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Re: modern architecture being ugly to save money
Usually it's correct to assume that trends are not intentional, but due to grand socioeconomic factors. However, modern architecture is the exception. It is intentionally ugly.
First, if modern architecture were only ugly to save money, then why do buildings like Boston City Hall go out of their way to be ugly?
Second, if any building isn't trying to cut costs, it would be billionaire mansions, yet they look just as shit
Third, the uglification of architecture coincides with the uglification of all arts. Are people trying to save money on paintings and symphonies?
Fourth, careful study shows that ornamentation isn't even expensive.
The lesson is: architecture is ugly not to save money, but because the elites hate beauty and they hate you
!architecture !sophistry
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Lmao, Cucker saying Moscow doesn't have ugly architecture which "degrades the spirit"
Pick of the Lomonosov Library in Moscow. Not to mention all the generic modern skyscrapers in the financial downtown.
!architecture
!neolibs DEPORT
TO RUSSIA
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Yeah the soviets were the fricking
masters of brutalism and spiritually dead architecture
Look at any of their housing districts
!historychads
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The commie blocks are good for cheap and efficient social housing. A bigger criticism of the Soviets to me are the public buildings in general (specifically post Stalin)
Look inside the Vernadsky Library in Kiev (built in the 1980s).
Somewhat grim atmosphere. And many of their public office buildings had that green color scheme.
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Based. Green
is the best color 
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I think Linus
gave a room tour where he said his walls were painted that light green color for focus and calmness or something. Could be intentional.
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I give 20 years til we start getting western righ
s praising Chairman Mao's KEYED and TRADPILLED anti-globohomo anti-woke great proletarian cultural revolution, they spend an entire century demonizing the geopolitical and ideological system of the Soviets, only to in the end go to Moscow to suck their peepees about how great and superior to Muttmerica they are 
!grillers
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!architecture I'm sorry but your work is only noticed in photos by people who can't afford to be tourists. The people who work inside your building don't give a shit.
Most people work indoors. This argument is as if people are commuting to work and see the facade of a building and revile in pain.
No. People who work in urban cities just point to "the brown building" "the red building" "the grey building."
Then they walk inside.
The end.
!r-slurs !neurodivergents muh construction
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I like pretty
buildings 
not ugly ones
If all I see is concrete/steel and glass
cube #456 your city us ugly and I hate it
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Ofc, but once you get that first "wowie zowie" when you first arrive, you start to learn:
subtle landmarks, crosswalk timing, jaywalking standards, red light running standards, cell phone dead spots, coffee shops, homeless corners, construction zone etiquette, etc
This takes first order as a resident over how pretty your city is.
I think St Louis is architecturally gorgeous but I would never move there under any condition.
I don't think it's pretty from photos. As I have driven by it and inside it, I really like its style.
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VGHHH THE TRAD MOSKVA
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Are the apartments warm and cozy like Redditors claim?
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According to some architecture nerds I use to follow who've Consulted the Literature, it was basically caused by a purity spiral of marxists accusing each other of bourgeois influence in their building designs. So, yeah, basically any and all ornamentation had to go since it represented tasteless opulence. Later on that became married with utilitarian movements like brutalism that would intentionally strip designs to their basic components in order to celebrate its 'essence' without pretensions like above, and also to highlight its utility in helping da poor 'cause of low cost.
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Scott wrote another post about this recently btw: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-from-bauhaus-to-our-house
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I really like the design of the Boston city hall and don't think its ugly at all. That being said im also quite fond of office spaces and cubicles and such. It is am aesthetic that is nice
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Lol lmao even
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