Tuesday, October 09, 2012

What is this building?

Here's a reader quiz. Look at the pictures of the building below and guess what the building is, i.e. what the building is used for.




18 comments:

  1. It is so ugly , it *must* be a modern church.

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  2. My guess is modern art gallery. It is an appropriate shrine for contemporary art.

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  3. It's too small to be an art gallery. It must be a church. Probably in a denomination which has driven off all its communicants and now consists of apostate priests and a large endowment.

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  4. It is the Temple of the Extinct Oppressor.

    In future decades, non-whites will come there to view typical scenes in which the vanished race known as "whites" exhibit their characteristic exploitation of women, non-whites, gays, and other victim groups. Visitors will leave with a collective sigh of relief that such horrors are no longer perpetrated thanks to the extinction of the oppressor (assisted in large measure by their own suicidal behavior).

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  5. It looks like some modernist's idea of an appropriate museum for Renaissance art, but there is perhaps too much glass for that, and why does it rest on a grassy hill, which suggests an out-of-the-way location?

    The combination of a grotesquely soulless pile of blocks (suggesting that nothing inside is as important as the statement-making architecture itself) and a location that implies it doesn't matter if anyone actually goes there says this is a modern church.

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  6. I'm going to say It's a library.

    What does the correct guess win?

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  7. It doesn't look practical enough to be a house (though I could easily be wrong, as there are many "gimmick" houses) and I don't see a coherent use of light, appropriate for a library where people have to read. (Besides, where is the parking lot?)

    It's come kind of building the architect felt free to be stupid with, like a war memorial, or something sacred.

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  8. Church of the Most Holy Trinity


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    looks pretty shit when compared to the cathedrals.

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  9. "Solar calendar"

    Then it would need to be more logically organized.

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  10. Yeah, look up "Wotruba Church" on Wikipedia. Supposedly this was inspired by Chartres Cathedral!

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  11. "It's a Decepticon."

    But a Decepticon posing as what?

    A car or a helicopter is a logical object with a form that follows its function. That's why it surprises you that it's really a Decepticon.

    It's not obvious what the architect thought the function of this structure was, or whether he or she even recognized that it had a real function.

    It's only obvious that he or she was schooled in the antique tropes of Modernism.

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  12. What it reminds me of are these monuments from Yugoslavia http://www.cracktwo.com/2011/04/25-abandoned-soviet-monuments-that-look.html

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