I swear there were like 3 guys in the 60s or something that loved brutalism so much that they spent the next few years going to major cities to convince mayors to build the ugliest, most ghastly buildings that would remain as eyesores for decades to come.
Well the right hotel looks pretty decent, although seeing just bare concrete makes me want to indulge in suspicously cheap vodka and intoxicate myself for my entire life + depression.
It has it’s weird charm, like looking back to the awful past of the USSR. These are a great reminder for us eastern europeans to never ever let another communist regime to power.
Maybe I would love the brutalism’s uniqueness but this stigma is coming strong with me unfortunately.
For me personally that looks very interesting if that’s the right word, it pikes my curiousity, but it evokes a very uneasy feeling which would make me want to leave rather than hang around this area.
Kind of “nothing is allowed here if it’s not with explicit purpose”
It’s kinda okay, but some cheap white (or any other color!) paint would absolutely be an improvement in my eyes. I’ve yet to see an example (and at this point I don’t think there is any), where paint over otherwise okay brutalist architecture would improve things. Bare Concrete is just an ugly and unfinished look.
Where I live there was a period in the 80s where people got obsessed with ‘roughcast’ and decided to start covering their houses with sharp rocks. I’d be scared of falling against them while drunk and tearing my face open.
There’s a building in my hometown with this stuff. I have vivid memories of scraping against it on my bike. Over 20 years later my heart still jumps if I pass this dreaded material
I swear there were like 3 guys in the 60s or something that loved brutalism so much that they spent the next few years going to major cities to convince mayors to build the ugliest, most ghastly buildings that would remain as eyesores for decades to come.
Brutalised architecture absolutely slaps when done right
Well the right hotel looks pretty decent, although seeing just bare concrete makes me want to indulge in suspicously cheap vodka and intoxicate myself for my entire life + depression.
It has it’s weird charm, like looking back to the awful past of the USSR. These are a great reminder for us eastern europeans to never ever let another communist regime to power.
Maybe I would love the brutalism’s uniqueness but this stigma is coming strong with me unfortunately.
Looks like the Barbican in London to me, it’s apartments and a public bar/drinking/working area, nice spot to hang out!
Brutalism has absolutely grown on me with age
For me personally that looks very interesting if that’s the right word, it pikes my curiousity, but it evokes a very uneasy feeling which would make me want to leave rather than hang around this area.
Kind of “nothing is allowed here if it’s not with explicit purpose”
This looks like something out of Mass Effect.
It’s kinda okay, but some cheap white (or any other color!) paint would absolutely be an improvement in my eyes. I’ve yet to see an example (and at this point I don’t think there is any), where paint over otherwise okay brutalist architecture would improve things. Bare Concrete is just an ugly and unfinished look.
Beats black box urbanism. (But I might be misremembering the name of the style lol.)
Where I live there was a period in the 80s where people got obsessed with ‘roughcast’ and decided to start covering their houses with sharp rocks. I’d be scared of falling against them while drunk and tearing my face open.
Eh that doesn’t look so bad.
Pebble dash can fuck off
That must be a nightmare to keep clean.
There’s a building in my hometown with this stuff. I have vivid memories of scraping against it on my bike. Over 20 years later my heart still jumps if I pass this dreaded material
only so much you can do when everything else has already been done…
It’s time for Solarpunk architecture.