Things that really piss you off

Daniel

When contemporary buildings from the 60s and 70s (or earlier) are torn down or renovated for crappy traditional style buildings (see next rant).

When architects design what are supposed to be "traditional" style buildings, but they get it wrong. With all the information out there, it's like misspelling your own name - it's just wrong!

Beige E.I.F.S. Neither the material or the color is bad in itself, but it's used way too much. What's worse is when the building's entire color scheme is beige. BORING.

bytor

To iGOR - my appologies..... my teenager comments were stereotypical. Now that I think about it - they apply to as many 20 somethings as they do teenagers.

Another thing that really pisses me off - the architects / developers / builders that create those huge monstrosity "contemporary" homes that all share the same flawed design features - you know which ones I'm talking about.

1- Fake paladian round top window
2- The 2 story "no detail - out of scale" columns that support a small dormer that covers only the entry.
3- The 10 useless windows added to try and make the attached 6 car garage look like a wing of the house
4- The excessively high roof ridge lines that I swear do nothing but add to roof shingle and wood truss sales quotas
5- The use of 5 different (and often non-complimentary) front facade materials
6- And my favorite one of all - the rediculous use of 6-8 fake dormers (1' or 2' deep)that create roofline upon roofline on the front of the house.

Bytor

Jackson

Amen to that!

linea

The fake bricked up window.

Stu

People getting pissed of on a 'what pisses you off' thread
second only to a 'what are you listening to' thread, etc etc etc etc

igor

hey, are you making fun of my thread? (even though no one replys to it anymore, but whatever)

remus

The idas entioned in this article: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=ae997868-220b-4dae-bf4f-47f6fc96ce5e

I dont really wat to expand because anything i sya is liekly to turn in to an incomprehensible blur of obscenities

igor

i second the movement against above link. will those lawers take a chill pill and lessen up on copyright stuff? i mean seriously? illegal to travel with your ipod or laptop?!?!?! do you know what that would mean for the teenagers and bussiness men of the world? please dont let this be like when mp3's first came out and all the lawers were freaking out about copyright stuff and put DRM on everything. then everyone went to peer-to-peer services and the lawers got even more pissed. that pisses me off. and do you realize that if everyone would stop completely freaking out about copyrights, no one would try to pirate movies and make infingements. DUH

DRM = Digital Rights Management

remus

Having to install crappy bits of proprietary software that mess up your computer for ever more to achieve seemingly simple things.

The culprit, steam. I just want to play a bit of geometry wars, a 30mb download, but you need steam first, a program entirely incapable of downloading a program without running constantly and somehow managing to take down an entire network while downloading the game.

swedishnitro

To add to the architectural rant: Brick slips are the worst invention ever. Why not just use bricks?

remus

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_9424130

Apparently teachers arent allowed to answer questions any more. (quite a sensitive area, but the point remains.)

kwistenbiebel

Exploding a group of high-poly geometry in Sketchup!!!!
It crashes my rig over and over...
Sucks big time!

(Boy, do I love this thread...it really ventilates. Feel much better now. )

remus

I know what you mean kwist, although i tihnk im gettign a bit reliant on it now, every time i find something mildly annoying i think aobut posting it here, usually manage to reisst though.