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It'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 ca
by RobotToaster 4y ago
It'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 agoA lot of people thought that we should not preserve pre-war architecture, and that's why we now have a lot of modernist and brutalist architecture in its place. I do agree that aesthetics and fitting into the neighborhood should come into the equation somewhere: the Barbican is probably worthy of preservation, some random shitty shoebox municipal library or housing estate probably isn't.
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoHalf of our cities have buildings just like that. There is nothing special about them... just ugly socialist reinforced concrete buildings. I would understand if there were just a few left over, but there are large neighbourhoods just like that.
- cdogl 4y agoBrutalism is an interesting architectural movement, but speaking as someone who lives in a city that has human-scale architecture, lots of trees and lots of eclectic housing, I understand Europeans who don’t want their cities dominated by remnants of the misanthropic planning regime that was imposed on them.
- mannerheim 4y agoIf you want to preserve it, buy it yourself and keep it that way. Don't force others to live in depressing brutalist blocks if they don't want to.
- SllX 4y agoSometimes I wonder how much of the drive to preserve old architecture is just the hoarder mentality applied to literal buildings. Not every piece of a particular architectural-style is a masterpiece worthy of preservation.
- Cupertino95014 4y ago> It's important to preserve modernist and brutalist architecture Not really. Brutalism was a mistake, and one building is enough to remind us what it was. Maybe a scale model in a museum is enough.