What are architects thinking??
Published 11 months, 2 weeks ago in My life.Doesn’t anyone design beautiful buildings anymore?, when was the last time you looked at a building and thought, isn’t that beautiful??
Drove out of knox hospital the other day and glanced across the road, to the ugliest sight, I think I’ve seen in ages. The new rehab and paliative care hospital, has a part of the building done in some sort of material that is just awful. Picture a packet of plasticine ( if you youngies know what that is- olden day colourful playdoe laid in logs) flatten it all together and then stretch it. And then it looks like some lego house, no actually lego is neater than this.
It got me thinking, who has the say on these decisions? I would have thought that someone needing palliative care would feel more nurtured in a calming colour rather than Yellow, red and green.
Has any thought gone into this building, like, how will it relate to society in 20 years, will it date? But then again, we are a throwaway society, aren’t we??? It will probably be pulled down in 20 years and something else whipped up in its place.
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Wow you must of read my mind winnie I was thinking the same thing just the other day.
Ugly and boring is what our architecture seems to be and I am soooooo over rendering!!!!!! and over sized ugly houses squashed in on tiney winey blocks of land they look so stupid.
And what with mustard and purple, I like both these colours but not on every conceivable public building.
Then there’s the fact that really there still doesn’t seem to be any major emphasis on designing truly energy & water efficient houses or commercial buildings.
Add to this the bastard developers that are allowed to tear down every second buding heritage or otherwise or arrange for them to be torched. Then fill all these spaces with clone upon clone of the same f**king boringly unoriginal town houses and/or units.
I think they assume that yellow, red and green are “happy” colours, when obviously everyone has a different opinion on what happy colours are. Perhaps due to the nature of the facility, they wanted “happy” rather than “aesthetically pleasing”.
I agree… old buildings are beautiful… new and “out there” architecture like federation square is awesome. Lego boxes are ugly. But I guess every era has its own building style, let’s hope this phase passes and we go back to something ornate and dignified.
Lady C. IMO Red signifys danger or anger. Yellow, is for jealousy and pus . and green, well……green is good. This is an eyesore, I could understand in modern architecture if they tried to blend in with the landscape……but this looks like a jumping castle on a 40 degree day. Viv, I’m glad you share my feelings. Those big square houses that look like crypts. yeeeuww.
its a worry all the people giving up their backyards for duel dwellings……..imagine….no garden, just a patch of green…….oh well each to their own.
See I love Federation Square and my sister absolutely hates it and says it gives her vertigo….There is just no pleasing the masses….Last year there was a late night TV documentary on architecture in Europe and while some were very different to our concept of “classic”, they did actually come up looking really good. The thing I find most offensive to the eye is that god awful group of bright yellow beams positioned over the head going to the airport. I can just imagine one rusting at the base, with earth movement falling on cars underneath!…
I was remembering a block of flats I visited in Prahran some years ago and while the outside looked ordinary, within its centre piece normally reserved for car parking, was a giant fernery type open space totally covering the ground floor area and lovely to look at from the two storey flats above.
Some modern buildings had designers who obviously went for the least expensive option just to make a quick killing on location…..For some people beauty is not in the eye of the seller, just the dollars.
To me, red is tomato sauce, yellow is for fries and green is for pickles. Most non-chocolate food brands or fast food places use the colours red, yellow and green in their logos or on their packaging. Apparently these colours, especially red and yellow, make us hungry. Maybe it’s all a very clever ploy to get the palliative care patients to eat more…?
ah lady chaos, youre always thinking, and those colours in block may well do that, but this is squidged together and……….well is vomitous a word??? If I was needing palliative care ( and god forbid, cos I’m on Mary’s view with this) it would put me off my food.
That building sounds like the NAB bank building at docklands, it just looks like it’s made of leggo. Thankfully a hotel has been built in front of it and hidden it from the spencer street side, but a lot of the buildings at docklands look like they are Architecture students final thesis attempts, just like the new frontage to the poor old Storey Hall building in Swanston Street, a real vomit producer!!!!!!
I’m late, but I’m here at last! I thought I was alone in my dislike of the current crop of buildings which are just plain ugly. Federation Square - UGH! I couldn’t wait to get out of it. The architects and builders must have laughed all the way to the bank, just as the demolition team will as they pull the whole pile down - that’s if it doesn’t fall down first. those very expensive metal panels are already deteriorating, but I suppose they might be able to recycle all that exposed piping………………..
Perhaps Fed Sq was put together by a committee……………..