This is my thing about all living spaces, including shit like cars. Who cares about the outside, you spend 99.9% of your time inside not outside looking at the thing.
That's nice, until you look outside your window or go for a walk and are surrounded by aesthetically repulsive monoliths of concrete. The art of design can meaningfully improve lives and make dense living something to be celebrated, but that's not what many brutalist projects inspire given how atrocious they are to look at.
idk why the outside would matter at all
as long as you've got a cozy place on the inside its all good
I mean, the cozy interior doesn't require the exterior to look like a derelict building slash urinal
The OP post is about the outside
yes but the exterior looking like a derelict urinal-building is cheap, which means more people get to live in houses instead of under a bridge
But we already have enough homes for all of the homeless, this cheap building would just be empty and the homeless would still be under the bridge
That picture you linked is not even an apartment building, though.
Yeah but even better, it's the view from your apartment
It's an industrial building.
Even city planning that followed suit with brutalist architecture would not put dense residential next to dense industrial.
This is my thing about all living spaces, including shit like cars. Who cares about the outside, you spend 99.9% of your time inside not outside looking at the thing.
That's nice, until you look outside your window or go for a walk and are surrounded by aesthetically repulsive monoliths of concrete. The art of design can meaningfully improve lives and make dense living something to be celebrated, but that's not what many brutalist projects inspire given how atrocious they are to look at.