Why are old commieblocks aesthetic in their own decrepit way?

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I think I just nutted to the idea of that photo coming to fruition.

I don't know. Living in the post warsaw pact country, I don't find it comfy at all, the current mix of contemporary and commie architecture plus bad transit inbetween just makes it depressing.

Dystopia, yes, I often find myself lost in thoughts when, for example, walking through Pripyat in Stalker or in Norilsk in googleview, but I can't into comfy.

>No, brutalism shouldn't pollute beautiful neo-classical cities like Paris.
t. reactionary cuck.
the past is the past, it has served it's purpose

Sadly it never came to be, don't google "skopje 2014" just don't its too sad.

Also Italian Futurism > commieshit

>the past is the past, it has served it's purpose

Beauty is timeless.

Trips confirm

Some color

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>blue sky
>green hills
I think not young buck.

fucking comfy lad

looks like a graveyard with headstones big enough to live in

>I think not young buck.

What added color? The government would never lie to us :')

Unrepentant utilitarianism manifests well in architecture. It's a reflection of the society that built it.

Architecture thread?

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>muh beauty
>muh feels
also practicality is beauty btw

Hate all you want, utilitarian/modern architecture is flavor of the month, true beauty is eternal.

>these are the product of capitalism
Feels good to be right wing

Soviet Russian apartment projects or west side Chicago? You tell me.

All I see is giant graves.

This is disgusting

It's the forlorn and melancholic Beauty of looking at something which represents what was mean to be utopia but now lies utterly defeated

It belongs to the state. Not the people. Marxist-Leninists and capitalists need to understand that state capitalism, socialism and communism are all separate things.

Then I think people would stop complaining about the "wheel commemeism hasn't been tried" meme

brand new commieblock = dilapidated nigger project

They are amazing.
>t. half my city is 70s Yugoslav commieblocks, also live in one, comfy as heck.

Because they seem to represent a bunch of very attractive ideas and an interesting period of time, but trust me, it's very shitty to live in.
It is better at very specific places and periods of time, but that's it. Even very bad houses are better than this.
t. Someone born in Czech republic who lived in both types and knows the difference very well (desu it's especially bad when growing up, in comparison to a house)
AMA, I think I know this topic quite well

MLs are state capitalists though

> implying commieblocks are practical

That's the point I was trying to get across. That Marxist-Leninism is a failed ideology and lessons should be learned from it's failures as well as it's successes.

How else are you supposed to accomodate for the huge population booms after WWII? Western Europe and USA also built loads of appartment blocks.

By extending the city. Commieblocks are not denser than city centres and a city like paris should have the money to invest in livable neighbourhood.

They aren't.

They are ugly as fuck and anyone who likes or even only tolerates them should be tortured to death,

Oh come on, they're not half bad.
t. commieblock resident from Croatia

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They make me feel sad for some reason.

true. workers had never taken control of everything, it was centralized dictatorship

how do you call brutalism when it's too sci fi and mechanical looking to be JUST utilitarian concrete turds?

because that's the kind i like

>unironically liking this tragic hedgehog

Corbusier was right, burn it all down

Pretty colours, uniformity and they can look good if they're neat and blended nicely with colours. Add a few trees and bushes and you've got something cosy.

Reminds me of the 90s China I grew up in.

It's brutalism.

Because you are a goddamn commie.

>Had they not stopped the fool, i would live in a commiblock in an aesthetically ruined Paris this very day

The Tour Montparnasse is something i can go with, if it's the sole price to avoid this autistic shitshow

I went to Bucharest a week or two ago and saw some beautiful architecture, but this building amazed me. I have no idea what it is that attracts me but it may be the most beautiful commie block I've seen. I don't know.

God that's depressing. I don't even mind the buildings that much, the vacant with well tread paths is a downer

You have any more 40s/50s NY?

Commie blocks are atrocious and I find the romanitization of them prevalent on the Internet for the past half decade or so by corn fed Midwesterners raised in middle class suburbs utterly bizarre.

Should have kept pushing east after berlin and exterminated those fucks

Funny how communists talk about consumerism and mass production and capitalism destroying authentic culture and then turn around and swoon over cheaply built mass produced beehive tier garbage housing whose only purpose was to efficiently store human capital.

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Those old structures are still standing 500 years later and need little more than an occasional sandblasting to keep the stone pretty, while commieblocks can't last more than a century because reinforce concrete is porous, allowing water in to rust the rebar inside, cracking the concrete and making the building structurally unsound.

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This is a stretch but I don't suppose anyone here knows anything about this series of French(I think) apartments that were built in this new experimental style but they're hardly ever used anymore, lots of circular windows, warm colors, peach walls and the like?
This is a giant stretch but I'm hoping someone in here with an interest in architecture would know

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We call them the Rockets.

Also this "Mammoth".

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They probably wouldn't have been so bad if they were paired with urban greenery projects.

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cool tropico screenshot

Repetition, balance, and the presence.
repetition is hypnotic, this idea is best displayed in music, its also why *some* extravagant structures such as those of the Baroque period are "gaudy"...there are too many details for the mind to detect a "satisfying" pattern. Symmetry more or less is a part of the same mechanism, symmetry is somewhat of a pattern and something that is naturally pleasing to the brain. Because of their repetitive, gloomy, and often large size they contrast heavily with surrounding landscape, buildings, people, etc...but most importantly it disrupts what our brains think of as a "natural" (a certain ratio and distribution of patterns to non-patterns). All of these things can contribute to "good aesthetic" as well as a lack thereof.

Commieblocks are unironically comfy as fuck.
I used to criticize them when I used to live in Eastern Europe, but now I miss them.
Keep in mind that the urban parks between the blocks, even if they look ghetto, give a sensation of space. This is unlike the short duplexes all glued one to another without any space in between (besides the small backyard) popular in the East side of North America, where you need to /go somewhere/ in order to have a bit of space instead of just going outside your block.

t.Bulgarian living in Montreal

Besides the aesthetic complains.

Building based on practicality it's perfectly viable.

It has been tried and it works just fine.

You think they are ugly?

Paint them.