Left wing architecture
Right wing architecture Concrete sidewalk featuring concrete pyramidal spikes
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smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
snooggums@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
So many tiny Pharaohs!
Iceman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Valley of the rat-kings.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
This doesn’t look slave plantation-y enough.
I also can’t find the pointy white hat.
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
I assume they had a problem with cars parking there.
s23b@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Honest question: WTF is this?
hdsrob@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Anti homeless / hostile architecture. Prevents people sitting or sleeping there.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s to ensure homeless people can’t sit down somewhere.
NotSteve_@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
Could they not have just put a lazy garden or something in instead…
That seems like a lot more work and expense
FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Some insect is going to have an existential crisis finding those
Steve@communick.news 3 weeks 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.
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
State capitalism architecture
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
I bet the people in that tower complain bitterly about the ‘poors’ spoiling their view.
homes@piefed.world 3 weeks 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.
sem@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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).
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Honolulu has a bunch of brutalism, along with a bunch of other architectural movements
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So, no, it’s not anything political. It’s a cultural thing.
Soviet housing either followed or was contemporary with Le Corbusier’s ideas of affordable ‘habitation units’, the now-famous cookie-cutter blocks with minimal decoration. The OOP is quite correct in calling it leftist, since the purpose was to have lots of cheap housing: the USSR had huge expansion of it during the fifties-seventies, with massive migration from rural areas to cities (following the less-neat redistribution of housing, wooden barracks, and communal living in the thirties).
Can’t say I like the outcome too much, because arguably same population density can be achieved with lower-rising houses, since they don’t require huge areas between them to have any sunlight. Khrushchev-era districts can be much cozier than later ones, since five-storey buildings are placed closer and have trees right outside the windows.
homes@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
As was aptly, stated by another commenter here:
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.
BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Love me some brutalism.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
hayvan@piefed.world 3 weeks 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.
1984@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
People in the west never hear anything positive about communism, so…
nexguy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
wpb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why is the background smooth behind the swastika?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh, snap. Got 'em.
hOrni@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Right wing interior design:
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It would help if you found something less dope-looking. This pic is like 1920s New York, but with a swastika.
merdaverse@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Coincidence?? It’s pretty easy to imagine the swastika replaced with a dollar sign
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Vehicular manufacturing utopia core
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Please be AI. Im overstimulated just from the still image
ZombieChicken@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
It isn’t.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
It is real, but there were some lense and perspective tricks used to make it looksworse than it actually is. Not that it looks great, but not that bad
in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Take any exit off of almost any motorway in America and you’ll be met with this.
gizmonicus@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Nope, this could be literally anywhere in the US.
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
Nah, this picture is old. I definitely remember seeing it in the 2010-2020 era.
SEND_BUTTPLUG_PICS@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Pretty sure this is Breezewood, Pennsylvania.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Quiznos :( 💔
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What’s right wing architecture?
Blue tarps? But they’re blue! haha, you wings are so silly with your flapping about
But seriously, have they not seen an apartment building or strip mall before? The architecture where I live is far from inspiring, it’s just strip mall after strip mall for miles, then some big block office buildings. Yippee
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Prisons silly.
Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org 2 weeks ago
A 300 million dollar mansion for one person. A 1.2 billion dollar prison complex for a few hundred people . Everyone else is homeless and lives under a bridge.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Because they think things make them extraordinary. They can’t imagine the lives in thise buildings being good without extraordinary things.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
McMansions and parking lot deserts?
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ever seen the cooperate housing developments? No individuality in mcmansions coming in a cul-de-sac to your town.
chaogomu@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
DimFisher@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s communist dude not left, I m sure Denmark which is a socialistic country is left for you too, anyway do some traveling and stop spreading bollocks
fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s not even communist. Western Propaganda really created a false impression on this term…
I don’t think we really had communism yet on the world.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We’ve really had communism in the world.
You just don’t agree that it’s communism.
Reality is real, your idealistic purity is an impossibility. Deal with how things are, not how you wish them to be
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We never had communism in the same way we never had a person fly by flapping their arms after jumping of a roof. It’s not that we did not try, it just does not end with a flying person.
To have communism, you have to concentrate all the wealth and power in some sort of government so that people don’t own anything. And when you concentrate all power in the government, human nature produces a dictatorship.
wpb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I love this kind of thread. It always attracts some guy who finds it necessary to point out that in the USSR people had to endure the absolute horrors of having roommates. I think I saw him phrase it as them having “survived” roommates.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The blocks were built en masse with the exact purpose of escaping communal living that proliferated during rapid urbanization of the 1930s, so that connection is quite a stretch.
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
I mean, roommates are definitely a form of horror. For every well adjusted person out there, several exist that never learned to clean up after themselves or think of how what they do impacts another person.
Soup@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
sheridan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Just needs a little bit of paint.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Leaded paint no doubt.
Vreyan31@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
When I visited Berlin, I heard a theory that these Soviet era units were why the cost of living was still accessible to creative-types so a big part of why the city is culturally thriving.
olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I upvote this every time it gets reposted.
Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But mom, it was supposed to be my turn to post this this week.
moxymarauder@thelemmy.club 3 weeks 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.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Khrushchyovkas are actually different from what is typically known as Soviet blocks, because they were built up to five stories high and thus didn’t require large empty areas between them for sunlight to reach the lower floors. So the houses are placed closer together, with cozier yards and often plenty of trees right outside the windows. Living in that feels quite different from high-rises.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yay. More politics in my shitposts
mimavox@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
It looks awesome
AlexLost@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t see a problem? State funded infrastructure has a place and purpose in our society. It’s built for function over form. Wonderful architecture is incredibly expensive and amounts to mostly fluff. If you would try to build civic infrastructure focusing on pomp and grandeur over functionality, you would not last long in the public sphere.
Narauko@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes, but as much as we all like the Brutalism style, would the cost difference really not be worth it for Art Deco or anything a bit more psychologically welcoming or uplifting combined with generous green spacing and walkability.
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes it would be worth it. But is that money also available? Or do you have the breathing room to build less for the same money, or wait for that money to become available?
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Actually, I like these building that look like they are from early 3D games
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 3 weeks 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.
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Homelessness is definitely more depressing. That’s not even comparable.
But apartment blocks like that are also really, really depressing. Humans are not built for living in a crammed cage of a building.
drmoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Built? By whom?
The issue with soviet blocks was not the density. The actual design was brilliant as each of these blocks had all conveniences like schools and shops within reach.
The issue as with most soviet union is corruption and management incompetence. They took one design and applied to 15% of world’s land mass. So the house in deep Siberia and costs of warm Azerbaijan were the same.
People live just fine in close quarters - just take a look at Japan.
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I live in one now, lightyears better one, I might add, and it’s tolerable at best. It’s small, stressful, and makes you feel like a chicken in a cage.
Multiple stores, metro station, park… we even have a gym that’s basically free in our complex.
Still depressing.
jimmy90@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
homelessness has many causes but can be survivable and relatively more enjoyable than living in a hell hole poorly designed, maintaned and serviced high density clusterfuck
commie architecture fucking suuuuucks
yucandu@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
One of my favourite Russian youtubers on what it’s like growing up in these places:
RepleteLocum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
This MF has never seen Vienna. A concrete block that everyone loves and it builds community?
Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Search
public housing projects america. You’ll find similar photographs.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
yes: right-wing architecture:
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The best architecture isn’t politically-tainted, but designed to be beautiful first.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Best I can do is indsutrial brutalism