• skarn@discuss.tchncs.de
      19·
      1 month ago

      It really isn’t.

      It’s the Antwerp Port Authority in Antwerp, Belgium. Designed by Zaha Hadid. Pretty cool.>!!<

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Authority_Building_(Antwerp)

      I saw several such hybrid old/new building combinations in Flemish cities. And they usually manage to pull it off.

      Another example I liked is the STAM, the Ghent city museum. They also host a nice yearly jazz festival in the courtyard of that one.

      https://stamgent.be/

      • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
        9·
        1 month ago

        I think there’s a bias in the US against this sort of thing that doesn’t exist (or not to the same extent) in Europe due to the age of the cities/buildings.

        In the US, a building from the 1700s is a historic artifact to be cherished, while in parts of Europe a building from the 1500s is just the local pub.

        So, the US is often hesitant to modify these old buildings, but Europe seems to have more of a perspective of “it’s a building, not a museum, let’s give it new life by modifying it.”

        This is just from the perspective of me, from the US — and I think these old/new buildings are really neat!

        • Benjaben@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 month ago

          Huh, thanks for that perspective, I (US native) was firmly in the “how could they do this?!” camp, but you’re right! When old ass buildings are all over the place it’s probably much more pressing to figure out how to allow ongoing development and construction, vs. how to preserve the aesthetic of yet another centuries-old brick structure.

          Edit to add: ugh I still can’t get over how ugly and deliberately discordant it looks, reasonable takes be damned!

      • rustyredox@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 month ago

        How do the floors in the upper structure handle the sloping incline of the geometric shape? Is there just a lot of closed off volumetric slivers between the planes of the floor and ceiling and shell, or is there only one or two floors, with the upper floor having a larger rising canopy?

    • renzev@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 month ago

      I still can’t fathom why electron needs to exist when PWA is a thing. Like, almost every app is just plain better running in a normal web browser instead of electron. Webapps never need to be updated manually, electron apps do (e.g. discord). Webapps are sandboxed inside the browser, electron has you running some rando developer’s code natively. With electron, you have to trust the developers of every app to keep the electron version up-to-date to avoid critical bugs (e.g. libwebp). With webapps, if your browser is patched, then every webapp is safe. Electron also suffers from random bugs and regressions that aren’t an issue in most web browsers.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      It’s been a hot minute, since I’ve been to the GTK side of town, but I’m aware of Geany and GNOME Builder (I believe, the latter is focused on developing GNOME apps, but not sure to what degree).

      Well, and I guess, there’s also gVim and Emacs, if you’re into very keyboard-driven editors…

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 month ago

          Personally, I like vim. I do miss the mini map to speed up navigating through code, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a random crash or have it inadvertently fill up my home dir because I’ve had it open for too long.