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These all look like churches that I would encounter with blood everywhere in the middle of a first-person shooter. They also look like total acoustical nightmar

These all look like churches that I would encounter with blood everywhere in the middle of a first-person shooter. They also look like total acoustical nightmares. All that echo-ey concrete, yikes.

bombcar 3y ago
Sometimes the concrete is exceptionally well designed and you can fill the church with a single singer. Others are so badly designed you need literally millions in audio equipment to have a simple choir.
deadbabe 3y ago
Quake??
- egypturnash 3y ago
  Mostly I was reminded of the upside-down church zone of System Shock 2. That's one of the few FPSs I bothered playing.
swores 3y ago
Brutalist architecture can be done with good acoustics in mind, it just takes the same sort of planning & design that a non-brutalist building also needs. The Barbican Centre in the UK is a very famous example of a music (and arts) venue with brutalist architecture, and while its acoustics are considered good but not amazing (or "serviceable", to use the description of conductor Sir Simon Raffle), it could have been much better but its problems weren't caused by being brutalist. This person's blog is worth a quick read (ctrl+F for the section about the Barbican): http://trevorcox.me/what-is-wrong-with-londons-concert-halls http://trevorcox.me/what-is-wrong-with-londons-concert-halls And I really love the Barbican, including how it looks from outside and including how it feels to sing on its biggest stage. An exterior photo: https://www.ansador.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Barbican-Centre-scaled.jpg https://www.ansador.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Barbica... And interior example: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/93/1f/52/931f52e58c9b1a2f9330d050a7707a49.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/736x/93/1f/52/931f52e58c9b1a2f9330d050a...
- graemep 3y ago
  I lived there for a year (there are blocks of flats there) and I found it to be a great place to live. It feels very pleasant once you get to know it.
  - swores 3y ago
    Ooh, I've never been in any of those flats, but always thought I'd enjoy living there - glad to hear that you did enjoy it!

These all look like churches that I would encounter with blood everywhere in the middle of a first-person shooter. They also look like total acoustical nightmares. All that echo-ey concrete, yikes.

bombcar 3y ago

Sometimes the concrete is exceptionally well designed and you can fill the church with a single singer. Others are so badly designed you need literally millions in audio equipment to have a simple choir.

deadbabe 3y ago

Quake??

egypturnash 3y ago
Mostly I was reminded of the upside-down church zone of System Shock 2. That's one of the few FPSs I bothered playing.

swores 3y ago

Brutalist architecture can be done with good acoustics in mind, it just takes the same sort of planning & design that a non-brutalist building also needs. The Barbican Centre in the UK is a very famous example of a music (and arts) venue with brutalist architecture, and while its acoustics are considered good but not amazing (or "serviceable", to use the description of conductor Sir Simon Raffle), it could have been much better but its problems weren't caused by being brutalist. This person's blog is worth a quick read (ctrl+F for the section about the Barbican): http://trevorcox.me/what-is-wrong-with-londons-concert-halls http://trevorcox.me/what-is-wrong-with-londons-concert-halls And I really love the Barbican, including how it looks from outside and including how it feels to sing on its biggest stage. An exterior photo: https://www.ansador.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Barbican-Centre-scaled.jpg https://www.ansador.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Barbica... And interior example: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/93/1f/52/931f52e58c9b1a2f9330d050a7707a49.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/736x/93/1f/52/931f52e58c9b1a2f9330d050a...

graemep 3y ago
I lived there for a year (there are blocks of flats there) and I found it to be a great place to live. It feels very pleasant once you get to know it.
- swores 3y ago
  Ooh, I've never been in any of those flats, but always thought I'd enjoy living there - glad to hear that you did enjoy it!