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FEMA's Brooke Road Facility (BRF - "the barf") is quite the eye sore [1]. Luckily it's not in a super visible/residential area, but I always found it depressing
by dewyatt 10y ago
FEMA's Brooke Road Facility (BRF - "the barf") is quite the eye sore [1]. Luckily it's not in a super visible/residential area, but I always found it depressing that people actually work there.
The outside is bad enough, but the inside is even worse. They're all stuffed into cubicles, no windows that I recall, dirty/decrepit bathroom, just a depressing place overall, hard to explain.
[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1989182,-78.1524764,3a,75y,111.34h,87.31t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sq-4pH3muktEMb0sl1J7dwg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1 https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1989182,-78.1524764,3a,75y,1...
- Xophmeister 10y agoIt looks like someone welded some shipping containers together in a car park.
- david-given 10y agoThat's doing shipping containers a disservice --- you can make some quite interesting structures by welding shipping containers together: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02210/CONTAINERCITY_2210000b.jpg http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02210/CONTAINERC... Making something as awful as the Brooke Road Facility takes real skill and a lot of work.
- vonmoltke 10y agoIt's tilt-wall construction, made with pre-stressed concrete slabs. Pretty common for heavy commercial/light industrial construction and all function, no form.