The Architecture Thread

[Find Finn]

Pavillion
Kythreotis Architects
Nicosia, Greece
2013

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

 

[Piobaire]



Is this parking your car in your house deal a thing? It's really dumb. 

 

[StephenHero]

That house with the pool is really beautiful, but that's a really perplexing roof detail with the exposed steel channels like that. They're gonna be cleaning iron oxide stains off their deck and patio for the next fifty years unless that area gets no rain at all.

 

[bourbonbasted]



75% EU funding just means everyone paid for that ****, even I and I don't live in Poland and I doubt I will ever visit.

You should make an effort to get to Gdansk. Cool little port city. And (like most of Poland) crazy cheap.

Just go in August...

 

[BespokeNYC]

Nicosia is in Cyprus, not Greece. Lovely building though!

 

[meister]

First Frank Lloyd Wright House in Los Angeles Finally Reopening

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2015/...ht_house_in_los_angeles_finally_reopening.php

 

[suaviter]

Does anybody here have links to well-done lofts? (one story)

I am looking at a few but having a hard time figuring out what I would do design-wise -- especially in terms of dealing with the open floor plan and not turning the whole thing into too much of a man pad.

 

[sugarbutch]

Maybe hire a designer or architect for a couple of hours to get the ball rolling?

 

[Find Finn]

Define loft, is there exposed brick etc.?

 

[archetypal_yuppie]



Maybe hire a designer...

Maybe Mariano Rubinacci...

 

[sugarbutch]

LOL

 

[venividivicibj]

I think he'd prefer stylist.

 

[Loathing]



This is foreign tax dollars from richer union states, that help fund project in poorer countries, so they can help develop the country, so my 60% income tax pays for things in Poland instead of help funding the danish wellfare system.

Um, that's not exactly how it works, though, is it? For a start, Poland pays more (€3.2bn) in contributions to the EU budget than Denmark (€2.1bn).

Also, countries like Poland have to meet EU standards in order to join, which includes: fully opening up their markets to foreign competition, which is usually most beneficial to Germanic/French businesses and investors; giving up the right to manage their national currency; and conforming to the EU's common agricultural and industrial policies, which again tend to benefit Germanic/French businesses the most. One example: Poland was forced to shut down its entire ship-building industry following accession to the EU, and Poland's market share was transferred entirely to Germany and Denmark.

In return, Poland gets cash transfers (about €10bn net per year) and "know how" from the richer EU members.

The whole point of the EU integration is to create an economic power-block with far great efficiency than the sum of its parts (economies of scale, division of labour, specialisation). It isn't a charity The project is principally a utilitarian trade bloc and always has been.

 

[Find Finn]

Without this turning into a full on social economics discussion, we have to remember how the EU was thought out and how it actually works, is a bit like day and night.

You have to remember that Denmark has 5.5 million inhabitants and an income tax of 40-60%, where Poland is 38 million and 18-32% in income tax, also 99% of the danish shipbuilding industry has been closed down since the 90's, so we didn't receive their industry thats for sure.

Poland, Lithuania etc. isn't getting richer from the know-how that, they can get from the older members, but from countries using them as a closer India / China due to the lower labourcosts, also as you might have noticed the majority of their expats are builders and not scientists etc.

The problem with the builders is that they have a lesser education, if any and they do lesser work for less money, which has a negative effect on the other nations labourforce and tax revenue, as a lot of them don't pay tax or very little, don't remember to pay car tax like everyone else, but they still get child benefits, which they "forget to stop" when they leave, not to mention that they get to use the wellfare system for free like everyone.

This results in the rest of us having to make up for the deficit with higher taxes. Most danish builders I know, who were in work before, are either out of work, doing something else or have run of to Norway.

I'm not going to start with freemovement of criminals etc., as that would make everyone depressed.

 

[suaviter]

Define loft, is there exposed brick etc.?

Yes, exposed brick and small number of beams.