27 minute video for an abandoned mansion?? Ain’t nobody got time for that.
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There’s dozens of videos like this though. Abandoned mansions, hospitals, schools, factories and so on. Many of the videos are even longer than this. There’s a real audience for this sort of thing, I guess. “Ruin porn” as they call it.
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I’ve always kind of agreed with Zuck’s decision to live in a pretty reasonably sized house. I mean with security add ons I’m sure it was crazy expensive. Anything this large feels commercial and not home-y.
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Oh wait he did some billionaire flexing AROUND it haha Zuckerberg to raze 4 houses surrounding Palo Alto home
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This looks like the evil lair of some bondesque villain. So, perhaps they can buy it for a few dollars, hire a ton of locals, blow the place up in the finale, clean up the mess, and turn the land back to the city.
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I was thinking it looks like a cheap sci-fi set, or a “modernist” corporate compound. So soul-destroyingly cold and impersonal. Yuck. Guess I’m old fashioned in my thinking that there should be an obvious difference between a home and a business/hospital/institution/public bldg.
Do architects think to themselves,
“I want people to look at my stuff, shudder as their souls begin to be sucked out of their bodies, and call it a blot on the landscape!”
???
Lots more interesting stuff here:
Evil Buildings blog @ tumblr
than here, the orig source/inspiration:
If the building could be the home to a super villain or evil corporation, it belongs here - r/evilbuildings
The reddit threads all too often show the same building several times. redditheads apparently never bother looking thru the threads on which they post. That tumblr acc’t offers ahem lots more variety, and the posts are usually of bldgs to whom I’m not hip.
Yeah, Detroit has long been visited by folks into that. It’s cool, but seeing sexy old bldgs restored is even sexier.
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Follow a lot of folks that are new-bees to that on the web, it is astonishing the before & after images.
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I’ve linked it before, but this Colorado ghost-town adventure mansion is a thing of wonder and definitely not the home of a super-villain wannabe.
Unfortunately the house has since sold and the virtual tour is no longer available.
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I think it looks like a commercial building that you would build as an upmarket totally-not-a-strip-mall in a location that you tell your investors is downtown. A Subway and a chain optician on the ground floor and a tax accountant on the top floor of the shiny part.
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It’s depressing enough seeing the ruin of a pretty nifty piece of architecture, but the sheer imbecilic nature of the graffiti really hit hard. All people could think of to spray paint were penii and swear words, and one flower.
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Which really sucks that it’s not being “parted out” like an old automobile. If it wasn’t for the distance and national border in the way, it would be a paradise for construction material thieves like the brick thieves around St. Louis.
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Yeah, this is one situation where you’d want to see construction material thieves (who mostly strike buildings that are going to be inhabited). Ideally a number of years ago, before a lot of it went to wrack and ruin. Though even so, there’s so much cement that’s been used, that alone surely represents millions of dollars of waste - in both constructing and disposing of it.
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I played it at 2x speed, and it was fully intelligible, and still felt a bit long. So, yeah, at regular speed it is way too slow and too long.
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It reminds me of an attempt to copy Fallingwater, melded with a futuristic hospital tower. But uggggly.
I love to creep on abandoned lived in buildings, but an unfinished home site is more depressing than I expected; couldn’t finish.
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One of the things that’s immediately notable to visitors to Graceland is how modestly sized it is.
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As a kid growing up in Kansas, I was living right on the edge of town. I was witness to our side road becoming a major thoroughfare and the birth of two subdivisions. Unfinished home sites were total kid bait.
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And back in the day before 24/7 video surveillance.
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Heck, at the old asking price you could have bought the place, rented a few semis, hired a salvage crew and made a tidy profit. Then you could demolish the foundations and make the land into anything you wanted.
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Captain Scarlet announces this building will be the new SPECTRUM headquarters… once he has finished regenerating from his latest spectacularly traumatic car crash.
“SPECTRUM is green!”
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