Gorgeous. So much better looking than any new buildings I've seen in the US in recent memory.
I think so too.
Gorgeous
That is not a word that ever comes to mind for me when I think of new buildings in the US. Some words that I think of are bland, unfortunate, or ugly.
They'd be instantly better if they had a front side but apparently every US architect stumbles into their meetings after nights of heavy drinking and flashbacks of rolling the wrong numbers on the d6 games at the casino. Instead of turning up with their homework, they hallucinate and convince the client that, yes, it's supposed to look like a blank cube it's all the rage.
I really like the organic looking facade of the bottom one.
Those are very nice. All that gets built by me is big grey glass buildings and small grey glass buildings.
high income neighborhoods have apartments like these, but also got some gaudy tasteless roman design alongside dilapidated housing of old people that got trapped in there when their neighbourhood got gentrified and can't afford renovation. iranian towns basically have no zoning laws and the ones that are there can be bypassed by bribing some official or another, so everyone just builds whatever they like/can afford/think sells best. the cities are ugly as sin but i guess it's better than 12 lanes of asphalt.
EDIT: Tehran also has a lot of highways running through it i meant all development is mostly dense. there's really no such thing as a suburb since it's basically wasted value. soviet blocks are the most common type of housing since it offers most value per square meter of land.
You can tell a country is evil when they don't allow a cartel of cardboard modernists the freedom to control all new construction
