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minus-squareThis is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·3 days ago“Ornate buildings aren’t cost-effective.” “Some nice brutalist architecture then?” “Also no.”
minus-squarebrown567@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoWe instead have something I like to call “Corpo-brutalism” It’s like Brutalism, but with random colorful rectangles
minus-squareprettybunnys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 days agoI’ll take some nice brutalist architecture. It ain’t all bad. Just … a lot of it.
minus-squareBenaaasaaas@group.ltlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoBrutalist architecture can be nice if it’s contrasting with some other architecture, if it’s all brutalist it gets overwhelming pretty fast.
minus-squarePuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoThe problem is that cheap style-less architecture is often called brutalist architecture, because it sounds more sophisticated than “eh we were too cheap to make it look nice”.
“Ornate buildings aren’t cost-effective.”
“Some nice brutalist architecture then?”
“Also no.”
We instead have something I like to call “Corpo-brutalism”
It’s like Brutalism, but with random colorful rectangles
I’ll take some nice brutalist architecture.
It ain’t all bad.
Just … a lot of it.
Brutalist architecture can be nice if it’s contrasting with some other architecture, if it’s all brutalist it gets overwhelming pretty fast.
The problem is that cheap style-less architecture is often called brutalist architecture, because it sounds more sophisticated than “eh we were too cheap to make it look nice”.