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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Built For Change Part Two - Built To Fail

So many of the good ideas of the 1960s weren't all that good.  Many of the domes A-frames and contemporary designs are now abandoned: too difficult to work with or they leaked or were just uncomfortable to live in.  Here are a few pictures that underscore the idea of architectural failures from the past.  First is this dome in Arizona.

Next is a water park in Russia.
An abandoned apartment complex in Taipei.
And the Grandaddy of all fails, Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Waters which leaks like a sieve and is falling apart because of the stresses inherent in the design.

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