I swear there were like 3 guys in the 60s or something that loved brutalism so much that they spent the next few years going to major cities to convince mayors to build the ugliest, most ghastly buildings that would remain as eyesores for decades to come.
Brutalised architecture absolutely slaps when done right
Well the right hotel looks pretty decent, although seeing just bare concrete makes me want to indulge in suspicously cheap vodka and intoxicate myself for my entire life + depression.
It has it's weird charm, like looking back to the awful past of the USSR. These are a great reminder for us eastern europeans to never ever let another communist regime to power.
Maybe I would love the brutalism's uniqueness but this stigma is coming strong with me unfortunately.
For me personally that looks very interesting if that's the right word, it pikes my curiousity, but it evokes a very uneasy feeling which would make me want to leave rather than hang around this area.
Kind of "nothing is allowed here if it's not with explicit purpose"
Brutalism has absolutely grown on me with age
This looks like something out of Mass Effect.
It's kinda okay, but some cheap white (or any other color!) paint would absolutely be an improvement in my eyes. I've yet to see an example (and at this point I don't think there is any), where paint over otherwise okay brutalist architecture would improve things. Bare Concrete is just an ugly and unfinished look.
I applaud their efforts and results!
Beats black box urbanism. (But I might be misremembering the name of the style lol.)
only so much you can do when everything else has already been done...
It's time for Solarpunk architecture.
Can't be brutalist if there's no concrete!
Is that the cybertruck x 9000?
The amount of rust seems on track.
Elon just claimed it was on X.
Needs less metal and more concrete.
I find some of the origin story fascinating. Apparently it almost started a war with Libya (2nd story).
Only the bottom part of the sandcrawler was built for close-up scenes in the Tatooine desert for Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. In Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones these large vessels appeared on matte paintings. George Lucas took many pictures of the treads of NASA's space rocket carrier (known as a crawler) as inspiration for the sandcrawler.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Sandcrawler/Legends
In Jay's book, the author implies that the original shooting location of the Jawa Sandcrawler may have been a little too close to the Libyan border for Gaddafi's comfort, because the Libyan government "rushed inspectors across the border to ensure Lucas's crew wasn't constructing some newfangled military vehicle."
The vehicle's original design was conceived by Colin Cantwell, and was later redesigned by Ralph McQuarrie, one of the most famous of the Star Wars designers. It was modeled after NASA moon rovers from the time. There were smaller models, of course, used for effects shots, but the bottom half of outsize Sandcrawler — complete with tank treads — was also built to accommodate a notable scene where Luke Skywalker's uncle buys R2-D2 from the Jawas.
That's hilarious. I wonder what Gaddafi thought when the inspectors returned to give their report.
"It's just Jawas, sir."
TIL my aesthetic is brutalism
If you're basing that off the Pic, that is not brutalism. Brutalism is awesome though, like a modern day architecture terrible from the 20th century totalitarians. Unpopular opinion, but I've always thought the Chinese did it best
Nah, went off on the "bigger and uglier".
And surely the Chinese did it fine, but Yugoslav Brutalism is just something else ;)
Mmmm resource utilization-effective monolithic architecture
Fuck yeah
I like brutalism in pictures but not as much in person.
"It's not brutalism, it's concrete expressionism!" Or some shit like that.
I can only think they thought it looked good from a distance, which it still doesn't but from making a little model it can seem clean and all that.
I guess I understand why people don't like it but brutalism looks so good from like any distance. I would live in a brutalist house if I could
Brutalism is my jam. -someone who lives in a city with a lot of brutalism architecture
Lol I JUST heard this exact reference, image to word, in a "stuff you should know" podcast. They just couldn't remember the name of the sand crawler.
Life can be pretty weird, or you heard it too lol
