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• Sunshine@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I would rather see these buildings than anyone homeless.

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  • Fern@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ngl, I don't think they look so bad.

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    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      People give the commie blocks a hard time as uninspiring and uniform haven’t been to suburbia where its a rotation of two maybe three house design.

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    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Wjen your whole milieu is just grey concrete and usually it has graffiti and signs on urban decay it gets real depressing. I kinda like it but you need some colour and nature (and I don’t mean Russian style dead trees with white paint)

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  • sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    thats so noble of you

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• SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If I hate something more than the old buildings that look awful on the outside, it’s the new buildings that look nice all around but have paper thin walls.

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  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    yeah, looks over function is extra offensive to me

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The ones that start to crack after a decade are worse…

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• Rothe@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There is a suspicious lack of wall carpets in that second picture.

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  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wall carpets are so 90s. Bare walls signal that you have money

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    • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      One recessed spotlight per square meter of floor space, cold white, no dimmer.

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Money to get a panel house flat invisibly soundproofed

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    • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      But what about the tapestries.

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  • Axiochus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is a ‘Euroremont’, and honestly looks pretty dated as well.

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• Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It makes sense why it is like that, at least in countries that were part of the Soviet Union. They wanted to build housing for everyone that still gave them a good quality of life. In order to do that quickly, they focused on making them nice on the inside while not really caring for what they looked like on the outside. They used new techniques (I don’t remember if they invented them or if that was already a thing) to mass produce parts for the houses beforehand, so they only needed to assemble them and didn’t need to put a lot of work into designing each building.

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  • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The people made it nice inside, not the USSR.

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  • toofpic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You say that USSR was “caring” about anyone’s comfort, I say you don’t know what you are talking about

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    • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No idea where your downvote came from. The Kommunalka were horrible, it’s pure revisionist to say otherwise. They were originally constructed to house rural peasants who had been drafted from the countryside to work in urban industry. Multiple families per apartment, etc. etc., with no other choice because that’s you were given.

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  • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They wanted to build housing for everyone that still gave them a good quality of life.

    Uhhh I would suggest actually reading about the Kommunalka and survivors accounts. Multiple families per apartment, sometimes multiple families per room if it was that one family worked day shifts and the other at night, it was not at all uncommon for people to be designated a stairwell or closet to live in during the depression(s).

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  • four@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think it’s rather that those buildings were built 50 years ago and they are still standing today as they were back then (some got thermal insulation and some color) but the inside could have been renovated last year, so it’s new

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  • Sunshine@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Cuba has buildings that look like these.

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    • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Pretty much everywhere does. Turns out “unadorned gian box of apartments” is about the most efficient way to build housing.

      I know it’s been demolished because of mismanagement, but here’s the Pruitt-Igoe complex in the USA.

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  • SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Actually, what the image shows is that the buildings have not been renovated on the outside but the owners have renovated their own apartments on the inside.

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• MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  look for roma gypsies houses. Outside is a slum inside is a fucking palace!

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• slowmorella@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  so?

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