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Hard disagree. This is what brutalism looks like in sunny, subtropical Brisbane, Australia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:QPAC_Exterior.jpg https://co
by _kb 8mo ago
Hard disagree. This is what brutalism looks like in sunny, subtropical Brisbane, Australia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:QPAC_Exterior.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:QPAC_Exterior.jpg
If the straight concrete isn’t your thing, they’re also currently extending it with a glasshouse: https://www.snohetta.com/projects/queensland-performing-arts-centre https://www.snohetta.com/projects/queensland-performing-arts...
- wiseowise 8mo agoLooks even worse in the sun. At least it belongs in the depressing, shitty weather.
- liamwire 8mo agoWhat's depressing and shitty about Brisbane's weather?
- jzymbaluk 8mo agoI think they're saying that brutalist architecture feels out of context in Brisbane's weather, whereas the gloomy dreary feeling of the building fits in perfectly in the former USSR's gloom
- _kb 8mo agoPredicated 90% humidity at 3am this evening does not fill me with a great amount of joy. I think the above commenter may be referring to the rather more unfortunate UK climate though.
- strken 8mo agoI don't hate brutalism but I'd much rather have the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Exhibition_Building https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Exhibition_Building than QPAC, rain or shine.
- ahoka 8mo agoI think both look ugly and megalomaniac.
- strken 8mo agoYou're entitled to that opinion, but if you give an alternative for how a big multi-storey building for large events and crowds should look then it will move the discussion forward.
- harimau777 8mo agoTo me the issue is that the alternative to brutalism isn't classic, art deco, art nouveau, googie, etc. It's soulless glass and steel designs. I'd rather have classic, art deco, etc. to brutalism but I'd MUCH rather have brutalism to modern glass and steel.
- Dansvidania 8mo agoWow that is already ugly without the water stains
- zdragnar 8mo agoEh... The concrete looks to me like a bland imitation of Spanish Adobe style building. It's better than most of the brutalism we have around here, I'll grant you that, but still not really my cup of tea.