The architect that designed that building for that space should be shot, or at least disbarred of his operating licenses.
Good architects usually try to make their buildings match with the surrounding architecture. Whoever designed that just decided to plop down something out of Mass Effect into the middle of a Victorian-era Swedish city.
Both of those buildings look really nice, but they don't fit together at all, that's for sure. There are examples where contemporary architecture in the middle of old looks great, one of them being University of Helsinki's new library:
[t]http://www.archi-e.fi/system/files/styles/large_image/private/kaisa-kirjasto_mika_huisman_0.jpg[/t][t]http://images.adsttc.com/media/images/52af/e3d3/e8e4/4ec8/db00/008e/large_jpg/Copy_TU-120427-hy-kirjasto-051_copia.jpg?1387258823[/t]
[t]http://www.helsinki.fi/kirjasto/files/4113/6798/7906/Kaisa-talo_aula.png[/t]
Which is a neat building in itself.
it can be done right, like above for sure..
[t]http://rp.braxnet.org/scr/1445706776300.jpg[/t]
[t]http://rp.braxnet.org/scr/1445706808718.jpg[/t]
but this is just gross
Does your town not have a city architect (the person who would approve buildings before they're built) or something because this is city planning 101
holy shit what a blatant eye-sore, you can see the unfittingness from space with the naked eye
[sp]just excaggerating of course as a statement of its total shittyness[/sp]
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Leningrad_skiers.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Soviet ski troopers in the Siege of Leningrad. [/QUOTE]
[t]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FLj8qpzorwk/UW0uihRX9fI/AAAAAAAA-W0/0qYiSjR2mE8/s1600/A+15+years+old+German+Luftwaffe+anti-aircraft+crew+member+crying+after+being+taken+prisoner+by+American+forces3.jpeg[/t]
[QUOTE]A 15 year old German crying after being taken prisoner by Americans. By this time in the war, the Reich resorted to recruiting soldiers from the Hitler Youth to defend Berlin.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=seba079;48973763]Does your town not have a city architect (the person who would approve buildings before they're built) or something because this is city planning 101[/QUOTE]
they hired an architect to do it, and some of the funding is from us taxpayers
[QUOTE=Jukka K;48972663]Both of those buildings look really nice, but they don't fit together at all, that's for sure. There are examples where contemporary architecture in the middle of old looks great, one of them being University of Helsinki's new library:
[t]http://www.archi-e.fi/system/files/styles/large_image/private/kaisa-kirjasto_mika_huisman_0.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]up close that thing actually blends in so well, that most of the times i've walked by it i haven't even realized it's there
[QUOTE=woolio1;48972655]The architect that designed that building for that space should be shot, or at least disbarred of his operating licenses.
Good architects usually try to make their buildings match with the surrounding architecture. Whoever designed that just decided to plop down something out of Mass Effect into the middle of a Victorian-era Swedish city.[/QUOTE]
True that. Two-tone with all those windows, lightning rods and pointy bits looks horrible. Not sure what they were thinking.
[img]http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/comparison-SanDiego-2-1024x512.jpg[/img]
Left is a map of San Diego that is created by Soviet Military Intelligence. The right is the map of the same area made by the US.
[QUOTE=Giraffen93;48972741]it can be done right, like above for sure..
[t]http://rp.braxnet.org/scr/1445706808718.jpg[/t]
but this is just gross[/QUOTE]
That view would look very historic if it weren't for the modern building and high rise behind it.
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;48975922][img]http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/comparison-SanDiego-2-1024x512.jpg[/img]
Left is a map of San Diego that is created by Soviet Military Intelligence. The right is the map of the same area made by the US.[/QUOTE]
This is pretty good considering maps are hard to make. But I gotta ask, how come the soviets needed to create a map of San Diego?
[QUOTE=Binladen34;48976891]This is pretty good considering maps are hard to make. But I gotta ask, how come the soviets needed to create a map of San Diego?[/QUOTE]
Probably intelligence and espionage.
[QUOTE=Binladen34;48976891]This is pretty good considering maps are hard to make. But I gotta ask, how come the soviets needed to create a map of San Diego?[/QUOTE]
[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War"]There was a small disagreement[/URL]
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;48978213]More than that, it includes minor things like bus routes.[/QUOTE]
All they probably had to do was buy a tourist brochure. That should include maps, hotel locations, bus routes, etc.
Knowing the Soviets, and intelligence units in general, it's quite possible that there was no real reason at the time to have a map of San Diego, and they just produced one for the sake of having it to hand if a reason ever did arise, such as briefing units on operations due to take place in the city. It could also have just been a training excercise to see how good the agents in the field were at producing accurate maps, and not being discovered in the process.
[QUOTE=xamllew;48976098]That view would look very historic if it weren't for the modern building and high rise behind it.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://www.azote.se/repository/temp/f6e9e3e6h6b9h9e3b3f33f36h6f6f3b3e6f3b3h6f6e3h3h6b3b9/w850/lex0061_sum0510.jpg[/img]
yep, they tore down a couple of hundred-year old buildings for it
[QUOTE=Giraffen93;48979455][img]http://www.azote.se/repository/temp/f6e9e3e6h6b9h9e3b3f33f36h6f6f3b3e6f3b3h6f6e3h3h6b3b9/w850/lex0061_sum0510.jpg[/img]
yep, they tore down a couple of hundred-year old buildings for it[/QUOTE]
Sweden can't do anything right
[QUOTE=Recurracy;48971052]I'd appreciate the video more than a webm tbh[/QUOTE]
Nothing wrong with .webm's unless they are taken from 4chan or alike and have sounds removed.
[QUOTE=creec;48980743]Nothing wrong with .webm's unless they are taken from 4chan or alike and have sounds removed.[/QUOTE]
If it comes from a Youtube video, than I'd rather have that original video so I can favorite/like it instead of bookmarking a video.
[t]http://41.media.tumblr.com/da568bb4dbeaac8d12f0dcec8f2b3969/tumblr_mwrfpbhpLB1s7e5k5o1_500.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Irish UN soldier drinking Guinness in the Congo, 1961. [/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=opaali;48980398]Sweden can't do anything right[/QUOTE]
Hey now
They did... Hm.
I guess this is pretty cool. It's Swedish.
[t]http://www.colorcoat-online.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/MuseudeArteContemporaneadeNiteroi2_thumb.jpg[/t]
Oh yeah, and those little red fish. Those are pretty good.
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but does anybody have that helmet cam footage from Delta Force of them rescuing those 69 prisoners from ISIS? It's one of the top news stories of facebook but none of the articles link to it
[QUOTE=ShadowSocks8;48982753]I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but does anybody have that helmet cam footage from Delta Force of them rescuing those 69 prisoners from ISIS? It's one of the top news stories of facebook but none of the articles link to it[/QUOTE]
[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDjMfTC0nUY"]Here you go[/URL].
[QUOTE=gman003-main;48983154][URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDjMfTC0nUY"]Here you go[/URL].[/QUOTE]
anyone know of a full version anywhere?
[QUOTE=ShadowSocks8;48984447]anyone know of a full version anywhere?[/QUOTE]
Doesn't Liveleak have tons of stuff like this? I'd search there.
The gas giants are some pretty awesome planets, both in the colloquial cool sense and in the sense that they inspire awe.
[thumb]http://d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/N00198376.jpg[/thumb]
[thumb]http://i.space.com/images/i/000/034/993/original/saturn-hexagon-silhouette-color.jpg?1386190067[/thumb]
[IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/PIA02863_-_Jupiter_surface_motion_animation.gif[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/images/content/388625main_Jupiter_Approach.gif[/IMG]
[thumb]http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/NatSci102/NatSci102/images/greatredspot.jpg[/thumb]
Jupiter is my favorite.
If anyone's wondering about that hexagon on Saturn, [url=http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2010/2471.html?referrer=https://www.google.se/]here it is explained[/url].
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_c9A9Auf0A[/media]
I've always wondered what it'd look like to send a probe straight into Jupiter's Great Red Spot to take some shots of the surface clouds. Sadly no such mission is planned in the near future, so here's some neat artist's impressions.
[thumb]https://goingbeyond96.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/surface-of-jupiter.jpg[/thumb]
[thumb]http://www.donaldedavis.com/ART4SALE%20folder/JUPCLDS.jpg[/thumb]
[thumb]http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11113/111130081/3559343-2918277360-jupit.jpg[/thumb]
[thumb]http://41.media.tumblr.com/9e3fc812369fdff2b49693c349d26654/tumblr_n92xowq6U61rjatglo3_r1_1280.jpg[/thumb]
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