This exhibition on Yugoslav concrete architecture at the MOMA might be entertaining for the right kind of OTFer if they happened to be in NYC over the summer.
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I found these Chinese 'nail houses' pretty disconcerting, and this seems the best thread to put them in. When people in the way of a development don't want to move, they just build around them. Isn't there a farmhouse in the middle of the M62 for the same reason?
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Originally posted by delicatemoth View PostI found these Chinese 'nail houses' pretty disconcerting, and this seems the best thread to put them in. When people in the way of a development don't want to move, they just build around them. Isn't there a farmhouse in the middle of the M62 for the same reason?
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A Guardian spread on modernist architecture in that London.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/g...n-architecture
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http://socialistmodernism.com/
Look at the photos down the page or use the map to find examples of Eastern European architecture from the communist years
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There's some interesting buildings on that site but the rest largely confirm what an irredeemable style of architecture brutalism was and is. Especially the residential tower blocks which make Park Hill (they should have pulled the rest of that kip down as well) look like something on the French Riviera. It will be no great loss if the good people of Eastern Europe and Central Asia take a wrecking ball to most of 'em. If only to infuriate communists like Owen Hatherley.
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Well he’s not a straight up Marxist Leninist eejit like Bastani/Sam Rapey Maoist Kriss anyways. At most he’s a Gorbachev reformist/euro communist, but really seems a Soc Dem in a Soc Dems are communists (in the eyes of Chris Deerin/Helen Lewis cunts) world.
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Some very brutal architecture in this Guardian spread of modernism in Skopje:
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/g...ia-in-pictures
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Originally posted by Aitch View PostSome very brutal architecture in this Guardian spread of modernism in Skopje:
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/g...ia-in-pictures
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- Apr 2011
- 2053
- A bottom-bottom wata-wata in Lake Titicaca
- Atlético Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca Pan flutes FC
- Buñuelos Arequipeños
The Atlas of Brutalist Architecture has just been published (£65 on Amazon).
This is the only book to thoroughly document the world's finest examples of Brutalist architecture. More than 850 buildings - existing and demolished, classic and contemporary - are organized geographically into nine continental regions.
878 Buildings, 798 Architects, 102 Countries, 9 World Regions, 1 Style BRUTALISM
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https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/a...with-brutalism
This article isn’t bad. So it seems Warp have moved on from plinky plonky electronica to gritty films and shows using one of New Labour’s typical Pathfinder/“creating a property market” fuck ups as a backdrop (the still mostly derelict bar the bit for poshoes and business Park Hill- god Urban Splash are pure despicable)Last edited by Lang Spoon; 13-11-2018, 20:31.
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For interesting pictures and reads on architecture (among other) I've enjoyed following the twitter accounts https://twitter.com/Oniropolis (Darran Anderson, whose book Imaginary Cities is excellent) and https://twitter.com/urbanfoxxxx (who I don't know anything about, but she(?) always posts interesting things).
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