Author Topic: Pics from where U live (Read 1251 times)

funkedup · « **Reply #31 on:** June 30, 2002, 09:51:08 PM »

This is a tough turn if you don't know it's coming.

funkedup · « **Reply #32 on:** June 30, 2002, 09:53:50 PM »

Social event of the year

funkedup · « **Reply #33 on:** June 30, 2002, 09:56:53 PM »

Hubba hubba

Nath[BDP] · « **Reply #34 on:** June 30, 2002, 10:41:02 PM »

Dinger · « **Reply #35 on:** July 01, 2002, 12:28:58 AM »

Hehe funked. I didn't realize you were from such a backwater hayseed hicktown.

Hey RRAM, we've got a turd of a Geary building down by the river here that I swear is the twin of your guggenheim. I'll pop down tomorrow and get a shot of it for ya.
(I promise to make the resolution smaller than the wallcloud above)

Gadfly · « **Reply #36 on:** July 01, 2002, 07:30:55 AM »

Me house:

Panoramas of my fun spots:

hunting grounds

swimming hole

another swimming hole

Ripsnort · « **Reply #37 on:** July 01, 2002, 07:40:38 AM »

Backyard

RRAM · « **Reply #38 on:** July 01, 2002, 07:41:13 AM »

Quote

Originally posted by Dinger

Hey RRAM, we've got a turd of a Geary building down by the river here that I swear is the twin of your guggenheim. I'll pop down tomorrow and get a shot of it for ya.

"turd of a geary building"......

LOL

Heheh I also thought Guggenheim was ugly at first, but after you get used to it, it's pretty neat

. Anyway the true beauty of it its inside the building. The inner structures of the museum are awesome, worth a visit by themselves

. Is something strange to say ,that the inner of a building is much more impressing than the outside...but is exacly what it happens here

IIRC Geary was going to make a twin (if slightly enlarged) of the Guggenheim museum at New York, but I'm not sure if the project will ever be done.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #39 on:** July 01, 2002, 07:49:30 AM »

And living by Lake Tapps, glacial- fed lake (Our 60 home platte, White River behind us, down a 100 foot cliff, is a State Elk Preserve)

Superfly · « **Reply #40 on:** July 01, 2002, 09:10:19 AM »

Dinger · « **Reply #41 on:** July 01, 2002, 10:18:10 AM »

I went for a walk today, and this is what I came back with. The lighting wasn't as good as for the Bilbao shot, but what do you expect for ten minutes of work?

Dinger · « **Reply #42 on:** July 01, 2002, 10:20:25 AM »

From another angle.
I swear it's the twin of your guggenheim. Some of the fancy materials are on the other side.

RRAM · « **Reply #43 on:** July 01, 2002, 10:42:15 AM »

Hummmmm it has a similar style, but -even forgetting that Bilbao's museum is totally covered in titanium, I find the building on those pics is quite different from Bilbao's Guggenheim museum.

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Dinger · « **Reply #44 on:** July 01, 2002, 11:36:26 AM »

Okay, the other side is completely different, and yours looks like sandstone/sandstone brick (not titanium) and mine concrete, but the shots you put up of the entrance are actually pretty close. Well, it's clear that this dinky university doesn't have the kind of dough the Guggenheim folks do, but that's obvious. I'll see if I can get a picture of the entrance, which has the same lattice-window sides, the same projecting titanium-covered cube. It doesn't have the always-popular le Corbusier entrance though.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I prefer living where I do to living practically anywhere in Europe (well, from France on South).

I'm just saying that I don't like Geary much.

By the way, when was that museum built? The "Laser Building" (it is a laboratory, believe it or not) opened in '93 or '94, and you can already see the signs of oxidation and wear on the once shiny parts.