Art nouveau (House, Rue du Lac) Bruxelles

#Art #Architecture #Fensterfreitag

@cmconseils they don’t build them like this anymore. A shame.
@schoedland @cmconseils Pretty sure they never built them like this.

@foyglgezang @schoedland @cmconseils

That’s what I came to say. I am very curious how an AI invention like this comes to be posted with a specific street in a specific city… how did it acquire that? who was deceitful? or was it some kind of top level ignorance? 🤷‍♂️

@DavidM_yeg @schoedland @cmconseils The building does exist in that street. It is assumed to have been built by Léon Delune around the turn of the century. Likely something too disturbingly real like parking cars was badly shopped out of the lower part of the photo.

@cmconseils @foyglgezang @schoedland

👍 But of course now I don’t know how much of the rest of the image can be trusted 😞

@foyglgezang @DavidM_yeg @schoedland @cmconseils Hi. I’m a bicycle advocate and an urbanist. Most streets in most cities would be much better with wider sidewalks, fewer cars and 30 km/h speed limits. Aesthetics would be only one of the many benefits.

@cmconseils @foyglgezang @schoedland

Huh… it does exist. But doesn’t look like that in my Google drive-by with 16 yr old images. The distortions in the OP still reek of AI though, perhaps someone tried to ‘improve’ on it?

@DavidM_yeg @cmconseils @foyglgezang @schoedland My guess is that there were cars parked in front, and someone used a "magic edit" tool on their phone to remove them. The rest of the image doesn't have anything wrong with it (at a glance).
@GrandTheftUrkel @DavidM_yeg @cmconseils @foyglgezang @schoedland I think you're right with the cars, but there's a slight difference of the flower in the right door window as welll. Might have been broken and repaired in the meantime though, but I doubt it, as it probably would have to be repaired exactly the way it was before. To me it looks over-shopped with AI-tools.

@GrandTheftUrkel @foyglgezang @effdeekaa @cmconseils @schoedland

Looking at in-door windows, they are both different… I suspect the intervening renovations may have included new glass. In the older photo, the door windows don’t match the others very well, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were already not-quite-true replacements, and that the renos included commissioning new ones based on the original design… ?

@DavidM_yeg @GrandTheftUrkel @foyglgezang @cmconseils @schoedland Yeah, I guess you're right, the replaced in-door windows seem to be legit, not AI.

@effdeekaa @DavidM_yeg @foyglgezang @cmconseils @schoedland I must say, I really resent that we can no longer simply enjoy images for what they are, thanks to AI 😔

You could've said the same about Photoshop 20 years ago, but deepfakes and generative AI are on another level of deceptive that I think the reactions we're seeing this thread are justified.

I'll also say, this is a really cool house, and I'm happy to have seen it, OP!

@effdeekaa @GrandTheftUrkel @schoedland @cmconseils @foyglgezang

Yes, I agree wholeheartedly on all counts… definitely a very cool house!

@schoedland @cmconseils

It's wonky. It's ai.

edit: turns out it's real but the lower quadrant was badly edited.
Should have mentioned that somewhere in the alt text at least.

@Sassinake @schoedland @cmconseils It does indeed look like it. Sad, because that design would be cool in real life.
@michaelgemar The building definitely exists but yeah the image is edited or something. After some effort because I didn't know the details (and missed the other person who mentioned the architect!) - it is by Ernest Delune.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterner's_Studio
Sterner's Studio - Wikipedia

@krnlg Thanks for all the research! That’s really cool!

@cmconseils

Thank you for the photo, that's absolutely stunning!

@cmconseils used to live just down the street, amazing house.

@cmconseils That is Sterner's Studio - a glassmaker studio from early turn of the century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterner%27s_Studio

Sterner's Studio - Wikipedia

@cmconseils it doesn't look like that. Source: https://magazine.culturius.com/rue-du-lac-n6-focus-sur-une-des-plus-belles-facades-art-nouveau-de-bruxelles/

This image is AI slop. Look at the uneven door jamb- you couldn't open that door. And look at the total mess of jumbled shapes in the lower right that looks like the whole window is melting. Please use common sense!

Rue du Lac n°6 : focus sur une des plus belles façades Art Nouveau de Bruxelles - Culturius

Construite en 1902 par l’architecte belge Ernest Delune, la maison d’habitation Art Nouveau au n°6 Rue du Lac sait retenir l’attention.

Culturius
@cmconseils
Hehe c'était trop cool a visiter celle ci pendant les études