both of these were designed by architects. neither reflects the twin simplicity and laziness that engineering embodies.
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If engineers had our way all buildings would look like this
This is the ideal building. You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like π
Why not continue the brick shell at least to eye level? Why does it stop at waist level?
Brick expensive :(
panel cheap :)
The real question is, why is there any brick at all?
(The answer is almost certainly that somebody other than the engineer imposed the requirement.)
Brick waterproof.
Brick termite-proof.
Brick fireproof.
Panel same (probably, depending what kind of panel).
No, panel only as waterproof as the coating protecting it. Brick is rock, takes centuries to wear out.
...masonry wainscots look tacky-as-heck but they provide impact and moisture resistance where it's needed most...
Is masonry really cheaper than using a slightly thicker gauge of steel and a decent epoxy paint for the bottom few feet?
...it's far more durable, mostly...
Dogshit R-factor, poor impact resistance, I mean that's the obvious stuff lol
Peak performance is highly dependent on who's defining it π
Brick? Pfft. Concrete elements all the way. There's no equal.
This is what's known in the Midwest as "tornado bait"
As an engineer, I prefer to call it minmalism.
Quick edit: I saw the typo, but it is also an example of what the sentence is supposed to convey.
Look. i's ain't cheap, and half the readers won't even use it.
Leave it out, we'll claim it was a mistake, and if anyone really complains we can add it back later.
Are you kidding. Just slap an extra 20% of the is you think you used on the end in case.
That's positvely genus!ii
I go with "efficiency"
hey! I resemble those remarks!
Surely that second building is AI generated or something right? Surely physics would not allow such a monstrosity, nor would any city approve it... right?
I'm not sure it exists. I spent three whole minutes on Google and can't find it. I'd expect it to be fairly famous if real.
I'm not sure Y anyone would build it, but I do think we could figure a way to build it safely if someone wanted to throw enough money at it.
The first building looks like it's a female connector for a high throughput cable of some kind.
Looks like a German bunker on Omaha Beach to me
Ah yes, I knew I cleared that bunker in SE5
https://images.pushsquare.com/9352b32741dc7/sniper-elite-5.large.jpg
For me it's cylons.
I believe it's in Guernsey, C.I.
ed: it's a German WW2 coastal naval range finding tower. Used for fire control of coastal guns shooting 25 miles out to sea.
Brutalist architecture in a nutshell
What buildings are these?
Can't believe no-one asked yet
The bottom one looks scary as fuck. I don't want to be in or around that thing if it was real.
BUT WITH THE POWER OF FLEX TAPE
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For a drainage engineer, he's shockingly bad with sluices in Timberborn, lol.
It was those architecture beavers!
Realcivilengineer is that you?
They're the same picture