@mattblaze@federate.social I hadn't thought of these buildings as reflecting their environment, I will look more closely, thank you. Maybe we just don't clean the glass enough in Australia 🙂
As a person who worked inside them, they were definitely boring from the inside. And often very glary, light reflected from other buildings.
I guess it's the architect's job to mediate these two perspectives to the benefit of both.
@peachfront@toot.community lovely photo. Lots of photos of woodpeckers, amazing, we don't have anything similar in Australia. Someone put up a photo of a tree trunk full of holes stuffed with acorns. I had previously thought that was a children's story.
@mattblaze@federate.social really interesting thread, thank you. It's surprising how much effect the black sky has, there isn't a lot of sky in the image but it looms over everything
@mattblaze@federate.social I think I read about one of these in a Louise Penney novel. It made no sense to me at the time, thank you.
@mattblaze@federate.social I hadn't thought of these buildings as reflecting their environment, I will look more closely, thank you. Maybe we just don't clean the glass enough in Australia 🙂
As a person who worked inside them, they were definitely boring from the inside. And often very glary, light reflected from other buildings.
I guess it's the architect's job to mediate these two perspectives to the benefit of both.
@mattblaze@federate.social those creeping shadows are definitely menacing. Great photo
@mattblaze@federate.social 50 years! 🤣
@peachfront@toot.community lovely photo. Lots of photos of woodpeckers, amazing, we don't have anything similar in Australia. Someone put up a photo of a tree trunk full of holes stuffed with acorns. I had previously thought that was a children's story.
@mattblaze@federate.social really interesting thread, thank you. It's surprising how much effect the black sky has, there isn't a lot of sky in the image but it looms over everything