When Building Design Goes Horribly Wrong...

[sp1814]

This is a couple of months old, but I've only just seen the story:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2013/may/10/beijing-peoples-daily-giant-penis

You would've thought that at some point, someone on the design team would've stuck their hand up and said, "Errr...is it me, or does it look like a giant..."

[Spoonboy]

You are not thinking cucumber then, I take it? :))

[ChuckFickens]

Bit like 30 St Mary's Axe in london is often called "the gherkin" or also often called "the ***"

[aelmpvw]

reminds me of a knitted willie warmer i used to cherish

[Buenchico]

They seem to have a similar lack of foresight (or should that be foreskin?) in Michigan:
http://ksr.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Ypsilanti_Water_Tower_2011.jpg
and San Diego:
http://www.shaperyenterprises.com/photos/realestate/large/CCDCRendering2.jpg

[wolf63]

Do you have to cross this bridge to get there?

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s136/wolf63/funny%20-%20not%20animals/bridge.jpg

[ChuckFickens]

Chris, I'd suggest that if yours looks anything like the one in San Diego you seek medical assistance.

[Barmaid]

Chuck, he did.

[ChuckFickens]

Ah... that's the "after" is is ;)

[boxtops]

Once made a home-made candle like that, but nobody paid me for it :(

[sp1814]

buenchico

I hate to think what you put into your search engine to find those pictures, but I counsel you to clear you browser history...really, really quickly.

[Spoonboy]

Buenchico and Wolf: is this what may be described as internet soft porn?!!

[wolf63]

If they are the pictures that you are showing us what pictures have you kept hidden?

My master is now calling me and I must go and put food in his bowl, he says that he is starving ~ cats!

[jno]

it could go with Newport railway station

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/48902000/jpg/_48902083_newstation.jpg

One of the few buildings modelled on the female reproductive system.

However, as a blogger on the Guardian story has pointed out, the photo there is misleading: the bit at the top is actually scaffolding. Without it, it looks pretty much like the Gherkin or that one in Barcelona.

[Spoonboy]

Nice one jno. All we need now is for someone to find a "tower" with a couple of cannon balls nearby and we'll be able to make a 1970's style SP slide movie!!

[jno]

this is what the building should actually look like when finished - very different

http://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/peoples-daily-building.png?w=1024&h=555

[sp1814]

Thanks jno...actually quite a nice building!

[rowanwitch]

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Phallic_stadium01.jpg

In the interest of equality the M'inge stadium from the phallic school of architecture

[rowanwitch]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20828509@N00/405055491/http://www.flickr.com/photos/20828509@N00/405055491/

And this one is a juggler in its spare time

[gingejbee]

I agree - the person who designed this, really DID make a giant cock-up.

[marval]

Does anyone want a chandelier?


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