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4w ago

Engineers vs Architects

by Centurii-chan

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both of these were designed by architects. neither reflects the twin simplicity and laziness that engineering embodies.
- If engineers had our way all buildings would look like this
  This is the ideal building. You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like 😆
  
  Why not continue the brick shell at least to eye level? Why does it stop at waist level?
  
  Brick? Pfft. Concrete elements all the way. There's no equal.
  
  Dogshit R-factor, poor impact resistance, I mean that's the obvious stuff lol
  Peak performance is highly dependent on who's defining it 😝
  
  This is what's known in the Midwest as "tornado bait"
  
  My neighbour shop looks exactly like that. It went bankrupt cuz it's ugly as fuck
  
  Mind explaining why this is peak performance? ELI5 if possible
  
  ...i prefer corrugated arch structures, but rigid frames are popular for good reason...
- As an engineer, I prefer to call it minmalism.
  Quick edit: I saw the typo, but it is also an example of what the sentence is supposed to convey.
  
  Look. i's ain't cheap, and half the readers won't even use it.
  Leave it out, we'll claim it was a mistake, and if anyone really complains we can add it back later.
  
  I go with "efficiency"
- hey! I resemble those remarks!

Surely that second building is AI generated or something right? Surely physics would not allow such a monstrosity, nor would any city approve it... right?
- https://www.archdaily.com/780381/victor-enrich-transforms-architectural-images-into-optical-illusions
  
  Yeah I didn't think there was any way. Even with like a steel frame and everything else made of Styrofoam and paper mache, I'm pretty sure that thing would still snap off under its own weight.
  
  yo his work is sick
- I'm not sure it exists. I spent three whole minutes on Google and can't find it. I'd expect it to be fairly famous if real.
  I'm not sure Y anyone would build it, but I do think we could figure a way to build it safely if someone wanted to throw enough money at it.
  
  Its fictional, I found an article

The first building looks like it's a female connector for a high throughput cable of some kind.
- Looks like a German bunker on Omaha Beach to me
  
  Ah yes, I knew I cleared that bunker in SE5
  https://images.pushsquare.com/9352b32741dc7/sniper-elite-5.large.jpg
  
  For me it's cylons.
  
  I believe it's in Guernsey, C.I.
  ed: it's a German WW2 coastal naval range finding tower. Used for fire control of coastal guns shooting 25 miles out to sea.
  
  Brutalist architecture in a nutshell

What buildings are these?
Can't believe no-one asked yet

The bottom one looks scary as fuck. I don't want to be in or around that thing if it was real.

BUT WITH THE POWER OF FLEX TAPE

RCE entered the chat
- For a drainage engineer, he's shockingly bad with sluices in Timberborn, lol.
  
  It was those architecture beavers!

Realcivilengineer is that you?

They're the same picture

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