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It's a nice thought that all these depressive brutalistic/modernist builduings will all soon crumbly by the same mechanism that spawned them!

• stephencanon 4y ago
  Most brutalist buildings are already 60+ ish years old and doing great (actual brutalism, rather than “concrete buildings I don’t like,” was mostly a style of the 1950s and 60s in the west, though it lasted quite a bit longer in Eastern Europe). Even the Boston government services center, everyone’s most hated brutalist building in the US is already past 50.
  • bpbp-mango 4y ago
    for many people, myself included, actual brutalism is "concrete buildings I don’t like"
    • stephencanon 4y ago
      Eh, there’s no accounting for taste, but there have always been shitty buildings in every vernacular. We tend to not see the worst buildings in older styles because they’ve long since been torn down.