What the fuck is that dome? This is the guy (Speer) wehraboos tell me was the best architect who ever lived? He can't even do neoclassicism properly lmao. The rest of the city looks like shit too.
Also mussolini tried some weird combo of stripped classicism and modernism and it looks real dumb. Like pick one or the other dude. Oh wait, Il Duce's too busy hanging off a meathook to listen to me.
This is the worst shit. They tore down existing buildings and clear-cut a grove to build that eyesore. There are thousands like it everywhere too.
Seriously. There are so many interesting architectural styles out there and they give us this shit
Business. Business business. Stocks. Profit loss, profit? Business.
:stonks-down: Line go down if put effort into building. Line go up if zero effort put into building.
Public housing? Keep those dirty poors away from me. What should we build for the dirty poors as far away from us as possible? Dull husks of poorly built poorly maintained apartments carelessly thrown around and a few trees as consolation.
It's called "cheapest materials we can get" and it's a staple of gentrification because all of these places are built to last like 10 years and usually replace buildings that were at some point or another public/rent controlled housing.
Soviet Classicism is chef's kiss. Can't decide between it and art moderne tho
I'm a bit pro-streamline/left-futurism myself. But my lib heart still loves the swirliness of Art Nouveau. Like Elves had an industrial revolution but with trees.
There's nothing lib about liking ornament. On here especially people shouldn't be so quick to assume political affiliations based on architectural preferences.
Unless you're dealing with greek statue avatar on twitter, in which case, it's pretty obvious what kind of politics they have
Fun facts about the Volkshalle:
Berlin is pretty marshy, and building huge buildings on it is tricky. The Nazis built a gigantic concrete test pillar near Tempelhof airport, in order to test how well the area would keep buildings like the Volkshalle and Hitler's planned triumphal arch up. If it sank less than 6cm into the ground, building could commence without expensive and time consuming stabilisation work. When it was measured in 1948, the cylinder had sunk 19cm into the ground.
The dome of the Volkshalle was so large that, if it were ever built, the condensation from people's breath would form rainclouds in the dome. It would literally be raining inside the dome on a cool day.
Well, its really not about the practically of form in cases like his. That giant dome is more than likely meant to be seen from thousands of meters away, and with the forced perspective from the road it probably looks insane. I was more impressed with what Speer did with, say, the vertical spotlight beams he used at some famous Nazi night-rallies, where the beams are invoked to recreate/reinforce the rhythm of the classical style and extends it upwards into infinity until they completely disappear. As pure visual phenomology, it was kind of genius. Reminded me of some Hogwarts dining hall shit.
Source: naively studied architecture in undergrad, like that was gonna make my life better
I think you can get an idea of what it would like in that Wolfenstein game from a few years ago.
It looks like an upturned fruit bowl from the 70s placed carelessly atop a VCR
It would definitely suck to live in and habitability should be the primary goal of architecture but I'm not gonna deny there is a certain amount of grim spectacle to Speer's work. It reminds me of the MG42 and the design of Nazi weapons, which were all designed to instill panic so I guess this is weaponized architecture designed to instill dread. The setting's art style from the Wolfenstein reboot was arguably the strongest character in the series, especially with The Old Blood's Castle Wolfenstein.
anyways imagine if the communists won in the 20s and Gropius didn't cuck the Bauhaus architects RIP
Having lived in both a planned city with high building regulations and a laissez faire, 'anything the property developers want' style city in my life I have to say the former was great and the latter was a hell hole.
It looks like someone took 3rd rate Stalinist architecture for some Siberian School Hall, made the materials crap, and got the aspect ratio wrong.
Right-wingers can't do art because brain empty. This is a long proven fact.
