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In Australia all new residential buildings are the worst.. Everything is in greys. Go to any shop whether for paint or tiles it is impossible to find a bright
by basicplus2 6y ago
In Australia all new residential buildings are the worst..
Everything is in greys.
Go to any shop whether for paint or tiles it is impossible to find a bright colour.
Even the colours (when you find any) have a distinct grey tone.
- joe_the_user 6y agoThe "greige-ification" of the world is a truly miserable phenomena. The phenomena has to do with everything being made generic due to resale value (mentioned on another thread). All things with character also have the capacity to offend and all offense lowers a thing's total value. https://www.thespruce.com/greige-best-neutral-color-ever-797930 https://www.thespruce.com/greige-best-neutral-color-ever-797...
- rathel 6y agoYou say "greige-ification" while Polish architecture and design communities lament the pasteloza ("pastelosis") trend. It came to be when existing commie blocks were thermally insulated with styrofoam and their façades painted with pastel colors in 2000's and 2010's. You can't please everyone, I guess... Although some of the designs created in response to "pasteloza" use bright colors sparingly, so there's that.
- joe_the_user 6y agoScanning google images for the pasteloza, the nice looking building have strong colors and the horrible, depressing buildings basically a mixture of gray and pastel, a lot like greige, IMO. https://www.google.com/search?q=poland+pasteloza&client=ubuntu&hs=xTW&channel=fs&sxsrf=ALeKk00SJUdO5e0CyCAC5LC5IJw3EkKYyA:1602390593284&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwikkOqQ2qvsAhWPHDQIHW9GBNcQ_AUoAnoECAsQBA&biw=1252&bih=560 https://www.google.com/search?q=poland+pasteloza&client=ubun...
- friendlybus 6y agoYes the new residential houses are hard-edged bunkers built from randomly connected boxes chosen for function, that fill every last square metre on the block. It is ugly, aggressive and unsettling to look at. The rare house with a classical interpretation is a godsend to look at. Your eye can actually rest along a well designed set of horizontal lines and a trianglar roof. They are the last refuge of nice curves and shapes that make full use of all three dimensions. The flat and boring cubes randomly mangled together with a single tacked-on feature to show off and some expensive materials that attempt to pass for grace, are the coming wave of babylonian australia that I cant see the virtue in. Painting that stuff purple won't save it.
- porknubbins 6y agoI’m a big fan of modernist architecture but I’ve noticed once modern type buildings become the default they start to look like horrible boxes someone drew in 30 minutes on a computer.
- rbg246 6y agoAnd the interiors of these new places too! White walls, white cabinetry, neutral coloured couches. It's very much in fashion now, I wonder whether they will look as drab as brutalist buildings in the coming decades (well in the decades before brutalist became novel and exciting again).
- sjwright 6y agoYeah but on the other hand, try to find a plain carpet that is truly grey. It's pretty difficult! Everything is some shade of brown or grey-brown.
- wott 6y agoThe practical reason is that it is camouflage to hide dirt and stains.
- wasdfff 6y agoThis is what I like about some American cities like Los Angeles and New Orleans. Not unexpected to come across a purple house.