This is one of the fake buildings in London that are actually just ventilation shafts for the subway.
EDIT: Not one of those. See answer to this comment.
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Art installation on Margate, Kent, UK.
No ventilations.
https://www.smithandwallwork.com/whats-new/margate-sliding-wall/
TIL! Thanks =)
“I don’t want to be a building today”
So here I am
Here is the building on Street View:
It's been knocked down and replaced since 2015.
Police truck just started in my head
Playing Tony Hawk drastically changed the way I looked at the world.
It made me look around and up for things that I did not have the skill to grind on in real life and suddenly I was noticing details of buildings and art and so on.
It's called the Tetris effect and it gave me really stupid ideas when Need For Speed: Underground came out and had this mechanic where you could fill up your boost by doing near misses with oncoming traffic. I just had my driving license not long before that.
Yeah... Playing Burnout 3 so much back in the day, you'd notice ramp trucks and stuff all the time
Looks like the front fell off.
A wave must have hit it
Some duck tape will fix it right up
That's not very typical, I'd like to make that point.
Toilet paper I have known and loved?
Spot on!
And now I'm wondering in the -ihkal suffix is known outside the Shulgin fanbase...
There are very rigorous building standards
Which are?
Well, Cardboards out for one. And cardboard derivatives.
Not all the way
Yes but it only looks that way is the secret.
Ahh..so where does the cassette go then?
Can't they just scooch it back into place? I don't want to drop a bunch of architectural/engineering lingo, but it's pretty self-explanatory, no?
The folly of measuring once.
I didn't realize the housing market was in such a slump.
A very serious recession.
There was a hawkitecture sub on r***it. Is there one on lemmy?
This building looks like I feel clocking in for work.
There is a power up in there.
A secret tape.
I guess they need some engineer intervention there
thats some cherry mortar work
I'm more impressed with the windows. Curving wood and glass can be tricky. I've seen a curved door before, but not with curved glass in it.
Despite the pixelation casting doubts on the materials, it is actually made from real, mortar, wood and glass.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Knees_of_my_Nose_to_the_Belly_of_my_Toes
More pictures: https://www.alexchinneck.com/from-the-knees-of-my-nose-to-the-belly-of-my-toes
I always thought I saw supports on the curves other times I saw this but never got the story that it was an art piece and never saw those up close photos.
Man there is so much little clever things going on in that to make it so perfect. It's all perfect and bent and yet has structural supports all over the place. It's even braced at the bottom to make sure it doesn't actually try to slide down.
Gorgeous art installation.
Wow that was a cool look, thanks for the link.
Some others from the site I enjoyed:
https://www.alexchinneck.com/a-spring-in-your-step
https://www.alexchinneck.com/take-my-lightning-but-dont-steal-my-thunder
https://www.alexchinneck.com/rock-and-roll
Cool art
The Wiki pages references this site that has some basic designs drawings
https://architizer.com/projects/from-the-knees-of-my-nose-to-the-belly-of-my-toes/
Looks like one of the Windows is a door way going to some stairs.