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> Part of the problem is that concrete doesn't age well. The building might start as looking ok, but quickly becomes discolored. It's worsened by the fact that
by pimeys 10y ago
> Part of the problem is that concrete doesn't age well. The building might start as looking ok, but quickly becomes discolored. It's worsened by the fact that many of the buildings made no accommodation for how they wouldn't allow water to just drip and discolor them even worse.
Funny how people see things differently. For my eye the discolored old concrete buildings look very inspiring and I guess it was the original idea that the buildings show their age...
- mike_ivanov 10y ago> old concrete buildings look very inspiring especially those with a touch of moss, mold and climbing vegetation here and there.
- rtpg 10y agoDefinitely sounds intended. Brutalism is about enforcing the artificial nature of things. Trying to keep it nice and clean goes against the core idea. Though I think brutalism is a blight on our cities....