Vasily Klyukin is a Russian financier who now likes to dabble in speculative architecture - designing unusual skyscrapers for world-class cities, which apparently include Boston, based on his proposal for a building called Venus right on the waterfront.
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By No.
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 1:23pm
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Alexandros of Antioch. Venus de Milo with arms and with jewelry
By theszak
Mon, 03/21/2016 - 2:11pm
Alexandros of Antioch. Venus de Milo with arms and with jewelry
https://www.google.com/search?q=venus+di+milo+with...
Is this guy high or something?
By anon
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 1:47pm
That's hideous.
Adorable!
By anon
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 1:57pm
Adorable!
Found the Trump Fan
By JimGaffigan
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 2:39pm
That's beyond tacky.
I Disagree With That Assessment Most Strongly!
By Elmer
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 3:21pm
[img]http://www.rowlingson.com/Trips/CanadaUSA/images/Photographs/imgp0944.jpg[/img]
[sup] It's even worse than the Arthur Fiedler head![/sup]
Sea Level Rise
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 2:20pm
There would be waves lapping at her robes in a very short time! Probably the first storm after completion.
These things are cool to think about, and draw. I like that someone is thinking about them and creating renderings. I don't think that's a buildable area, though, or a very buildable building.
BRA will green light this
By Vladmir
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 2:43pm
BRA will green light this project, Russian developers are billionaires , billionaires are philanthropist , money talks in the city of Boston!!
Especially ...
By adamg
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 2:44pm
If he signs up Elkus Manfredi as the local architect on the project.
contrapasso
By Malcolm Tucker
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 4:03pm
She was born in seafoam; to seafoam, she'll return.
Tacky
By anon
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 2:37pm
The Las Vegasification of Boston.
WOOF!
By ZachAndTired
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 3:00pm
I'm all for creative architecture, but that thing is hideous.
It looks like a giant aunt
By GXZ
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 3:04pm
It looks like a giant aunt Jamama syrup bottle
Mrs Butterworth
By Old Zee
Mon, 03/21/2016 - 8:06am
with bad posture.
Figurehead
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 03/21/2016 - 2:35pm
I think a building shaped like a traditional figurehead would make a lot more sense in this location.
[img=250x600]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vBkD0gnYrt4/VhxcAM8lfyI/...
It could even be the new city hall - a watery tart handing out swords and all that.
[img=300x400]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/ec/51/ee...
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Sat, 03/19/2016 - 3:38pm
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OK, I'll bite
By adamg
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 3:52pm
What, exactly, made a light bulb go on over your head and make you go "AHA! This computer rendering of a stupid building on the waterfront that will never actually get built reminds me of open-source office suites!"
By R Stallman. Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software
By theszak
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 6:41pm
By Richard Stallman
Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-t...
Open meeting
By Cantabrigian
Sun, 03/20/2016 - 5:53pm
Don't you have meeting notes to complain about?
From time to time an open thread...
By theszak
Mon, 03/21/2016 - 2:05pm
From time to time there could be an open thread for other things, on/off topic, general interest, etc.
With a version of a Safe Space Policy
https://libreplanet.org/2016/safe-space-policy/
You can start threads
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 03/21/2016 - 2:52pm
It is permissible to do so. Adam won't always kick them to the front page, but you can DIY here.
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By theszak
Tue, 03/22/2016 - 12:30am
?
I wonder
By anon
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 3:52pm
how much the boob space would go for?
Enough...
By Jeff F
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 4:28pm
...to bust most budgets, I'd imagine
New BRA offices
By Stevil
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 4:37pm
Would be perfect there.
Better for Mayor Walsh
By tachometer
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 8:54pm
A boob in a boob...boobception!
you guys
By Old Zee
Mon, 03/21/2016 - 8:08am
are really milking this topic.
NSFW?
By Grant Young
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 5:49pm
Would it be OK to work inside of a building that is manifestly NSFW?
'vaguely female shaped' is NSFW?!
By Jeff F
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 10:17pm
You need to find a somewhere less repressed to work, methinks.
Would have to be located on
By anon
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 6:38pm
Would have to be located on the 69th floor.
Wrong goddess for Boston
By Jeff F
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 4:19pm
Obviously, our tutelary is Athena. She's a great aspirational match for our city:
From Wikipedia:
"...goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, mathematics, ...strength, war strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill in ancient Greek religion and mythology.
...Athena is known for her calm temperament, as she moves slowly to anger. She is noted to have only fought for just reasons, and would not fight without a purpose."
Plus, most statues of her have arms ;P
Venus' Missing Limbs Perfectly Symbolize Infrastructure In Ruins
By Elmer
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 5:03pm
If it was a local developer,
By anon
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 4:26pm
If it was a local developer, he'd try to put in a fat lady shaped building in order to cram as much office space and condos as possible.
you mean another
By Old Zee
Mon, 03/21/2016 - 8:09am
pregnant building
It looks like they just
By Cute Username
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 4:29pm
It looks like they just crudely photoshopped it onto the end of Rowes Wharf, (which isn't a particularly practical location but whatever) but if they put it at the site of the Harbor Garage that would be an amusing conclusion to the conflict between Chiofaro and the BRA.
When I saw this all I could
By Matt Frank
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 7:41pm
When I saw this all I could think of was the giant statue in the middle of the city in Batman and Robin, the movie from the 90's.
What if the building was
By anon
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 8:08pm
What if the building was modeled after Tom Brady instead?
then the construction company
By Old Zee
Mon, 03/21/2016 - 8:11am
would need to cheat at all the building codes and get away with it. Then everyone would declare it the best building in Boston. Evah.
Next to the penile...
By Daan
Sat, 03/19/2016 - 10:41pm
ah, Chiofaro columnar building of International Place, it offers some, ah conceptual, symmetry. Would the proximity of the structures result in architectural progeny?
I like it a lot
By PeyoteEatingWat...
Sun, 03/20/2016 - 3:32pm
I say build it ASAP!
The New Trump Power Center?
By anon
Sun, 03/20/2016 - 3:54pm
http://www.vasilyklyukin.com/architecture/towers/a...
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