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> bare concrete is just fundamentally an ugly material "Ugly" is an emotional response, and isn't universal. Maybe some people find bare concrete ugly some of
by leoedin 6y ago
> bare concrete is just fundamentally an ugly material
"Ugly" is an emotional response, and isn't universal. Maybe some people find bare concrete ugly some of the time, but that's a far cry from it being "fundamentally an ugly material".
There's plenty of bare concrete buildings which are appreciated. This house in Chile comes to mind: https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/houses/108353211/amazing-concrete-house-for-sale-in-chile-pushes-the-limits https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/houses/108353211/am... . The Barbican Centre in London makes extensive use of bare concrete, and is widely appreciated.
- IshKebab 6y agoThis is "beauty is subjective therefore nothing is more beautiful than anything else" nonsense. We can talk about expected beauty - that is, how beautiful you would expect a random person to say something is. And on that metric bare concrete scores very low. > The Barbican Centre in London makes extensive use of bare concrete It does not. Its concrete has been worked to expose the granite aggregate. https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/255227503860482433/ https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/255227503860482433/ Bare concrete looks like this: https://www.friendlyshade.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/bare-concrete-01.jpg https://www.friendlyshade.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/bar... > and is widely appreciated. It was voted London's ugliest building in 2003. And I would say it is appreciated more for its cool layout than its materials.