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[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 67 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Looks like the front fell off.

[–] NedRyerson@lemmy.ml 41 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That's not very typical, I'd like to make that point.

[–] Blahaj_Blast@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There are very rigorous building standards

[–] somenonewho@feddit.de 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well, Cardboards out for one. And cardboard derivatives.

[–] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Toilet paper I have known and loved?

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

And now I'm wondering in the -ihkal suffix is known outside the Shulgin fanbase...

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes but it only looks that way is the secret.

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Ahh..so where does the cassette go then?

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Some duck tape will fix it right up

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Not all the way

[–] exocrinous@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

A wave must have hit it

[–] db2@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I didn't realize the housing market was in such a slump.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 18 points 8 months ago

A very serious recession.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

thats some cherry mortar work

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I'm more impressed with the windows. Curving wood and glass can be tricky. I've seen a curved door before, but not with curved glass in it.

Despite the pixelation casting doubts on the materials, it is actually made from real, mortar, wood and glass.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Knees_of_my_Nose_to_the_Belly_of_my_Toes

More pictures: https://www.alexchinneck.com/from-the-knees-of-my-nose-to-the-belly-of-my-toes

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 9 points 8 months ago

I always thought I saw supports on the curves other times I saw this but never got the story that it was an art piece and never saw those up close photos.

Man there is so much little clever things going on in that to make it so perfect. It's all perfect and bent and yet has structural supports all over the place. It's even braced at the bottom to make sure it doesn't actually try to slide down.

Gorgeous art installation.

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

The Wiki pages references this site that has some basic designs drawings

https://architizer.com/projects/from-the-knees-of-my-nose-to-the-belly-of-my-toes/

Looks like one of the Windows is a door way going to some stairs.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 20 points 8 months ago

Can't they just scooch it back into place? I don't want to drop a bunch of architectural/engineering lingo, but it's pretty self-explanatory, no?

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

This is one of the fake buildings in London that are actually just ventilation shafts for the subway.

EDIT: Not one of those. See answer to this comment.

[–] Barking@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago

TIL! Thanks =)

[–] p1mrx@sh.itjust.works 18 points 8 months ago
[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There is a power up in there.

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

A secret tape.

[–] GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Playing Tony Hawk drastically changed the way I looked at the world.

It made me look around and up for things that I did not have the skill to grind on in real life and suddenly I was noticing details of buildings and art and so on.

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's called the Tetris effect and it gave me really stupid ideas when Need For Speed: Underground came out and had this mechanic where you could fill up your boost by doing near misses with oncoming traffic. I just had my driving license not long before that.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah... Playing Burnout 3 so much back in the day, you'd notice ramp trucks and stuff all the time

[–] Chriswild@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

This building looks like I feel clocking in for work.

[–] ifDogsCouldTalk@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

“I don’t want to be a building today”

[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

So here I am

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 5 points 8 months ago

There was a hawkitecture sub on r***it. Is there one on lemmy?

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

The folly of measuring once.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

I guess they need some engineer intervention there

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Police truck just started in my head