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I love this photo! Thought it was black and white at first, but the cherries and berries add a welcome contrast (for once). I’m incredibly biased though as a lover of concrete and Russian composers/ballet. For instance I far prefer this to the look of the Bolshoi theater in Moscow
Me: “fuck yeah concrete” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kP6azyz7PHE
This is me with those Soviet brutalist buildings too... sure, there's absolutely situations for elaborate art in architecture, but functional concrete cubes are definitely my favourite.
Usually the acoustics are top notch and project the sound very well inside. Not to mention insulation!
The Soviets really knew what they were doing when it came to putting function first and aesthetics next in almost any project. And yet a shit ton of their projects still turned out as "highly functional public art".
Yeah I’ve made a point to study cold weather engineering and a lot of times it’s “oops all Soviet engineering!”
Well, if you look at the USSR on a map and overlay a climate map, you'll see why that is. Huge chunk of the nation was in the far north, and when you have a huge nation that's mostly in a very cold climate, you'll tend to design infrastructure across the whole nation to be suited to cold weather, if you always care about function first and aesthetics last, which the Soviets usually did.
For sure. My point of reference is northern North America- so not really form or function- just extraction at the lowest possible cost
Ah yeah. Same. For all that people here rant and rave about Soviet brutalism being where good design goes to die, at least it focused on function, I've seen far uglier buildings that don't even look well built in my city.
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