A Thread for Fine Design
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I like that. That's quite ingenious! (tape dispenser). I hope the roll though doesn't slide down the post. And what happens if the roll is another diameter or size?
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and a closeup..
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Do You play enough?
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@dale said:
very uplifting
Took that up to the castle a couple of years ago, surprisingly large for as little traffic as there was. I suppose it depends on what events are being held at the castle, though. There are lots of "modernizations" occurring at the castle, not sure that I liked them at all because they were not in keeping with the castle's age at all; but OTOH it was good to see new life being breathed into the castle rather than allowing it to rot into ruin.
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Must have been an interesting tram ride, but,sometimes the trend to add the modern to the old works, and sometimes it really doesn't (IMHO)
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@dale said:
Must have been an interesting tram ride, but,sometimes the trend to add the modern to the old works, and sometimes it really doesn't (IMHO)
I think that "the more it's a ruin, the more modern you can be". The Neues Museum refurbishment in Berlin seems to be a good case in point (haven't been there yet myself, but seen photographs).
Anssi
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@anssi said:
I think that "the more it's a ruin, the more modern you can be". The Neues Museum refurbishment in Berlin seems to be a good case in point (haven't been there yet myself, but seen photographs)
For me that works,as it adopts the defining lines of the original.
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This one will start a conversation though. (Royal Ontario Museum addition designed by Daniel Libeskind.)
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@dale said:
This one will start a conversation though. (Royal Ontario Museum addition designed by Daniel Libeskind.)
His additions that I've seen pictures of look like cancers eating the older building. This one is more like a collision of alternate universes or a time-transport mistake. You either go for it or not. Apparently enough people like it. This one is not so extremely pointy, better for my tastes than some.
Wine glass: Don't know either but we should try it out fully to judge.
Faucets: is that water going over or inside the glass? If inside, I could see it becoming unsightly with deposits. In some locals you don't want to know what's in your pipes.
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@dale said:
This one will start a conversation though. (Royal Ontario Museum addition designed by Daniel Libeskind.)
"Let's see what sticks when we throw some ideas at the board."
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Are these new additions really good designs? Because they are beginning to look like those tacky curiosities from catalogues like that 'Innovations' one in the 1980's. And I seem to remember that it was the Innovations catalogue that brought us these;
Those duck-billed platypus taps? And as for that wineglass?!
I wouldn't be seen dead holding that, it looks like it has mumps!! 
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@pbacot said:
Faucets: is that water going over or inside the glass? If inside, I could see it becoming unsightly with deposits. In some locals you don't want to know what's in your pipes.
Or maybe you should. I like it otherwise.It looks like they have some that flow over, abut as you can see with the attached the one looks like it has a square slot that the water runs through.
This next one looks like the water flows through the glass, and your right on some systems this would be scary.
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@tfdesign said:
Are these new additions really good designs?
Well I do think that it is certainly very subjective, and I really enjoy seeing others take on some of these objects. I probably should have named the thread "A thread for Intriguing Design", or maybe "Fine Design?"
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Well yes, there is a point where 'good' design can go one step too far, and step into the realm of the over engineered, and somewhat ridiculous.
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