http://notfoolinganybody.com/?indexPost=1058 glad to see this site is still going (I think)?
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 30 April 2015 16:00 (eight years ago) link
We have a KFC turned into an independent Mexican sit-down restaurant up the street. It looks a ton better, but was probably the worst Mexican food I've ever eaten.
― how's life, Thursday, 30 April 2015 16:40 (eight years ago) link
it's going to take me a while to digest all that but in the meantime if you're into malls you gotta know about this guy! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._DeBartolo,_Sr.
― Florianne Fracke (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 April 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
I think the best idea for redeveloping a mall would be a school. You've got rooms, wiring, parking, food prep areas, communal areas. Why not turn it into a small college? Oh right because no one wants to build a college ;_;The one where I work is a Frankenstein's monster of a building, part of which used to be a movie studio. We have large meetings there now.
― Florianne Fracke (La Lechera), Friday, 1 May 2015 13:59 (eight years ago) link
Bunch of good stuff here:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/07/04/seph_lawless_photographs_abandoned_theme_parks_in_his_book_bizarro_photos.html
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Saturday, 4 July 2015 14:26 (eight years ago) link
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/abandoned-santa-parks
― a cruet of destiny (seandalai), Thursday, 24 December 2015 12:44 (eight years ago) link
Not amusement parks, but modernist/brutalist housing estates. In Paris. These are LUSH.
http://www.creativeboom.com/photography/neglected-utopia-photographer-explores-the-forgotten-modernist-estates-of-paris/
http://www.creativeboom.com/uploads/articles/da/dad030a0709cce1d65eae4ffe7ec9b123d0cee5a_860.jpg
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 09:08 (eight years ago) link
http://www.creativeboom.com/uploads/articles/dc/dc2fd89e36972344f5ddf01e3e472ffc0df25742_860.jpg
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 09:09 (eight years ago) link
http://www.creativeboom.com/uploads/articles/3a/3a196ade3e5f12b0c35609fb6c536b615b68ac95_860.jpg
Jean Renaudie/Studio Montrouge at the top - he did a lot of stuff in that vein, in some very industrial/Red neighborhoods; I've poked around the ones in Ivry-sur-Seine, pictured above, and Saint-Denis. Some apects strike me as very livable and fabulous, others very bleak and challenging, and others just kinda "there." The Cité des Etoiles, outside Lyon in a much greener setting, looks spectacular. Renaudie was IIRC an unreformed old commie and really 100% believed in what he was doing as a project for a better and more humane life for the working class. There was a monograph a few years ago which I remember enjoying even if I don't think it 100% clarified the payoff of all those triangular layouts beyond maximizing light/views/connection to the terraces. Wonder how the hell you occupy/furnish some of those spaces.
Having a very hard time seeing "modernist" next to Ricardo Bofill's 1980s work (the other two). They are almost textbook post-modernist, with the in-your-face classical allusions and general interest in playing with semiotic meaning (or telling "jokes") not to mention the framing of legible exterior space (courtyards) rather than objects sitting in a field. Some of the latter part certainly overlaps with late modernism but lumping them together with Émile Aillaud's towers in Nanterre (which are of similar date but a totally different 'generation' design-wise), as this article does, is a bit annoying. /architecturalhistorian
― shandemonium padawan (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/boblo-island-abandoned-amusement-park?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=atlas-page
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 1 December 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
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― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 1 December 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
not quite an amusement park tbf but holy shit check out burj al abas, this abandoned castle-themed housing development in turkey
https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/5c3f4be1b492cb1ad35e4af5-1920-1280.jpghttps://amp.businessinsider.com/images/5c3f602f7196711e1a38f736-750-500.jpghttps://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Findigodergisi.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F11%2Fburj-al-babas-projesi-mudurnu-villa-sato-1.jpg&f=1https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn-pro.elsalvador.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F02%2FBurj-Al-Babas.jpg&f=1https://tele1.com.tr/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/burj-al-babas.jpg
― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 13:37 (five years ago) link
!!!!
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 13:43 (five years ago) link
amazing that these clone-stamped mcmansioncastles somehow failed to set the turkish housing market alight
― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 13:49 (five years ago) link
The proportions are so strange.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 03:36 (five years ago) link
Reminds me of those Chinese imitation euro towns no one would actually live in.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 03:40 (five years ago) link
Appropriately, this thread is filled with dead links and abandoned websites.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 9 April 2022 00:39 (two years ago) link