- cross-posted to:
- photography@lemmy.world
- photography@lemmy.ml
- sweden@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- photography@lemmy.world
- photography@lemmy.ml
- sweden@lemmy.world
I am weeping for the poor soul who is hired to clean those windows.
Whoever is doing this is probably pretty passionate, I don’t think they start you off doing these kinds of buildings as a rookie.
I’m obsessed with this photo. I love all the subtle changes in the colors of the reflections on the windows.
Were you just in the right place at the right time, or were you specifically trying to capture this?
Same, whatever the secret ingredient is, it’s got it. Mesmerizing.
I’m glad you liked it!
I was having dinner outside watching the sun set over the city with my girlfriend. She noticed the colors in the reflections in the building. I have been trying to encourage her to get into photography, so I handed her the camera to take the shot. She managed to capture it really well!
The colors might be a bit exaggerated in post processing, but it is a great shot none the less!
Cool and all but did they really need to build it? I think every big city should have one really tall building you can go up and look down but other than that skyscrapers are a huge waste of money, manpower, resources, etc.
How so? I’ve always just assumed that kind of extremely dense urban construction was better environmentally. One big system to manage HVAC, economies of scale when building it, tiny actual footprint relative to usable space, etc.
Oh, most certainly not. I completely agree with your statement. It is a really unnecessary monument of capitalism where the owner of the building company owns the top floor as his own apartment or something like that.
But it looks cool 🙂
I don’t think you need capitalism for humans to construct large buildings. Let’s be happy even capitalists value aesthetics
Also, it apparently surpassed this building as the highest one in Sweden
The building you just linked was built by a cooperative association as well, many of whom now live in that building.
KarlatornetGylfenMycket korrekt ✅
Good building.
Oooo this design tickles my eyes
If you’re an architect, understand that this is the MEP equivalent of fighting words.
MEP?
Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing. The joke here is that designing a building like this creates a lot of work for the engineers designing the building utilities
I think maybe Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing?
huh?
Wait, that’s a photo? I thought it was a stylized rendering at first. The colors are almost vaporwave.
Yup! Here’s some info about the building: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlatornet I think the colors come from the sun setting and the glass panes reflecting it in different colors because of their angles
Apparently the firm who designed it also be designed the Burj Kalifa in Dubai