Architecture & Design

[Franky]

What happened to thinking outside the box?

Too many people are thinkingoutside the box. The world needs more people thinking inside the box.

[Contrast]

What happened to thinking outside the box?

There's nothing wrong with the box. The box is nice and cosy and comfy and safe. :3

[Faanvolla]

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[Raven Song]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNT

[Rakuen Growlithe]

I was hoping someone would post that scorpion chair. Coolest chair ever. But have you seen the price!

[Cape_F0X]

Dragon coffee table, enough said.

[Rakuen Growlithe]

Oh my word! I have to have one. O.O

I want to sit a scorpion chair and drink port off a dragon table.

[Cape_F0X]

The rain outside reminded me of these.

[Raven Song]

I'm gonna have those one day.

Rakuen, you can fight me for the chair!!! (Tom Hiddlestons will buy it for me, legit)

We had a dolphin table when I was growing up

it looked a lot like this but there were four or five dolphins, and they made like a w shape jumping through the glass. It was great till Pork Pie (my first bulldog) had a moment and charged it, knocked it, broke a dolphin and shattered the glass. It was too expensive to fix it so we gave it away. I miss this table. and that dog.

[Contrast]

Am I the only one who thinks those tables and chairs are super kommin? :/

[Cape_F0X]

If it's at your beach house you go to twice a year, I don't "sea" a problem with it.

[Raven Song]

Dude. Twas the 90's.

[Adagio]

Am I the only one who thinks those tables and chairs are super kommin? :/

Nope... Not at all... "Tacky" would be the English word...

[Cape_F0X]

Ushaka marine world is another place they could work without being tacky.

[Raven Song]

The table did come from my granddad who lived in Durban for like 30 years...

Yes, they are tacky now, but back then they were all the rage and rather classy. It's just because our perception of design has changed.

I personally find this, from 2015, to be tacky

[Cape_F0X]

Here is something a little closer to home, literally.

Our house has a long shallow sitting room. To make things worse it had that weird corner and the fire place.
My dad said form the start that making the wall straight is the easiest way to make this room look attractive.

But the sitting room wasn't really a priority. Not until we slowly but surely obtained the components for the job (the metal frame for the shelf and flat TV).

The tipping point was one night when my dad got the large wood panels that the one job site threw out. We ordered the stone and I used my engineering drawing skills to workout the look and sizes. Our family built the wall in roughly two weekends, with small alterations during the week.

We are extremely pleased with it.

[Splicer-Fox]

I always thought the "Murder Castle" was an brilliant piece of work.

Secret passages to get into rooms.
Hidden shaft systems to drop/slide bodies into the basement.
Huge bank vaults disguised as rooms to trap people in and gas them.

Designed by H. H. Holmes (Americas first documented serial killer).
It was described as an efficient factory of death.

[Raven Song]

OH MY FREAKING GOD I NEED IT

[Cape_F0X]

Home is where the heart is... and the rest of the bodies.

[Cape_F0X]

Behold!

[Leeward]

Very nice!

(I've got an older version of your drawing tablet.)

[Cape_F0X]

It's my sister's. It's not very user friendly, so she doesn't use it and I don't make time to play with it.

[Cape_F0X]

If anybody asks it's for Jessica.

[Franky]

OK so not just buildings?

I can put my efforts in here now.

What do you do when you're not allowed to build a roller coaster above tree level?



Dig a giant hole.

This is Nemesis in Alton Towers btw.

Theme stuffs for dem scifi fans:



It also has rivers of blood for whoever is already intimidated and claustrophobic.

[Contrast]

That reminds me of that one mission in Roller Coaster Tycoon where you're not allowed to bulldoze any of the trees.

[Franky]

Chris Sawyer was a massive Alton Towers fan and even included in some of the missions where you're also not allowed to build higher than a certain level. And Alton Towers was a playable map in the first one I think. XD

[Franky]

Also Lets talk design aesthetics and function. Gatekeeper in Cedar Point is one of the best examples of modern day mechanical engineering and damn it's pretty.

B&M never looses their touch when coming to roller coaster design. It is fast, intimidating, productive and aesthetically pleasing. Talking to the engineers they respond with the best of the best telling you how they build their rides. Not some show on discovery channel over dramatizing drop heights and whatnot. No the actual design.

They deliberately design head chopper supports, foot chopper supports and in the picture of Gatekeeper's 0G roll above, the legendary key holes that lets riders feel they're gonna smack head on into whatever is in their way. Take all this and give it the smoothest flying experience with every single Newtonian Law included in their Force Vector Design trackwork. It is in my opinion the essence of proper engineering. On top of that B&M never had 1 rollercoaster be removed from a theme park for the reasons stated.

Just look at the train as well. murrr:

This 8 year old agrees with me:

[Raven Song]

A bunch of furs want ti go to Alton Towers. I politely declined

[Franky]

A bunch of furs want ti go to Alton Towers. I politely declined

Lemme smack you!

You missed:

The Smiler
Nemesis
Air
Oblivion
Rita
SW7 (cant remember it's name but it was initially called super weapon seven during building)

[Raven Song]

Smack me all u want, i like my heart etc.