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Those "mansions" that imitate european lower-nobility/gentry estates do look like shit.whoch makes sense because theyre not authentic. They dont have a courtyard with stables repurposed as a garage, but a garage made to resemble a stable etc. They also obviously dont use authentoc materials but are typical shitty burger plywood with a stone facade, which just stands out as fake. Not to mention that they dont fit their environment.
Burgers should stick to making large mansions in their own style or where they dont have one, just make them modern so they actually look good.
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That 6000sqft house has too many windows. Totally unlivable. Not like my studio apartment which is so cozy and space efficient.
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This title was written by someone who probably shares a bathroom with 4 strangers.
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Those aren't even mcmansions. It's just a depressing suburb. The worst thing about developments like this is that they absolutely necessitate a car to escape the winding maze of streets.
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I'd rather get no privacy with all the comforts and convenience of the city than no privacy for 500k in the middle of the suburbs
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No Homeless = all that matters to me.
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At least the homeless aren't boring
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Working class neighborhood, disgusting
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This is the biggest apartment complex ive ever seen
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I mean, at this point, just build an apartment.
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Where's the backyard wtf. I thought texas was all ranches and shit
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Many such cases!
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T*xans are being rounded up so we can cluster strike them easier. The superior states will have their revenge.
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Based.
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βSuperior?β
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yes
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I see these type of houses all the time in newly developed suburbs, where the 'backyards' are garages accessed from the alley behind them. I'm guessing it's to make people feel like they're living the white-picket fence dream when they can't afford it or want to live closer to the city.
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Early 1900s Terrace houses are like that, but at least with those you're only a few minutes from the city center. Living like sardines in the burbs is pointless. No space + a shitty commute it's the worst of both worlds
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Having garages accessed from alley on the back side of the house helps a lot with house aesthetics. A big garage in the front is garish
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for wtf do these "people" use the front door
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Developers squarefootmaxxing.
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Guttermaxxing
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Are these not the same people who claim watering your grass is white supremacy? Do they have no consistency with their gay takes?
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still more room than british housing projects
and probably cheaper in the long run
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Nah british suifuel rowhouses will still be standing in 20 years
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I would honestly not mind living there but then again I live in a small butt apartment with a roommate lol
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I'm assuming this neighborhood has a communal walking trail, small playground, and possibly a swimming pool.
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It's an offshoot of mcmansionhell.com, where a snarky mayo foid critiques bad suburban architecture.
It's funnier when she does it though, because she knows architectural terms and also doesn't use too many words. I wouldn't have such a positive view of Kate Wagner except I really love brutalist architecture, and she does too.
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Does the concrete scare you or something?
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yes
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IT SHOULD SCARE YOU
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The first one is International Style, not brutalist.
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It is?
Looks like standard brutalism to me
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Why are you acting like it's a normal redditor opinion to like brutalism? Basically everyone hates it, except me and architecture mommy.
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Brutalism is based because it flaunts to the poors just how much you don't give a shit about them.
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And that's why it's good praxis.
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Because it is a normal Redditor opinion lmao. Talk shit about it and thereβs a greater chance of being piled than with people agreeing.
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Joining the pretentious circlejerk that is contemporary architecture's love for brutalism is a quintessential redditism. They want to be out of touch with normal people because it makes them feel special and sophisticated, and every time it's brought up you'll find some tool going 'Actually, I like brutalism because...' followed by unbearable babble.
I'll give it to you that you at least realise it's terrible and like it for that reason. Regardless, it's too late, I already portrayed you as the soyjak.
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I didn't realize it was in vogue, though that makes sense. Both for pretension and probably nostalgia? Lots of brutalist stuff in 1984 and Blade Runner.
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zoz
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I like it because it feels uncomfortable to be around and i don't want people near me
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get a spiky fence and tiki poles, those are scary without being ugly
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Yeah but then you can't pretend you're just r-slurred
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Anybody who unironically likes brutalist architecture is not allowed to have opinions on architecture.
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Brutalist architecture solved the architect problem so I can see why you'd be upset.
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Why?
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If you have to ask why you are also not allowed to have opinions on architecture.
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Why?
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Factcheck: [REDACTED].
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brutalist architecture was literally created to build cheap, afordable housing
even if you like the style, saying you like the architecture is disgusting
poor "people" should be mass killed
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https://rdrama.net/post/69472/til-that-there-is-a-subreddit/1952862?context=8#context
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These are cool (except for the first result), but isn't brutalist mostly rectangular government buildings and tenements? Just boring cement boxes.
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Good brutalist architecture isn't just a box. To my taste, it should be something huge and concrete that makes you feel like it actively hates you and wants you dead. Which I love, because I think that's exactly the vibe government buildings should give. There's an honesty about a building that houses people who hate you looking like it's a building that hates you.
Same goes for a good brutalist tenement. It shouldn't just be depressing, it should be visually oppressive. When you stand at the foot of the structure you should be able to easily imagine a sound-proofed room with no windows at its center where they torture children "for the good of mankind" like in the Le Guin story.
Anyway that's why I like it. I know the root of the name "brutalism" doesn't have to do with "brutality" but I really feel like the ideas are inexorably linked now. It should be awe inspiring in the way that a Godzilla would be awe inspiring.
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Boston city hall
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Most of these houses don't even look half bad. If you want to see some really ugly fricking houses go to any upper middle class neighborhood with a large asian population.
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post example
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They look pretty much the same. The difference is that in Asia itβs considered prestigious to have your house on a busy road for some reason, so youβll have a lot of poorcel shanties and then just a row of hideous McMansions built by chink spies and street shitters, and it ultimately looks a lot worse.
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McMansions are called that precisely because they are not mansions
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To me any big house is a mansion lmao
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God, I know.
People should know their fricking place and stay within their class. Poors and former poors are so gross.
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Former poors are significantly worse than actual poor people.
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What about new poors?
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storytellers and lolcows
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It looks like Thursdays are their days they get to post pretty mansions. Most of them on other days are, like, Texas subdivisions
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I legit agree with most of the critiques. Newer Texas suburban architecture is fricking terrible.
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Texas is honestly one of the shittiest looking states. If a ruralcel's only experince with a city was in Houston, Austin, and Dallas then it's completely understandable to hate cities
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Austin suburbs are shit but collin county has pretty cohesive houses
This morning, Cum went to the park. I went with Coom. And Cum brought Coomer frisbee. At least I think it was Coomers. By the end of the day, Cum started throwing the frisbee to Cumself.
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Is Austin really that bad? I thought theyβre considered better than Houston and DFW in that regard?
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Honestly a few nukes would improve Houston
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Pic related, it's every guy with a fat wife telling me how "free and great" moving to Dallas is (he has a 75 minute commute and pays $25k/year in property tax on his rotting 2009-contruction shitbox house)
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Mansionlets
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I use to hate McMansions but my friend bought one and TBH it's kind of great. There are so many rooms you can mess with. Need some guest bedrooms? Easy. Want a game room, man cave, library? You've got like 5 extra after that. Kitchen is massive and easy to move around in. They have a grill room they wheel their grill out of.
Basement is larger than my house, and I thought my house was a bit big for one person.
Only problem is how sturdy they are but they chose a good developer.
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In practice most of the non-essential rooms end up unused for 90% of the time unless the owners have a few kids, in which case most of the non-essential rooms are equally unused unless the kids have friends over or the family makes some sort of weekly routine out of using the home theatre. The money put towards a grill room is much better spent on a property you can peepee around on or in a good location where you can actually walk to things, depending on your preferences. I'd pay premium for a massive kitchen though
t. grew up in mcmansions
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My grandfather built up another floor to our house and extended its floorspace, before that 50% the area had been a garden, anticipating that all his children would move back in. Ofc that didn't happen and now even his grandchildren are moving out though he didn't live to see that. Now there's 4 people and 16 rooms there, more maids than our people in the bottom floor.
A garden would have been so much better.
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Aww, your gardenlet gramps must have been shattered.
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Classic baron mistake, recreating commie housing conditions because family
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