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marzipanandminutiae · 1 year ago

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It feels like this post is from a secret universe where everyone likes brutalism, and OP is expressing a top-secret unpopular opinion

As opposed to this universe, where 95% of people, regardless of politics, would happily destroy it with heavy artillery and dance around the smoldering wreckage

(you are so right, op. The phrasing is just fascinating me)

okay the thing is brutalism is meant to last and allow for low cost structures that will persist with low maintenance costs etc and for this i respect it. but as someone who has had to work in brutalist buildings. nothing destroys your will to persist more profoundly than having to navigate a brutalist building day after day. basically what i'm saying is we can get weird with it we can innovate we can come up with alternatives that do not make people feel like caged animals

#I always use Boston’s City Hall as an example of why modern architecture is not universally progressive and wonderful #and all buildings are not always inherently decadent and for the rich or something #*old buildings #A bunch of working peoples businesses and homes – which happen to be in 19th century buildings #got torn down to build this massive brutalist Plaza and building. The plaza doesn’t get used half as much as it should #The building is a Kafkaesque nightmare to navigate inside and looks horrible to work in #end it used to be a bustling part of the city that served the people. Instead of this huge wasteful spectacle #but I guess because those buildings had to scrolly bits or whatever. They had to go for progress

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