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[nigeltde]

I don't know shit about architecture so this pictoral list of the 21 greatest architectural achievements since 1980 contained a lot of really awesome stuff that was new to me.

I think I would be terrified to be inside the CCTV Building in Bejing. That shit does not look possible.

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Relatedly: how badass is "Koolhaas" as a name for an architect?

Also, everything Le Corbusier has ever built gives me the heebie-jeebies. Did the man hate joy?

[nigeltde]

Koolhaas; therefore nominative determinism exists.

The Le Corbusier church looks like a mistaken newspaper fez :-( and the jutting concrete porch scares the hell out of me.

[leroux]

Ahaha I failed at login and then today was like, "really, no reply? but i thought that was decently witty and stuff..."

And then double-checked. JUST IN CASE. Here is my neediness for all to see! \o/

BACK TO THE SUBJECT AT HAND: I just found out RIGHT NOW from Wikipedia that Le Corbusier was maybe a facist, and suddenly everything makes sense.

[nigeltde]

ha ha I thought I was suddenly very clever and famous, THANKS FOR BREAKING THE ILLUSION BUDDY

But now I know you are smart about architecture! Go you!

Think about the mind that made the Guggenheim museum. Then think about the mind that made that church. DEAR GOD STOP THINKING.