Designed by Oscar Niemeyer and built between 1963-1971 it is officially known as "Central Institute of Science". The Big Worm has a total length of 696 meters, it was made of prefabricated reinforced concrete.
In that building there are 7 institutes and 3 faculties which are part of the University of Brasilia.
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!macacos !engineering !architecture I'm gonna be honest, it's a hideous building 
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High school for me
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It's okay, you stop having dreams every night where you're trying to remember your locker combination at some point in your early 30s.
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A lot of brutalist architecture is interesting and cool to look at, but I wouldn't want to live in the vicinity of it. It sucks your soul out.
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It reminds me of something
@Neon_Needles said several years ago on /r/drama about how (paraphrasing) Russia is full of sad depressed people whose only export is alcoholism and they live in ugly buildings designed by r-slurs. Unironically Shakespeare could not have written better poetry.
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All that concrete looks great in architect's sketches and even when it's just-built. Then it gets dirty immediately and forever.
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I like big concrete in tropical places, is a nice contrast from all the green, it looks cool (temperature wise) which is what you want in tropical. In less green places it looks imposing and evil.
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A nice whitewash has the same effect in a more comfy, traditional way.
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Or the other way like in the Philippines and parts of Latin America. Make it really colorful. Why the heck not?
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gay
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No. It's looks like a prison in a jungle.
Nice try though.
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Not to mention painting is not simply decorative.
The paint protects concrete from external agents preventing pathologies.
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Yea this one looks like it's been infested by monkeys. What kind of paint would prevent that?
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Those are just Brazilians?
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Brasilia is a case study on why all mid-century architects and urban planners should've been rounded up and shot
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poor countries that built car centric cities are the dumbest. at least in the US incomes were really
high and every household could afford 2 good cars.
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Brazil is extremely car-centric and the traffic jam is awful in cities like São Paulo and Brasilia.
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Yeah, at 5-6k$/capita 20-30% pop owns cars by 10k$/capita that goes up to ~50-60% and I think it most stays around that zone. China's at around that percentage too. I saw one of our own states at the former category and it was insane traffic cause the area is still technically mostly village like and so road infra is too with that i.e basic two lane roads.
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GDP per capita in Brazil is very unequal. It's close to 9k dollars nominal (17k dollars PPA) on a nationwide basis but around 18-19k dollars nominal in Brasilia.
Speaking for Brazil, the state with best infrastructure is São Paulo. All the highways between cities are "duplicated" and very high quality, but the city of São Paulo has an insane traffic despite there being several lanes.
Look at Marginal Tietê
Paulistanocels lose years of their lives stuck in the traffic jam.
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One more lanecels have a point. Ideal I think would have been a 250km/hr train with halts every say 20km and each of these stations will have car parks+bus network connecting to surrounding areas if you are to have combination of not living in a shoebox and working in a city center. Bullet trains are a good example but they're IMO still too expensive for regular use by anyone other than executive classes so a semi high speed commuter train with affordable daily fare for all classes would be better. There's some projects like that taking off here, I have high hopes. Suburban living+car commute model much of new world copied because land was cheap and plentiful there will always have chokepoints later on, though laying out the base is easier and cheaper, countries like America can power through with ridiculously expensive mega infra projects but others can't.
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Bullet trains are very costly, even California is struggling to build them because of regulations and indemnifications. Brasil also had it's Rio-São Paulo bullet train project which is being revived as people either have to go by car or by plane, like in the US there's a lot of air traffic between relatively close cities which is a waste.
More from São Paulo !engineering !neolibs this is what one-more-lanecels did to Brazil.
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Best city I've seen was designed mid century
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It's brutalist as frick (and thus bad) but those gardens are really nice!!
It still looks like a commieblock even with the gardens but at least it looks like a passably nice commieblock
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SOVL
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i actually
think 
this looks rly cool. they need a powered walkway like they have in airports though
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t-t-this tbh. there's something o-oddly appealing about it
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Liminal spaces. it's about seeing something that does not correspond to its surroundings, like if you were to erect a concrete building in a European village where every building is madw out of wood
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brasilia is a fricking meme
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Ohhh....
Yeahhhh, that looks like a prison. 
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Looks like it'd be great for skating
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Why the heck
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Whassup big perm
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the Chile Facility
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Each side of the Pentagon is 281 meters.
This building is 2.5 times longer than any side of the Pentagon.
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How the heck do you frick someone and not realize they are trans? Do you r-slurs see the dangling 6 inch peepee and balls and think "wow this roastie has quite the beef curtains"
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