Fuck it let’s gas light maga people with this until they support cars. It had all the shit they love: commie deep state plots mesnt to destroy countries, plans to directly control them, vauge concepts based on shit in old books.
It would work.
I have the same gripe. Cheapness with the excuse of being "modern." Strong Modern-style architecture requires a lot of subtlety that's rarely lived up to.
it seems that cheap materials and relatively expensive labor both contributed to an overall death of taste. not that everything should be a doric column as that would be bad taste too. it's only we have become creatively bankrupt for the conditions we are in.
same answer as anything else, architecture is so close to capital that it can't help to be a reflection of it
RIP in peace. Couldn't have put the lanes next to it no you had to tear it down and add onto it.
I visited a few cities in Germany a few years ago, my favorite places were the old city centers with buildings that survived WW2 and modernization. Without exception, every one of them had a large area in the center that cars were banned from.
It was built in 1887 so it's just people of that time trying to reference older architecture. But they also had to mash it up with all that steel work. The entrance looks pre-industrial but it's mashed with post-industrial engineering. In fact, that's why they kept the curves in the remodel. They're structural but they're also modernist in style which is why it works with the modernist design.
Plus this period was Imperial Germany. So it makes since why the entrance looks all castle-y. You can draw both the industrial, modernist aesthetic coming into being and the old traditional style remaining from that.
Obviously 1959 Germany was a totally different environment given what happened. So that expresses itself too. Which includes carbrain. Although the original bridge was built for cars as well. So it's not like they ruined a pedestrian bridge in favor of cars. The whole point was cars to begin with. And other bridges were to facilitate trains.
I must admit I have a soft spot for that kind of architecture where the engineering is unashamedly modern but the style hasn't caught up yet.
I don't get why the new one's worse. @betelgeuse pointed out it was built in the late 1900s - that shit probably looked chintzy as fuck by the late 50's. There was plenty of beautiful stuff built from then that's worth preserving, but some weird fantasy castle shit just ain't it.
Also those sorta mondernist designs from the midcentury at least look forward to a better world rather than back.
What's up with these incredibly brain dead gen z comments. Are you guys all post modern design dorks?
I keep seeing gen z trash places that where built start of last century or before as gawdy etc.
It's called craftsman ship you dorks.
I'm not Gen Z, I just don't think that old is always historically significant. If anything, the bridge construction would be more important historicaly than the facades.
I don't think that's the case inherently. An 80 year-old structure (in 1959) that's designed to imitate an earlier architectural style? I wouldn't say that's terribly historically important, and like I said before, it makes zero sense for what the people planning the redevelopment of Hamburg wanted to do with the area (and yes, it looks shitty today). Disneyland's 67 years old, that doesn't give it value. And there's plenty of structures that are 80+ years old and are no longer usuable. At the same time, there's plenty of 80+ year old structures still in use to this day.
that shit probably looked chintzy as fuck by the late 50’s
yes but today it would be considered a historical artifact
Can't wait to see these guys look back at their broccoli hair cuts in 5 years
It was around 80 years old at the time and exists in an area that looks to be primarily dedicated to industrial use , and looks to be entirely post-war construction. Stonework/concrete requires upkeep, in addition to the regular upkeep of a bridge - it's totally rational for a West German city planner to take one look at it and say "nah fuck it this has to go". I mean if this was supposed to be part of an area that it fit into and it actually served a purpose, yeah it'd be great. But it's an imitation of a previous architectural style grafted onto something that's from an entirely different era. The bridge doesn't need to be defended from the Goths or whatever.
That being said what the area looks like now is pretty grim.
Was about to agree until I saw the picture of the castle on the new one.
Oh god I only noticed it after you pointed it out
It's like a picture of a castle but in :corporate-art: style
