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Agree. I can't stand the coldness of brutalist architecture, it's dystopian. It's disagreeable in summer, let alone on a grey winter day.
by yoran 3y ago
Agree. I can't stand the coldness of brutalist architecture, it's dystopian. It's disagreeable in summer, let alone on a grey winter day.
- cjohnson318 3y agoI appreciate its novelty at the time, and its nostalgia now. It was used in a lot of public buildings in the 1970's because it tended to be more economical than Ivy League looking brick buildings with white trim. I appreciate that its design had something to say, even if that thing wasn't clear or useful. Now public buildings look like boring brick boxes with maybe a curved wall or some other "accent".
- lmm 3y agoBoring beats ugly, IME. A certain amount of ambition is welcome, and a certain amount of failure is an inevitable cost of that, but textured concrete should have been consigned to the history books a long time ago.
- WWLink 3y agoHonestly, I liked the brutalist behemoths more than the tilt-ups with fake italian villa crown molding, arches, and weird curves. At least the buildings usually convey one specific message instead of a mish-mash of "I'm a big cheap commercial building but I wish I was this other thing instead"
- PaulHoule 3y agoI think of the federal building in Manchester, NH which looks like something the lizardman aliens would have built in “V” or might make you think the government faked the 9/11 attacks.