Soulless apartment buildings and planned uniform communities...Where all houses look the same and have the same color. Please discuss.
Will not rly matter post VR revolution
So we're discussing UN Agenda 21?
>>74899850
Urban planner here.
Cities regulate too much. Also part of the problem is that developers build this shit to sell it to investors later. They don't care beyond 5 years out
>>74900034
I meant to say, Americans are being herded like sheep into uniform, crowded Stalinesque apartment buildings and planned communities. I hardly think it's a coincidence. Meanwhile our best houses are being sold to Chinese millionaires for investment only.
>>74900143
Hey urban planner why are all the new houses in Los Angeles ugly white stucco boxes.
>>74900112
Yes agenda 21. No new desirable housing seems to be built any more. Either ugly communist buildings or planned communities or ugly modern box shaped houses. Something is afoot.
>>74900443
Part of the idea behind the big window craze is to pander to the youth craze of being exposed. You know, the youth that likes to send pictures of each other taking their clothes off and masturbating in their free time.
>>74899850
That's living the dream in Colombia
>>74899850
Rural North Carolina here.
Join us in the promised land.
Own a house.
Own land.
Own guns.
Be free.
>>74899850
are you fucking serious?!
>dat cute as fuck building
>souless
GET ON MY LEVEL.
>>74901262
>>74901350
>>74901262
This guy is right OP. That building is dank. I have one of those near me and its fucking comfy as hell because there's a library right across the street and a subway right in the building.
>>74901262
>>74901350
>>74901423
>>74901460
What are the people who live in there like? Are there pretty girls at least?
>>74899850
I like lots of tall and messy buldings
Make me remember cyberpunk
>pic related
anybody out here in california noticing these developing at lightning speed as well?
These things are popping up like wildfire from freeway projects especially the sr91
>>74901262
>>74901350
Why does everything in Russia look gloomy and grey?
>>74901480
>>74901663
That's the entire idea. It traps the youth into perceived economic viability and comfort.
Google did the same thing near where I live in order to kick out the niggers and import the chinks. I thought Google was supposed to be about hiring smart people, but apparently not. It's all about the bennies.
>>74901611
>Are there pretty girls at least?
sure
>>74901460
No wonder you older rusian cunts come to canary islands so much
>>74901718
because its in our mind. back in CCCP russia was simple and straight as a block.
it...didn't worked actually.
at the end people got fucked by that socium and became depressive
>>74901833
Don't lie Vladimir, Russia has a fuck ton of beautiful women.
>>74901718
post war buildings
losing over 20 million of mostly military aged men will fuck your infrastructure planning up
>>74900306
Dunno man, I don't work in California. Never would either
>>74901262
Dude.. what are those smaller houses between blocks? I live in similar block, in better condition and renovated though, so it doesnt look that grim, but still.
>>74900143
Construction fag here.
The quality of new construction is terrible. These hip looking 'luxury' condos are built to a lower standard than low income housing projects from the 80s.
>>74901944
Ok Rudolph. (or whatever the fuck is meme-name of Canada)
>>74901903
I love your block buildings. Love me some concrete and iron/steel.
>>74902068
>Dude.. what are those smaller houses between blocks?
Probably some social/goverment building like school or some shit like that.
>Latvia
oh shit..yeah., i know. Latvia, Poland, Estonia - all have the same style of souless commieblocks
>>74900443
once people say OK live in the City they are easily pulled into hard core gun control laws and reparation level taxation.
>>74902198
>be american
>had a good big meal with tasty pizza/hamburger/super neat dorito/nachos whatever else
>live in a comfy FUCKING ENTIRE HOUSE with your family where you have a bigass room just for you (in russia an entire family would live in that room)
>oh Vladimir i like ur style! :D
>only concrete and iron! not some gay shit amirite? :D
s-sure...
>>74901350
True public housing is more akin to communist construction than modern gentrification developments.
>>74899850
Looks good. Better than commie blocks.
Although I can't help but shudder at the thought that it will look dated in the future.
>>74902553
>there is a difference between communism and gentrification
American Education, everybody.
>>74900951
>Live in tropical country where cocaine literally grows outside
>wants to live in cramped shitty apartment
>>74902399
Don't get us wrong, we realize your apartment blocks look soulless, we just like that its honest about it in the design
>>74902553
>>74902198
Watch this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb5RIGnu-jQ
>>74902256
Ye, autumns and winters are the worst months. It was easier when I was working in Tyumen, becuz shit was so brutal and it was too cold to think about suicide.
>>74902081
I'd believe it
>>74901903
I'm going to pretend there is a drunken Slav sitting on that swing.
I heard /pol/ likes religion, right? :^)
>>74901718
Because it's late autumn.
>>74902081
My mother-in-law has a condo in a building similar to that in Bostom. $2,400 a month and all the fixtures, and entire kitchen are IKEA products.
>>74899850
Literally every new low rise apartment or house in Toronto looks like this it pisses me off and every single high rise is just a blue box
They exist only to be demolished..
>>74902132
It's Wu.
>>74901833
depressing
>>74903563
I'm in Broomfield, CO at the Aloft. Someone please fucking shoot me.
>>74903411
Why is red brick so comfy
>>74902399
I thought Russians lived in the commieblocks for the work week but went back to cozy countryside dachas for the weekend?
>>74901423
Looks like Vancouver desu
>>74903850
Sandstone is the true comfy master race.
>>74903919
wew lad no they have a five day workweek to keep the factories running 24/7 which failed because it made neighbors unable to spend time with each other.
They go for vacations to dedicated vacation cities. Yeah, that one worked really well, too.
>>74903919
>thought Russians lived in the commieblocks for the work week but went back to cozy countryside dachas for the weekend?
dude WAT.
W H A T
H
A
T
Commieblocks were built back then for working people of russia. To stick them into those boxes like sardini into tin can.
More people stuck in 1 box - better = more work force for russia.
Such shit like your picture is from 19-20 century. Nowadays only 90y/o people live in those somewhere faraway in the village.
Post Modern and Deconstructive architecture was a mistake
>>74904201
wut, my family has a nice dacha. Huge comfy garden
>>74904297
Ah, so you're in the party?
>>74904136
Yeah, bath looks like how I imagine a typical English town would look. We don't really have that here though it's mostly brick
>>74899850
>Geometry is soulless.
Fuck you, buddy.
Real estate agent here. They do this as a marketing thing. Nobody wants to pay for a quality house anymore. They build shot and call it "modern" and people eat it up. Also Jews made real estate super expensive so that ties in too. And by Jews I mean Chinese.
>>74904600
good goy
>>74899850
I think modern architecture is a step-up from the commie-block style buildings I see over here, but I would really like to see actual craft back in architecture where pleasant looking architectural features are common and impressive as they once were. Modern architecture really just feels like it is in the same vein as modern art where it is a "reaction" to traditionalist values that just looks like an excuse to put less time, money and effort into making a building yet also calling it revolutionary in design and anyone critical of it guilty of "not getting it".
Opinion polls have consistently shown that people prefer traditional architecture over modern architecture, so there is clearly a disconnect between the public and people who design the buildings they have to look at every day, so I think it's either that architects just want to be paid more for doing less or it's an "emporer's clothes" situation. I hope that one day sense will return to these fields so that aesthetically pleasing buildings and artwork can be built and celebrated rather than having to look to the work of my ancestors to not be embarrassed over the cultural output of my fellow contemporaries.
>>74899850
That looks like a luxury condo. Thats not even close to a souless apartment building.
>>74904655
And they make them smaller and smaller, my 100 square foot apartment is 900 a month, a condo half that's like 400 square foot would cost half a million, and then your all glass wall will fall out
>>74904655
this man is kind of hot.
saved
>>74904839
Nah it's garbage there's like a 100 of those here if it's some quick and cheap 6 story condo thats being built they all look like that
>>74905049
Why the hell do you have gay porn?
>>74905141
Because he is gay?
>>74904549
Most of the buildings here that are nice are completely illegal to construct now because of zoning regulations, minimum parking requirements. setback regulations... it's a socialist fucking nightmare in land-use policy people.
>>74905233
Gross
>>74905274
Some condos are going up downtown that won't have any parking, they're just building over all the parking lots now too and it's impossible to find any parking anywhere anymore
>>74905274
Government regulations and federal housing rules means we only get either detached single-family houses or big shitty towers, but nothing in between.
>>74900443
its weird its almost as if people follow trends
>>74905401
>can't have underground parking
wut
Are the developers just too cheap to dig deeper?
>>74904216
That's too bad. You guys have the most land in the world and cheap energy from natural gas. No need for these concrete tombs anymore. Embrace the coziness.
>>74904600
Slapped together glass and concrete boxes with a few bits of painted wood tacked on must be destroyed.
>>74905471
For a long time we just got high rises, so many 50 storey buildings even one condo that's like 70 floors or something. Things are slowing down now and they're building mostly mid rises from what I've seen
>>74905539
For one building specifically they're preserving a historic building and it's being built right next door to the eaton centre. It's going to have bicycle parking. But I think they're just being cheap and tying to appeal to hipsters with the bicycle parking
>>74905539
Exactly--it's simple economics. Land is scarce, parking uses land, so we should make it compete for land with everything else. If parking is really so valuable developers will supply it. Using gub'ment to force developers to include it makes no fucking sense, and it means we can't build cool ye olde neighborhoods that everyone loves.
>>74905141
>Why the hell do you have gay porn?
Oh that?
im not gay. i just have few gigabytes of gay pictures to be sure to have something to troll normies on facebook. :^)
>muh house looks the same as everyone elses!
What are you, a fucking art student faggot or something? Who gives a shit as long as you have a comfy roof over your head?
If it really bothers you that much just toss a coat of paint on it and do some landscaping.
>>74905962
That's pretty disgusting
>>74906401
>being this of a normiefag
get out
>>74899850
I don't mind, I admire the convenience.
>>74906435
Being a normie means you're a bisexual liberal sadly
>>74901262
>>74901350
>>74901423
>>74901460
it's just like my stalker games
This thread satisfies my autism.
The world needs efficiency not creativity.
>>74906510
>I don't mind
These huge new projects will never look as good as they do now--in 50 years they'll be shit. That's why small-scale developments tend to be better; they can replace buildings and upgrade to it all fresh.
>>74899850
new suburbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs
>>74903919
this is true. most russians are wealthy and only pretend to be poor online using old photos from commie era
>>74904136
Dem black soot stains on sandstone are just the best
By the way,the souless degenerate Alejandro Aravena won this year's Pritzker Architectural Prize with an astounding collection of malformed burtalist trash:
http://www.pritzkerprize.com/2016/works
Now that he is an "Award Winning Architect", his shit will soon be defacing your city's skyline.
>>74905141
because he is russian
>>74902399
Even the playground where you are supposed to have fun looks sad.
Russia, a-are you okay? Do you want some milk and cookies?
>>74907520
that looks like some design abortion from the 70's. those windows probably don't even open.
>>74907520
This building makes me want to oppress the people for their own good.
>>74907647
>Russia, a-are you okay? Do you want some milk and cookies?
th-thanks US. Not sure if i can afford it tho
>>74899850
This is what happens in a welfare state when the poor breed to ad infinitum
< this is how you do it
>>74904806
As an aspiring hopeful architect, it's true that architect's taste generally differ greatly from the general public.
That being said it's common knowledge that the general public are fucking imbeciles. Modernism was actually pretty much on it's way out by the middle of the 20th century, and what you see now is more or less contemporary architecture.
Architect's taste may differ, and I postulate here, because "traditional" architecture is fucking boring. And I don't mean traditional in reference to the classic gabled roof type houses you have seen since colonial America, I mean traditional in shit-tier, low quality housing. Many architects really find houses from the early 20th century fun to look at because the craftsmanship and skill tended to be higher and emulated high quality construction. I'd wager you will find most architects can really appreciate a wide variety of styles, from colonial traditional to full on Mies Van der Rohe as long as the effort is evident.
What you see in the OP image is the urban equivalent of mass produced suburban housing. It's ironic you tout traditional architecture as some high and mighty pedestal, when in fact it's probably just as shit as what you see in the OP image.
In fact, I'd be willing to bet the OP image has a 1 - up on your traditional architecture in terms of function because it doesn't try to fake some style from yesteryear, and instead gets the job done pragmatically and efficiently. Build the shit quickly, get the people in, save space, and don't try to wear some old style like a superficial phony charade. Form follows function, newfriend.
Honestly, I think architecture has gotten a lot better in the last decade or so. Sure, it's not a patch on older stuff but at least brutalism is dead. The horrible dark-grey concrete blocks dotted around UK cities give me eye cancer.
>>74908041
Looks great.
>>74908092
this is fucking awesome. all you need a goddamn sharp object and its pretty much done.
Even in those le-open world videogames it more complicated
>>74907876
Where are the windows? Is this an office building for robots?
![45_1303766_0_1435516818_636x435[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/3NberAk.jpg "45_1303766_0_1435516818_636x435[1].jpg")
>grow up in foresty neighborhood (pic is a house from the neighborhood, not mine)
>feel a weird sense of emptiness when in tract housing neighborhoods
>>74902081
Could you explain? I don't know shit about construction but this sounds interesting.
>>74908065
A fuckton of government regulations make it so people can't build new buildings most places unless it includes subsidized housing for poor people and minorities. When they can build it ends up being huge and shitty and soulless.
>>74902081
Are there any well made houses still being built? And where?
>>74908203
Architects have shit taste
"The public" has more common sense and taste than you fucking faggots
Also commie blocks are comfy as fuck, stop trashing my STALKER-tier level of immersion buildings you goddamn turbonormies
>>74900760
To be fair, lots of sunlight is pretty tight, though it's pretty bad for insulation.
>>74908395
At least in the UK most of the government-made housing is very high quality, it's bare-bones with exposed pipes and such but it is high quality. There are two main reasons for this:
>they're being built with government money. Who cares about the bottom line?
>shittily-made housing will just rack up massive repair bills later for the government. It's cheaper in the long run to make them work well.
On the other hand, once a construction company sells a property, it's no longer their concern. Hence they make it look good but skimp on materials to maximise profits.
>>74908092
this kid did in one afternoon what thousands of years of African civilization still has trouble mastering
>>74902081
My university just built a new building at the begining of the spring semester and it is already looking worn down. Its like the whole building was made by ikea.
>>74908395
No, fuck living under a tree. Fuck it. I had three big-ass oak trees around my childhood home they would shit so many oak leaves into our yard that it smothered our lawn come springtime and we'd have to constantly use a mower to suck it all up. Not to mention all the shit they drop on your car if you have to park under one. I don't care if it's aesthetically pleasing, I'd never buy a house surrounded by a shitload of trees.
>>74908597
The majority of architects are well aware of what style is necessary to appease the public. You will find the majority of them can appreciate any Renaissance or Classical architecture that many people enjoy.
But thanks for bringing up a lot of good points and not just throwing a list of popular buzzwords.
i love trees
>tfw bunking with this russian bard in a soviet commie block
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozYao1Mju7A
>>74908927
>>74909073
stop ruining my hopes and dream Vlad the implier
>>74908397
I think that's it, government requires at least twelve percent of the units be low income set asides. So.the builder skills on materials and design.
>>74899850
"Growth for the sake of growth, is the ideology of cancer"
>>74909282
Skimps not skills
>>74909282
>tfw terminal with 1-3 weeks left to live
how hard actually is it to build decent, affordable housing for the underclass? All i see built nowadays is for the middle to high income segment.
>>74909243
s-sorry Jim. we actually do have the big amount of girls from this >>74908927 video.
In fact...they are so common we mostly love American and Asian (those unnaturally cute japanese ones) girls because that type is too "boring".
Grass is always greener on the other side.
Your women associate with hollywood/happy and rich life.
![Industrial-Chicken-Coop[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/2Z00dKG.jpg "Industrial-Chicken-Coop[1].jpg")
Architectural Engineer here.
Fucking live in a house or don't be a baby millennial. The free market puts these stupid fucking sheep in boxes like a chicken coop lol.
>>74909568
Because there is no lack of housing
Only people with a decent amount of money can buy a new house. Underclass are left with what exists IE the old commie blocks or other goverment projects
pretty hyped I am not poor
>>74900760
I love floor-to-ceiling windows, as long as they're not aimed retarded. They're comfy.
>>74909568
In the US it's incredibly difficult. Zoning, minimum parking rules, federal mortgage standards and many other regulations mean building small lower-quality housing that's profitable is essentially impossible. Developers sensibly build high-end stuff. Liberal cucks force more laws and regulations to force more housing for poor folk, making the problem worse.
>>74908203
That's great and all, but one of a buildings functions is to look good and if people don't think it looks good, then it isn't doing part of its job.
I don't doubt that most of the "traditional" buildings were just shitty buildings that were knocked together and destroyed without anyone really caring, and architecture has gotten better recently than the concrete commie-blocks you can see all over this country, but I'm more talking about nice architectural features that seem to be neglected in modern buildings, even simple stuff like patterned brickwork or architectural reliefs I rarely see, if mostly becasue the exterior of everything is just made out of glass and steel, which is probably cheaper but it is just so boring to look at and leaves no apparent craftsmanship or skill to behold. Compare stuff like town halls built over 100 years ago to ones built recently and you can see the contrast to how the newer ones are just less pleasant to look at and are just less impressive.
As you can probably tell, I'm not an architect and I don't doubt that you know more about architecture than me (unless you really fucked up in your studies), so you could really spin me a story about whatever you wanted of how the public "just don't get it" or how material costs and planning permissions mean that nothing "traditional" will ever get built again and call it a night but to me it just seems like there just isn't a whole lot of effort being made into making buildings that would inspire people anymore.
>>74910077
Buildings here are made with a 50 year lifespan and crippled to about 30 with poor worksmanship.
The materials are just not really meant to last a few generations.
People don't build for their great grandchildren anymore.
>>74910077
Also, I work in building envelope. You wouldn't fucking believe how shitty buildings and windows were waterproofed in the 70s-90s. I am talking about fucking trashbag looking plastic hanging loose in the walls between the brick facade and the metal framing - sometimes no fucking sheathing at all in huge commercial construction.
We been building nigger-tier skyscrapers for the past 50 years before the goddamn 2000s.
>>74910060
Sounds exactly like what is happening here. We have a lot of social housing amd you have to be registered at least 5 years in most places to have a chance at one, in Amsterdam it's 15 years. Unless you are a refugee that has never payed into the system then you get a house immediately. The system is heavily subsidized so everybody is taking advantage of that as well and costing the gov billions.
>>74899850
I really don't give a shit about what my house or apartment would look like. If I want to change something I can always make changes or renovate it. If it makes houses cheaper then i don't care
>>74899850
Dude wtf, these look comfy as fuck
>>74909733
>they are so common ... that type is too "boring"
Russia is so lucky.
What would that type's personality be like?
>>74901262
We have the same type of stuff…. not huge clusters like Russia, but similar 60's/70's style.
They can actually be quite nice inside if properly renovated/maintaned the build quality is probably better than the new glass/spandrel condos you see now days,
The reason They look so bleak in Russia is they just don't seem to place a premium on landscaping, greenery or beautificatin of any kind. It doesn't cost too much to plant a garden, lay some sod, maintain some level of upkeep.
Tennants demand a certain level of upkeep in some countries, they will actually volunteer to do things to make their own environment more appealing.
I don't think Russia cares about these type of things.
>>74908537
This house supposedly took a direct hit from a F5 tornado.
http://www.rewardwalls.com/blog/2013/06/05/mooreoktornado/
It has ICF walls, which are steel reinforced concrete with foam insulation on either side.
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>>74910400
I just find it depressing, is it really just a matter of costs that has resulted in such a drop in quality in buildings?
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>>74910961
Russians only care about giant bowls of fish eggs.
>>74909282
>>74909532
>>74910077
The type and function of a building are generally built for demand. You will find urban boxes in hip, new end neighborhoods in city cores, and suburban cookie cutter houses in the suburbs of course. I do agree that the current trend of architecture is fairly low quality whatever style you look at, but to be fair, not every building is supposed to be a work of art and if you have people waiting in lines to get into housing that takes too long or is too expensive to be constructed, you're missing the highest priority of a building.
I can definitely understand why modern architecture is off putting. I think it was more or less a result of the fast paced life and how we look at buildings. People used to travel across the globe to see European gothic cathedrals and would spend a great amount of time admiring the form work and attention to detail. As life got faster paced, it was less about the details and more so about the form and massing of a building.
For example, Frank Lloyd Wright designed his Robie House in regards to a person driving by in the newly invented automobile, in contrast to people walking by slowly. As you drove by, you admired the long axis, the repeating ornamentation, the form, the stuff you would notice by driving in a car. You wouldn't really notice the details flying by at 30 MPH and he took that into account. This is just stuff I'm regurgitating from my studies as you can tell.
Also, you are right that a lot of modern architecture in the first half of the 20th century was mostly the result of architects getting really tired of designing the symmetrical box that dominated the majority of human history. Playing with the forms, asymmetrical massing, how you approached the exterior, respect to the human occupying inside it were all things taken that mixed it up.
>>74911148
Zoning, parking requirements, regulation:
>>74910060
>>74908397
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>>74905471
>>74910961
Yeah, my grandma lives in a commie block and it's beautiful. It smells amazing inside, it looks nicer than a hotel honestly. If you find one in a nice area in Toronto they're really nice, I have a few around my area and I love the big green spaces around them
>>74911502
There are billions of people living in poverty and you complain that your large suburban house looks ugly in an aerial shot. Boo fucking hoo. Kill yourself.
>>74911839
The only problem is it looks like there's no trees you can't even see my house on a map because the whole area is like a Forest. I love it the air feels fresh and it doesn't feel as hot
Jesus christ op, just fucking move to somewhere that isn't hipster fucking avenue
>>74905854
Nice/weathy cities and neighbourhoods use zoning and regulations to keep the riff raft out.
It's so expensive to get anything done, only luxury buildings are economically feasible --- unfortunately the poor, unhip sorts can't afford that.
It's a feature not a bug.
>>74901191
Join my dad'd dick in my house. haha. i'll see u tonight.
>>74909532
I'd paid to have cancer right now. It's the only valid excuse I have not going full Deus Vult crusading in the next 5 years.
>>74909532
Dont be a punk ass bitch
>>74902132
those knockers are huge for such a emaciated woman
>>74911839
> thinking looking bad is the only problem with putting suburbs
> in deserts
> and giving them non-native grass lawns
The water that's keeping that grass alive is coming from underground aquifers that will be completely dry if current use continues.
The entire suburb model of housing is self-destructive.
>>74912024
>It's a feature not a bug.
Zoning probably does keep the riff raff out by keeping cheap housing illegal, but it creates shitty aesthetics most places
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bbEeRdcC1s
As a consumer, you pay $500,000 for a small piece of "private property" only to find you cannot own pets or make noise after 10pm.
>>74911839
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE STARVING AFRICAN CHILDREN
>>74910400
Really buildings are like cheap clothing now… basically they are disposable.
It's much cheaper to just demolish a cheap building every few decades and put up a new one than have something more impressive and permanent.
A lot of old buildings are a burden, because they are difficult to repair and heat, and they can't be arranged in a modular way to suit different purposes.
My dads church was recently decommissioned and the congregation sold it for a firesale price, because it is just very hard to re-purpose.
In big cities they can make a buck turning them into condos, but in a smaller town it's not feesable. These old structures either need volunteers to maintain them, or they need to be demolished. (which is also expensive for a large sturdy, stone building)
>>74912512
Their cities are evolving nicely
i live in one of these jej
>>74902644
Gentrification is literally capitalism you retard. Trust fund hipsters buy shit property and fix it up to resell it to other hipsters.
>>74905471
In my city of Montreal they haven`t built new Duplex homes in over 30 years. Everyone wants a bungalow far away or a condo near the city.
>>74908721
IIRC it was over the course of 3 months
>>74913092
Gentrification is a market failure: government regulations, zoning and welfare policies like rent control limit new supply, creating a shortage which displaces poor people.
>>74911502
They probably get snakes and scorpions wandering into that suburb.
My home city had a beautiful promenade up until a few years ago, when some fucking idiot decided to allow this modernist abortion to be constructed in it's center
![HvRFby5[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/EuWFHnE.jpg "HvRFby5[1].jpg")
>>74913668
I kind of like it, but it's out of context. It should be at an amusement park or mall.
It looks strange next to those nice antique lights and steps.
>>74913668
Thermite.
>>74913951
That's the problem with it -- it belongs in a mall not a historical promenade. When it was first put up, there was a huge petition to get it removed, but nothing happened. Every time I walk by it, I hear at least one person mention how ugly it is
>>74913953
The only way to melt steel
>>74913078
that looks like somalia
>>74912268
Someone wanted to fund it, who fucking cares
There's a suburbia waiting out there for everyone.
>>74901262
There's a kind of opaque beauty to the density and organization to each of those blocks
>>74914678
It might be good for a photoshoot, but that's different than actually having to live in it
>>74914678
Move to Hong Kong and be in autism heaven.
https://www.google.com/search?q=michael+wolf+hong+kong&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjl6Ke72fHMAhUESyYKHVg2DFIQ_AUIBygB&biw=1363&bih=678
>>74913078
>>74901460
When I was in Poland I went with a gorgeous girl back to her commie block to sleep with her, it looked just like this but it was pretty comfy inside
Probably one of the best things I have done in my life haha
>>74899850
Lord Street, Highgate WA 6003
I hate them
>>74900198
You are right anon, seen alot apartments being build near my town. People are falling for the apartment meme instead of buying land and a decent home.
>>74899850
Modern architecture is the pinnacle of shitty design.
>>74899850
Two reasons as I see it.
1. It's quick and easy to build.
2. As the neighbourhood ages, each owner will modify the home bit by bit. Adding value to the home, and making the area more distinct.
All you have to do is look at any area that started out that way 50-75 years ago. They evolve from being boring cookiecutter into something that is almost kinda nice.
>>74901833
I'm so sorry
>>74902399
>be California
>live in a two story cuckblock pic related
>pay $2400 a month for a studio 400 sq feet
>garbage everywhere
>mexicans everywhere
>every day get weird looks because white
>all three white neighbors are completely cucked
>everyone thinks it's the best place in the world and their blessed by Obama
Someone please nuke us already.
>>74917535
This sort of new housing is different from similar-looking stuff from 50-75 years ago because it's all one building, with one owner. This is a far less economically resilient setup, because that sort of incremental improvement is much more difficult compared to old-school small buildings, where the failure of one doesn't fuck everything up. I'd say most of these buildings will never look as good as they do now, which isn't really true of many mixed-use buildings from a while back.
Zoning, federal housing finance rules, parking requirements, and building regulations all prevent the sort of small mixed-use buildings from being built, so we see creepy cheap knockoffs everywhere.
>>74899850
These building looks the same everywhere. Norway, Sweden, US or Turky. It's really 1970's Soviet architecture. without the size.
>>74901660
>I like lots of tall and messy buldingsMake me remember cyberpunk
You should go to Hong Kong. I love the Place. Average apartment block is 50 floors. Felt like Bladerunner
>>74903411
meanwhile at city hall
>>74901663
Yes, I live in Huntington Beach and the city has built at least 10 of these massive apartment buildings that remind me of my college dormitory. A few of them look identical to the one in the picture. Pisses me off each time I drive by them and more are in the works.
They're especially popular in CA because the middle class has been destroyed so young people can only afford to keep living in a dorm. This is how a generation never grows up, marries, and dies off
>>74901833
Would/10
>>74899850
I personally don't care how the outside of my apartment building looks as long as I have a roof over my head.
>>74903709
Cool wedding pick ivan
>>74899850
It's the people in the buildings that count. The buildings are nothing more than shelters designed to combine efficiency with a reasonable level of comfort.
>>74919634
Amen brother, fellow commiefornian.
>>74899850
>see 3 apartment buildings being built within a 5 mile radius of my parents house
>have a decent paying $50k/year salary
>think maybe I have enough income to move outside my parents house finally
>check leasing prices
>all single bedroom prices are at least 50% of my monthly check in rent alone
I fucking hate California. I really fucking do.
>>74904216
>Tfw I have a dacha and apartment in belarus and bought both for under 40k
Nigga wut?
>>74902132
>Rudolph
FUCKING KEK
>>74919832
spot on
>>74908092
more of these?
>>74911986
>Tromsö
=50 000 hipster commies, trying to be urbanites. Welcome to the Grand Forks of Europe
>>74909742
By architectural engineer, you mean you design cuck sheds sven?
>>74920580
My neighbours.
>>74920911
Cholos?
Nice 911 btw
>>74920911
that's fucking awful
>>74919634
For a month's rent you could pay my mortgage for four months.
Fucking move man.
>>74919634
Fuck this overpriced shit hole.
>>74908395
I feel this. I find residential areas with no trees to be incrediby ugly. It's pretty great to look out my window and see a canopy of leaves.
>>74899850
Somewhere in this forsaken capital my distant family are living here
>>74917271
If you find modern architecture dull you should get ready for the minecraft generation architects m8.
>>74921213
Thes is the witest crowd you can find around here. Half are probably Jews anyway. I have some friends in Portland, they tell me come over. That place looks nice but I hate pretentious hipsters.
>>74908721
>>74920688
>>74908358
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
very interesting and also very comfy
The "form follows function" modernists talk about is loads of bs btw.
>no angle in roof so it degrades faster
>unecessary highlighted squares jumping everywhere
>colored metal plates instead of paint
>large windows that fuck up insularion
>>74909733
US and Russia should be better friends.
>>74901423
anyone else think this looks strangely comfy?
>>74901718
Islamic gommunism
>>74899850
They build these by the dozen here in dc and they start at like 2500 studio. MADNESS
>>74913473
right but the poor people are the ones who support all those things. plenty of these retards in NY and SF think that limiting supply of something (in this case housing) will cause their rents to go down.
