Dapper_Cassowary [he/him,none/use name] to urbanism • 4 years agoAll I want is brutalist apartment communesimagemessage-square61 fedilinkarrow-up1100file-text
arrow-up199imageAll I want is brutalist apartment communesDapper_Cassowary [he/him,none/use name] to urbanism • 4 years agomessage-square61 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
I don't get why people say these buildings look depressing. They look dope to me. Unite d'habitation is the name of it.
minus-squareSerLava [he/him]hexbear14·edit-24 years agoI mean, the cozy interior doesn't require the exterior to look like a derelict building slash urinal The OP post is about the outside link
minus-squareAmorphous [any]hexbear3arrow-down1·4 years agoyes 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 link
minus-squareSerLava [he/him]hexbear5·4 years agoBut 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 link
minus-squareinfuziSporg [e/em/eir]hexbear1·edit-24 years agoThat picture you linked is not even an apartment building, though. link
minus-squareSerLava [he/him]hexbear1·4 years agoYeah but even better, it's the view from your apartment link
minus-squareinfuziSporg [e/em/eir]hexbear1·4 years agoIt's an industrial building. Even city planning that followed suit with brutalist architecture would not put dense residential next to dense industrial. link
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.