To be fair, brutalist buildings are fugly
Anon's brother hates concrete
Submitted 7 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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ThoGot@lemm.ee 7 months ago
huginn@feddit.it 7 months 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 7 months 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.
onion@feddit.de 7 months 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
herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
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.
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Trying…and failing, to think of a good portmanteau of interesting and ugly.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That would make the cybertruck a brutalist car.
Num10ck@lemmy.world 7 months ago
breakfastburrito@sh.itjust.works 7 months 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 7 months ago
Crazazy@feddit.nl 7 months 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
steeznson@lemmy.world 7 months ago
These look like defensive structures from a war movie with some plants on them
Wanderer@lemm.ee 7 months 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 7 months ago
the Witch got in power
Not British and haven’t watched the video you linked, so I’m guessing… Thatcher?
Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 7 months 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 7 months ago
I like them…
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Idk man, they’ve kind of grown on me
Horrible_Goblin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I have a fairly functional form of autism, but I sometimes struggle finding balance in points of interest I get enthusiastic about, and nobody really matches my enthusiasm, even though they try. It often feels like rejection, but this post really puts it in perspective for me. I’m not always reasonable/flexible when I’m like that. Thanks for sharing.
(To give an example related to this post; I wouldn’t assault someone for having a different opinion, but I could definitely debate them with a passion that’s a little out of place and not as reasonable as I’d like to believe it is. “Building with concrete blocks? What is even wrong with you, where you never thought proper construction? What do you mean cheap building costs? People who want to build cheap buildings shouldn’t be allowed to build anyway”.
SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 7 months ago
“Building with concrete blocks? What is even wrong with you, where you never thought proper construction? What do you mean cheap building costs? People who want to build cheap buildings shouldn’t be allowed to build anyway”.
The internet suddenly makes a bit more sense to me
can@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I think a lot of “bad faith trolls” are exactly this.
Horrible_Goblin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What’s bad faith trolling? I tried to google it, but struggle to understand
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
What’s a “good faith troll”?
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
Your point about matching enthusiasm resonates with me. I am fortunate nowadays that many of my friends are neurodivergent, and we seem to enjoy each others’ enthusiasm. We have some shared interests, but I think in a context where I can just listen and learn and not necessarily be expected to be a part of a “regular conversation” (i.e. when the primary mode of conversation is neurodivergent), I really enjoy listening to my friends nerd out about things outside of my own interest, as well as sometimes explaining my things to other people.
Outside of that framework though, before I had my current friends, I often felt like it was a smarter social strategy to just not talk about my interests at all because tempering my enthusiasm was difficult and seemed to never been enough.
Horrible_Goblin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There’s this interesting balance within my MTG group where some guys are happy to devote a fair part of their life to learning all the individual cards by heart. They can go on tangents that are just rows of card names describing a turn (think if the F6 to G8 takes rook babble of chess people). I can’t be fucked, but I still love the hobby, so when we get together its trying to find the middle between all these levels of expertise that works. Overall that went well but there was one guy who flat out told me: “Maby if you would just dedicate a bigger part of your life to the game, we wouldn’t have to bother talking around you so much.” Yeah right. Not everyone makes their hobby into their profession.
That being said, its kinda heartbreaking so many people struggle with just letting their enthusiasm about a certain topic flow. If you’d rather not talk about something because you’re afraid you can’t reel it in, that sucks :(
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What are you passionate about?
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 7 months ago
He’s right though, we aren’t building as sustainable as we did back then.
dumbass@leminal.space 7 months ago
Wonder how this kid reacted to the ending of the Three little Pigs?
ICastFist@programming.dev 7 months ago
With powerful multiple orgasms
samus12345@lemmy.world 7 months ago
He huffed and puffed and blew his load.
MisterNeon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I do prefer brick buildings.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It looks nicer but nowadays when it is used, it’s often used as decorative layer. Concrete as a load bearing structure has quite a few advantages over normal bricks.
Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 7 months ago
Anon's brother does have a point - concrete blocks and buildings made from them tend to be quite ugly in comparison to buildings made with more traditional building materials like brick, stone, or even wood
Jesus_666@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There’s nothing to stop you from using concrete as a structural material and covering it with brick. That’s how most single-family houses in Germany work.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Concrete load bearing wall and brick decorative layer is fairly normal.
M137@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Anon’s brother hates concret*
unreasonabro@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I mean, when he’s right, he’s right
wowwoweowza@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
This is honestly the first time I have ever understood this community. Thank you.
tacotroubles@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I feel seen
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 7 months ago
FUCK CONCRETE!
MCHEVA4EVA@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You can but you have to be quick or the chemical burns are horrendous.
IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 7 months ago
My brother-in-law is obsessed with skater fashion, so I guess we got off light.
Mikufan@ani.social 7 months ago
Based
Emmie@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Thankfully my interest change so often I am never competent enough to ramble too long about them.
Vampiric_Luma@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Experience; knowledge; understanding. When where and how we acquired these heavily dictate our subjective experience with… well, everything, including media and the art within.
Based on my own observations, the average person follows a very basic pattern and have not bothered to grow as a person beyond this. They want to absorb entertaining content with minimal energy. We all do at our core, but some of us can move beyond it. For those of us that haven’t yet, our media conglomerates are happy to cater with over-saturation such as with Marvel. We can observe the market, but the average person literally doesn’t care. Are they unaware of critical analysis skills? Is there no energy to ponder these things after a 10+h work day? Sometimes both. Perhaps neither.
The Rock was in a lot of famous movies and he has a great public personality. Now he is in low-quality spit-out productions because his face generates
moneynostalgia in his viewers. I can flip this from movies to video games as well with Nintendo. How delusional people were with Violet / Scarlet and the outrage that Palworld caused. PKMN Violet / Scarlet was one of the worst games I’ve played on the Nintendo Switch (which objectively it isn’t but rather is more like the antithesis of what we’re talking about… I sadly digress). As a game, it’s terrible. But some people are eating up the story and pokemon experience. There was a common denominator amongst this group though, and they didn’t care about the garbage quality of the game because they weren’t experiencing it - they were experiencing their pokemon. Likewise my family praises a lot of movies I… rent for them. I always watch them and they’re typically rehashed ideas featuring famous actor(s). I can barely tolerate the experience - Red Notice? It wasn’t even ironically good where it’s so bad it’s good again, but they love it! They’ll eat it up every time and then enjoy the social experience of talking about it.I guess what I’m trying to say is that we have famous artists and critics because humans like to take the path of least resistance.
I’m still ultimately unsure what a good objective measurement would be for works of art, but I think it’s something to do with how the piece may expose peoples thoughts and ideas. Perhaps not just as a socially engaging experience, but something that stirs your soul into a tasty broth, ya know? Something that causes an introspective change within. Outer Wilds, How to Read, The Good Place, these are all works of art to me under this premise.
So ya, I also have an intense interest in the subject and I’d love to hear your own thoughts on the matter :) Please, do ramble on~
tweeks@feddit.nl 7 months ago
A song was listening to used the text ‘find me on Miami concrete’ just as I was reading this. Hope your bro doesn’t randomly get that.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I like the cut of this dudes jib.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 months ago
There’s a good reason the bricks were replaced though.
summerof69@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Run.
c0ber@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
your balls will explode at 19/07/2074 03:17 18s BST under a concrete block
_Cid_@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Love me some good old fachwerkhäusers
robocall@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That guy should become a brick layer!
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 7 months ago
Uh-oh, this guy has no mental tools for self-regulation.
Melkath@kbin.social 7 months ago
IT ISNT EVEN CONCRETE! YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT BRITTLE, ROUGH, MOLD AND FUNGUS FARMS THAT DEGRADE IN NO LESS TGAN 20 YEARS CINDER BLOCK.
BRICK, in a technical sense is concrete BUT EVEN BRICK AND MORTAR ARE INFERIOR TO A SIMPLE WELL EXECUTED CONCRETE POUR.
LAZY INCOMPETENT CONTRACTORS DECIDED TO SKIP THE CAST MAKING STAGE AND JUST STARTED GOING TO TOWN WITH SHITTY ASS BRICK AND POROUS ASS MORTER.
WAS THAT ENOUGH?!?!? NOOOOOOOOO.
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH. THEY NEEDED TO FIND A WAY TO MAKE THE BLOCK SHITTIER THAN THE BONDING AGENT SO THEY MADE....
30 straight seconds of visceral panting
DOG SHIT POLLEN ABSORBING WATER SOLUABLE FUCK ME IN THE ASS SNEEZE ON IT AND IT CRUMBLES..... ARGH..... CIIIIIIINNNNNNNDEEEEEERRRRRR BLOOOOOOCCCCCCK.
I just can't anymore... I have grown to cherish brick... who made cinder block... why?... why did they do this to me? Why did they make me not only know of but also mostly made of... wimper... cinder block...
K4mpfie@feddit.de 7 months ago
A copypasta is born!
5PACEBAR@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is art. Thank you for sharing the gospel
TheBat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How do you feel about gypsum walls/drywalls?
Melkath@kbin.social 7 months ago
Tastes great with ketchup.
zout@fedia.io 7 months ago
Not the OP, but I'd say that cinder blocks combine the downsides of bot drywall and brick and mortar.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 months ago