• FuzzyRedPandaEnglish
    1•4 hours ago

    I am weeping for the poor soul who is hired to clean those windows.

    • @[email protected]
      1•3 hours ago

      Whoever is doing this is probably pretty passionate, I don’t think they start you off doing these kinds of buildings as a rookie.

  • @[email protected]English
    17•17 hours ago

    I’m obsessed with this photo. I love all the subtle changes in the colors of the reflections on the windows.

    Were you just in the right place at the right time, or were you specifically trying to capture this?

    • @[email protected]OP
      10•15 hours ago

      I’m glad you liked it!

      I was having dinner outside watching the sun set over the city with my girlfriend. She noticed the colors in the reflections in the building. I have been trying to encourage her to get into photography, so I handed her the camera to take the shot. She managed to capture it really well!

      The colors might be a bit exaggerated in post processing, but it is a great shot none the less!

  • AItoothbrushEnglish
    0•9 hours ago

    Cool and all but did they really need to build it? I think every big city should have one really tall building you can go up and look down but other than that skyscrapers are a huge waste of money, manpower, resources, etc.

    • @[email protected]
      7•5 hours ago

      How so? I’ve always just assumed that kind of extremely dense urban construction was better environmentally. One big system to manage HVAC, economies of scale when building it, tiny actual footprint relative to usable space, etc.

      • AItoothbrushEnglish
        1•1 hour ago

        The gain from building higher isnt linear. You have to use more space for elevators, re-enforcements, safety(fire for example), etc. The cost of the apartments go up drastically so most people who buy them dont live there, they just invest. Midrises are much better in all of these aspects. Also the materials needed for skyscrapers harder to mamufacture so with all of these they are just plain worse for the environment. Göterborg is a pretty good example of how midrises are better in almost every case.

    • @[email protected]OP
      1•8 hours ago

      Oh, most certainly not. I completely agree with your statement. It is a really unnecessary monument of capitalism where the owner of the building company owns the top floor as his own apartment or something like that.

      But it looks cool 🙂

  • @Dabundis
    7•21 hours ago

    If you’re an architect, understand that this is the MEP equivalent of fighting words.

      • @Dabundis
        11•20 hours ago

        Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing. The joke here is that designing a building like this creates a lot of work for the engineers designing the building utilities

      • @NOT_RICKEnglish
        2•18 hours ago

        I think maybe Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing?

  • @NoRodent
    5•20 hours ago

    Wait, that’s a photo? I thought it was a stylized rendering at first. The colors are almost vaporwave.