heywood on 28/11/2023 at 22:49
I guess I'm less sensitive to that because I can't think of examples here in the US where we lost buildings of historical or architectural significance in building our brutalist eye sores. Probably because of the age of this country, we haven't lost a lot of significant buildings at all outside of our older cities like New York and Chicago, where we keep building generic high rises designed to last 50 years. The most controversial brutalist construction project I can think of is Boston City Hall, but the controversy is all about how bad it turned out, not the urban blight it replaced. Most of the brutalist buildings I can think of here didn't replace anything.
Azaran on 28/11/2023 at 22:52
Yeah I think it mostly happened in the UK and nordic countries
CZmeltdown on 29/11/2023 at 20:16
[video=youtube;Ro3Fc_yG3p0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro3Fc_yG3p0[/video]
R Soul on 30/11/2023 at 14:36
There's a Tom Scott video about those lifts where he leaves a GoPro in one of them as it goes over the top:
[video=youtube;YgJBD1wf-YQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgJBD1wf-YQ[/video]
mxleader on 30/11/2023 at 15:17
That looks fun.
Nicker on 1/12/2023 at 14:00
Quote Posted by heywood
I guess I'm less sensitive to that because I can't think of examples here in the US where we lost buildings of historical or architectural significance in building our brutalist eye sores. Probably because of the age of this country, we haven't lost a lot of significant buildings at all outside of our older cities like New York and Chicago, where we keep building generic high rises designed to last 50 years. The most controversial brutalist construction project I can think of is Boston City Hall, but the controversy is all about how bad it turned out, not the urban blight it replaced. Most of the brutalist buildings I can think of here didn't replace anything.
Perhaps aided by the fact that the USA avoided the demolition phase of Adolph Hitler's urban renewal plans.
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https://histclo.com/imagef/date/2020/12/dev-rub48s.jpgmxleader on 1/12/2023 at 16:18
I've recently been impressed by these new Bidenville cathedrals that rise up majestically against the city skyline. Undoubtedly tastefully appointed interiors are protected by alluring outdoor pursuit blue, gray, and yellow all-weather cladding. Built in spacious city parks and along main city thoroughfares commute times are sure to be very low. Move in today!
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https://i.imgur.com/TURJ4hR.jpgNicker on 2/12/2023 at 04:30
That is so amazing the reconstruction they did in Warsaw. Dresden was a war crime. The War was a fucking war crime.
Europe had a deep architectural history to draw on. After WW2 they had only a limited and savagely blank canvas on which to work. After WW2 the USA's infrastructure and cities were unscathed. The war dividend drove expansion and the invention of the nuclear family drove demand. Driving demands roads. The suburbs were invented. Sears Catalogue Homes. More roads.
Domesticated Brutalism. Brutal to the landscape, certainly.
