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When it works, it's awesome: https://architecturestyles.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/p4040042web.jpg https://architecturestyles.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/p404
by nickbauman 10y ago
When it works, it's awesome:
https://architecturestyles.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/p4040042web.jpg https://architecturestyles.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/p4040...
When it doesn't it's horrid:
https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3752/13117856815_fdfa002c60_b.jpg https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3752/13117856815_fdfa002c60_b....
- user5994461 10y agoThe first picture with both building next to each other just made me realize how MUCH MORE I prefer the glass building.
- lmm 10y agoThe first isn't really brutalist is it? It's full of curves!
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoBrutalism is defined by concrete, not by the absence of curves.
- SwellJoe 10y agoUndisguised concrete. All modern architecture on a large scale is defined by concrete (though apparently that's changing), but the difference is in how much it is on display.
- nickbauman 10y agoWow you guys are breaking my heart! The "works" one is Mies Van Der Rohe. Notice how it actually "works" as in "functions" as a building. OK you have to admit this really nifty. It's a watertower!! https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1353/829390995_36add7f54d_b.jpg https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1353/829390995_36add7f54d_b.jp...
- klaasvakie 10y agoHey, didn't expect to see South Africa on here. Is this the tower close to Grand Central Airport in Midrand? Another great (to me at least) looking brutalist building in Johannesburg is UJ (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/University_of_Johannesburg.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Universi...)
- pavel_lishin 10y agoFor those curious, the second image is apparently the Curtis Lecture Halls at York University. https://www.flickr.com/photos/vikpahwa/13117856815 https://www.flickr.com/photos/vikpahwa/13117856815 http://maps.info.yorku.ca/2010/06/curtis-lecture-halls/ http://maps.info.yorku.ca/2010/06/curtis-lecture-halls/
- davidw 10y agoReminds me a bit of where I worked in Italy: https://www.google.com/maps/@45.415912,11.9193071,3a,37.7y,312.26h,99.41t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-j07ZeZahP58%2FV9pup7XQvRI%2FAAAAAAAABpI%2F2qMNoZNHQKEeBDd_mQQ7yT9gWn9MsO4OwCLIB!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh6.googleusercontent.com%2F-j07ZeZahP58%2FV9pup7XQvRI%2FAAAAAAAABpI%2F2qMNoZNHQKEeBDd_mQQ7yT9gWn9MsO4OwCLIB%2Fw433-h100-n-k-no%2F!7i8704!8i2006 https://www.google.com/maps/@45.415912,11.9193071,3a,37.7y,3... Edit: The company was great, but I hated being in an anonymous office park. Sad to see that kind of thing built with how much beautiful architecture there is over there.
- dntrkv 10y agoI think that second link looks awesome. How well the design serves the building purpose, I don't know, but purely from an aesthetic perspective, I think it looks great.
- dsacco 10y agoHah, interesting. I like the second "horrid" photo much more than the first one. It's much more aesthetically pleasing to me personally, though the first example seems like more creative thought went into it. Maybe that's why I'm not an architect though.
- dpkrjb 10y agoI liked the second one as well. I think that may be because it's a grey scale photo. The reality would be a bleak grey/beige windowless monstrosity which would look more like an industrial site
- brazzledazzle 10y agoI honestly had to come back and check the URLs because when I opened both of these in new tabs I thought I'd opened them in the wrong order. Just goes to show how objective taste is and why every time there's a shift in GUI styles there always seems to be violent opposition to it.
- wtbob 10y agoThe first one looks like Baby's First Architectural Mistake; the second one looks like Where Life Goes to Die.