mount loads of guns on.
Although ironically in a way, they embody the misconceived brutality that people think the 'brut' in brutalism is referring to.
"Let me tell you, when yung Rouj had his Senna and Mansell Scalextric, Frank was the goddamn Professor X of F1."
Yeah. Just finished watching it again for the second time, so good, not a casual watch though! Gotta focus. I noticed at the start it showed parts of that bus station, at least I think it was that. I wonder if it'll make an appearance again in the second one
At the end in the little preview for the next one it shows some industrial stuff, chimneys and cooling towers. I really hope the G-Cans (massive storm drains in Tokyo) make an appearance.
I want some impulse responses of that place soooo badly.