Steven Eiselen

Me as a political recluse noticing that in the past month: first the Christians and now the America Firsters on X were baited into and/or willfully started dirty internal conflicts that are presently doing more harm than good. IMO: focus your energy towards resolving things ASAP.

@scumbunker also yes the bldg corner on the right edge of the right image is a corner of what'll be a rough variant of the Agriculture Bldg from the 1893 Chicago fair. In fact: all but a few of the ExpoFair bldgs are variants of prior World's Fair bldgs; as that's the theme.

@scumbunker I planned to follow up my earlier post WRT the Seattle fair bldgs by informing I'd likely realize variants at the full-scale modernized Trylon & Perisphere I'm planning at Expo Fair; but never got to send it. I only now saw this post in my feed. Strange coincidence or a sign?!?

Flushing Meadows, Queens. 1939. "The 700-foot Trylon (obelisk) and 200-foot Perisphere (globe) housed "Democracity," a diorama of a future city." "A 5,000-year time capsule, containing items like a Albert Einstein message, a pack of Camels, and microfilm, to be opened in 6939"

@scumbunker Supplemental: I even prepared the left collage image to introduce Trylon & Perisphere in case you weren't aware of it. Also in the right image: I already planned moving the bldg complex behind T&P elsewhere on the island, so there will be some space to try the Seattle bldgs.

@scumbunker The image on the left is the 1909 Seattle Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition; which surprised me as I had not encountered it in my World's Fair architecture research. This is why I like these accounts! I also like the bldgs surrounding the fountain & may have a use for them at BIFC.

Perfect symmetry Perfect electricity Opulent, vast, functional, expendable apotheosis - and virtually empty.

@redeemed_zoomer cheer up emo kid

@permabulla Supplemental: I recall coofstopia's final weeks being an interestingly ironic time; whereby governments as a whole were maximally close to going 1984, while their citizens as a whole were maximally close to going Galt.

@permabulla On one hand: coof broke so many NPCs that they still wear face diapers in their cars alone with the windows up. On the other hand: the reason coofstopia seemed to stop so instantly & rapidly is that many more NPCs started to snap en-masse, defying it and their mental programming.

Are we ready for hantavirus lockdowns or does nothing ever happen?

@RjNol Trivia: There actually is a real 'conspiracy' in many of these photographs; as photographers of the time often purposely brush out the sky and adjacent buildings, as to contrast/focus the subject of the image (typically for the purpose of postcards, advertisements, art, etc.)

Vanilla Sky. What are they trying to hide from us?

@UrbanCourtyard Off topic, but it disturbs me that Fountain Place's sibling is not the unrealized twin from the original plan: but a sibling whose design achieves vague similarity at best, and seems forced to-a-fault into achieving such at the cost of its own aesthetic appeal.

NYC is an exception. Most American tower districts look like this. The skyline obsession is a red herring that distracts us from understanding the form of functional urban neighborhoods

@GroyperClip The next dose of fear slop for boomers & NPCs in case the big 'aliens-Я-reel' op flops. Unsure if governments will try achieving global coof dystopia again, but given that so many ppl were so broken down that they still wear face diapers alone in cars with the windows up: maybe?

off topic but wtf is hantavirus

@erikfinman That's a major theme of my master plan & architectural vision for BIFC. One notable example being the Garden City Towers in the Cathedral Gardens district, i.e. the two cyan blocks near the magenta area; which I often call "Belle Isle's Tour Montparnasse".

American cities should have the tallest skyscrapers in the world but also Parisian apartments and walkability. You can sprinkle the towers into the walkable fabric of the city to make something new and American that doesn’t yet exist anywhere. Think Paris but with a Burj Khalifa at every major circle.

@Kaizerrev Supplemental: I'll remind the HS and college student fans of Nick of the times he's suggested participating in Model UN, Speech & Debate, etc. organizations; as to build social and diplomatic skills. Here one such skill is seen in practice by Nick IRL.

@Kaizerrev There's a good lesson in this clip: the ability to make a zealous adversary laugh amicably during a public confrontation is a social & diplomatic skill of obvious utility ergo value; as such deescalates/reduces tension and [re]controls the environment to favor of who achieves it.

"I got her laughing" 😆 - Nick

@UrbanCourtyard Supplemental: I'm planning for the non UC buildings to have resident amenities and common areas on their attic/loft floor and/or rooftop decks in lieu of courtyards. Decks obviously limited via keycard access to residents ~17 years and older unless escorted by a parent/guardian.

Since I've shown a preview of the new BIFC east end master plan in a recent reply post: every glowing shape in this image is an @UrbanCourtyard contained within a {6,7,8} floor building in the 'Détroit Haussmann' style.

@RjNol well met! well met indeed 🙂

These "signs" have been occurring around the world for some time now. Costa Rica. The woman filming believes it's a sign from God.

@UrbanCourtyard 15 such buildings/blocks planned for BIFC! Mostly Uptown due to Rue Charlemagne intersecting various blocks thereat (yellow line). Two of them realize urban courtyards (magenta labels). This image also teases the [major] changes made to the master plan on the east end.

The Flatiron Building floorplan is in the same family as the Haussmann corner buildings. Both are wide and shallow (rather than narrow and deep), which gives them amazing window walls on the LONG sides of the unit rather than on the short side. And this is how you end up with these sun drenched, naturally ventilated apartments in the dense city center.