Lovecraftian Architecture -- a picture thread of non-Euclidean proportions

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http://uncle.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/275pxryugyong_hotel_closeup.JPG
That hotel in Kim Jungle Land

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 10 July 2006 04:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://athene.riv.csu.edu.au/~dspennem/PHOTOS/POHNPEI.GIF

Pohnpei, which Lovecraft reportedly used for the inspiration for the sunken city of R'lyeh

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 10 July 2006 04:45 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://anthonyprovenzano.com/images/2.%20Boston%20Excursion/3.%20Strata%20%20-%20Gehry/Corner%20View.jpg

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 10 July 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

HPL's living spaces:

http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/244/hpl04598angell36ld.jpg http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/3822/hpl07b10barnes42ok.jpg

http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/1254/hpl0866college1937todeathandho.jpg

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 10 July 2006 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

Miskatonic University:

http://www.miskatonic-university.org/images/university2.jpg
http://www.miskatonic-university.org/images/plaza1.jpg
http://www.miskatonic-university.org/images/egypt%20church.jpg

http://www.miskatonic-university.org/files/campus.jpg

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 10 July 2006 05:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/sacsay.jpg

http://www.culture.gr/2/21/211/21104a/00/lk04a017.jpg

http://www.duke.edu/~rkl7/Images/Cyclopean%20Wall.gif

http://www.qosqo.com/images/saqsa3.jpg

http://www.mme.state.va.us/Dmr/GALLERY/historic/Images/BWMORP/bwchim3a.gif

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 10 July 2006 05:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://vienna.metblogs.com/grenz/euklid.jpg

almost

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 10 July 2006 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://www.phototravels.net/vienna/vienna-p/photo-vienna-p-063.html
ihttp://www.phototravels.net/vienna/vienna-p/photo-vienna-p-057.3.jpg

― introducing latebloomer, his dad itchy, and his son lumpy (latebloomer), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.phototravels.net/vienna/vienna-p/photo-vienna-p-057.3.jpg
http://www.phototravels.net/vienna/vienna-p/photo-vienna-p-057.3.jpg

― introducing latebloomer, his dad itchy, and his son lumpy (latebloomer), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.phototravels.net/vienna/vienna-p/photo-vienna-p-063.html

― introducing latebloomer, his dad itchy, and his son lumpy (latebloomer), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

this unconventional architecture is messing with my ability to post!

― introducing latebloomer, his dad itchy, and his son lumpy (latebloomer), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

Dr Caligari to thread...

in a similar vein - a bar decorated in the style of HR Giger:

http://www.hrgiger.info/barmuseum.htm

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

I think there's been a bit of a misunderstanding of non-Euclidean here...

It's not "ooh, this architecture is a bit weird..." but actually THIS GEOMETRY ONLY MAKES SENSE IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION architecture.

Like the, er, tesseract house in the sci fi short story.

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

well yeah, but since there aren't exactly any pictures of such buildings we're using the next best thing(s).

― introducing latebloomer, his dad itchy, and his son lumpy (latebloomer), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, alright, then.

http://www.yykitchen.com/HPImage/piclvyou/010414.jpg

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/M.C.Escher/2/escher-belvedere.gif
ihttp://www.meridian.net.au/Art/Artists/MCEscher/Gallery/Images/escher-waterfall-small.jpg

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 10 July 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

> THIS GEOMETRY ONLY MAKES SENSE IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION

that's not my (A-Level) understanding of 'non-euclidean' nor wikipedia's come to that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Euclidean_geometry
(which does, oddly enough, mentions HPL)

it's more to do with the eschewing of right angles (or rather what counts as a right angle in non-euclidean geometry looks nothing like the cartesian right-angles we are used to).

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Monday, 10 July 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.afi.com/wise/films/haunting/photo/images/haunting_photo8.jpg

― Dolores Haze (Arachne), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://cdn.tripadvisor.com/Images-g54774-d208695-b1330149S-a_caption.-Cosmos_of_the_Black_Hills-Rapid_City_South_Dakota.jpg

SPOOKY

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Monday, 10 July 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://cdn.tripadvisor.com/Images-g54774-d208695-b1330148S-a_caption.-Cosmos_of_the_Black_Hills-Rapid_City_South_Dakota.jpg

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Monday, 10 July 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

now we're cookin'

― introducing latebloomer, his dad itchy, and his son lumpy (latebloomer), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mackinawcity.com/images/resized/AA6E0329.jpg

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

Horton Plaza to thread!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/HortonPlaza1.jpg/280px-HortonPlaza1.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/HortonPlaza2.jpg/280px-HortonPlaza2.jpg

― Fsck Washing Ong's Hat (Chris Barrus), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.amazing-optical-illusions.com/new_s.jpg

ames room

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Monday, 10 July 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Holstenwal!

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Bungalow/1204/Images/caligari.jpg

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/images/21/caligari.jpg

― Abbott (Abbott), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread.

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Tuesday, 11 July 2006 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

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