someguy3 to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoSo all that brutalist architecture, what if we just painted it? Not one colour, patterns to break it up.message-squaremessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up170arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up163arrow-down1message-squareSo all that brutalist architecture, what if we just painted it? Not one colour, patterns to break it up.someguy3 to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square35fedilinkfile-text
Has this been done somewhere? Any other ways to make it look better than tearing it down? Whole bunch of fake glass?
minus-squareiusearchbtw@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·1 year agoIt’s been done quite a bit throughout Eastern Europe. Here are some examples from Poland: Certainly a nicer colour scheme than dirty soul-crushing grey.
minus-squareLojcs@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down3·edit-21 year agoThose don’t look brutalist to me. I feel like brutalism calls for more than just grey blocks of concrete.
minus-squareHonoraryMancunian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoIt has to look at least a little bit evil
minus-squareCiderApplenTea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoNot 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-squareLojcs@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoI 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:
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.
It has to look at least a little bit evil
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