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Eh? War?

I hope you don't mind me watching...

Excellence. I just realized how much I like those rolling hills in St. Paul's gated community.

LOL, exquisite! The color choices in that first shot... I do wonder why the curvatures of the balconies lack symmetry, though; as you can see, the shape of the railings on either side of the escalators do not mirror one another. Excellent choice of the night still-shot. You are certainly welcome to travel to Copenhagen to take pictures, if such is your desire.

Beautiful shots, vester. Very high quality finds, and they have some artistic quality all their own. Mmm, seems just right that a dark building of rectangular design should sit upon such a platform overlooking the sea in that first shot, eh? Though the Danish Royal Library main buildings and the Black Diamond were certainly constructed in differing eras of style and design, they seem to naturally go together here. Excellent shot of a building-bridge in the second photo. Nice color composition overall for that matter. The last photo certainly catches my eye...it's as if the ceiling and the ground were reversed, so that the photo was actually taken upside-down. An interesting hallway design. Thanks vester! *saves copies of photos to local system*

Aww, why'd you change the part about turning down the music? That was funny. I hear the unrelenting voice of Scooby-Doo; the one from the animated cartoons written < 1985.

, ExiL3. Your enthusiasm for proper split buildings is of course welcomed. Ah, ardecila, beautiful! I've been tracking this since your original post in the PDA thread. Now that you've brought it to SBI commons, I can finally release my restraints. Will you be using SBI's content management system when you release on STEX?

A majestically deep voice intertwined with the white noise of a searing fire.

Yes, I like this idea. I like these thoughts because they offer a slightly different perspective on what it means to be a split building---like a breath of fresh air. The city block turned open-air mall doesn't just reside over a network of roadways: it's truly built around the roadways, and uses that network to ensure its own survival and growth. The network provides needed pedestrian traffic to the mall, and the mall provides those pedestrians a very interesting shopping experience. Can you imagine walking into this scene ? That has to be one of my favorites from the photo gallery Kazeneko linked in his last post: those second and third-floor building-bridges sweeping across the picture and off to the right are just excellent. A multi-floor open-air mall with building-bridges might be the precursor to a more generalized set of pedestrian bridges connecting greater structures (high-rises and the like). I also took notice to your mention of outside escalators, Kazeneko. This interests me because it is similar to an idea I had about a conveyor belt reaching over a roadway in an industrial sector of a city. I see this industrial area as being densely-populated, thus requiring the built-over conveyor belt, and somewhat dark, as if the smokestacks from surrounding factories, overhead conveyor belts, and airborne dust and gas were blotting out the sun. A hardcore industrial area, you might say. Outside escalators, like specialized pavement for the former roadways, are excellent considerations. One would have to think a bit on how to weather-proof those escalators, depending upon one's need for realism. Thanks for your thoughts, Kazeneko.

Ah, I love watching this CJ unfold. Now, who could launch such a calculated incursion on San Bugatta? The attackers apparently have access to advanced technology and targetted only the driller and associated rail lines; no civilian casualties were reported, and even the bank of solar power plants went untouched. Who would have such a specific agenda, and what is their ultimate purpose? I must add, nice use of the natural environment as an entity participating in the story. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the high tide drowned out the impending fire. Addendum: I am pleased to inaugurate page eleven!

, aleking. Ah, Ottooo, beautiful. I love the look of those curved girders up top and that concave deck reaching around the middle of the structure. Thanks for introducing such a high-quality photo of the arena and its surroundings as well as providing background information. I appreciate that a member of few words wishes to share a portion with us in SBI: Ideas. The Stadium Guide's Amsterdam Arena page contains a photo showing the boulevard exiting the arena before reaching the railway (or vice versa, depending upon driving direction). See the fourth picture a little over halfway down the page. Something about Ottooo's post highlighted to me the need to backup the photos and blueprints appearing in this thread, thereby allowing a graphic to be quickly restored in the case of an external link failure or other unfortunate event. As a result, I've stored to my local system all split building photos (schooner2, lakeyboy, ExiL3, Kazeneko, aleking, and Ottooo) and concept drawings (Murakumon, cammo2003, and I-will-crush-u). I ask that contributors posting new material join with me in saving a local copy to their systems.

Ah, thanks for the clarification, ardecila. It's good to hear that your post office BAT is very much underway. I await the preview with restrained anticipation.

Nice, aleking. An excellent shot capturing the distinct and alluring architecture of the CHX trading floor's exterior as it all but consumes Congress Parkway. (Congress must be a particularly special expressway; ardecila mentioned at the beginning of the ideas thread that a now-abandoned U.S. post office spans another section of the same road.) Definitely an interesting perspective in the second shot; looks like we're hovering just above the tarmac! Thanks for your insight, aleking. I'll carry your post and my response over to SBI: Ideas so that the CHX may join the gallery of possibilities for prospective BAT'ters.

From the commons thread : Date: 4/11/2005 2:57:23 PM Author: aleking i was just thinking of the chicago stock exchange when reading this thread funny! that would be sweet and perfect example of a split building, hint hint please build someone with more artistic talent then me. Nice, aleking. An excellent shot capturing the distinct and alluring architecture of the CHX trading floor's exterior as it all but consumes Congress Parkway. (Congress must be a particularly special expressway; ardecila mentioned at the beginning of this thread that a now-abandoned U.S. post office spans another section of the same road.) Definitely an interesting perspective in the second shot; looks like we're hovering just above the tarmac! Thanks for your insight, aleking.

Another high-quality shot! Thanks, Kazeneko. The LACC has a certain clean and modern look that brings out the building's attractiveness; the choice of cyan-tinted glass and white panelling for its exterior was a good one, IMO. This web page on the official site shows the LACC's meeting room concourse extending over Pico Boulevard (to the right in the photo). Official notice of the center's split buildings status is interwoven into the Design Features section further down the page. Also, see the front exterior during the 2003 E3 expo and a grandiose side profile of the building ; pictures courtesy of Colin Fahey's 2003 E3 coverage (contains many hi-res pics, beware long loading times). I am honored, Kazeneko, that one of two posts in your year-long+ membership appears in the SBI: ideas thread.