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Is brutalism the worst style in history?
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Is brutalism the worst style in history?
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>>51789455
Yes.

Art Deco is the best.
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>>51789455
lol shut the fuck up white boi
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another abomination
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I like it, if I was a millionaire I'd buy a flat in the barbican center ahead of anything else
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Brutalism is literally the only non kekolded style in history

also, chek em
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>>51789455

Wait, so all the stairs and elevators are in the left building?
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Tbh I quite like the aesthetics.
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>>51789455

lel I remember when I moved from airport to London and that tower stood out immediately
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>>51789994
it looks like a fucking prison tower
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I think it could either look really bad or really good, there is nothing in between those extremes
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>>51789455
yes, contemporary comes close as second place
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>>51789455
>>51789455
Yes. Look at those disgusting soviet structures left in yugoslavia.


Also, nominate modernist for best.
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>>51789455
No it's actually the best architecture style in history.
>Pic related from Rossiya.

>>51789994
Saved.

>>51790050
I fucking love it.
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>>51790403

It looks shitty when all the buildings are the same
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>>51789455
>brutalism
more like jdimsaism lmao
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>>51790403
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>>51790477
I think it's quite the contrary.
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>his country has no brutalist spaceship building
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>>51790560

t. cheng zhao
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>>51790558
That's a nice motherboard.
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>>51790585
No. I just have a architecture fetish for brutalism.

Also going to sleep now.
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>>51789994
>commieblock
>the rent for one of th apartment it's 3000 euro, or more.
>it's also used by berlusconi for store his high tier sluts.
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>>51790897

how can the fashion capital of the world have such an unfashionable skyline

the building looks like one of those refurbished giant AA castles the nazis placed in berlin
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>>51790575
you call that a spaceship?
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>>51791421
ayy lmao
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>>51790869
>>51791421
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>>51790189
This. When done well it can look beautiful. When done by some communist regime doing the bare minimum to house people, more often than not it looks like shit.
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Brutalism looks great when all the buildings in an area have the same style, if its by itself then it look bad
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i like it. looks like it could handle a couple bomb blasts
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>>51790278
>Soviet structures
>Yugoslavia
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>>51789455
brutalism looks great for government buildings
>>51789576
that doesnt actually exist
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>>51791421
God Katowice is such a fucking shithole it's basically one huge commieblock
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>>51789994
Why were you living in an airport?
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It's disgusting but I like it
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>>51790189
>>51791575
These
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>>51789994
Hey, it's that tower I rode at Disneyland.
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>>51790897
I want to fornicate with Judy.
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>>51791663
Half the city is a fucking forest kill yourself
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>>51789455
For the most part it's pretty ugly but there are some shining examples of brutalist buildings that are quite beautiful.
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>>51789994

Fucking based Torre Velasca

>>51791346

That's not the skyline, this is
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fug its dystopian look makes me pretty hard
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Brutalism is either a hit or miss
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Brutalism metro in D.C.
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>tfw brutalism style university
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>>51789455
What the fuck is that thing, reeeeeeeee
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that tower reminds me of Belgrades biggest housing complex - truly a symbol of marxism
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>>51789455
I've only been studying architecture for two years so far but these just look bland and lazy imo desu.
What am I missing out here?
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