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My experience in the US has been that buildings with fancy architects tend to be worse for inhabitants/users than utterly generic boxes.
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Nenonen posted:Surreal brutalist architecture I always had a weird feeling about brutalist architecture since i have a few buildings that follows those styles in my town, which are so painfully ugly the world would be a better place without but they are old enough to be granted historical site protection(and will be maintained as is forever).
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Nenonen posted:
I don't go here but I love these two
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SlowBloke posted:I always had a weird feeling about brutalist architecture since i have a few buildings that follows those styles in my town, which are so painfully ugly the world would be a better place without but they are old enough to be granted historical site protection(and will be maintained as is forever). Yeah brutalism is something I like to admire at a distance. It can make for some pretty pictures, but I loathed it when I actually lived around it.
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szary posted:
literally sorokin reality at this point
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szary posted:
Is that all new construction? Please dont tell me they have built that over some actual old castle.
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bad_fmr posted:Is that all new construction? Please dont tell me they have built that over some actual old castle.  In other news https://twitter.com/janlipavsky/status/1515384825548578820 Edit: There’s a temporary Ukrainian refugee kitchen on Ģertrūdes 6, if you’re in Rīga. https://twitter.com/girtss/status/1515965949517737984 cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 10:17 on Apr 20, 2022 |
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Not sure whether to be impressed or terrified. The ministry of transportation definitely seems so utterly bizarre, if impressive.
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Are they building a medieval style fortress in the middle of a forest? 
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Nenonen posted:Now that I'm at home, it's easier to post pictures.
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E: wrong thread
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bad_fmr posted:Is that all new construction? Please dont tell me they have built that over some actual old castle. It's all new, the islet it's standing on is artificial Torrannor posted:Are they building a medieval style fortress in the middle of a forest? It's supposed to be a residential building
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szary posted:It's all new, the islet it's standing on is artificial Oh phew, I was convinced that this is an old fort getting McMansion treatment.
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Apr 20, 2022 11:43
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For some reason Finland has specialized in building some brutalist churches. I guess the Lutherans really see modesty as a virtue.     
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Oh phew, I was convinced that this is an old fort getting McMansion treatment. Nope, just a regular, residential, condo castle, atop an artificial island, inside a nature preserve!
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The Yerevan Cascade is another example. The added bonus is that despite covering an entire hillside, inside it's ugly, inefficient, and claustrophobic. The architect is up front. 
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SpiritOfLenin posted:Not sure whether to be impressed or terrified. The ministry of transportation definitely seems so utterly bizarre, if impressive. Imo its a fairly clever use of landscape. Tbilisi has a problem with real estate due to being constricted by pretty steep mountains/hills. In this area you have to get used that entrance from one side of the building is from the 1st floor and like 4th from the other.
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SpiritOfLenin posted:Not sure whether to be impressed or terrified. The ministry of transportation definitely seems so utterly bizarre, if impressive. Appropriate that the MoT be an homage to the cargo container.
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bad_fmr posted:For some reason Finland has specialized in building some brutalist churches. I guess the Lutherans really see modesty as a virtue.
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You diss my Järvenpää Church, you fluff my hog...urch?  I was confirmed in a Very Brutal Finnish Church from the 1960s, so I guess I have a bit of a weird relationship to that style of church architecture. Many of them are actually really fun buildings! I love the attention paid to scale and the warmth of the organic materials used in contrast with the concrete and all the geometric effects in them and the emphasis they place on the role of a church as a social space, not just as a place of worship where normal folks come to feel inferior in front of an Angry Father and and and... But yeah, they're also pretty brutal.
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Some of them would look good if not for concrete looking absolutely hideous. I am really wondering as to how the whole thing happened: "we are going to build things using the ugliest construction material known to man and do nothing to pretty it up!" strikes me as a very strange direction for an architectural movement.
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Ah, the Anti-Satan bunkers indeed. The Tapiola one, second from the bottom, has this nice visual effect that if it is sunny outside the sunlight will fall on the altar from a window in the roof. It looks really neat, but from the outside it is just a concrete block. The long running joke is that when the doomsday comes the whole thing will split into two and fire large Anti-Satan missiles.
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The famous Reykjavik church is pretty awesome though. The Fins were just lazy I guess.
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I've always felt that the bare concrete and strong but thoughtful lines radiate a feeling of quiet well-being and spiritual strength that more traditional churches rarely achieve. I guess I'm the one Finn who actually loves the style. (At least when it's well maintained, concrete sure ages badly and is hell to keep looking fresh.)
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I'm not saying the churches are ugly. Just peculiar. Here is a more artistic example of a concrete church. 
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bad_fmr posted:I'm not saying the churches are ugly. Just peculiar. Here is a more artistic example of a concrete church. I lived across the street from that for some years. Church bells should be banned, especially on weekends. 
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bad_fmr posted:I'm not saying the churches are ugly. Just peculiar. Here is a more artistic example of a concrete church. It looks less weird in context with its sister buildings 
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Nenonen posted:I lived across the street from that for some years. Church bells should be banned, especially on weekends. 
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↑ looks like a launch ramp for ↓ While your blocky Finnish churches are firing missiles at Satan, it just rumbles a bit and lifts off straight up to heaven
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Lord Awkward posted:↑ looks like a launch ramp for ↓ Very different approaches to Ragnarok.
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we never got the concrete church we deserved not pictured: glowing red eye beams
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We have a brutalist church too Which if it didn't had a cross on the top could have been mistaken for anything but.
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Missing the ring
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Lord Awkward posted:↑ looks like a launch ramp for ↓ The little church on campus has the nick name "prayer launchpad" (Gebetsabschussrampe) for that reason. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit%C3%A4tskirche_(Kiel)#/media/Datei:Kiel_-_Universitaetskirche.JPG
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Antigravitas posted:The little church on campus has the nick name "prayer launchpad" (Gebetsabschussrampe) for that reason. In the 70s, several graveyard chapels in our region were built in that style and similarly nicknamed "Seelenabschussrampe" ( soul launchpad). As a kid, I took that literally and had a vivid mental picture, what it would look like when the soul was shot heavenward at the end of the funeral service. It still elicits a chuckle whenever I drive by one of those chapels. 
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Article in NYT on topic of recently exposed Russian spy in Slovakia He Was a Penniless Donor to the Far Right. He Was Also a Russian Spy.
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imma continue to use this thread for discussion of eastern "europe" for lack of a central asia thread > In July, the president’s office announced plans to build a city called Asman – Persian for “highest heaven” – in Japarov’s native Issyk-Kul region. As conceived by architects, this city would sprawl over 4,000 hectares in the shape of a komuz, a string instrument commonly used in Central Asian folk music, house 700,000 people and serve as a model of environmental harmony. how can you look at astana and think, hmm, yes, this is a good and cool ci--oh right, it's japarov in actual eastern europe discussion, does anyone know of any good orthodox slavonic choral hymn recordings on music streaming platforms? i cannot seem to find any and i suddenly desire this
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Party elections are happening today in Slovenia. God I hope JJ doesnt win. But at least we got a nice laugh out of the election debates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3EBkvhtjqk&t=43s And ofc the internet meme'd the hell out of it, but it is oh so good (Though I'm not sure why it got reposted by Zmago's actual official twitter as well but alas): https://twitter.com/ZmagoPlemeniti/status/1517972739176419328 Translation: "Did you also fall in there?" "Unfortunately" The clip is from an old Slovene movie Don't Cry, Peter (Ne Joči, Peter).
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Looks like Svoboda (center-left/green/pro-eu) came out ahead in Slovenia. They still have to form a coalition, but it seems that Janša will be relegated to the sidelines at least.
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CMYK BLYAT! posted:in actual eastern europe discussion, does anyone know of any good orthodox slavonic choral hymn recordings on music streaming platforms? i cannot seem to find any and i suddenly desire this This is my all-time favorite. The priest's name is Father Serafim. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=locW-9S00VU (Georgia) Pavle Aksentijevic is also very good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXypkrUe4GQ (Serbia) For a modern take, I suggest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vS2BcpKkpM (Macedonia)
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