Brutal Architecture

[RegiRoka]

Here you go Sabre...

Old meets new in Bucharest

 

[Silver Fox]

Couple from Ostend, Belgium

 

[HughJanus]

What were the red things before the heat distorted them?

 

[Silver Fox]

Not a clue.
Details here...

Rock Strangers — Ostend | Arne Quinze

With ‘Rock Strangers’, Arne Quinze places an alien object into our daily environment. This urban intervention reminds us to dare think different and be more open towards the unknown. We should add much more diversity to our public space.

www.arnequinze.com

 

[Silver Fox]

Meanwhile, this nightmare was built in Killingworth, just North of Newcastle...

 

[hackneyfox]

Robin Hood Gardens

 

[Adumass]

i know fack all about architecture, but i know i love brutalist buildings. trellick tower, barbican etc.
loads of it around when you drive through france, looming in the distance.

 

[sixthswan]

Leicester has one of the best Brutalism buildings in the world.

 

[sixthswan]

 

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[sabredunce]

Hmm.

I'll see your Hungarian horror-show and Belgian blobs and raise you a Toronto travesty:

I had a birds eye view of this abortion attach itself to the Royal Ontario Museum, I was on a high rise opposite for about eight months. I mean, it worked at the Louvre, right?
I think I'm only now beginning to understand post-modernism in architecture. Jam the Parthenon down the barrel of a cannon, shoot it at a medieval castle and then launch a couple ziggurats at it. Add a rooftop bar and some solar panels and hey presto! You've got a post-modernist building.

The brutalism around here for the most part is terrible, with the exception of the Roberts library:

So much of it was terrible and no disrespect to its British creators, the only ones it seems to me that got really good at it were the Soviets.

 

[sabredunce]

I'll give the supporting tower on Stade Olympique in Montreal credit though, it's a fantastic structure:

Given the roof can only support three cm of snow and be deemed safe for use below, I'd call it a failure. It's f**king Montreal for God's sake.
Just convert the cable opening to a giant mechanical ass, have a baby falling out and you've got an HR Giger concept.

 

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[RegiRoka]

I must admit, I'd like that as my millionaire man cave. Probably also a good place to get murdered by the robots I created.

 

[RegiRoka]

Hmm.

I'll see your Hungarian horror-show and Belgian blobs and raise you a Toronto travesty:

I had a birds eye view of this abortion attach itself to the Royal Ontario Museum, I was on a high rise opposite for about eight months. I mean, it worked at the Louvre, right?
I think I'm only now beginning to understand post-modernism in architecture. Jam the Parthenon down the barrel of a cannon, shoot it at a medieval castle and then launch a couple ziggurats at it. Add a rooftop bar and some solar panels and hey presto! You've got a post-modernist building.

The brutalism around here for the most part is terrible, with the exception of the Roberts library:

So much of it was terrible and no disrespect to its British creators, the only ones it seems to me that got really good at it were the Soviets.

I think that's probably a good definition. Some classics there.

Mine was a Romanian disaster, by the way.

 

[Silver Fox]

Not sure the Rotterdam cube houses qualify. They are quite posh inside but a little impractical with all the corners

 

[sabredunce]

Mine was a Romanian disaster, by the way.

Sorry man

What's the ground floor cafeteria like? Vlad Tepes Chinese stir fry with genuine szechuan low fat cheddar?

 

[buz_not_buzz]

Looking lovely at 10:15 this morning...

 

[bnet]

What were the red things before the heat distorted them?

there was a fair ground in the middle of Ostende.

 

[bnet]

This building makes me feel sick just looking at it. Horrible !