IT ISNT EVEN CONCRETE! YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT BRITTLE, ROUGH, MOLD AND FUNGUS FARMS THAT DEGRADE IN NO LESS THAN 20 YEARS CINDER BLOCK.
BRICK, in a technical sense is concrete BUT EVEN BRICK AND MORTAR ARE INFERIOR TO A SIMPLE WELL EXECUTED CONCRETE POUR.
LAZY INCOMPETENT CONTRACTORS DECIDED TO SKIP THE CAST MAKING STAGE AND JUST STARTED GOING TO TOWN WITH SHITTY ASS BRICK AND POROUS ASS MORTER.
WAS THAT ENOUGH?!?!? NOOOOOOOOO.
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH. THEY NEEDED TO FIND A WAY TO MAKE THE BLOCK SHITTIER THAN THE BONDING AGENT SO THEY MADEā¦
30 straight seconds of visceral panting
DOG SHIT POLLEN ABSORBING WATER SOLUABLE FUCK ME IN THE ASS SNEEZE ON IT AND IT CRUMBLESā¦ ARGHā¦ CIIIIIIINNNNNNNDEEEEEERRRRRR BLOOOOOOCCCCCCK.
I just canāt anymoreā¦ I have grown to cherish brickā¦ who made cinder blockā¦ why?.. why did they do this to me? Why did they make me not only know of but also languish in a world mostly made ofā¦ wimperā¦ cinder blockā¦
To be fair, brutalist buildings are fugly
I dunno, I think theyāre kinda ā¦ neat, I guess? Like, yeah, theyāre technically pretty ugly, but somehow in a way that makes them interesting.
Tryingā¦and failing, to think of a good portmanteau of interesting and ugly.
Edit: intugly? Ugteresting?
āStrikingā is usually the word. It can be used for bad looks as well as good.
I actually just tried looking that up, to see if such a word actually exists in English. I found a stack exchange thread asking this same question but no one had a suitable answer. So, yeah, I guess itās up to you to contribute to society by inventing and popularizing this new word. Enjoy your new destiny.
I guess this is technically the opposite of what you are trying to convey, but your comment reminded me of a song I havenāt thought about in a decade
https://theendlessbummer.bandcamp.com/track/boring-but-beautiful
To you.
The peak of brutality architecture beats any other type in my eyes. Itās beautiful in a way no other building or style compares.
Unfortunately many brutalistic buildings are far off from its peak and just look like lazily designed gray blobs. High-effort brutalism can look good (or can look inappropriately evil but thatās besides the point); low-effort brutalism always looks cheap.
Low effort brutalism looks cheap because it is. And thatās a good thing. In my country thereās a homeless crisis. The waitlist for government housing is five years. And thatās because too much of the government housing is single family detached houses. The politicians always say āwe donāt have enough money to build government housing for everyone who needs itā. You know how many homeless weād have if the government built soviet block style apartment buildings? Next to none. The people who can live on their own and just donāt have enough money can live in that, the people who need support can stay in the homeless shelters that have support, and only the people who want to be homeless would be left. Brutalism is efficient. American style suburbia is inefficient, so much so that it needs to be subsidized by the government using money taken from the city, because the suburbanites canāt pay for their own single family detached houses, even the ones with high paying jobs.
They look depressing and I hate being around them. A city should be a nice place to live, not a playground for architectsā experiments
I love being around them. Visiting Tokyo right now and there are so many gorgeous concrete buildings.
The last thing Iād want is to live in a city that was so stuck in the past that all buildings look 100 years old.
Give me buildings from the 2020s not the 1920s. Give me sleek and light concrete, metal and glass.
Death to brick and wrought iron.
I think the greenery in these pictures is doing quite a bit of lifting. Brutalist buildings without plants are less fun to look at
These look like defensive structures from a war movie with some plants on them
Iāve been looking for a reason why I find them unpleasant and you found it for me. They look like the decaying Nazi bunkers I got to explore on a Danish beach when I was a kid.
Though I also donāt like massive towers of glass. Or rowhomes. Or really cities in general. Give me a nice cave in a swamp any day.
This reminds me of a very short but very good documentary
The Barbican: A Middle Class Council Estate
I was watching this and thinking, almost. How did a country start building like this, for the people and then stop. Then it is all apparent, the Witch got in power.
It appears the growth of these āfor the benefit of peopleā views were replaced with the old ages of the greatest and silent generation, and replaced with the āme, me, me. My moneyā of the boomer generation.
I canāt help but thinking how things could have been different if we continued on from the old timers. I know ww2 destroyed an economy that was lucky to survive it, thatās in itself is also an interesting thing to think how the world would have been without it.
the Witch got in power
Not British and havenāt watched the video you linked, so Iām guessingā¦ Thatcher?
I have a fairly functional form of autism, but I sometimes struggle finding balance in points of interest I get enthusiastic about, and nobody really matches my enthusiasm, even though they try. It often feels like rejection, but this post really puts it in perspective for me. Iām not always reasonable/flexible when Iām like that. Thanks for sharing.
(To give an example related to this post; I wouldnāt assault someone for having a different opinion, but I could definitely debate them with a passion thatās a little out of place and not as reasonable as Iād like to believe it is. āBuilding with concrete blocks? What is even wrong with you, where you never thought proper construction? What do you mean cheap building costs? People who want to build cheap buildings shouldnāt be allowed to build anywayā.
āBuilding with concrete blocks? What is even wrong with you, where you never thought proper construction? What do you mean cheap building costs? People who want to build cheap buildings shouldnāt be allowed to build anywayā.
The internet suddenly makes a bit more sense to me
Whatās bad faith trolling? I tried to google it, but struggle to understand
Nice try š
No but look up āarguing in bad faithā and if that doesnāt make sense let me know.
Your point about matching enthusiasm resonates with me. I am fortunate nowadays that many of my friends are neurodivergent, and we seem to enjoy each othersā enthusiasm. We have some shared interests, but I think in a context where I can just listen and learn and not necessarily be expected to be a part of a āregular conversationā (i.e. when the primary mode of conversation is neurodivergent), I really enjoy listening to my friends nerd out about things outside of my own interest, as well as sometimes explaining my things to other people.
Outside of that framework though, before I had my current friends, I often felt like it was a smarter social strategy to just not talk about my interests at all because tempering my enthusiasm was difficult and seemed to never been enough.
Thereās this interesting balance within my MTG group where some guys are happy to devote a fair part of their life to learning all the individual cards by heart. They can go on tangents that are just rows of card names describing a turn (think if the F6 to G8 takes rook babble of chess people). I canāt be fucked, but I still love the hobby, so when we get together its trying to find the middle between all these levels of expertise that works. Overall that went well but there was one guy who flat out told me: āMaby if you would just dedicate a bigger part of your life to the game, we wouldnāt have to bother talking around you so much.ā Yeah right. Not everyone makes their hobby into their profession.
That being said, its kinda heartbreaking so many people struggle with just letting their enthusiasm about a certain topic flow. If youād rather not talk about something because youāre afraid you canāt reel it in, that sucks :(
Heās right though, we arenāt building as sustainable as we did back then.
Wonder how this kid reacted to the ending of the Three little Pigs?
