Modern Pyramids

[Gnam]

A random search turned up: Contemporary Pyramids (http://contemporarypyramids.blogspot.com/)
I had no idea there were so many. Who keeps building these things? Is there one near you?


The Walter Pyramid - home of the Cal State Long Beach 49ers basketball team.
http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/400/25620740374f366a64fc.jpg

[datachicane]

Not near me, but getting geekly with Lanciani:

http://ic2.pbase.com/u42/ngoc_out/large/34152574.IMG_0065.jpg

[SteveH]

:gomer: version

http://s3.amazonaws.com/capture_indy/upload/1242773581261/full.jpg

[cameraman]

okay how do you delete a post

[chop456]

If you've ever driven to Road America or the Milwaukee Mile from the South, you've driven past this:

http://atlasobscura.com/places/onans-gold-pyramid-house

http://www.areavoices.com/dgblog/images/PIC_0207edit.jpg
http://img2.timeinc.net/toh/i/g/09/houses/wacky-houses/18-wacky-house.jpg

[oddlycalm]

Someone always has to get cute...:gomer: Tempe, AZ city hall.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/39/82864319_061597306a.jpg

[chop456]

^ It's all fun and games untill you roll back from your desk and fall 6 floors to your death. :gomer:

[Mr. Vengeance]

Summerhill Winery out of Kelowna (BC) ages their wine in a pyramid. (And ladles on the BS):


Ancient civilizations KNEW the origin of life and "life forces" and were able to build monuments such as geometrically precise pyramids and temples that represent these concepts, the Pyramid being perhaps the ultimate channel or higher attunement with the "ALL". Along with the theory that an ancient civilization built the Great Pyramid, Summerhill likes to relate the word Pyramid to Py-Ra-Mid -fire in the middle. The Pyramid is a monument that is a forever reminder that we are divine -The Fire being a G-d force or a life force energy that is within each of us.

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/633/pyramidi.jpg (http://img9.imageshack.us/i/pyramidi.jpg/)

[WickerBill]

Luxor:

http://www.visitingdc.com/images/luxor-hotel-address.jpg

[SteveH]

^ It's all fun and games untill you roll back from your desk and fall 6 floors to your death. :gomer:

unless your office was on the roof, that would be unpossible :gomer::D:gomer:

[Sean Malone]

I remember a house in Richmond VA, where the owner built a 6' tall pyramid in his yard out of plywood. The purpose being to promote their spiritual belief of the power of the pyramid (advertised in writing on the structure itself). I recall hearing about neighbors complaining to the county for its removal.

extramundane was probably too young to remember that, it was around '92, off of Three Chopt in Henrico.

[Opposite Lock]

There is a pyramid-shaped building on the Nort'west side of Chicago, the Learning Resource Center at Wright College, by Bertrand Goldberg (more famous for his twin corncobs Marina City also in Chicago). Can't link directly to the image, but it can be seen here: http://www.bertrandgoldberg.org/works/wright_college.html I've also spotted it several times flying in and out of ORD.

Other contemporary ones that come to mind, besides the ones that chop and SteveH posted, are the Transamerica Building in San Francisco, and the I.M. Pei's (with Peter Rice of Arup) entrance addition to The Louvre, (both of which are on the list that Gnam posted).

[Napoleon]

Wow, I am amazed I am the first one to mention this one which has the added benefit of being in an American city named after an Egyptian city:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_Arena


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/PyramidArena.jpg

[Sean Malone]

Wow, I am amazed I am the first one to mention this one which has the added benefit of being in an American city named after an Egyptian city:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_Arena




That's the first one I thought of too but it was listed on the website posted Gnam.

[Napoleon]

That's the first one I thought of too but it was listed on the website posted Gnam.

I didn't even follow that link. I had a hard time believing no one would have thought of Memphis.

[Sean Malone]

I didn't even follow that link. I had a hard time believing no one would have thought of Memphis.

The link has a list but they're image files (:confused:), not text in tables. I wanted to throw it into a spread sheet to sort on state.

[Gnam]

from wiki
As of January 31, 2008, the city and Bass Pro Shops have reached a "tentative" agreement, short on details, but based on an intent to develop the now-abandoned structure.
Man, that's just sad. :shakehead



I came across an article about painting that Illinois home: http://www.volatilefree.com/pdfs/ProtectingThePyramid.pdf

Mentions the guy built a dome around it to screen it from the road. Gee, who'd a thunk a five story gold plated pyramid would attract attention. :gomer:

[Dvdb]

Hey, I can make a pyramid.................

Never mind, been drinking...........:D

[G.]

Hey, I can make a pyramid.................

Never mind, been drinking...........:D

(needs more gin)

:)

[chop456]

unless your office was on the roof, that would be unpossible :gomer::D:gomer:

You're one of those people that was telling everyone that the new millenium didn't really start until 2001, too, aren't you?

Killjoy. :D

[SurfaceUnits]

You're one of those people that was telling everyone that the new millenium didn't really start until 2001, too, aren't you?

Killjoy. :D

the new millenium started in 1997. the Italian who created our current calendaring system was off by 4+ years. but that is good news because 2012 has come and gone and we werejn't all destroyed by some grate catastrafie :gomer:

[Easy]

I came across an article about painting that Illinois home: http://www.volatilefree.com/pdfs/ProtectingThePyramid.pdf

Mentions the guy built a dome around it to screen it from the road. Gee, who'd a thunk a five story gold plated pyramid would attract attention. :gomer:

The guy who built the pyramid house is quite the uh... character. The statues you see in the second picture were added several years after the house was built. Once he had them erected the village pointed out that their height was in violation of some building ordinance so he put that dirt/sand/whatever up to their knees to get around it.

You can see it from I-94 for a couple seconds when heading North, just a little past the Gurnee toll plaza.