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I get that the “rawness” of the concrete is what literally makes these “brutalist”, but to my layman’s eye, dying the concrete almost always makes the building
by didgeoridoo 2y ago
I get that the “rawness” of the concrete is what literally makes these “brutalist”, but to my layman’s eye, dying the concrete almost always makes the building appear more attractive and less like a post-Soviet ruin.
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- fatbird 2y agoWhich is sadly contrary to brutalism's aims, which don't require buildings to be a mid-gray (and dark gray/brown when rained on), but it's a principled consequence of the approach that raw concrete buildings look so fucking depressing. If concrete were off-white in its natural form, brutalism would be radically different. [edit: sp]