Ngl I kinda like some modern northern architecture
>>200124661looks garbage and soulless
>>200124661It's fine when it mixes both traditional and contemporary. Unfortunately we mostly get soulless white and grey cubes.
>>200125967This
>>200124661Shits ass
>>200125941Perfect for a German
>>200124661love it too
>>200124661I would accept bottom left.
>>200124661>>200126407Nice!
>>200124661Yeah this style looks pretty nice
>>200124661Agreed. Just approaching the old silhouettes does so much to increase the aesthetic quality of a building.
>>200124661>Ngl I kinda like some modern northern architectureWords that can be said only by German.
>>200129446People who live in dilapidated shacks shouldn't throw stones
>>200128808Red sandstone makes me cum, piss and smile
>>200124661>>200126407>>200128808These buildings are better than brutalist or functionalist concrete blocks. But they're still not beautiful.
They’re alright. Something about them seems soulless though and I can’t put my finger on it
>>200124661I like the mixed zoning buildings that's becoming more and more common. Really gives some life to what would otherwise have been dead streets with nothing happening
>>200129975Might just be that they're new
>>200130085Not that mixed zoning was a new thing, our old brutalist blocks had businesses on ground floor
>>200129892True there are many styles more beautiful but those buildings are a good mixture between being aesthetic and being producable on a large scale.>>200129975They are brand new. They didn't have the built up patina of older buildings.
>>200126392>>200129446>>200125941>>200129892>>200129975>I neeeed slopp and goldPeople who talk about "soul" are 10 outa 10 times heavily gay, perfumed bottom fags.
>>200130136They were in a small minority here. Picrel is newly constructed as well and follows the old formula. You would at most have a corner shop in a neighbourhood of 20 houses and 1000 people
>>200130265I like even our concrete commie-blocks more than what in your OP-pic.
>>200130319Yeah a lot more of them now
>>200130265They're zesty
>>200130265It doesn't have to be gilded, but I would prefer something like this.
Living here would be very pleasant.
>>200130552I mean it's cool to preserve that... but do you still dress like this?
>>200130085Nice
>>200130741What are those ugly towers
>>200130819I wouldn't want to. But I would want to live in a neighborhood like this.
>>200124661one of the SHIT attributes of those styles is the flat facades. they're basically geometric shapes with windows painted on them. that is how they design them. it's architecture for skillless hacks.
>>200128808ground level: niceupper levels: FLAT with a bit of trim>>200130085and more flat facades. tolerable, I guess. the balconies give it some depth.>>200130319THAT is worse than commie block. it's commie block with lip stick.
>>200131510But, I don't want fake flowers an pissing boys on my building. You like women just with bolted on tits and makeup?
>>200131610no, I like boys pissing on the passersby
>>200130878Sweden Trade Center
>>200130819Honestly, I *wish* we still did, at least a modified version of it.Vests on men look good, so do proper dress shoes, jackets, etc. It's a shame to be so limited by our current simplified fashions.
>>200131510Protruding decorative elements will increase the costs. But if you are the Bauherr (owner of the building) you can pay for it.>>200131597>upper levels: FLAT with a bit of trimSee above.
>>200132086It has to be really hot in that building, white is better for cooling
>>200132054>at least a modified version of it.This. Due to my job I wear suits quite often and they aren't uncomfortable at all (a common disadvantage ascribed to them) but they are pretty standardized fashionwise. Even "quirky" suits quickly become very similar.
>>200132134Slate is love; slate is live
>>200124661they build that here too, I must say I like it, Hansa heritage should never be forgotten
>>200133179Fun fact: in the city of Rostock the local GDR urban planers built the prefabricated buildings with a hanseatic theme.
>>200133179Nice >>200133607Kek, yeah they started to do that in the 80s... in Berlin they made some Plattenbau-Classizism
>>200133607based, I heard that Rostock had to be quickly expanded after WW2 as after losing Stettin, DDR was actually left without any big port city
>>200133179First thing that came to my mind when it comes to modern northern architecture.Gdansk is full of this and it's actually pretty looking desu.
>>200133607our gommies did that too, maybe not as fancy tho
Can someone tell finnish architects its okay now to build something else than boxes.
>>200134159boxes are already a Finnish tradition, instead of hating it, start appreciating it and make it your trademarkif Italians could make a badly planned leaning tower their most recognizable attraction then everything is possible
>>200134191Maybe early functionalism is style that defined our nation but those buildings had round shapes atleast.
>>200133816Yeah socialist classicism is often pretty nice.>>200134059It's very interesting that on one hand communism has the internationl approach but also tries to elevate local styles (when they play nice with the Party).
>>200130819Problem is that modern architects threw away everything that we learned pre the 20th century. You don't have to build exact copies of older buildings but you should incorporate things we learned. There's a reason why people like older buildings so much; they follow conventions that humans instinctively like when it comes to proportions, colour, textures, and street layouts. Architects should build buildings and cities that people want to live in. Beautiful buildings and cities makes people's lives better and we also want to preserve and take better care of those buildings and cities, which is also better for the environment long-term.But many modern architects don't care about that. They care more about being "innovative" and getting attention, when they should see themselves more as craftspeople.
>>200134059Thats pretty well done desu
>>200134667>>200134592we had more of that, pic rel is also from the 1980s
>>200134744I don't know how it worked in DDR but here in the communist era most commieblocks weren't built by the state, but by "housing cooperatives" which were associations of people who raised money for construction of a building with apartments for themselves, so they also had pretty wide autonomy in terms of architecture of the houses. In 99% of cases they just built regular rectangular grey commieblocks because they were the cheapest and demand for new housing was huge but in few cases they went for something more peculiar.
>>200134666Checked but architects mainly just follow the instructions of their clients. There are only a few that can design a building and have it realized entirely on their own.>>200134744Nice
>>200124661Top needs more trim detail, like on the edges of the corners and between buildings, maybe between each floor, something around the windows would be nice too.>>200130552This looks much better. The problem modern architecture has is throwing out all the knowledge of what makes a building look good and just being cheap as hell and trying to put a marketing spin on it of being sleek or new or stylish. >>200132086Senseless shapes added to the wall just looks ugly. It's not like there's even a consistent design between the floors.
>>200134870>Checked but architects mainly just follow the instructions of their clientsNo they don't. I'm an engineer working in construction and most clients have no idea what they want and don't really care. They might give some loose guidelines but most of it is up to the architects because that's what they're paid to do.The problem is with the universities because architecture has basically become an arts degree and the students spend most of uni "experimenting" and "finding their voice". I know because I dropped out of the architecture program after year 1 and got a degree in construction engineering instead.
>>200135171>The problem is with the universities because architecture has basically become an arts degreeit's okay, but why they just cannot follow art guidelines people like, so baroque, rennaissance, historicism, and not fucking boring modernism all the time?
>>2001246612 and 3 are kinda kino 1 is really ugly
>>200131510Makes building and maintenance a lot cheaper and less places that could cause issues. It's one of the reasons plain buildings were really popular>>200132009>oh shit mr. Swed Trade Center get down, it's a Danish plane
>>200134833That's interesting. Could be nice to have such housing cooperatives today.
>>200135674they still exist here though they work more like corporations that do both managing already existing buildings and building new ones, but selling apartments in the free market. There are also cooperatives that work in the "old" way (so the buyer only contributes a small part of the overall price of the apartment, like 20% at once and the rest is paid in installments for 10-20 years but without interests so it's much cheaper than mortgage in bank) but they're rare because they lose competition for building plots with real estate developers
>>200135114>maybe between each floor, something around the windowsso senseless shapes>Senseless shapes added to the wall"Noooooo not like this" Fellings driven fags should kys
i hate it
>>200135935kek at the EU flag, chuds will have someone to blame at least
>>200135875>they're rare because they lose competition for building plots with real estate developersThat sucks. I guess one solution would be to make a political decision to set aside some of the land for such projects. But dunno how zoning works over there and if it would be possible even if there was political will to do such a thing.
>>200135935The bottom one looks pretty nice>>200135968Seems to be a hotel, not that that'd stop chuds kek
>>200124661I actually like drab, grey commieblocks but that is because I'm from the balkans and it's always kinda warm there with short winters. Since there is a lot of greenery and parks around the buildings you kinda get a comfy urban jungle anime feel.Living here in the north I definitely understand why locals dread such architecture. It's not suitable to the climate
>>200136250That's what I would tell the finn above.Sunshine or nice nature work wonder with simple grand modernism
>>200124661Looks fine. It solves many of the problems of contemporary designs (lack of good materials like wood, stone, brick, bronze, etc; overuse of glass, steel and conrete; colorless or heavily desaturated design; trying to eliminate shadows by making everything white, shiny and/or reflective, generally cold, lifeless, industrial designs; tendency to approach the extremes of traditionalism or avant garde architecture; lack of regional identity or integration with surrounding neighborhood)
>>200131597>it's commie block with lip stick.No, that would be this from here, lolThat building looks like a proper brick apartment
>>200135270expensive and requires use of specialized craftsmen (basically gommunism DDDDDD:)
commie block :/commie block, Japan :O
>>200137514Japanese cities are not necessary pretty but they have a distinct look which counter-balances the uglinessCertainly beats the grey blocks here anyway
>>200137833>they have a distinct look which counter-balances the uglinessit's called "maintenance"
>>200124661looks very soulless but its better than the CUUUUBES shit, I give you that
>>200137833>>200137986And that's an old abandoned building about to be demolished.About as dilapidated as it gets in Japan.
>>200131610Pic rel has no real artistic elements, only simple geometry composed in an aesthetic way.
>>200137986It is not just maintenance, Japanese cities (at least the largest ones) look nothing like the well maintained European counterpartsThey are much more densely populated with different architecture styles all over often within a single streetVery chaotic and I dont think pretty is a good way to describe it but it is very distinct and definitely has its own character
>>200138181https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKUBYGwoW3A
>>200134744>>200133607these are kino
>>200124661>Flag>Likes nu-hansa styleOf course
>>200132009>make twin towers>call them a trade centerWhat did they mean by that?
>>200130207>producable on a large scale19th century buildings were also mass produced.
>>200124661Bottom left looks cool
>>200138857Yes and mass produced buildings back then had a better character than the "luxury" stuff these days
