https://goo.gl/skBVo1 

https://www.atf.gov/arson/atf-fire-research-laboratory-gasoline-flame-jetting-videos 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/E50S2tIMvfUMX6Hn1 

 

Ahhh. That's The Quake Level Design Handbook by Matt Tagliaferri. I've had it since it came out in '97. Came with a CD with QED and all of the tutorial maps were in QED's proprietary format. I tried to install the editor not too long ago and failed I'll have to try this file from Quaddicted. The wads they used for the levels were god-awful but overall it was a great reference when I started out. The editor was pretty good at the time.

The book on Amazon

There's probably a digital version out there somewhere. 

https://imgur.com/gallery/QIh82 

https://twitter.com/David_Rudnick/status/909073462253236224 

http://themindcircle.com/forgotten-housing-future-paris/ 

Nice find, Zwiffle. It's always interesting to see what "futuristic" looked like for designers of the past.

About the Zeit-something, interiors look very cool but the exterior shot makes me wanna barf. 

https://i.imgur.com/x3LqTQz.jpg 

Orava Castle, is situated on a high rock above the Orava river in Slovakia. The castle was built in the Kingdom of Hungary in the thirteenth century.
Orava Castle was owned by many aristocrats, county heads and noblemen, protecting important road to Poland and serving as an administrative and military centre for the region

Here's the full castle from a distance
https://i.imgur.com/7oOVxB2.jpg 

Just outside of Tbilisi, Georgia, the European country you'll find the Zhinvali Dam and Reservoir. It was completed in 1986, several years before the fall of the Soviet Union.
At the dam head there is a huge and rather strange monument to celebrate the event which consists of an enormous slab of concrete with figures embossed on it and enormous steel spikes.

https://i.imgur.com/KxCMUXg.jpg
https://imgur.com/a/oqjsV 

#4002 Nice!

#4004 Wow! Very quakey. There's a lot of strikingly odd monuments from the soviet era but I didn't know this one. 

http://news.sky.com/video/beauty-of-westminster-abbey-revealed-by-drone-11064006 

https://imgur.com/gallery/cGHmk 

https://i.imgur.com/jwTMTup.jpg 

It's a little uncanny. 

The art of jean-pierre ugarte

https://goo.gl/BNFd9R 

cool find 

.... that most of the images people post here are of giant imposing structures. All fine and good. I love this.

But when I make some giant imposing structures in a map my scale is all "wrong" and my map needs to be "smaller, tighter."

8-{ 

Brutalism is very difficult to do well dumptruck. Brutalist architects often face similar criticism. It usually goes wrong when a designer only thinks about their product in terms of overall scale (i.e. they just make shit big), because good Brutalism is more "complex maths" than just "big numbers". 

You don't make "some giant imposing structures", your whole maps are giant. 

I'm not attempting Brutalism in my maps. Would love to some day. OTP fair enough.