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[cloysterbell]

What’s your beef with Frank Gehry?

It's not so much my beef with him as it is my beef with what he represents: modernist/contemporary architecture.

So Gehry's most known works include things like the Lou Ruvo Center, the Disney Concert Hall, or the Biomuseo in Panama (which I have been to!). These buildings are all pretty wacky, using flat sheets of metal that curve in unusual ways or inward facing angles. And while I think it's interesting to be able to physically build something like that, all of the credit has to go to the engineers because as someone who studied architecture in college, I can promise you that no architect goes into a design actually thinking about how it'll physically be made.

But here's the thing: anyone can design a statement building. I can and have designed statement buildings. It's easy to think "what's the most wild thing I can do" and then throw uncommon angles and sheer faces at something until you have a building that twists and turns and becomes a spectacle. And sometimes it's cool. The Biomuseo is a flash of color that feels very almost bowling alley carpet with its accordion folds. I love the MoPOP's statement wall with that bright purple that catches the sun. But ANYONE can do this. It's not a challenge to design an eyesore like the Marqués de Riscal hotel. I could crumple a piece of paper into a ball and bam, there's my building design.

But you know what IS a challenge? Designing a building that blends in with the landscape. A building that isn't meant to stick out but is seamless and intentional. Buildings that use the color palettes of their surroundings, like Lake|Flato's Horizon House or Marmol Radziner's Scottsdale home. Incorporating native flora and materials and climate and setting into the actual design. Having the house face east so that it can temperature regulate more naturally or keeping everything single-story so it doesn't disrupt the horizon. It's taking inspiration from historical pueblo-style homes instead of doing more and more glass and metal which gets hot as hell in the direct sun.

I'm very much a Mies van der Rohe fan, I think the Farnsworth House and the Barcelona Pavilion are some of the sickest buildings ever made because there's something more impressive about doing more with less. FH and BP are both white boxes. They have flat roofs and open floorplans and all right angles, but there's something so much more impressive about doing something iconic within those limitations than there is doing whatever the hell Gehry and his contemporaries like Libeskind are doing. The ROM looks like what happened in S3 of Fringe when the building from the other side collided with its opposite on this side. It feels like it's trying to be edgy (literally) and different for the sake of being edgy and different. Which is fine, but it's not that impressive to me.

But it's so much more impressive when you don't just plonk some big crazy metal and glass building down in the middle of a city or when you're trying to design something specifically to one-up your other architect buddies. When you have to make something feel intentional from start to finish, that's so much more interesting. When you have limitations from the beginning like materials and weather and the sun, that's where only a real expert can design something that really shines.

#questionbell #feline--floozy #there is one particular house i was obsessed with but i cannot for the life of me remember who designed it

[sutoikkei]

oh my god i had totally forgotten that this was a sideblog i thought i just followed two people who had Adopted Tsukishima Kei. i think at some point it even crossed my mind that you "two" probably know "each other" i'm...

Nope, this is indeed a sideblog. I just love Tsukishima so much that I needed two blogs to profess my love instead of one

But I’m flattered anon that you acknowledge how Tsukishima is literally my adopted son because it’s true

#cloysterbell and i are bffs though #you could even say... we're one and the same #Anonymous #Questionbell

[cloysterbell]

Question, will you go to the world record attempt of most Kyles in one place? https://www.cityofkyle.com/communications/2024-gathering-kyles

YO THEY'RE DOING THIS AGAIN???? I'm so mad I missed this last year so I am 100% going to this, thank you for letting me know of this momentous occasion

#questionbell #nzfpenguin #ugh i gotta go back to texas though...... it's so far.............

[cloysterbell]

Listen dude I'm from AUS so I read Percy Jackson in primary school and that is how I learnt that the Empire State Building has 600 floors and that is the story of how I got a poor score on a test because I thought "i don't need to google because the answer was in the pjo books. turns out the empire state building does not have 600 floors. like i knew mount Olympus wasn't really at the top but i thought the floor numbers were real

I love that for you

#questionbell #anonymous #reminds me of a time in an astronomy class in college where i consulted hank green's strange charm song for some question about quarks #i got it wrong :(

[cloysterbell]

you ever think about that subway grilled cheese you ate back in 2015 still?

Unfortunately

#questionbell #anonymous #sometimes your actions do in fact have consequences

[cloysterbell]

ok you can’t say you’ve been rereading all of your favorite merthur fics from 2013 and NOT tell us which ones. drop the fics kyle

to the world that never let you be - ImperialMint

Anatomy of a King - professortennant

How It Will Be - Trojie

Hidden Light - Destina

Para Bellum - Destina

Down by the River - bleedforyou1

I also do have a list of fics that I was keeping over on my old Merlin blog. I can't currently vouch for most of these as I haven't reread them yet AND because I was a different person when I put this together (read: 21 years old), but it's still potentially worth perusing

#questionbell #anonymous #to the world that never let you be and down by the river are two of my favorite fics of all time #also i had tagged hidden light on ao3 as 'the one with the lake' which is funny because i do in fact remember exactly what that means #what's crazy though is how much of my music taste was inspired by the fics i read and their titles #i'd forgotten that

[cloysterbell]

nice checkmarks

Thanks, I stole them from the president

#questionbell #anonymous

[cloysterbell]

What are the 1.5 episodes of fringe that aren’t incredible television 😂

The first half of 1x02 'The Same Old Story' and the entirety of 3x13 'Immortality' because forced pregnancy plots are a crime that should be punishable by something that's even worse than death. Putting your hand into a sink full of wet bread, for example.

#questionbell #dancing-mylife-away #you know what shows never did pregnancy plots? leverage and haven #and i love them for that #well actually no haven did do one but it was duke and not audrey which i also didn't like but it was still LEAGUES better #and like. audrey randomly did have a kid. but not really. because he was sarah's. so it's fine #EITHER WAY haven never forced a pregnancy storyline on audrey and i love that for them #like no joke i live in fear of the day when levred gives parker a pregnancy story #i wouldn't put it past them at this point honestly with the way they've butchered her entire character i mean what who said that

[cloysterbell]

Pls assign me: fat non-binary Latino southerner (gender: bitch with a beard). Music obsessed, especially bluegrass/old time, own way too many stringed instruments, sing like an unholy hybrid of Paul McCartney and Jack Black. Cook so much. Control freak in the kitchen.

I assign you: bluetick coonhound

#questionbell #quinnathans #fursona assignments #congratulations

[cloysterbell]

Ooh, what’s your beef with izombie? I recently got into the show before it turned kinda mediocre so I’d love to hear another opinion on it!

Tl;dr - flanderization

So I started watching iZombie the day it premiered because I am nothing if not a Bradley James simp but also because the concept sounded fun. And initially it was! Liv fuckin ruled as a protag and the rest of the cast were also equally as weird and loveable (Peyton Charles my BELOVED). But the biggest thing here is that the mechanism of the show is that Liv had to solve a crime > Liv ate some of the brain of the victim > Liv took on personality quirks from said brain > Liv used those to solve the crime. The key here is quirks.

Now, this all went well for S1 where we got to see Rose McIver play all sorts of different Livs like a paintball instructor or a frat boy at a Halloween party, but the main thing here is that Liv still retained her own personality while hopped up on Brain Juice. She just became Liv-who-was-better-at-parkour or Liv-but-now-with-added-agoraphobia.

Fast forward to S3, which is around where I stopped watching. Now every time Liv ate a brain, she fully embodied the personality of the brain. She stopped being Liv plus a little extra and became soccer mom!Liv or newsanchor!Liv. She stopped having interests or passions as a result and became fully about trying to solve the next case and so she also stopped being interesting.

That and I simply Did Not Care for the anti-zombie military The Walking Dead-esque plotline that they leaned real hard into. It was so much better when it was a zombie crime procedural and not a show where anti-zombie extremists force the main characters to relocate to a literal zombie island??? Is that really how the series ends????

#questionbell #anonymous #flanderization my fucking BEHATED #this is also why i have a lot of beef with leverage redemption but i'm hoping jrog can redeem (haha) it #i loved when it was just ravi and liv sitting in the morgue making stupid jokes at clive's expense #but it very quickly became Not That

[cloysterbell]

Yes you should watch psych (sometimes it is a product of its time but its so good)

I have no issue watching shows that are products of their time because believe it or not I possess a master's degree in critical thinking skills and understand that 2006 was nearly 20 years ago

#questionbell #anonymous #plus we all know that television peaked between 2008-2015

[cloysterbell]

i’ve been following you for years and i’m p sure your icon had been that same image of bbc merlin arthur since i started following you. that being said when i saw you changed icons to laios dunmeshi it did not shock me in the slightest congrats on the new blorbo

I'm pretty sure I had an Olivia Dunham icon at some point in the past few years but yeah, we're now entering the era of Arthur 2.0 But This Time He's A Monsterfucker

#questionbell #ali3nboyfriend #arthur pendragon has too much of a catholic straight edge moral code to ever be a monsterfucker #laios touden on the other hand

[cloysterbell]

Short, stubby, nerdy woman with a passion for old lady hobbies (crochet, birdwatching, writing). A decent amount of anxiety that I manage by detaching myself from the situation and taking long walks outside to touch grass. If I could live in the Pacific Northwest Coast I would.

I assign you: sagebrush vole

#questionbell #anonymous #fursona assignments #SORRY this took so long. 25 straight hours of travel will really knock a bitch out huh

[cloysterbell]

sometimes I remember Roes loved drugs *stares into the distance*

She really did 😔

#questionbell #anonymous #hello fellow tumblr ancient #i tried to find my gifs of ten eating cookies because same vibe but those might be lost to time. alas

[cloysterbell]

Laios' English VA is Damien Haas!

FROM SMOSH????

#questionbell #anonymous #absolutely insane knowledge thank you anon

[cloysterbell]

I didn’t know you’d seen izombie!!

Haha yeah I started watching it when it first premiered because I knew Bradley James was going to be in it. I am nothing if not Constantly On Brand

#questionbell #imusthavebecomesomething #i never finished it though. they flandarized liv too much for my liking #but to everyone who started simping for rahul kohli after hill house..... just know that i simped for him first