Hello, similarly-named person. I had exactly the same thought. And also that they should just convert it directly into a slum, install the loudspeakers for the call to prayer, and skip the pesky in-between stage.
You're such and advanced thinker. Maybe some American company can do it for $100mil. I wouldn't change the lack of perimeter guard railing idea (will help for turnover to keep the place vibrant).
This horror of HVAC porn was my daily office view until I retired in 2016. It is the Weisman museum of "art" in Minneapolis. The only thing uglier than the outside is the inside, which is filled with nightmarish grotesques that fill me with
The google pics made me laugh: what a pile of junk the Weissman museum is! Glad you have graduated to a better view.
I once had a crying meltdown in the Tate Modern in London. There was one exhibit where the "artist" dumped the contents of her bathroom trash can into an acrylic box mounted on the wall. Used kleenexes, used Q-tips, rubbish, a hairball from a brush. There were groups of schoolchildren being led through the museum being told the trash was art. The whole museum was like this. One masterpiece was an upturned sofa with a little recorded voice underneath repeating "help me, help me."
There was also an unmade bed complete with dirty sheets, trash on the floor, everything dirty and unkempt. Not long afterwards a drunk Japanese tourist was arrested for yelling "Banzai! and belly flopping repeatedly on the bed. He was arrested and it was treated as an international incident, same as if he'd stormed the Accademia and smashed David's arm off with a crowbar.
Anyway, I started crying and could not stop. It was all just so wrong and a travesty to indoctrinate children that this shit is art. My traveling companion accused me of having bourgeoisie taste, as I cried and told the schoolchildren this was not art. My sympathy is entrely with the Japanese tourist. Banzai indeed.
I commend you on your discernment and commitment to truth. I believe that art glorifies God and that "Contemporary art" is base and ugly by intention , the better to offend Him. Canova's "Three Graces" celebrates women as God's perfect creation. I swear that is why lefty Leftist women use blue hair, tattoos, and piercings to defile His work in defiance.
So nice the "worn" building is getting a very necessary remodel to save the planet as well!!
I bet the view is nice up at the top but not for me.
The remodel looks like several buildings in Reston Virginia, except no gardens. Reston Virginia and Tysons Corner have a collection of ugly buildings just blossomed over the past 35 years.
When we moved to Alexandria in the 80's Tysons corner was just a cross roads with a small strip mall on one side.
Anyway, Wow, that advertisement at the bottom for Sage Restoration? That is the ugliest Chalet I have everrrrr seen.
As one who lives on the frozen tundra of Northern Minnesota, that chalet looks very liveable. The steep roofs are a luxury in deep snow regions. Very common in parts of Canada and the nordic countries.
There are clear glass or plexi “fences” around that green terrace. As one who has watched more than a few home and business rehabs/builds, that’s what is going on. To not restrict the view. You can vaguely see the line when pulling the image closer. It still can’t beat the useless uglery of the obumma library.
03/10/26: In other news, “In Sioux Falls, S.D. … North Dakota State … punched its NCAA Tournament ticket with a 700-62 victory over North Dakota” (NYP Sports 03/0-9/26 3CW).
North Dakota’s defense next year will be even better.
03/04/26: "Despite this, Crockett has not pledged to join Talarico on the campaign trail. Texting with New York Times’s Reid Epstein while flying back to Washington DC, Crockett refused to 'make plans for other people’s campaigns.' "
--- Thank God his name isn’t “Reed Epstein.”
(Actually, the association with the New York Times would be more damning.)
I’m a city planner. Sort of. Planner yes. City no. I keep my client base under about 10k in population because I like direct, local participation. My small town clients are all neighbors that act like neighborhoods. We have this set of review criteria that emphasizes harmony with the surroundings. Clearly missed that mark here.
My first thought was Mordor. My second was the map room in Indiana Jones. One side of the building plunges the neighborhood adjacent into shadow while the other side reflects the sun and immolates the unfortunate everyone in the path.
Who has commissioned the external rethink of the Tour Montparnasse? Probably a malfunctional government-architectural-commercial "alliance" that can't even agree about setting the thermostat in their conference room.
So, in typical bureaucratic fashion, they default to the only solution that gets more than a single supporter: hire a whiz-bang A-list architect with a long history of defacing cities by his creative designs, invariably praised by Establishment lackeys and pretty much no one else. Yes, the king of Postmodern Grotesque himself, Renzo Piano. Responsible for, among other offenses, the Centre Pompidou Art Warehouse and London's "The Shard." That ought to silence critics of the Montparnasse tower!
Nobody involved with the building's born-again look seems to grasp that what those critics hate isn't, primarily, its color or finishing. It's the height, stupid! Violating the surrounding context! A fuck-you to Paris's Haussmann-inspired architectural character!
If Renzo Piano wanted to ensure his immortality and place in the hearts of Parisians, he would have said, "Thank you all for the honor that brings me here this morning. Ladies and gentlemen, let us face it: this monstrosity is a piece of shit, always has been, always will be no matter how much we tinker with it. Let's do the honest thing and tear it down to widespread cheers and take an oath never again to bugger the beautiful City of Light, however much it's been degraded already. Can anyone recommend a good restaurant for lunch in this neighborhood?"
How can city officials and developers be so utterly stupid and destructive? Is it that they are not stupid but so corrupt and immoral that they build these life-destroying abominations just for the money that will flow into their pockets. If city officials and developers build them for the profits they will reap, then they are immoral and unethical to an extent that I would not think possible.
It looks nothing so much as Man givng the middle finger to God. Now it will be a shiny, reflective middle finger.
Hello, similarly-named person. I had exactly the same thought. And also that they should just convert it directly into a slum, install the loudspeakers for the call to prayer, and skip the pesky in-between stage.
🤣
You're such and advanced thinker. Maybe some American company can do it for $100mil. I wouldn't change the lack of perimeter guard railing idea (will help for turnover to keep the place vibrant).
Heard a lot of eyesores are being removed from the Iran skyline. https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/call-of-duty-president-trump-edition
“Quelle horreur” et “La pire chose qui soit arrivée à Paris depuis les Nazis.”
(What horror --The worst thing to happen to Paris since the Nazis.)
...heard from numerous sidewalk cafe tables...
I predict in a few years Enrichers will be busting out those mirrored windows to let out the smoke from their dung cooking fires.
The Paris Phallus.
And it is one more than anyone thought Paris had ...
À la Mademoiselle Macron⁉️
Per Chance....
03/04/26: "BOTH US?!"
Unfortunately, architecture reflects the culture of the times. The external primping is the very essence of lipstick on a pig.
This horror of HVAC porn was my daily office view until I retired in 2016. It is the Weisman museum of "art" in Minneapolis. The only thing uglier than the outside is the inside, which is filled with nightmarish grotesques that fill me with
angst. https://share.google/CqJE0CqMuu3bKS9nw
"HVAC porn" is perfect!
Frank Gehry is our no. 2 scoundrel architect, right behind Piano. Sometimes they switch places, depending on whose temple to ugliness is most recent.
Some of Gehry's undulating buildings are interesting. But it wore thin fast.
Their maintenance is horrifically undulating as well...
The google pics made me laugh: what a pile of junk the Weissman museum is! Glad you have graduated to a better view.
I once had a crying meltdown in the Tate Modern in London. There was one exhibit where the "artist" dumped the contents of her bathroom trash can into an acrylic box mounted on the wall. Used kleenexes, used Q-tips, rubbish, a hairball from a brush. There were groups of schoolchildren being led through the museum being told the trash was art. The whole museum was like this. One masterpiece was an upturned sofa with a little recorded voice underneath repeating "help me, help me."
There was also an unmade bed complete with dirty sheets, trash on the floor, everything dirty and unkempt. Not long afterwards a drunk Japanese tourist was arrested for yelling "Banzai! and belly flopping repeatedly on the bed. He was arrested and it was treated as an international incident, same as if he'd stormed the Accademia and smashed David's arm off with a crowbar.
Anyway, I started crying and could not stop. It was all just so wrong and a travesty to indoctrinate children that this shit is art. My traveling companion accused me of having bourgeoisie taste, as I cried and told the schoolchildren this was not art. My sympathy is entrely with the Japanese tourist. Banzai indeed.
I commend you on your discernment and commitment to truth. I believe that art glorifies God and that "Contemporary art" is base and ugly by intention , the better to offend Him. Canova's "Three Graces" celebrates women as God's perfect creation. I swear that is why lefty Leftist women use blue hair, tattoos, and piercings to defile His work in defiance.
A postcard of eternally fetid-blaspheme 'PissChrist' at BAM in dying Brooklyn .....🔥
Pro Tip: God shall no be mocked‼️
How Fitting for the decrepit denouement of MuzzyAssPolice ‼️
Welcome to Slumalia🔥‼️
So nice the "worn" building is getting a very necessary remodel to save the planet as well!!
I bet the view is nice up at the top but not for me.
The remodel looks like several buildings in Reston Virginia, except no gardens. Reston Virginia and Tysons Corner have a collection of ugly buildings just blossomed over the past 35 years.
When we moved to Alexandria in the 80's Tysons corner was just a cross roads with a small strip mall on one side.
Anyway, Wow, that advertisement at the bottom for Sage Restoration? That is the ugliest Chalet I have everrrrr seen.
As one who lives on the frozen tundra of Northern Minnesota, that chalet looks very liveable. The steep roofs are a luxury in deep snow regions. Very common in parts of Canada and the nordic countries.
There are clear glass or plexi “fences” around that green terrace. As one who has watched more than a few home and business rehabs/builds, that’s what is going on. To not restrict the view. You can vaguely see the line when pulling the image closer. It still can’t beat the useless uglery of the obumma library.
agree. His looks like a prison.
The Ministry of Love
Biggins Mike and the Chocolate Bathhouse Bellboy will be interred there shortly ‼️
There should be prosecutions for something that horrid.
Like the Obama building!
Looky yonder Jethro‼️
A giant ceeement butt plug‼️
The death penalty is more appropriate for that egregiously hideous representation of a homeless incampment
We might call that..
"A diamond in a goat's ass"..... it's a Southern slang thang from years ago.
I'm stealing that ⬆️ NOW‼️
03/04/26: Suitable for the future headquarters of Black Lives Matter (Paris).
03/10/26: In other news, “In Sioux Falls, S.D. … North Dakota State … punched its NCAA Tournament ticket with a 700-62 victory over North Dakota” (NYP Sports 03/0-9/26 3CW).
North Dakota’s defense next year will be even better.
03/04/26: "Despite this, Crockett has not pledged to join Talarico on the campaign trail. Texting with New York Times’s Reid Epstein while flying back to Washington DC, Crockett refused to 'make plans for other people’s campaigns.' "
--- Thank God his name isn’t “Reed Epstein.”
(Actually, the association with the New York Times would be more damning.)
Jizzum Bucket
Crockett ran and lost good riddance.
Hopefully she never gets put in front of a mic again.
03/05/26: Amen. What vile garbage she is. Into the "Ex-mayors of Baltimore" dead-letter file she goes.
I’m a city planner. Sort of. Planner yes. City no. I keep my client base under about 10k in population because I like direct, local participation. My small town clients are all neighbors that act like neighborhoods. We have this set of review criteria that emphasizes harmony with the surroundings. Clearly missed that mark here.
My first thought was Mordor. My second was the map room in Indiana Jones. One side of the building plunges the neighborhood adjacent into shadow while the other side reflects the sun and immolates the unfortunate everyone in the path.
Who has commissioned the external rethink of the Tour Montparnasse? Probably a malfunctional government-architectural-commercial "alliance" that can't even agree about setting the thermostat in their conference room.
So, in typical bureaucratic fashion, they default to the only solution that gets more than a single supporter: hire a whiz-bang A-list architect with a long history of defacing cities by his creative designs, invariably praised by Establishment lackeys and pretty much no one else. Yes, the king of Postmodern Grotesque himself, Renzo Piano. Responsible for, among other offenses, the Centre Pompidou Art Warehouse and London's "The Shard." That ought to silence critics of the Montparnasse tower!
Nobody involved with the building's born-again look seems to grasp that what those critics hate isn't, primarily, its color or finishing. It's the height, stupid! Violating the surrounding context! A fuck-you to Paris's Haussmann-inspired architectural character!
If Renzo Piano wanted to ensure his immortality and place in the hearts of Parisians, he would have said, "Thank you all for the honor that brings me here this morning. Ladies and gentlemen, let us face it: this monstrosity is a piece of shit, always has been, always will be no matter how much we tinker with it. Let's do the honest thing and tear it down to widespread cheers and take an oath never again to bugger the beautiful City of Light, however much it's been degraded already. Can anyone recommend a good restaurant for lunch in this neighborhood?"
Probably no guardrails so they can throw the gays off
Oh my! A real "coffee spitting" comment.
Which is very odd because many in that culture believes "boys are for fun and girls are for babies."
As told to me by an Egyptian captain taking over a US warship in 1996.
Per Islam, if the boy they rape is pre-pubescent it is not considered homosexuality.
Sort of like "the Line" in Saudi Arabia, just on a smaller scale.
How can city officials and developers be so utterly stupid and destructive? Is it that they are not stupid but so corrupt and immoral that they build these life-destroying abominations just for the money that will flow into their pockets. If city officials and developers build them for the profits they will reap, then they are immoral and unethical to an extent that I would not think possible.