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• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  yes: right-wing architecture:

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  The best architecture isn’t politically-tainted, but designed to be beautiful first.

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  • FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Best I can do is indsutrial brutalism

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• Steve@communick.news ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s also not left wing architecture. It’s the cross roads of a left wing housing initiative, and a right wing refusal to spend money on the public good. What you get is something akin to unsecured prison architecture.

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  • rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    State capitalism architecture

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• smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Right wing architecture Concrete sidewalk featuring concrete pyramidal spikes

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So many tiny Pharaohs!

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  • s23b@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Honest question: WTF is this?

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    • hdsrob@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Anti homeless / hostile architecture. Prevents people sitting or sleeping there.

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    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s to ensure homeless people can’t sit down somewhere.

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  • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This doesn’t look slave plantation-y enough.

    I also can’t find the pointy white hat.

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  • FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Some insect is going to have an existential crisis finding those

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  • NotSteve_@piefed.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Could they not have just put a lazy garden or something in instead…

    That seems like a lot more work and expense

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• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  More right wing architecture

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Right wing architecture:

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• nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Right wing architecture Image

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• hayvan@piefed.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s called city planning. I don’t know where this is but the commie blocks where I was born were within walking distance of shops, cafes, schools, had cheap central heating, all had children’s parks and green areas between buildings, and public transport to the city center. All at dirt cheap prices since they were not built for profit, and could only be owned by people living in them or rented from the state.

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    People in the west never hear anything positive about communism, so…

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• homes@piefed.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This architectural style is called, no kidding, Soviet Brutalism, and was the primary architectural style featured in the Soviet Union from the 1950s to the 1980s.

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  • sem@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I would say “socialist modernism”, not " soviet brutalism". Because there are a lot of examples not from ex USSR.

    This is Belgrade, Setbia (ex-Yugoslavia):

    Museum of Modern Arts: Image

    Hotel “Yugoslavija”: Image

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You should check the link I posted. Honolulu has a crapton of brutalism, so I wouldn’t associate it necessarily with any political movement.

      I think where brutalism exists now is more a function of when an area was being developed, and it just happens that those areas understand substantial development while brutalism was en vogue (late 50’s - late 1970s).

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Honolulu has a bunch of brutalism, along with a bunch of other architectural movements

    thinktechhawaii.com/more-tropical-brutalism-human…

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• Soup@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Leftwing architecture is mixed-use, walkable neighbourhoods and community centers built with artistry in mind. It’s beatiful decor to old buildings that feel lived in. It’s parks and bus stops and bike lanes.

  Rightwing architecture is a functionally dead grass lawn and a house so perfect that it feels not only dead, but oppressive. It’s replacing a slightly ugly group of three or four stores with a chain restaurant and a parking that generates less tax revenue for the city than the “shitty” stores did. It’s the old, dilapidated neighbourhood that’s falling apart because the city is too busy spending everyone’s tax money subsidizing the rich neighbourhood, then taking photos of only it and claiming that it’s better. No sidewalks, no nature, no way to get around without a car and nothing to do once you have one except a 45min commute in traffic to get to work.

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• UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ever seen the cooperate housing developments? No individuality in mcmansions coming in a cul-de-sac to your town.

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  • chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Corpo housing isn’t mcmansions. They’re factory built homes shipped to site and dropped on locally poured foundations, sometimes with basements.

    Sure, they can be decent sized, but the mcmansion is overly large and aimed at a different crowd, a crowd that’s increasingly unable to afford them.

    Source; I grew up in a corpo housing development from the 60s or 70s. The houses all looked identical from the outside, but had a few different floor plans, one down the street was actually two of the wrong halves put together, which meant that one of the closets didn’t have a door and could only be accessed by someone crawling in through a gap near the ceiling.

    Thankfully there was no HOA, so the houses quickly picked up some individuality.

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• olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I upvote this every time it gets reposted.

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• moxymarauder@thelemmy.club ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Commie blocks have had a lot of improvement over the years. I find it interesting how medium-density mixed use zoning in America, and commie blocks in central and Eastern Europe seem to be converging on the same New Urbanist ideals… also, not sure if this is the best pro-Khrushchyovka content, but I enjoyed Adam Something’s take on them.

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• sheridan@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just needs a little bit of paint.

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  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Leaded paint no doubt.

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yay. More politics in my shitposts

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• backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The structure of this roof cap is exactly like the kind of telemetry tracker that NASA uses to identify dead pulsars in deep space. Cold-riveted girders…with cores of pure selenium.

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• mimavox@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It looks awesome

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• Gorilladrums@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Soviet Union had higher rates of homeless than the US both back in the 80s and today. Not to mention that commie blocks were notoriously poorly built and maintained. Soviet architecture just isn’t good.

  After the fall of the Soviet Union, every single ex soviet state in Europe (outside of Russia and Belarus) went on a spree to “decommunize” their architecture because it’s so soulless and terrible, and they’re better off for it.

  It’s annoying when this shitty propaganda post gets spammed on here every other day with the same misinformation and misconceptions being spread every damn time.

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• yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  One of my favourite Russian youtubers on what it’s like growing up in these places:

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1u7XZ9c8fI

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhq1fEXKyos

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• OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Search public housing projects america. You’ll find similar photographs.

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• Teppa@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Left leaning people live in gated communities of urban sprawl when they get rich enough, just look at SanFrancisco.

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  • ContriteErudite@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Human nature” is where material conditions intersects with cultural conditioning. “Left leaning” doesn’t mean anything in America, especially when the cultural underpinning of the society is consumerism and the acquisition of wealth.

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