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Title: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: one-eyed on August 09, 2013, 02:17:11 PM
(http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2013/08/08/1226693/358736-ce315478-ffbd-11e2-aff6-4f37e7e71844.jpg)

http://www.news.com.au/national-news/victoria/flinders-st-station-design-has-some-raving-and-others-railing/story-fnii5sms-1226693343254

Thoughts?
Title: Re: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: Rampstar on August 09, 2013, 03:02:44 PM
looks like crap
Title: Re: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: Yeahright on August 09, 2013, 03:17:43 PM
Reckon it's meant to look "futuristic" but doesn't suit the rest of Melbourne
Title: Re: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: gerkin greg on August 09, 2013, 03:19:59 PM
(http://www.cigars.com.au/site/DefaultSite/filesystem/images/CIGARETTE%20ACCESSORIES/Cigarette%20Holders%20Filters/Ventti_Ultra_Slim_Filter_(md).jpg)
Title: Re: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: WilliamPowell on August 09, 2013, 03:23:40 PM
looks like crap

And it probably wont get built, going to cost $1.5 bil they reckon

And to think the design winners pocket $500k of tax payers money

Disgraceful
Title: Re: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: Penelope on August 09, 2013, 03:27:56 PM
i know someone who had some involvement with the Spencer st rebuild. The architect boasted how no two sections of the roof have the same angles. This made construction a nightmare and there was immense wastage.

I often wonder if the term educated stuffwit was coined for architects and engineers.
Title: Re: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: Judge Roughneck on August 09, 2013, 03:40:07 PM
looks like crap

like fed square
Title: Re: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: Rampstar on August 09, 2013, 03:42:10 PM
looks like crap

like fed square

I agree. Ive tried to give fedsquare a chance but have reached the conclusion they should just bulldoze it all and start again
Title: Re: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: WilliamPowell on August 09, 2013, 04:16:45 PM
looks like crap

like fed square

 :clapping :clapping

x 2

We have some absolutely beautiful old buidlings in this great city (Flinders street Station is perfect example) and all these dopey architects seem hell bent on turning them into "eyesores" by destroying thier character with modernisation  :banghead

 



Title: Re: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: Penelope on August 09, 2013, 04:21:25 PM
modern architecture sucks arse

the most aesthetically pleasing building are generally over a hundred years old
Title: Re: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: Yeahright on August 09, 2013, 04:29:10 PM
I have to say I actually hate the look of old buildings
Title: Re: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: Penelope on August 09, 2013, 04:31:01 PM
you like soulless monstrosities better?
Title: Re: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: Rampstar on August 09, 2013, 04:40:54 PM
fedsquare should have been one building only in the mould of the guggenheim museum in Balbao not the same but should have had a similar type theme. One of the great buildings and modern architectural successes of all time IMHO.
Title: Re: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: tiga on August 09, 2013, 05:16:02 PM
Looks like a drunks packet of smokes after his face hits the pavement.
Title: Re: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: Yeahright on August 09, 2013, 05:27:43 PM
you like soulless monstrosities better?

No but I do like modern stuff
Title: Re: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: Penelope on August 09, 2013, 05:29:51 PM
curious to see an example.
Title: Re: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: Yeahright on August 09, 2013, 05:35:27 PM
(https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ1JJ4fBe_Fd3I_XMYThNXS50AB7_pwbqRtDTe3Qy87cZEdXlAK)
Title: Re: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: Penelope on August 09, 2013, 05:42:22 PM
not as bad as some, but lacks character, to me anyway.
Title: Re: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: Yeahright on August 09, 2013, 05:49:00 PM
Fair enough, I just prefer modern stuff to old crappy looking buildings
Title: Re: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: gerkin greg on August 10, 2013, 11:17:29 AM
I don't mind Fed Square, has some interesting public spaces. In the very least it generates discussion.
Title: Re: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: Francois Jackson on August 10, 2013, 06:23:37 PM
you like soulless monstrosities better?

No but I do like modern stuff

As do I but old buildings and old cobble stone laneways are fantastic in our city.

That is a disgrace that building as is fed square.

As WP said what's worse than that building is the fact some pimple faced student will pocket 500k.

Title: Re: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: cub on August 11, 2013, 02:53:06 PM
Should play with it too much, just spruce up what's there!
As for fed square, the gas and fuel building had more going for it  ;D
Title: Re: Flinders St station design winner
Post by: Gigantor on August 11, 2013, 07:11:34 PM
This design wont get built but the designers pocketed the dollars?...what was the point of the exercise then??????