Oct 28, 2014 6:22 AM
11778
7324
65
funny
glitch_in_the_matrix
toronto
two_architects
no_chill
building_porn
rom
autobots_roll_out
nom
SweetBabyJesus
IDK... I kinda like it.
Sayingwhatyourethinking
Toronto!
hullabaloo70
Window washers nightmare
SirNoTouchingTheDogPlease
The ROM in Toronto, if you were wondering.
hulksmash1014
Roof was leaking before the exhibits were installed, no upright walls, & visitors get stuck by having no good routes in/out of display areas
marxopinium
By Daniel Liebeskind, master planner for the new World Trade Center. All of his buildings look like this.
sarahmfi
+1 for knowing the architect. You a fan of his?
Meh.
tsaroline
as a public historian, we talk all the time about how amazing this architectural change was for the museum and its image GO ROM!!
TheAutomaton
Nom nom nom
motherofmoose
This building was simultaneously voted one of the prettiest and ugliest buildings in Toronto a couple of years ago.
DiedAndHauntingImgur
The love/hate for this building confuses me.
torontolga
when it snows, sometimes the ROm's crazy triangles drop snow on random tourists. lol love the wintertime ROM
sandyliger
Once a week everyone is allowed to get drunk inside the ROM and discover history.
SuburbanRobotsThatMonitorReality
That sounds fun as fuck.
thewhitenite007
nom nom nom
snowflakesandreindeer
Group Projects
veeesix
LOL people are still complaining 7 years later? I'm glad we got it instead of another boring 4-walled building like the ones along the lake.
lhux
They have parties on Friday nights in this museum (this month) so you can drink around dinosaur bones. Nothing bad could happen...
DreamSifter
Architect Daniel Libeskind. His favorite design style is "Crystal Eating a Building"
kerisek
Looks like we're entering an assassin's creed memory
ImNotAsDumbAsIAm
Here's what it looks like from another angle: http://readingcities.com/images/uploads/ROM-Aerial-Shot.jpg
Seegrums
Is the second architect Megatron?
Nope. Daniel Liebeskind.
winnieandthepoo
#teamMegatron
orangemarmaladesky
http://imgur.com/te3fT2J
nickyaddrison
daniel libeskind in case you actually wondered
ImActuallyNotThatClever
It's absorbing the older building's power
MustBeThursday
But the ROM is amazing!
thebrownkid
Yay Toronto! The ROM is a great place to hang out, I think it is also free for university students on Tuesday. Great place to spend hours :
nonoowl
i like the dinosaur area
It's also a great place to BE LEFT ON A FIELD TRIP
LazerCats
Not anymore. It is discounted though.
lamarina
Yeah it is free on tuesday for students ! :)
upon hours in.
theonetruegod449
I WAS THERE TWO WEEKS AGO AND I SAW DINOSAUR BONES! Sorry, I'll stop yelling.
indref
I'VE ALSO BEEN THERE AND yeah wait we should stop, yeah.
arealapple
LOUD NOISES
SonOfTheShire
I WAS THERE TWO YEARS AGO AND I ALSO SAW DINOSAUR BONES!
ihaveacoffeemug
I WAS THERE TWELVE YEARS AGO AND IT DIDN'T LOOK LIKE THIS BUT I STILL SAW DINOSAUR BONES!
I WAS THERE SIXTY-FIVE MILLION YEARS AGO AND I SAW DINOSAUR BONES WEARING DINOSAUR SKIN!
AugustusScuirus
Skelton war camouflage
Flyndaran
Red Skelton was there? Damn, I knew he was old when I saw him on reruns, but wow.
1Rogue
It's like when the virtual world in Assassin's Creed starts to fall apart. Run OP, you're dying!
thefa11guy
Ever seen a film called Cube? All indoors in the film but this gives a good idea if it was set on a larger scale.
RobosaurusREX
THE DREAM IS CRASHING!
setsail
BWAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
sonOfAGlitch
Desynchronised!
FlamedLion
Should not have fraged all those civies after using the gold coin bomb...
DoDucHuy
Frag em and bag em amirite ?
justadudeonimgur
awwww yeah!
JosephCavera
Desynchronized
twinly92
I just picked up assassin's creed from a steam sale. Waiting for it to download
Cataleast
"Area not available in current memory."
MissRenegadeRabbit
This is the most accurate thing I've ever read.
OmegasParadox
His own fault. Well, maybe not those jerks were getting in the way.
ChuckNorrisAteMySock
No, if he was dying, it'd be red. This is the "end of sequence" animation.
Did it do that in the first one as well though? I don't remember, it's been a while
I don't think the first one did, but all of the Ezio games did.
iamnotacola
SPOILERS...
kvh96
it's not like Assassin's Creed Revelations came out almost 3 years ago or anything...
KaulumaKai
RIP 16.
you're un-syncing with your ancestor, the Anumis is crashing
SolidAqua
Malaka!
Rezol
Animus* You tried!
Aww I effed up, what a disgrace to call my self an AC fan who owns every PC Ac game ever
amatoantoni
Unity pls come out faster...
ReallyBigRocks
Unity pls don't be capped at 30 fps
plumpchicken
This is in Toronto, Canada FYI.
[deleted]
BubbleGuns
It is the Royal Ontario Museum...or ROM
Chazwozza
It's the Royal Ontario Museum.
unclefishbits
they would never allow this reinterpretation of historic footprint in the United States.
VCdasDe
It looks kind of like the building on the left has a fancy metallic tumor.
Hybris51129
Or like a clear white Tiberium crystal growth. Any C&C fans here?
kupiga
Eet's naht a tumah.
Akenatyl
Yes. My thoughts. Did you steal them?
guingalet
It's legit known as the tumor in Toronto.
Counterfit
I'm a tumor I'm a tumor I'm a tumor. I'm a tumor I'm a tumor I'm a tumor. I'm a tumor I'm a tumor I'm a tumor. Oh oh oh I'm a tumor.
I'm a tumor, I'm a TUMOR!
AUsernameNotTaken
That's basically what it is. No one wanted that... Thing attached to the Royal Ontario Museum. The museum was fine before, now it's ugly.
LetsWatchCartoons
Or maybe it is the old building that is the tumor! What a twist!
deathcab420
Ted Mosby meets SVEN
SkillzShot77
Ted Moseby, Architect
fab416
This comment is unproductive. PUSHUPS!
TheRicM
sickreferencebroyourreferencesareoutofcontroleveryoneknowsthat.gif
WhenTheMusicHitsIFeelNoPainAtAll
igotthatjoke.gif
UCanLookButUCantTouch
HAH XD
StillNotYouTube
I hate those guys.
JohnnyricoMC
Classic Schmosby...
That's to Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. The Decepticon part is called the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal and was added a few years ago. It 1
cutiepatootie
I've heard that because it is also slanted inside it gives employees back problems and they have to get treated (they walk on an angle).
The floors are still strait... n00b
TheRareCanadianWombat
As I read this I was anticipating "Bay" to follow Michael
Fotostatica
+1 for Decepticon
rockiesmagicnumber
I've been there! It's gorgeous! And the tour guides inform you countless times how stuff there was found in CANADA because CANADA CANADA
PolitelyBarking
I once went there on the way back from a Mexican Vacation in Winter. Didn't bring a coat. Never again.
Imgazorpazorpfuckingfieldbitch
is used to harness the poison from 5000 cattle. 2
backtobackpanicattack
Cool place. I visited when I was in North America a few years back.
JonesEnemaBagJones
I went there a few years ago and it's a really beautiful museum. Totally worth it.
It is really great, and it's free for students!
I totally flashed my student ID since I was still in college at the time. We went to the kid's area and tried on all the fake armor.
PanykFelidae
IS ABSOLUTELY ABHORRENT
ItsAlwaysTimeToDiddle
I actually think the big crystal part is really fucking cool.
chbarts
Michael Lee needs to wipe his chin. He's got crystal on it.
dealbreakerjones
+1 Decepticon part
houses the dinosaur exhibits 2
rgrasmus
I like dinosaurs!!
PurpleThomas
Not to mention, this kind of architecture (new meets old) is not uncommon in Ontario. We tend to build around "heritage" buildings.
fauxki
This looks less like building around and more like it is slowly devouring the old and trying to absorb its ancient strength.
wipethatfaceoffyourheadbitch
This is such an eyesore. Every time I walk by here I'm consumed with rage. Modern bullshit swallowing history. FUCK!
thefirstofhername
That's all of Toronto's architecture in a nut shell these passed few years :'(
DEADPOOLDEADPOOLDEADPOOLDEADPOOL
As someone born and raised in Canada and who has lived in Toronto, I completely agree!! This building is replant!!!!!!!!!
I like it. BALLS!
uradaisyifudo
Yeah, I keep scrolling back to it hoping maybe I'll like the idea more but I just don't like the way it looks.
strangecharmquark
It reminds me of the chem building at the college I go to, beautiful old building consumed by two 70's monstrosities.
waitbutactually
I know the feel, my school's the same. *cringe*
MaggiePie
Fellow D/T Torontonian: I love the crystal, it's incredible at night/sunset. I just miss the main atrium entrance :p
maybe separately i wouldn't mind it, i just don't like how it blends with the old facade.
To each their own, but I think it's a good representation of what the ROM is about: History and modern science
coatails
Something tells me you're a bit of a bitch
maybe. but seriously, look at it. LOOK AT IT!
TheWulfrunian
That's actually really awesome.
gingertaylor
No. It is not.
IMadeAnAccountJustToWriteThis
I actually dislike it. I think it clashes and detracts from the original building. It's basically like architectural attention-whoring.
CitizenDickbag
The original is a bland bit of Romanesque architecture you can find anywhere.
Toasterpops
Yeah because the unfinished cement inside is soooooo much better yeah>
Superfastsheep
The clash of styles is very harmonious.
GunArm
I respectfully think it sucks huge donkey balls.
llamacorn
it was supposed to be all glass, but they didn't account for the expanding/contraction of the glass with the temperature swings here. sigh.
It's really ugly and unfinished inside the new architecture. It's a real eyesore.
infomuffin
But so much wasted space!
avi8tor
TORONTO !
For many reasons, I have always wanted to visit as much of Canada as possible (I'm from England). One day I might have the funds! One day!
itsbre
Most of toronto is incredible to visit. Its bot so nice to live there, lot of traffic, and some places are dangerous, but its still gorgeous
Toronto is a great place to vist. Walking 20-30mins can put in you in vastly different neighbourhoods, there is always places to explore.
I will do it someday, I promise I will!
SweetBabyJesus
IDK... I kinda like it.
Sayingwhatyourethinking
Toronto!
hullabaloo70
Window washers nightmare
SirNoTouchingTheDogPlease
The ROM in Toronto, if you were wondering.
hulksmash1014
Roof was leaking before the exhibits were installed, no upright walls, & visitors get stuck by having no good routes in/out of display areas
marxopinium
By Daniel Liebeskind, master planner for the new World Trade Center. All of his buildings look like this.
sarahmfi
+1 for knowing the architect. You a fan of his?
marxopinium
Meh.
tsaroline
as a public historian, we talk all the time about how amazing this architectural change was for the museum and its image GO ROM!!
TheAutomaton
Nom nom nom
motherofmoose
This building was simultaneously voted one of the prettiest and ugliest buildings in Toronto a couple of years ago.
DiedAndHauntingImgur
The love/hate for this building confuses me.
torontolga
when it snows, sometimes the ROm's crazy triangles drop snow on random tourists. lol love the wintertime ROM
sandyliger
Once a week everyone is allowed to get drunk inside the ROM and discover history.
SuburbanRobotsThatMonitorReality
That sounds fun as fuck.
thewhitenite007
nom nom nom
snowflakesandreindeer
Group Projects
veeesix
LOL people are still complaining 7 years later? I'm glad we got it instead of another boring 4-walled building like the ones along the lake.
lhux
They have parties on Friday nights in this museum (this month) so you can drink around dinosaur bones. Nothing bad could happen...
DreamSifter
Architect Daniel Libeskind. His favorite design style is "Crystal Eating a Building"
kerisek
Looks like we're entering an assassin's creed memory
ImNotAsDumbAsIAm
Here's what it looks like from another angle: http://readingcities.com/images/uploads/ROM-Aerial-Shot.jpg
Seegrums
Is the second architect Megatron?
sarahmfi
Nope. Daniel Liebeskind.
winnieandthepoo
#teamMegatron
orangemarmaladesky
http://imgur.com/te3fT2J
nickyaddrison
daniel libeskind in case you actually wondered
ImActuallyNotThatClever
It's absorbing the older building's power
MustBeThursday
But the ROM is amazing!
thebrownkid
Yay Toronto! The ROM is a great place to hang out, I think it is also free for university students on Tuesday. Great place to spend hours :
nonoowl
i like the dinosaur area
DiedAndHauntingImgur
It's also a great place to BE LEFT ON A FIELD TRIP
LazerCats
Not anymore. It is discounted though.
lamarina
Yeah it is free on tuesday for students ! :)
thebrownkid
upon hours in.
theonetruegod449
I WAS THERE TWO WEEKS AGO AND I SAW DINOSAUR BONES! Sorry, I'll stop yelling.
indref
I'VE ALSO BEEN THERE AND yeah wait we should stop, yeah.
arealapple
LOUD NOISES
SonOfTheShire
I WAS THERE TWO YEARS AGO AND I ALSO SAW DINOSAUR BONES!
ihaveacoffeemug
I WAS THERE TWELVE YEARS AGO AND IT DIDN'T LOOK LIKE THIS BUT I STILL SAW DINOSAUR BONES!
SonOfTheShire
I WAS THERE SIXTY-FIVE MILLION YEARS AGO AND I SAW DINOSAUR BONES WEARING DINOSAUR SKIN!
AugustusScuirus
Skelton war camouflage
Flyndaran
Red Skelton was there? Damn, I knew he was old when I saw him on reruns, but wow.
1Rogue
It's like when the virtual world in Assassin's Creed starts to fall apart. Run OP, you're dying!
thefa11guy
Ever seen a film called Cube? All indoors in the film but this gives a good idea if it was set on a larger scale.
RobosaurusREX
THE DREAM IS CRASHING!
setsail
BWAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
sonOfAGlitch
Desynchronised!
FlamedLion
Should not have fraged all those civies after using the gold coin bomb...
DoDucHuy
Frag em and bag em amirite ?
justadudeonimgur
awwww yeah!
JosephCavera
Desynchronized
twinly92
I just picked up assassin's creed from a steam sale. Waiting for it to download
Cataleast
"Area not available in current memory."
MissRenegadeRabbit
This is the most accurate thing I've ever read.
OmegasParadox
His own fault. Well, maybe not those jerks were getting in the way.
ChuckNorrisAteMySock
No, if he was dying, it'd be red. This is the "end of sequence" animation.
1Rogue
Did it do that in the first one as well though? I don't remember, it's been a while
ChuckNorrisAteMySock
I don't think the first one did, but all of the Ezio games did.
iamnotacola
SPOILERS...
kvh96
it's not like Assassin's Creed Revelations came out almost 3 years ago or anything...
KaulumaKai
RIP 16.
DoDucHuy
you're un-syncing with your ancestor, the Anumis is crashing
SolidAqua
Malaka!
Rezol
Animus* You tried!
DoDucHuy
Aww I effed up, what a disgrace to call my self an AC fan who owns every PC Ac game ever
amatoantoni
Unity pls come out faster...
ReallyBigRocks
Unity pls don't be capped at 30 fps
plumpchicken
This is in Toronto, Canada FYI.
[deleted]
[deleted]
BubbleGuns
It is the Royal Ontario Museum...or ROM
Chazwozza
It's the Royal Ontario Museum.
unclefishbits
they would never allow this reinterpretation of historic footprint in the United States.
VCdasDe
It looks kind of like the building on the left has a fancy metallic tumor.
Hybris51129
Or like a clear white Tiberium crystal growth. Any C&C fans here?
kupiga
Eet's naht a tumah.
Akenatyl
Yes. My thoughts. Did you steal them?
guingalet
It's legit known as the tumor in Toronto.
Counterfit
I'm a tumor I'm a tumor I'm a tumor. I'm a tumor I'm a tumor I'm a tumor. I'm a tumor I'm a tumor I'm a tumor. Oh oh oh I'm a tumor.
SuburbanRobotsThatMonitorReality
I'm a tumor, I'm a TUMOR!
AUsernameNotTaken
That's basically what it is. No one wanted that... Thing attached to the Royal Ontario Museum. The museum was fine before, now it's ugly.
LetsWatchCartoons
Or maybe it is the old building that is the tumor! What a twist!
deathcab420
Ted Mosby meets SVEN
SkillzShot77
Ted Moseby, Architect
fab416
This comment is unproductive. PUSHUPS!
TheRicM
sickreferencebroyourreferencesareoutofcontroleveryoneknowsthat.gif
WhenTheMusicHitsIFeelNoPainAtAll
igotthatjoke.gif
UCanLookButUCantTouch
HAH XD
StillNotYouTube
I hate those guys.
JohnnyricoMC
Classic Schmosby...
ImNotAsDumbAsIAm
That's to Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. The Decepticon part is called the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal and was added a few years ago. It 1
cutiepatootie
I've heard that because it is also slanted inside it gives employees back problems and they have to get treated (they walk on an angle).
LazerCats
The floors are still strait... n00b
TheRareCanadianWombat
As I read this I was anticipating "Bay" to follow Michael
Fotostatica
+1 for Decepticon
rockiesmagicnumber
I've been there! It's gorgeous! And the tour guides inform you countless times how stuff there was found in CANADA because CANADA CANADA
PolitelyBarking
I once went there on the way back from a Mexican Vacation in Winter. Didn't bring a coat. Never again.
Imgazorpazorpfuckingfieldbitch
is used to harness the poison from 5000 cattle. 2
backtobackpanicattack
Cool place. I visited when I was in North America a few years back.
JonesEnemaBagJones
I went there a few years ago and it's a really beautiful museum. Totally worth it.
ImNotAsDumbAsIAm
It is really great, and it's free for students!
JonesEnemaBagJones
I totally flashed my student ID since I was still in college at the time. We went to the kid's area and tried on all the fake armor.
PanykFelidae
IS ABSOLUTELY ABHORRENT
ItsAlwaysTimeToDiddle
I actually think the big crystal part is really fucking cool.
chbarts
Michael Lee needs to wipe his chin. He's got crystal on it.
dealbreakerjones
+1 Decepticon part
ImNotAsDumbAsIAm
houses the dinosaur exhibits 2
rgrasmus
I like dinosaurs!!
PurpleThomas
Not to mention, this kind of architecture (new meets old) is not uncommon in Ontario. We tend to build around "heritage" buildings.
[deleted]
[deleted]
fauxki
This looks less like building around and more like it is slowly devouring the old and trying to absorb its ancient strength.
wipethatfaceoffyourheadbitch
This is such an eyesore. Every time I walk by here I'm consumed with rage. Modern bullshit swallowing history. FUCK!
thefirstofhername
That's all of Toronto's architecture in a nut shell these passed few years :'(
DEADPOOLDEADPOOLDEADPOOLDEADPOOL
As someone born and raised in Canada and who has lived in Toronto, I completely agree!! This building is replant!!!!!!!!!
backtobackpanicattack
I like it. BALLS!
uradaisyifudo
Yeah, I keep scrolling back to it hoping maybe I'll like the idea more but I just don't like the way it looks.
strangecharmquark
It reminds me of the chem building at the college I go to, beautiful old building consumed by two 70's monstrosities.
waitbutactually
I know the feel, my school's the same. *cringe*
MaggiePie
Fellow D/T Torontonian: I love the crystal, it's incredible at night/sunset. I just miss the main atrium entrance :p
wipethatfaceoffyourheadbitch
maybe separately i wouldn't mind it, i just don't like how it blends with the old facade.
MaggiePie
To each their own, but I think it's a good representation of what the ROM is about: History and modern science
coatails
Something tells me you're a bit of a bitch
wipethatfaceoffyourheadbitch
maybe. but seriously, look at it. LOOK AT IT!
TheWulfrunian
That's actually really awesome.
gingertaylor
No. It is not.
IMadeAnAccountJustToWriteThis
I actually dislike it. I think it clashes and detracts from the original building. It's basically like architectural attention-whoring.
CitizenDickbag
The original is a bland bit of Romanesque architecture you can find anywhere.
Toasterpops
Yeah because the unfinished cement inside is soooooo much better yeah>
Superfastsheep
The clash of styles is very harmonious.
GunArm
I respectfully think it sucks huge donkey balls.
llamacorn
it was supposed to be all glass, but they didn't account for the expanding/contraction of the glass with the temperature swings here. sigh.
Toasterpops
It's really ugly and unfinished inside the new architecture. It's a real eyesore.
infomuffin
But so much wasted space!
avi8tor
TORONTO !
TheWulfrunian
For many reasons, I have always wanted to visit as much of Canada as possible (I'm from England). One day I might have the funds! One day!
itsbre
Most of toronto is incredible to visit. Its bot so nice to live there, lot of traffic, and some places are dangerous, but its still gorgeous
thebrownkid
Toronto is a great place to vist. Walking 20-30mins can put in you in vastly different neighbourhoods, there is always places to explore.
TheWulfrunian
I will do it someday, I promise I will!