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That's not the best picture of it. There are better pictures here: https://www.archdaily.com/940878/le-corbusiers-cite-fruges-lessons-from-a-modern-social-housi
by aphroz 4y ago
That's not the best picture of it. There are better pictures here: https://www.archdaily.com/940878/le-corbusiers-cite-fruges-lessons-from-a-modern-social-housing-neighborhood https://www.archdaily.com/940878/le-corbusiers-cite-fruges-l...
And this was built more than 100 years ago.
- achikin 4y agoLooking at the pictures I can’t tell what’s exactly wrong with those buildings.
- brimble 4y agoThe fronts looked to me like they were unfinished or had been really, really badly renovated. Those back photos look much better.
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- recuter 4y agoThey were building pretty spiffy stuff 100 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Frank_Lloyd_Wright_works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Frank_Lloyd_Wright_wor...
- flr03 4y agoThose are not exactly factory workers housing though.
- recuter 4y agoHe never got to make it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadacre_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadacre_City https://franklloydwright.org/revisiting-frank-lloyd-wrights-vision-broadacre-city/ https://franklloydwright.org/revisiting-frank-lloyd-wrights-...
- wongarsu 4y agoAt least from the outside these are pretty cool buildings if you give them a pressure wash and maybe add a couple more windows.
- jules 4y agoThat's one of the practical things wrong with this style of architecture: it looks bad with even a little bit of staining on the walls, and it stains very quickly because it lacks an overhanging roof that protects the walls.