If those were in Vancouver it'd be like a trillion dollars worth of real estate, probably in better shape than a ton of million dollar homes.
https://mobile.twitter.com/wired/status/1378918910112727042
Brutalist prefabs like that are actually found all over Western Europe as well. It wouldn't surprise me if somebody in the comments would go "that pic is Paris, that one is from Cologne, that one is from London" etc., i've seen nearly identical buildings in all of these cities. Not only that, this style of architecture was originally developed by architects from France, from Switzerland, from the UK, from Germany. When Stalin planned entire cities from scratch while building up a new industrial base behind the Ural mountains, the project also involved city planners from Weimar Germany.
I think the only ideology that was really outspoken against any modern architecture were the nazis :curious-marx:
Pictures that are used to show how "bad" they are are also usually taken during overcast spring days before any vegitation has come out. You could put anything in the same light and it would look like shit.
like also considering it is the soviet union i think a lot of aesthetics worries would probably disappear as you have to choose to live there or die on the streets in the russian winter like the danger of homelessness seems real big in russia so ease of construction is important
Oh no, you see, they were "Identical" 2 or 3 bedroom apartments.
All seriousness: the number of people who think interior decorating was outlawed in the USSR is definitely not 0.
Re-education for all of the would-be artists that got suckered into jobs with "designer" or "decorator" in the title. I will gladly be first in line.
Even if it was, it’s not like people in the US would have an issue if every apartment in a luxury building was identical to the model unit.
Communist ideology: house the homeless
Western news: look how much this architectute was influenced by their ideology
the article is about a book called Eastern Blocs that is basically saying that
According to Navarro and Sobecka, the structures "reflect the dreams and ideals" of the postwar era.
communist authoritarian dictatorships will destroy your unalienable human right to be homeless
Capitalism never turns up a bunch of identical cheaply made houses
Capitalism will sell you a single ranch style home on an acre of land for an 80% markup.
Communism will build a thousand units vertically and just give them away for free
This is why Capitalism succeeds and Communism fails.
This article is about a photography book celebrating the beauty of these buildings. People assume the tweet is negative but it is not
"house the masses in a way that jived with communist ideology" yeah, in apartment buildings. housing them in a way that jived with capitalist ideology would have been throwing them in prison for being homeless.
like it's literally just concrete. these fucking jackass conde nast reporters all live in essentially the same thing but built with less sturdy materials.
I went to the Solidarność museum in Gdansk, and they had a section of an apartment under Communism with the implication that it was horrible and tiny, but it was bigger and nicer than my $1,200+ a month apartment
You all are telling on yourselves. You just read the headline. The article is about a book that is very positive about these buildings, both aesthetically and in regard to the ideology behind them.
They received few maintainance for last 30 years, but they were built with massive margins of safety, so they are usually still pretty comfortable.
Romanian socialism wasn't renowned for being good. Bucharest has that same kind of public housing, with 2br/1ba condos provided to residents of that era. When I went to one, it was on par with a flat that would cost maybe $2500/mo in a major US city. This is the location. It was small but perfectly livable and an upgrade from my place I'd happily take. The building had a bakery underneath where you could buy freshly baked government-subsidised baguettes for almost nothing. The courtyard was a park, every surrounding courtyard was a park or an open-air market, and it was a five minute walk from three proper parks. It had metro, lightrail, and bus access and was a straight shot to both a major urban park and the main train station.
That is such an upgrade over any suburb in this country.
"Freedom is the illusion of meaningful choice" wow so important
The difference is capitalism charges 2 to 20 times their value. Truly the greatest system that meets the most people's needs.
