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35 Architects Who Did Not Think Their Projects Through, Shared On This Twitter Page
When you have a planner drafting your house, a roof over your head is the bare minimum you expect. I wouldn’t call a set of windows a luxury either. But in reality, even in the most precise universe of architecture and engineering, errors happen. And the results are the monstrosities you’re about to see.
Thanks to the Twitter page “Bad Planning,” we have quite a split collection to look at. The page sarcastically describes itself as “a celebration of all the ‘smelly’ stuff imposed on our environment.” It adds that: “Perpetrated by Architects, Planners, Surveyors, Engineers & other environmental ne’er do wells.” Whoever created this page appears genuinely unforgiving.
Get ready to meet ‘Fencemageddon,’ heaters rising up the stairway, the house of all the planet’s windows, and other peculiar specimens. Scroll down, enjoy and upvote your favorites as you go!
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If you are upset, you just had to do it the French way : unite to create a company that will buy and preserve the building.
In order to find out how bad planning and design examples like these end up in public and private spaces, we have to break down where they start from. Maybe it’s a client who ordered a questionable design and turned it into reality. Maybe it’s a designer who forgot the functional part of the design. Or it may well be the planners who didn’t take what was needed into account.
“We never realize how much even the smallest detail can affect our everyday lifestyle,” Laura Vanagaite, a Portugal-based graphic designer, told Bored Panda. She shared a couple of insights of what happens and why when objects, buildings, and spaces are designed with such big flaws. “Every single object we use from the morning until the night is designed specifically on how it is supposed to be. But that is not always the case. Functionality is the number one rule in the design and architecture world,” Laura explained.
“But sometimes,” Laura said, “some creative choices are made that make the function not the priority.” And that is where the confusion happens. “From what we have seen in the past, some design solutions are made without thinking of the actual client, a person that will use the product. It applies to everything: website or app design, interior design, furniture, architecture and spatial planning.”
Laura also said that if any of the end product is made without thinking much about the user, it loses its value. “For example, a person downloads an app, it looks nice, the design is modern, it looks beautifully done, but the letters are done in a light color and it is hard to understand what information needs to be filled in. The client gets annoyed and decides to delete the app. In this case, the designer should have thought about the app function and how user-friendly it would be.”
“Another example can be spatial planning,” the graphic designer said. “Let's say that the architects were hired to create a modern working space for a tech company. The finished result looks modern, innovative and... not enough space for the workers to sit properly. Sitting areas are a crucial part of offices because the physical health of the workers determines how productive they will be.”
According to Laura, these types of mistakes can be found in every area: “maybe the logo was wrongly designed and did not reflect the values of the company, maybe the cutlery was designed without thinking about whether left-handed people would be able to use it.”
She also stressed the fact that every designer should think first about the function and the person who will be using the product. “Whether it is a simple app or a huge architectural building, you as the professional should ask ‘What does the client need and what issues do I need to solve to make it easier for them to use it?’” Laura concluded.
Heaven forbid you let animals live in their natural habitat that we (humans) invaded.
There are times, well most times to be honest, that I loathe humans.
As a South African I'm baffled that everyone immediately jumped to the conclusion that the spikes are to deter birds. People do this in South Africa. It's not to keep birds out of the tree. It's so that intruders can't use the tree to climb over your wall/fence, or to reach your upper windows that might not have burglar bars. But I'm sure it's nice to live somewhere where safety and security isn't always the very first thing you think of.
I already knew this picture and the story, this one is indeed for birds in some USA rich gated community? If I remember correctly.
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That’s actually mean. I think the birds now have official permission to poop on these peoples heads.
The reason behind them is even more preposterous. It's so the cars parked under the tree don't get covered in bird poop. PARK SOMEWHERE ELSE THEN! It's just mind alteringly idiotic.
A miserable thing to do - to the tree and birds and squirrels and raccoons and . . .
WTF! Squeeze wildlife out of their habitat to build houses, then weaponize the few remaining trees. Sick bastards.
How DARE nature be full of nature?! The audacity! And should those trees really be allowed to just drop their leaves as they please? They end up everywhere, it’s a nuisance - shouldn’t they at least be fined or something?
This is like someone entering your home and putting spikes on your couch. Birds use trees more than any of us!
I hope the birds here file a class action lawsuit for being barred from using a public toilet
Hope that tree dumps every leaf on the yard and every bird poops on your car.
Finches and sparrows will not care and are noisier and more numerous than pigeons. I hope these horrible people are just covered in bird 💩 constantly
I wish it was easier to post photos on BP. There is a very well known one from my hometown of Melbourne that shows a pigeon which has built a nest in top of a forest of these spikes on a ticket machine on a train station. Everyone was totally barracking for the pigeon.
I have a fear of birds when close to me, but I would never, NEVER, do something so cruel. I enjoy their singing and watching them fly. I'm only fearful when they get too close. Ii simply get out of their way. They live outside so when I'm in their house, I show respect and remove myself. It's that simple.
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Don't they realize the more they put on the tree, the less effective the deterrent is? It's like they've never seen how a bed of nails works before.
Where are they supposed to sit now? Let’s just put spikes on the person who thought this was a good ideas chair. See how they like it.
And the cable-ties will kill the tree . . . we've got no more than twenty years!
I started to try to downvote any comment that name-called, but I stopped out of necessity... *siiiigh*
What? Does name-calling add anything good to a conversation where there are opinions on all sides?
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It has to do with man’s inability to reconcile nature and architecture, a frequent problem with certain types of architects.
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In my language, it's the Devil who is in the details. We always try to see the bad in every thing, to see the clouds behind the silver lining, in order to be prepared for when the smallest defect in the greatest plan will make everything backfire and fail miserably.
We call this bedroom, “the wind catcher”. Lively during storms.
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I ended up having to look at older farmhouses and cabins after this to see good architecture and style.
One of them actually made my eyes all wonky which made mean little nauseous.
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This is named inappropriately. Should say, “what happens when no one was willing to fork over money for an actual architect.”
I think a better title is what happens when you hire a terrible contractor. Most of these photos are not because of the Architect - they are either a terrible contractor or people with bad taste in renovating.
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I'm far more concerned with the floor plan than I am with the exterior. So many newer houses seem as thought they weren't designed to actually be lived in.
Every building project should be submitted to Prince Charles for approval, in order to avoid... All that s**t.
I ended up having to look at older farmhouses and cabins after this to see good architecture and style.
One of them actually made my eyes all wonky which made mean little nauseous.
Load More Replies... This is named inappropriately. Should say, “what happens when no one was willing to fork over money for an actual architect.”
I think a better title is what happens when you hire a terrible contractor. Most of these photos are not because of the Architect - they are either a terrible contractor or people with bad taste in renovating.
Load More Replies... I'm far more concerned with the floor plan than I am with the exterior. So many newer houses seem as thought they weren't designed to actually be lived in.
Every building project should be submitted to Prince Charles for approval, in order to avoid... All that s**t.
