Unbuilt Architecture and City Plans

exclaimedleech8 said:
My parents recently visited Orange County and my Dad noted all the women with lip filler
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I quite honestly don't have enough cosmetic situational awareness so as to notice any lip related procedures, so kudos to your dad, I guess?
 
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"Lucky Escape"
Yes, there was to be a full 3+3 lane radial motorway from outer ring road to inner, flanked by 'service' roads. Inner was to be 3+3, almost motorway standard. Like the 'gnarly' run through Glasgow, but worse. Much worse. It would link the 'new' twin river tunnels at NW, existing approach to city at SE. I cannot remember if was also supposed to have a 'fast' surface link across the 'D' scarring famous water-front. Or, perhaps, a Boston-grade 'Big Dig' cut & cover. There were proposals to host a sorta-Monte Carlo Grand Prix..

What with on/off slips and swooping junctions, the planning blight was, um, extensive. Very, very extensive...

The network was intended to sweep fast traffic from E/W M_62 via the new river tunnels to existing mid-Wirral motorway. Thence to bizarre 'spur', which currently halts at quarry face. Either tunnelled or cut/cover beneath mid-Wirral ridge, this was supposed to proceed South, crossing the proposed Dee Barrage, then continuing along Welsh coast...

Didn't happen, didn't happen, didn't happen.
Phew !!!
 
Nik said:
"Lucky Escape"
Yes, there was to be a full 3+3 lane radial motorway from outer ring road to inner, flanked by 'service' roads. Inner was to be 3+3, almost motorway standard. Like the 'gnarly' run through Glasgow, but worse. Much worse. It would link the 'new' twin river tunnels at NW, existing approach to city at SE. I cannot remember if was also supposed to have a 'fast' surface link across the 'D' scarring famous water-front. Or, perhaps, a Boston-grade 'Big Dig' cut & cover. There were proposals to host a sorta-Monte Carlo Grand Prix..

What with on/off slips and swooping junctions, the planning blight was, um, extensive. Very, very extensive...

The network was intended to sweep fast traffic from E/W M_62 via the new river tunnels to existing mid-Wirral motorway. Thence to bizarre 'spur', which currently halts at quarry face. Either tunnelled or cut/cover beneath mid-Wirral ridge, this was supposed to proceed South, crossing the proposed Dee Barrage, then continuing along Welsh coast...

Didn't happen, didn't happen, didn't happen.
Phew !!!
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That all sounds pretty neat to me
 
martinbayer said:
I quite honestly don't have enough cosmetic situational awareness so as to notice any lip related procedures, so kudos to your dad, I guess?
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It's not so hard to notify when people around you look like a triggerfish...

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'Extreme' lip fillers: Blindness, infection and allergic reaction among risks

“I feel really sad when I see stories like this,” a doctor tells Yahoo UK.
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Lucky you if you can overlook this...

The Lip filling works only temporary and when the filling shrinks it tends to becomes uneven, so the customers need to fill up even more to hide it. This effect produces very loyal customers for the "beauty industry" with becomming ever thicker lips...
 
Nicknick said:
It's not so hard to notify when people around you look like a triggerfish...
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I quite honestly have never really studied what triggerfish, let alone their lips, look like, so... But then again, I thought this thread was about discussing Unbuilt Architecture and City Plans, so please pardon my utter ignorance on obtuse marine life anatomy...
 
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Its never to late to learn something new.

Notice, I recommend not to invest in real estate for personal use, if people look like that, so this is on topic...
 

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Nicknick said:
Its never to late something new.

Notice, I recommend not to invest in real estate for personal use, if people look like that, so this is on topic...
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I guess the best way to answer this is that I'd like to know what you're legally having...
 
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Akshually, it goes back way further, as long as cities have been planned. Baron Haussmann's rebuild of Paris for Napoleon III is the archetype of modern examples. All those beautiful boulevards were to allow troops to move against dissident crowds.

When you look at plans for 'ideal cities' understand that they're designed with authoritarian logistics in mind. Thank the Great Green Arkleseizure that only as many of these have been built.

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One of the most disastrous attempts at urban renewal in American history. In the mid 1960s, Downtown Oklahoma City was in decline as retail and offices moved to the suburbs. Architect I.M. Pei came along recommending the demolition of several city blocks to be replaced with a shopping mall, convention center, high rise apartments, and parking garages. The city went ahead with the destruction, including many historical buildings, but not the construction of new stuff to replace it, leaving behind a bunch of surface parking lots. One of the few things that was built, the Alfred Murrah Federal Building, was destroyed in the 1995 bombing 10-pei-plan-model-illustration-galleria.jpg 5-pei-plan-model-night-lit-up-1024x642.jpg ghnewsok-OK-5631887-96e92859.jpeg oklahoma-citys-i-m-pei-plan-a-failed-60s-urban-renewal-v0-fw8bbpw514u31.jpeg
 
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And another of those Dutch housing experiments.

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De Kasbah - Hidden Architecture

The Kasbah is situated at the edge of one of the suburbs of the former industrial town of Hengelo in the east of the Netherlands. Between conventional streets lined with decent row housing and front gardens it makes a dense conglomerate of 184 red-tiled, pitched roof houses that are raised on...
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Another and slightly more detailed look at the Dutch Sphere Houses. The article includes photography of the designers prototype house and the construction of the 50 houses that were completed.

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And how would you fare quarantined inside one of these things?

If you know us, you know we love weird architectural history from the height of the utopian design age, but the idea of spending lockdown inside a radical sci-fi social experiment might take some convincing. This odd cluster of spherical houses is known as Bolwoningen, built in 1984 by artist Dries
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chimeric oncogene said:
I have been scratching my head trying to figure out how to unify London's horrific patchwork of rail stations.
Where do you even begin, it's atrocious!
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Paris has similar problems with there patchwork
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chimeric oncogene said:
I have been scratching my head trying to figure out how to unify London's horrific patchwork of rail stations.
Where do you even begin, it's atrocious!

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If I recall correctly, when the London 'Mainline' railway stations were constructed there was a conscious decision by the Powers that be to insist that there would be NO Mainline Station in the so called heart of the Capital itself. All stations had to therefore be built on what was then the outskirts of the City.
 
chimeric oncogene said:
I have been scratching my head trying to figure out how to unify London's horrific patchwork of rail stations.
Where do you even begin, it's atrocious!

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You begin by considering what the flows are and how best to serve them. What becomes apparent when you start doing that is that there isn't actually an awful lot of cross-London demand. The level of terminal demand, on the other hand, is so high that there's no realistic way to consolidate them.

What schemes like Thameslink and Crossrail do is take terminating suburban lines on broadly opposite sides of the city, link them with a tunnel, and thereby release terminal capacity for longer distance services.
 
After a full century of non-use, a 'just outside city centre' deep-cutting station is being re-born in Liverpool.
Perhaps...
If you keep your eyes open as train sweeps through, you may glimpse the remnants and makings...
It would be very welcome, but modern 6-car consists, access provisions and the potential for 'peak busy' make upgrade of that short Victorian legacy site 'non-trivial'...

Liverpool St James railway station - Wikipedia

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Liverpool Baltic railway station - Wikipedia

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Tangential, looks like the NYNY Hudson Rail Tunnel replacement / upgrade project has shaken off petulant political interference and resumed assembly of TBM. Flooding by those infamous storm surges severely damaged old tunnel(s)' rails, flanks, signalling etc etc, took several decades off estimated life. IIRC, traffic must be switched to new tunnel(s) to allow almost complete rebuild of the old route...
 

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