someguy3toAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish·1 year agoedit-21 year agoSo all that brutalist architecture, what if we just painted it? Not one colour, patterns to break it up.message-squarearrow-up11arrow-down10message-square20file-textfedilink
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareSo all that brutalist architecture, what if we just painted it? Not one colour, patterns to break it up.someguy3toAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish·1 year agoedit-21 year agomessage-square20file-textfedilink
Has this been done somewhere? Any other ways to make it look better than tearing it down? Whole bunch of fake glass?
minus-squareiusearchbtwEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down0·1 year agolinkfedilinkIt’s been done quite a bit throughout Eastern Europe. Here are some examples from Poland: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/83/6d/b0/836db0a68841a2f6c2ce9941d0c5a415.png https://c8.alamy.com/comp/BFD3WF/polish-residential-housing-blocks-in-the-town-of-kedzierzyn-kozle-BFD3WF.jpg Certainly a nicer colour scheme than dirty soul-crushing grey.
minus-squareLojcsarrow-up1arrow-down0·1 year agoedit-21 year agolinkfedilinkThose don’t look brutalist to me. I feel like brutalism calls for more than just grey blocks of concrete.
minus-squareCiderApplenTeaarrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agolinkfedilinkNot sure if you’re making a clever joke, or if you don’t know that brutalism is defined by using steel and concrete in large blocks. Might be a mega “woosh” on my part though haha
minus-squareLojcsarrow-up1arrow-down0·1 year agoedit-21 year agolinkfedilinkI wasn’t making a joke. It doesn’t feel right to call every unpainted concrete box brutalist. Edit: https://mcmansionhell.com/post/187806092991/the-brutalism-post-part-2-what-brutalism-is-not/amp
It’s been done quite a bit throughout Eastern Europe. Here are some examples from Poland:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/83/6d/b0/836db0a68841a2f6c2ce9941d0c5a415.png
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/BFD3WF/polish-residential-housing-blocks-in-the-town-of-kedzierzyn-kozle-BFD3WF.jpg
Certainly a nicer colour scheme than dirty soul-crushing grey.
Those don’t look brutalist to me. I feel like brutalism calls for more than just grey blocks of concrete.
Not sure if you’re making a clever joke, or if you don’t know that brutalism is defined by using steel and concrete in large blocks. Might be a mega “woosh” on my part though haha
I wasn’t making a joke. It doesn’t feel right to call every unpainted concrete box brutalist.
Edit: https://mcmansionhell.com/post/187806092991/the-brutalism-post-part-2-what-brutalism-is-not/amp