Thread 213870801

Do you love Brutalism in your /cunt/ ?

>>213870801 (OP)
Brutalism can sometimes be ok in very small amounts but it becomes depressing and horrible if there is a lot of brutalist buildings in an area. And working or living in a brutalist building is depressing. My old secondary school was in a brutalist building and it was very depressing. Brutalist architecture is very anti-human.

>>213870801 (OP)
can't say that i do, but i got a whole apartment for free so it's better than nothing

>>213870801 (OP)
What's up with the balcony sticking out on the left, is that some sort of commie penthouse?

>>213870909
Post an example of a brutalist building you like and one you don't

>>213871013
I actually like Trellick Tower. An example of one that I don't like is my old secondary school, but I don't want to post that one for obvious reasons.

>>213870801 (OP)
Some of it looks nice, I like this building in our capital. Though I'm clueless on architecture so not sure if it even is considered brutalism or not

>>213870801 (OP)
>Trellick Tower
Is that basically migrant housing?

>>213870801 (OP)
Yeah, it's cool. I like such styles as brutalism, constructivism and others derived from these.

no
bare minimum effort should be made for places where people live to look as if some level of pride was taken in building them, rather than simply being completely utilitarian
of course some exceptions can be made in the case of war-time reconstruction, but even then the goal would be to replace them eventually
respect should be built into the system from the ground up. build something that looks like shit and people will treat it like shit.

>>213870801 (OP)
if its a closed ensemble like the Barbican, or a single large building in nature, yes.

>>213870801 (OP)
Very rarely.
Robarts Library is interesting. The Colonnade works because of what is around it - it doesn't stand out as being this horrible, depressing megalith. York U is pretty nice, but again because of what's around it - it's very obvious that these square concrete buildings are where you study and this offset one with the round roof is where you go back to looking at gardens , and getting fresh air and experiencing life.

I love and hate 222 Jarvis - I call it the Ministry of Love. It's an inverted pyramid sticking out of an arcade of concrete I beams with a brick veneer that looks like it's been burned. It kind of adds to the impression of "You can think for yourself when we tell you" that they never bothered naming it. It's just 222 Jarvis.

>>213871598
wery much zhis

It needs greenery around it. Concrete on concrete just looks depressing, especially when it starts getting dirty. The industrial complexes in northwest toronto/etobicoke/brampton are just large swathes of this.

>>213870801 (OP)
I love this shit

>>213872001
needs more/bigger trees, but I do kind of like it. Imagine it without the diagonals though? It would just be a low budget Borg egg.

>>213872001
I wish we continued to build in such kind of style...

>>213872102
This is how it looks like from a different angle.

i like how depressed looking they are

>>213871251
This looks like a public school around here except with a lot more windows. Apparently when the schools around here were built they thought windows were bad for learning because kids would be distracted by looking out the window so they got rid of most of them. Also didn't put A/C in the buildings so they are terrible.

is this considered brutalist or just delapidated?

>>213872659
BOTH!
Without those raw concrete beams at the bottom, it's just an apartment building.
That's weird. It goes from low rent brutalist to brownstone as it goes up.

>>213872688
our gambling monopoly knows well where to set up their lottery booths
does canada have horrible commieblocks too ?

>>213872836
Kind of. Brutalism's usually a sign of schools or office buildings here. Our slums are generally just kind of slummy.

It's perfect for certain kind of goverments.

>>213873701
>2025: god abandons russia
>god damned dead deities

>>213870801 (OP)
contrarian attention whore

Actually I do,really enjoy that even though most of them look very simple they still have an imponent look about them.

Brutalism is simply a tier above primativism. It's functional.

>>213876265
this
big building good

>>213870801 (OP)
rationalism > brutalism

>>213870801 (OP)
Yugoslav brutalist statues are nice but the buildings not quite

>>213876662
>just make a ton of arched windows bro

I love Brutalism. Every day I thank British BVLLS for inventing Brutalism. Angular geometric shapes and monolithic forms. I am such a simp for BRVTALISM.

>b-bb-but it looks UGLY
it's meant to look foreboding in a based and uncaring way

>>213870801 (OP)
those flats cost like 1million pounds lol

Brutalism mixed with greenery is kino.

>>213878416
>>213879468
>>213879590
The materials used often age badly.

>>213879638
most of those buildings have been around for many decades

>>213879667
That's not long.

>>213879590
Can bricks be brutalist? I thought it had to be concrete.

>>213879590
always liked these buildings in pimlico. also a prime example of how simple thing like window frame colour can completely change the look of the building. if it had those ugly white frames it would look like a generic council estate

>>213878416
based

to be fiar brutalism is too broad a term. half of the imgaes in this thread have a completely different construction method and technique then the other. . raw concrete? really? when you waste thousands of dollars to specifically ornamentalize the formwork with wood planks going in inefficient directions? raw concrete? when you use double the form work to put long cracking Spalding striations in the facade like some dumber version of Chicago terracotta? raw concrete? but its precast panels that have been sand blasted smoothed and finished to appear like granite and then have arbitrary geomtric lines running down to appear 'aesthetic' raw concrete? but the cocnrete is plastered over with some exterior insulation and finish system then painted grey to appear like concrete. fuck off i want the real brutalism not your chique botique bimbo concrete bullshit