I dunno, I think they’re kinda … neat, I guess? Like, yeah, they’re technically pretty ugly, but somehow in a way that makes them interesting.
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ThoGot@lemm.ee 2 years ago
To be fair, brutalist buildings are fugly
herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Trying…and failing, to think of a good portmanteau of interesting and ugly.
Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
“Striking” is usually the word. It can be used for bad looks as well as good.
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Well, as with all my attempts to shine…this has crashed and burned. And not even gloriously…
herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
I actually just tried looking that up, to see if such a word actually exists in English. I found a stack exchange thread asking this same question but no one had a suitable answer. Do, yeah, I guess it’s up to you to contribute to society by inventing and popularizing this new word. Enjoy your new destiny.
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
puts big boy pants on, and refills coffe My time to shine!
CrustyCrinkles@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Ugleresting.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Interesgly?
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 2 years ago
KAKT.
No rounded letters. Sounds gross but kinda like cracked.
KAKT.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 2 years ago
That would make the cybertruck a brutalist car.
breakfastburrito@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
I guess this is technically the opposite of what you are trying to convey, but your comment reminded me of a song I haven’t thought about in a decade
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Crazazy@feddit.nl 2 years ago
I think the greenery in these pictures is doing quite a bit of lifting. Brutalist buildings without plants are less fun to look at
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
I think that was the original idea for brutalist buildings, complementing them with plants? I don’t want to look for a source right now though, so take it with a grain of salt.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
Any building without plants is less fun to look at
Biyoo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
Brutalism without greenery does not work well in general. I love the post apocalyptic vibes of a concrete building overgrown by plants.
steeznson@lemmy.world 2 years ago
These look like defensive structures from a war movie with some plants on them
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I’ve been looking for a reason why I find them unpleasant and you found it for me. They look like the decaying Nazi bunkers I got to explore on a Danish beach when I was a kid.
Though I also don’t like massive towers of glass. Or rowhomes. Or really cities in general. Give me a nice cave in a swamp any day.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 2 years ago
This reminds me of a very short but very good documentary
The Barbican: A Middle Class Council Estate
I was watching this and thinking, almost. How did a country start building like this, for the people and then stop. Then it is all apparent, the Witch got in power.
It appears the growth of these “for the benefit of people” views were replaced with the old ages of the greatest and silent generation, and replaced with the “me, me, me. My money” of the boomer generation.
I can’t help but thinking how things could have been different if we continued on from the old timers. I know ww2 destroyed an economy that was lucky to survive it, that’s also an interesting to thing to think what could have been.
grue@lemmy.world 2 years ago
the Witch got in power
Not British and haven’t watched the video you linked, so I’m guessing… Thatcher?
Wanderer@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Yea. He didn’t actually mention her just said the conservatives got in power and sold the country.
Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 2 years ago
It’s the perfect architecture for any of the non-squishy government organizations like the FBI or the Department of Urban Works.
You, oh lowly peasant should be intimidated in the halls of governance, for you don’t belong here.
seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
I like them…
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Idk man, they’ve kind of grown on me
huginn@feddit.it 2 years ago
To you.
The peak of brutality architecture beats any other type in my eyes. It’s beautiful in a way no other building or style compares.
Jesus_666@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Unfortunately many brutalistic buildings are far off from its peak and just look like lazily designed gray blobs. High-effort brutalism can look good (or can look inappropriately evil but that’s besides the point); low-effort brutalism always looks cheap.
exocrinous@startrek.website 2 years ago
Low effort brutalism looks cheap because it is. And that’s a good thing. In my country there’s a homeless crisis. The waitlist for government housing is five years. And that’s because too much of the government housing is single family detached houses. The politicians always say “we don’t have enough money to build government housing for everyone who needs it”. You know how many homeless we’d have if the government built soviet block style apartment buildings? Next to none. The people who can live on their own and just don’t have enough money can live in that, the people who need support can stay in the homeless shelters that have support, and only the people who want to be homeless would be left. Brutalism is efficient. American style suburbia is inefficient, so much so that it needs to be subsidized by the government using money taken from the city, because the suburbanites can’t pay for their own single family detached houses, even the ones with high paying jobs.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
I completely agree, except with the suggestion that apartment blocks must be brutalist to be space efficient. It wouldn’t be very difficult to make apartment blocks which dont look depressingly gray and blocky. Its just the cheapest thing to do, but in my opinion even (or especially) the lower class deserves to live in homely conditions too.
huginn@feddit.it 2 years ago
Cheap brutalism can look good.
DogWater@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Can you share examples of good and bad brutality buildings that are cheap? I’m just curious what you like
onion@feddit.de 2 years ago
They look depressing and I hate being around them. A city should be a nice place to live, not a playground for architects’ experiments
huginn@feddit.it 2 years ago
I love being around them. Visiting Tokyo right now and there are so many gorgeous concrete buildings.
The last thing I’d want is to live in a city that was so stuck in the past that all buildings look 100 years old.
Give me buildings from the 2020s not the 1920s. Give me sleek and light concrete, metal and glass.
Death to brick and wrought iron.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Huh…my preferences are literally the opposite of yours. History FTW!
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
Damn. I rather like the interwar style of architecture: pretty lines and compelling nuances and decorations. Something to distract myself with as opposed to brutalist architecture.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
A city should be a place for people to live, not some artsy space for real-estate developers to inflate living costs.
Have your arts architecture projects, but also have functional buildings too please