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minus-squareprettybunnys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoI’ll take some nice brutalist architecture. It ain’t all bad. Just … a lot of it.
minus-squareBenaaasaaas@group.ltlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoBrutalist architecture can be nice if it’s contrasting with some other architecture, if it’s all brutalist it gets overwhelming pretty fast.
minus-squarePuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThe problem is that cheap style-less architecture is often called brutalist architecture, because it sounds more sophisticated than “eh we were too cheap to make it look nice”.
I’ll take some nice brutalist architecture.
It ain’t all bad.
Just … a lot of it.
Brutalist architecture can be nice if it’s contrasting with some other architecture, if it’s all brutalist it gets overwhelming pretty fast.
The problem is that cheap style-less architecture is often called brutalist architecture, because it sounds more sophisticated than “eh we were too cheap to make it look nice”.