Source Ove Arup’s pre-Post Modern neo-organic Brutalist inverted flying buttresses that dramatically support the Sydney Opera House forecourt. OC 2317×1739
SirCoolJerk69 says Nb: Bicycles in foreground for scale. Tantalising exposed formwork and boltholes. Stunning engineering. Sheer, towering, purposeful, unrepentant and even vindictive when crossed.
liberal_texan says I’m going to start calling concrete T-beams “inverted flying buttresses”. It’ll make precast parking garages sound so much more glamorous.
SirCoolJerk69 says
Nb: Bicycles in foreground for scale.
Tantalising exposed formwork and boltholes.
Stunning engineering. Sheer, towering, purposeful, unrepentant and even vindictive when crossed.
Wilza30101 says
That title though.
liberal_texan says
I’m going to start calling concrete T-beams “inverted flying buttresses”. It’ll make precast parking garages sound so much more glamorous.
dan-dreamz says
Pre-post modern? so basically just modern
EctonMiner says
Arup’s best work, though, was his relatively modest bridge in Durham.