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They have their beauty as objects of art, but certainly not as a place that I would enjoy occupying or being around. Brutalist architecture with a Chinese flai
by foofoo55 2y ago
They have their beauty as objects of art, but certainly not as a place that I would enjoy occupying or being around. Brutalist architecture with a Chinese flair.
- donkeybeer 2y agoMost of it doesn't look brutalist to me. See this for example: https://www.pritzkerprize.com/sites/default/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/images/works/Shuijingfang%20Museum_2_2500px.jpg?itok=9qNgfbbB https://www.pritzkerprize.com/sites/default/files/styles/max... It looks like a normal house just without paint.
- vonneumannstan 2y agoI bet you live in SF and find the Tenderloin 'pleasant' and 'not so bad if you don't go out at night or alone' too.
- donkeybeer 2y agoI looked up Tenderloin and it all looks quite normal traditional architecture? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenderloin,_San_Francisco#/media/File:Tenderloin_Street_Chess,_SF,_CA,_jjron_26.03.2012.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenderloin,_San_Francisco#/med... Whats the problem there?
- vonneumannstan 2y agoAh yes when I'm surrounded by active drug users and the mentally ill my first thought is to architecture as well.
- donkeybeer 2y agoAnd why do you think that matters to this topic at all? I don't live in SF I don't know about its crime rate. How on earth is the architectural quality in any way shape of form related to crime rates? Why even bring up such a ridiculous unrelated point?
- vonneumannstan 2y agoIts about aesthetics and if you can't figure that out then its obvious why you find bleak soviet apartment blocks appealing and concrete bomb shelters.
- donkeybeer 2y agoThat location in SF then isn't an example of brutalism or soviet aesthetics either if I go by the photos I found on the internet. It was a totally irrelevant example.
- donkeybeer 2y agoI don't live there so I can't comment on level of crime. But architecturally I find no fault here.