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> Compare it to European attitudes Yeah... Can we swap? Or like find a middle ground? Here in slovenia, we have socialist buildings from 1970s that someone de
by ajsnigrutin 4y ago
> Compare it to European attitudes
Yeah... Can we swap? Or like find a middle ground?
Here in slovenia, we have socialist buildings from 1970s that someone decided to culturally protect, and the owners cannot renew the leaking facade and add insulation, because the outside has to stay the same, and puting insulation on the inside would reduce the inside space and make walkways and doors too narrow to pass (or carry a fridge through or drive through with a wheelchair).
Buildings like this: https://www.zurnal24.si/media/img/83/c3/35bf6005bfff08c83654.jpeg https://www.zurnal24.si/media/img/83/c3/35bf6005bfff08c83654...
More photos: https://www.zurnal24.si/slovenija/ne-smemo-narediti-fasade-ker-je-blok-kulturna-dediscina-387971 https://www.zurnal24.si/slovenija/ne-smemo-narediti-fasade-k...
- TheNorthman 4y agowhat makes a building socialist?
- astine 4y agoBuildings in the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact contries during the Cold War were often constructed with an ideological bent in mind: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning_in_communist_countries https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning_in_communist_...
- chimineycricket 4y agoMicrodistrict type buildings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdistrict https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdistrict
- bombolo 4y agoMicrodistricts were good… new stuff is usually an unplanned cash grab.
- ajsnigrutin 4y agobuilt by the government during socialist times, and built in the same was as pretty much all the other socialist buildings were built (reinforced concrete or from premade concrete blocks). A bunch of our cities were built during the socialist era, and pretty much all the buildings look the same, and some things (especially parking garages) are actually the same all over the country.
- denkmoon 4y agoWe have the same issues with heritage buildings in Australia too, there's no silver bullet.
- zebracanevra 4y agoAnd a lot of those buildings just happen to accidentally burn down, such as the White Bay Hotel in Sydney. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Bay_Hotel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Bay_Hotel
- DocTomoe 4y agoThe solution to that is simple: Enforce an exact reconstruction to be paid by the owner in case of destruction of the original for protected-status buildings. That's usually more expensive than keeping the old building viable.
- RobotToaster 4y agoIt's important to preserve modernist and brutalist architecture, so I can sort of see their point. I'm surprised there isn't another option in that specific case though (Can they not just add doors to the stairwell? Or do they oppose that too?) Too much brutalist architecture is being covered in tacky "neo-classical" plaster facades.
- _-____-_ 4y ago> It's important to preserve modernist and brutalist architecture Why?
- MonkeyClub 4y ago> Why? Because history is as valuable to humanity as memory to the human.
- Xc43 4y agoHistory, yes. The actual obsolete building housing humans, no.
- cortesoft 4y agoSo is every building history, then? Are we not allowed to knock down any buildings, since they are all part of history?
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- midoridensha 4y agoYou don't need to preserve everything to remember history. If we never destroy old buildings, we'd have to abandon all our cities and find new places to build new cities, because we can't just keep living like it's the middle ages (or whatever time period you feel we need to preserve).
- rippercushions 4y ago
- SOLAR_FIELDS 4y agoI guess it depends on what it is. A friend of mine’s family owns some land where Tanum carvings are: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Carvings_in_Tanum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Carvings_in_Tanum. The government probably knows the carvings are there but doesn’t really force his family to take any steps to protect the rocks as far as I’m aware. They are just chilling in the forest covered in moss and dead leaves all the time. I suspect they would have something to say if his family tried to develop the land though.