Soviet architecture

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>american suburbia

>American and soviet architecture

>architecture

>making monuments in an industrial society

Why do they do this? Nobody is impressed when you have machines build it.

you are like little babies

watch this

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That could only be Hong Kong

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I thought amerifats build fences

OP, it's a pretty mixed bag. Some of it isn't so bad, others are just hilariously awful.

There's two types of suburbs

1) Older, more spaced out houses with more variation and almost always fencing. You get a real mixed lot with these, and you may even up with brown people as neighbors.

2) Is what we call a "Leased Housing Community" which doesn't mean shit, but the neighborhood is run by a committee who will give you endless shit if your grass is to long or god forbid you paint your mailbox. Everything you do is heavily regulated and no fences because they want to see everything you are doing. Probably less brown people.

I live in option 1. My neighbors have chickens, geese, dogs, and 3 broken cars in their back yard. My co-worker lives in option 2. He is getting notices in his mailbox urging him to get rid of the tree in his front yard, while simultaneously being told he cannot cut it down.

why is every 3rd thread on Veeky Forums is somehow russia-related?
don't you Ivans have your own imageboards?

NSA trying to force narrative for WW3

Soviet architecture in stalins time was like Naziarchitecture.

>he doesn't like soviet architecture

What's wrong with it?

The buildings in the back are disgusting

that doesn't look structurally sound

>people still pretend this isn't a comfy and efficient form of housing for its geography and market

inb4 some dumbass yuropoor starts advocating commie blocks

>wen u visiting bae but u get lost in teh stare ways

Pic related is what euros would advocate for burger.

Looks like section 8 housing

ayylmao

Feels cyberpunk, man

I also live in option 2. It blows. The HOA flipped shit at my dad for "blocking the door to his porch with a potted tree."

Yeah, fucking garbage.

Little boxes on the hillside.....

its awesome in evil kind of way, like mordor

>9/11 proof architecture

lmao, too right

>implying this is better
cyka blyaat, my bydlo friend

>tfw used to live with a friend in Russia in one of those

They called our mile-long hunk of concrete "The Chinese Wall" because you had to walk around the whole damn thing or risk using the tunnel in the middle for cars and all the fun that could cause.

>oldies want to destroy this great achievement of architecture

nothing more than a reminder of oppression

It is incredibly comfy to live like this.
>forced to drive literally anywhere you'd like to go
>comf

if the blocks moved shit would be awesome

I need to know the style of architecture of the churches on the bottom row of this postcard, as well as the final church on the top row. Is it Gothic Revival?

They were selling the dream of a new era to peasants, machine made things were impressive back then.

The USSR produced some of the best architecture of the 20th Century.

And lots of crap. But a lot of that's due to the need to be practical and cheap in a time when they were getting squeezed by the international community and were essentially self-sufficient. We in the West don't have that excuse, we were just lazy and greedy.

An endless sea of soulless, mass-produced, cheaply-built tract houses that all look exactly the same that's filled with with fake squares of grass with no trees in sight isn't "comfy", user. Pic related is what an ACTUAL comfy American neighborhood looks like.

white kids from America raised in the suburbs wouldn't last two nights in a commie block

t. raised in a commie block

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good thing we dont live in the wild and have to fight for food like wild vatniks in a moscow alleyway, Boris

Good thing we'll never have to

Socialist Realism is beautiful, you idiot.

>with no trees in sight
actualy many/most comieblock plans incorporated a lot of green buffer work(parks and lots of trees), and when you add into the plan a concept of centraly loacated amenities(shopping and the like) withi housing blocks it was a pretty efficiant and practical way to plan shit...i think it comes down to implimintation and after care rather than "huurduur, commie blocks suck"

the concept of afordable standerdized housing built around a sense of utility/comunity/and acesability is a nice idea and in the long term more workable/sustainable than the american suburban picket fence and a lawn

Congrats, the generations before you fucked over your people for centuries so you could post about how big your dick is on a Tibetan Scissor-kicking site.

>being cucked by Home Owner Jew.

Yeah. No thanks. I actually like having a yard and not having to pay some cucklord for no reason.

Look what happens when you let extreme leftist ideologies infect the masses.

I enjoy driving.
Its a far better deal than having to take public transit anywhere.

I used to be "metropolitan" Goy like most of my peers until I was redpilled on land, the government, and leading a sustainable life.

Dont get me wrong, I'll still do business with the landcucked, just as long as what Im purchasing is "BIFL".

From Russia with love

>suburbs
>commie blocks
LMAO-ing at ur life
getrichslowly.org/blog/2011/05/22/reader-story-how-i-built-my-house-without-a-mortgage/

That's fair. I like to still get around when I'm in no state to drive.

So how come everywhere but Europe can into highrises?

Why the fuck are HOAs like this?

I have read HOA forms before but they almost never give explanation or reasoning for their decisions or rules and almost no one I know in the neighborhood knows who the HOA are.

That's poor people housing here

The worker's paradise, everyone!

The socialist parasite destroying any ounce of culture.

They should have bombed every school of higher learning in France and Germany.

Europeans are comfortable with their small penis size in comparison to the American or Chink, who need to compensate for their inadequacies.

The arts actually flourished under the Soviet Union. The Seven Sisters were built then and also artists like Eisenstein, Prokofiev, Pudovkin and Khachataurian revived the culture.

The arts flourished for like a decade or two if you're being generous.
And then it all went to shit.

These kinds of gated communities are cozy as fuck.
My friend used to live in a place exactly like this, and we could skate, bike, luge etc in the street without worrying about traffic or angry neighbors. His seemed to have more common areas than this pic does though.

However monotonous suburbs are you clearly have never lived in one. They are huge, the square footage in an average middle class home would be much more than that house. You are only paying for the property value in cape cod. You can trick your house out to be super high tech on the inside for that money. They arent cheaply built. You get a nice pool and a huge yard. Everything is well kept and all your neighbors are in the same economic strata as you are.

You are just pissed because people found what most people want in a living situation and found a way to mass produce it. No one wants to live in shitty wooden stand alone houses that become decrepid over time. Cape cod has stayed in good shape cuz its a well-known wealthy area. Most places like that are turning into ghettos cuz people are moving into communities are the poor are buying up the small houses like in pic.

Source: Have lived in apartments, classic suburbs, high end comminities that are still technically suburban, have relatives that have a house like that actually in cape cod, have lived in a delapidated area where houses used to look like that but are now falling apart.

Take away: Live in the subrubs unless you can afford a stand alone mansion, in which case go for that. Otherwise you are just being an idiot.

Given the time and what they were trying to achieve I actually think its pretty cool. Its not the most asthetically pleasing but tht was kinda the point, it has a place to be in architecture. It was supposed to be all about the shear awesomeness of industry and efficiency.

great in the winter when you don't want to pay for heating but completely suck in the summer or when your neighbours want to sleep without blankets and heating is free. Because of that i use to think that 15 c was pretty hot.

This, why did the absolute least aesthetic countries become superpowers

Soviet architecture is bad, mkay?

>they aren't cheaply-built
Tract houses being cheaply-built has been a problem ever since their inception in the '50s.
>ur just jealous
Stop. I don't care about the amount of money any involved party has. I'm purely referring to the visual appearances of neighborhoods.
>Cape Cod
I pointing out Cape Cod in particular. The reason for that image's filename is because the style of the house is Cape Cod Revival, and as far as I know, it's impossible to tell if it's actually even located in Cape Cod or not.
>houses on old streets are run-down shitshows that only poor people live in
In my town, houses on old streets (mostly from the '40s through the '80s) make up the majority of housing, and not one street is socioeconomically-depressed.

>I pointing out
Shit.
>*I wasn't pointing out

Kind of agree with this.

If you're not wealthy, personally I would avoid most housing that was built prior to the mid 80's. Yeah that old house looks "cute" and traditional, but it's most likely unrennovated and has a shitty kitchen, bathrooms, floors, and will be much more cramped and have fewer bathrooms than a more modern home.

Older homes are more difficult to keep clean, there always seem to be weird little spaces behind the toilet or stove that are really hard to get to and gather dust and grime. In my expirience you have to clean twice as often in an older house to reach the same level of clenliness.

I've been so much happier when I moved into a newer place, everything is more roomy, convinient, and ergonomic and it all just werks. Fuck having one tiny ass damp bathroom, now I have two bathrooms that are normal sized and give me room to breath. Fuck the tiny kitchen with minimal counter space, now I have a bar and can move around while I cook.

When it comes to my home I want higher celings, floors that are easy to keep clean, plenty of sunlight, a more open floorplan, a kitchen island/bar, and bathrooms with bigger sink counters. Fuck "authenticity", history, character, and "good bones". I like all those things, but not for my house. Everything about home interiors gets better every decade, unless I have enough dough to knock down walls and remodel the kitchen and bathroom the newer house will almost always be better.

Modernist*

>Seven Sisters
>not aesthetic

>One does not simply walk into Moscow. Its black gates are guarded by more than just slavs. There is evil there that does not sleep. The FSB is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with snow, ash, and drunks. The very air you breathe is a poisonous fume. Not with ten thousand men could you do this. It is folly.

what is the comfiest kind of house and why is it the Colonial?

Georgian houses are just unexplainably comfy, and I've never even lived in one. It's probably because of their stately-but-not-pretentious appearance, as well as their association with American patriotism and the founding of a nation. They're also generally pretty old, and old houses are basically synonymous comfy.

>all the fun that could cause.
kek

Is that fucking kwntucky? Anyway in yurop check out austro-hungarian neo gothic from late 19th century, especially in polish galicia

I really dig carpenter gothic. I want my house to look haunted.

Is living in commie blocks worse than living in west european version of commie blocks?

Magnitogorsk?

Come to Australia and you'll see what happens when the Eternal Tradie is king. The quarter acre block needs to be abolished.

It's fucking Kwntucky all the way through. Paducah has a bretty cool historic district.
Second Empire is a REAL man's haunted house style.