Communist Subways

What the fuck is going on?
>we're only allowed to be aesthetic underground

Not really. It's just that Stalinist architecture is very different from what came afterwards. Your generic commieblocks are from the 1960s and later, when all this style was declared "redundant".

Oh thats where the money went

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And later period subway stations, even in Moscow, are shit as well. See picrelated (sorry for the watermark).

do the architect care about the landscape at all or was it changed? the surrounding looks ugly as fuck
there should've been a plaza or garden if you go by classical convention

I'm sorry but making a subway station look like a baroque museum is gauche as fuck reminds me of Saudi military baracks being plated in gold.

They loved their industrial look.

the mass bomb shelters need to look nice

Two words: Moscow Olympics.

G R I M on the surface
A E S T H E T I C in the subway.

Were they trying to symbolize Russia itself?

This is back when a city's transit system was a symbol of prestige. London started out with their tubes and other metropolitan cities around the world soon followed suit. Of course, the Soviets had to be better at everything than everyone else. And public transport is a very authoritarian left thing, so why not show your wealth in your subway?

Parks are so petit bourgeouis.

Seriously, though, I guess originally, in the 1930s to 1950s, there was some kind of a plan to rebuild Moscow in a unified style, but later it was all abandoned, and so Moscow remains the mishmash of styles it is now. It's not as bad as it sounds, though, and it's gotten much better in the recent years.

Actually this fancy shit is from 30-50s, Stalin had a thing about A E S T H E T I C.

aesthetic more like kitschy

Why did he have to die?

If western capitalist stooges didn't get in the way he would have made the entire world beautiful.

Russia had a long history of high art and architecture well before communism. They still maintain it in some ways.

Russians were doing THIS while the rest of Europe was still worshipping in big grey monstrosities.

How is it even possible for one country to be so V I S I O N A R Y.

architect here, parks are important social public spaces as it generally improve the life quality of society as whole and was used for everyone, not only the rich, till today politicians who defends parks/public space/urban mixed use buildings are mostly socialist and left leaning

It was a joke.

and also it makes more sense for a communist/socialist country due to their nature to build grand project which can be used by everyone such as rather than making something like which can only be accessed by government officials, while letting the city fabric felt to decay

>architect thinks he's a city planner
heh, get back to playing lego, kid

Im both, aside from city planners who work for the government, most city planners do architecture, and even those government guys do consultation with us every now and then

I get what you mean though, there's the architect + landscape + city planner and then there's architect + interior design + fag shit

I was just meming you. I knew a guy who was an architect and he got REALLY pissed off if you said he wasn't qualified to be a city planner.

You're completely missing the point of Stalinism, or any other totalitarian ideology, for that matter. The point is to make an individual feel like a tiny cog in the machine of the State. Your "socialist and left leaning" politicians have nothing in common with that.

Anything is better than the NYC subway which is fucking 3rd world by every measure.

Yeah, but street musicians

Get out, NYC subway is perfectly minimalist and utilitarian.

It's the ugliest and dirtiest fucking thing on Earth

>mummy the walls aren't encrusted in gold laquer like my muh putinfu subways

Grow up. If you complained about sewer mains making some stations smell like shit maybe you'd have a point. You'd don't notice dilapidated walls during rush hour unless you go out of your way to notice them.

>can't cope with the fact he lives in a 3rd world city with 3rd world infrastructure

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NYC mass transit moves more people in 24 hours than most smaller countries have people. It's not pretty but it just weeks.
Blame all the brown people who consider literring a rebellious act against the oppressive white patriarchy or whatever. There are specially designed vaccume trains that are used every night specifically for shit like that anyway.

>don't waste money on pointless opulent train stations
>most stations are just ugly holes in the ground
>but be the only subway system IN THE WORLD to remain fully operational 24 hours a day 7 days a week
>some idiot calls this 3rd world by every measure

NYC subway also has a vastly superior map to most subway systems since it has major streets laid over it instead of a worthless silhouette of the city like Montreal or London's maps.

Buttravaged 3rd worlder

>Anything is better than the NYC subway which is fucking 3rd world by every measure.

What a ridiculous statement. "Waaaah the stations are dirty!" Yeah, because they fully serve a city of 8 million people, 24 hours a day, for the last hundred years, with a network extensive enough that people don't need or want cars.

>people don't want or need cars
>NYC road network clogged 24/7
>fucking turnpikes everywhere
>if you want to avoid it you have to ride the dirtiest subway on Earth with smelly niggers and Puerto Ricans

Glad I moved the fuck away.

There's really no point in having a car. They've become a complete meme. Driving is a chore doesn't matter if you live in midtown Manhattan or the sticks of Kentucky.

t. Puerto Rican insensitive to his ungodly stench

I feel a bit the same about the Paris Metro. It really is an incredible network in terms of coverage. There's sometimes stops just 50 metres away from each other, it's a bit silly sometimes. Also there's the semi-underground RER regional trains that go right through the middle of the city and connect with the major underground stations along the way as well as at their own stations (which are the largest underground stations in the world). London is laughably only just starting to build the crossrail network.It's also really cheap by Western Euro standards. I pay 70 (half of which is paid by my company) per month for unlimited travel within a huge area.

The downside is that the Paris metro can smell so so so bad. Also, every single fucking day there are hobos sleeping and pissing there and asking for money on every carriage.

Small and cozy meyros are the best, like in Prague.

Is the Paris metro really as hellish as people make it out to be or is it people just surprised that there are blacks/Arabs in Paris?

racism is against global rule 3

Was there just last week, other than a little confusing at times it was alright. Only was there for one day though.

t.exchange student taking advantage to play tourist

Plus now you've got the pollution discounts.

The Moscow Metro serves a city of nearly twelve million and isnt close to being unpleasantly dirty

Not at all. Veeky Forums memes Paris really fucking hard. Mostly because most of the memers have never been for more than a weekend (if at all). There's tons of non-white people (if that really disturbs you) around the Gar du Nord area. Everything gets much cleaner the further away from there you get.

If you're only going to go to touristy spots you will only ever get the worst experience of Paris. The same applies to every capital city ever.

Americans don't maintain their public transport because they think it's for poor people.

Americans are poor people.

i like how it looks... the sense of openness and scale can be felt from the pictures. it would lighten up my day desu over a plain functional subway platform.

>his country hasn't misplaced developing urban communities for highway overpass I50 exit A295-B295 W (Maple Ave.)

It's not brown people per say, its young people who trash things up. Young people have no discipline, you used to be able to beat your kid if they misbehaved, now they give you 'time out' or 'get grounded' or certain 'privileges revoked'. Kids these days are behaving like Showa era juvenile delinquents. The type you see in Akira.

manlet

you do realise it was built by an italian architect like the rest of the Kremlin

>>>reddit

yes that is where you should go

you need to go inside to see the marvel of god

Next year in Hagia Sophia.

Most generic commieblocks are peripheral residential areas made to accommodate migrations from rural areas to cities.

The Moscow metro has less than half the stations as the NYC subway, and it doesn't run at night.

A couple look good but most of those are so tacky, like the inside of a cathedral, tasteless.

Are you trying to stroke the Jewish saying "Next year in Jerusalem"?

fuck off reddit nigger

>Tfw you realize that if the soviets never abandoned Stallinist architecture and instead built more with it as inspiration the union would still be alive and functioning today.

Kys