Stamets to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works • 11 days agoWhere it all went wronglemmy.worldimagemessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1668arrow-down10
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minus-squareThis is fine🔥🐶☕🔥linkfedilink19•11 days ago“Ornate buildings aren’t cost-effective.” “Some nice brutalist architecture then?” “Also no.”
minus-square@prettybunnys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink6•10 days agoI’ll take some nice brutalist architecture. It ain’t all bad. Just … a lot of it.
minus-square@Benaaasaaas@group.ltlinkfedilinkEnglish1•10 days agoBrutalist architecture can be nice if it’s contrasting with some other architecture, if it’s all brutalist it gets overwhelming pretty fast.
minus-square@PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish2•10 days 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”.
minus-square@brown567@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink3•10 days agoWe instead have something I like to call “Corpo-brutalism” It’s like Brutalism, but with random colorful rectangles
“Ornate buildings aren’t cost-effective.”
“Some nice brutalist architecture then?”
“Also no.”
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”.
We instead have something I like to call “Corpo-brutalism”
It’s like Brutalism, but with random colorful rectangles