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.
Brutalism is also about showing the materials used for the structure rather than using facades. (But I don’t think anyone is saying rough rock coverings are brutalist lol)
Depending on the coloration of the material in of the texture and how rough it is, several feet to hundreds of yards/meters away.
But the reason brutalism is easier to see far away is more about the solid rectangular shapes and style than the texture of the material. If you made a concrete version of a building normallly made of stone with lots of fine details like a cathedral it wouldn’t be considered brutalism just because it was all concrete.
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!
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”
Brutalism has absolutely grown on me with age
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.
I applaud their efforts and results!
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.
It does in person.
Like how close do you have to get before you can even see that it’s rough? Brutalism can be seen the second you see the building.
Brutalism is also about showing the materials used for the structure rather than using facades. (But I don’t think anyone is saying rough rock coverings are brutalist lol)
Rough rock coverings are facades!
Yes, exactly.
Directed by M Night Shyamalan
Depending on the coloration of the material in of the texture and how rough it is, several feet to hundreds of yards/meters away.
But the reason brutalism is easier to see far away is more about the solid rectangular shapes and style than the texture of the material. If you made a concrete version of a building normallly made of stone with lots of fine details like a cathedral it wouldn’t be considered brutalism just because it was all concrete.
You can see the texture of a wall from hundreds of yards away? You have better vision than I do Legolas.
That must be a nightmare to keep clean.
Pebble dash can fuck off
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.