What's the best city to visit for a fan of Brutalist architecture?
slovakia is pretty boring and basically just good for a day trip from vienna but it's arcitecture is pretty brutalist
>>2699440What’s the point of putting the elevator 10ft away from the building?
>>2699440BelgradeSkopjeKaliningradLondonMarseilleChandigarhCanberraNew Haven, CTAlbany, NYDC
>>2699444I saw that picture and my first thought was Bratislava. There are actually areas on the edge of Prague that look like this too, specifically up near the Petrin tower. Walking around was perfectly safe, but the architecture of those buildings literally gave me anxiety. Look up "Koleje Strahov - Blok 8"
>>2699448It looks good.
>>2699448maximum efficiency floor planning
>>2699455All these are good.Also recommend San Diego, CA - Salk Institute and Giesel Library are great.
>>2700164
>>2699448>What’s the point of putting the elevator 10ft away from the building?Gives the residents a "reason" for only having 1 elevator stop for every 3 floors
>>2700047This and better noise insulation.>>2700742>1 elevator stop for every 3 floors Good idea, it is 1 stair max.
Canberra
>>2699440I'm surprised no one mentioned Caracasit's literally THE city with the most brutalist architecturemay be a bit harder to travel to currentlybut absolutely worth it if you want to see a LOT of Brutalist buildings
>>2700742>1 stop every 3 floorsBased. Fat fucks are forced to move a little more, and you don't get cunts stopping the lift every 5 seconds on every floor.There's a reason we don't have metro stops every street corner.
>>2700164>Salk InstituteI've only seen photos but it looks amazing
I found this in Nyon if it counts
>>2699448Earthquake safety.
Picrel is from (guess!)
>>2703865It says "County of Mombasa" dead center, you big silly
>>2699448less noise, easier maintenance>>2703828That's not brutalism, that's a generic 2010 residential building>>2703865>city name in photo
>>2699448Doubles as a rocket launch gantry.
>>2699448The point of this design was to create serendipity for the residents through the use of shared common areas. This would foster a community of people who would all encounter each other in the same lobby which would become the focus of the three floors that were using it so that way you wouldn’t be able to simply go up to your floor and go in your apartment and remain anonymous to the rest of the building. This was the idea behind it. Reality proved to be different.It creates a security issue because it’s the equivalent to a road block, someone could intercept you in the stairway which becomes a source of fear and anxiety. The same goes for the lobby of the floor, you end up hoping and praying no one is there, it creates a lack of defensible spaces and if fostered exactly the opposite of a communal space the result was fear and anxiety, a sense of unease. The apartments may always be nice but the building itself reflects in its design a inherently inhumane place to live.
>>2703865pure kino
>>2703891Full of rich people now though, probably won't suffer the same fate a lot of the 60s tower blocks suffered from.
>>2704322>full of rich peopleI thought this was council/social housing? Was it Maggie’s doing that this is full of rich people?Ironic because it wouldn’t have ever been built by private investment.
>>2704325https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136612391?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard#/?channel=RES_BUY£900K selling price + £9000 a year fees. I'd be amazed if there are anyone who didn't "right to buy" it. Even in London that'll buy you a much nicer house. Or you can just move and retire early.
Montreal has a lot of brutalism because everything was built in the 60's and 70's when it was trendy and concrete is super cheap in Canada.>Pic related is Habitat 67
>>2705337comfy af
>>2699440actually looks really comfy, but no garage = no deal
>>2699440berlin
>>2706086>parking in a British Tower blocklol nope
>>2699440Extremely small towns up north are good if you're looking for something spooky Way more corruption too so anything bad can happen there
>>2699455belgrade is a good shout
>>2706086some of it is comfy
>>2699448To look cool
>>2699448Oh, I thought that was for cars like those car -parking towers in japan.
>>2708319>car -parking towers in japan??
>>2699455>CanberraGoing there in a couple of weeks but never thought there was much brutalist stuff there.I guess the Telstra tower is one?
>>2708471I think anon meant something like picrel.
no mention of Tbilisi yet, interesting
>>2699440>Trellick TowerI love this fucking building and the other towers in London but living in them MUST be a fucking nightmare!
>no mention of Okinawa
>>2699440The suburbs around Paris have quite a bit of interesting brutalist buildings
>>2700164>>2703795Salk is cool, but it's a scientific institute and not a museum so it is very challenging to actually see that view and walk around the grounds. They very rarely do general public tours.The Giesel Library is sick tho.
>>2699455i just went to albany, and if you are talking about the empire state plaza it's not brutalist, but its sick as fuck. pic i took there.
>>2709274true, we forget that
>>2710983what do you love about brutalism? what other buildings do you like?
>>2712624I like the geometry and minimalism of a lot of brutalism and other modern architecture. The sharp lines of shadow and light they cast work well with the style of photography I enjoy doing. There's a point where it kinda doesn't feel right anymore, like ultra modern low rise condos with cheap siding or generic glass skyscrapers. Something like the pic I posted is just an immense object but also a piece of art at the same time. Sure the same can be said about a lot of other buildings, I can appreciate huge cathedrals too.
>>2712624>>2714172I'm not an architecture enthusiast so it's hard for me to articulate, but I like it compared to most other (post)modern architecture, which just seems to be architects deliberately creating ugly buildings. I also like that it utilizes modern, cost-effective building materials while still having a clear aesthetic style. You don't see that with a lot of modern buildings which are just optimized for space with no thought to aesthetic appeal.
Would love to see modern attempts at brutalism with modern materials that are less likely to crack or discolour.
