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    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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      And we have passes . . .

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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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          That’s really horrible. China is depressing the shit out of me.

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            Originally posted by delicatemoth View Post
            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?
            No, that's a myth. The ground was easier to traverse by passing either side of the farmhouse (it's on the side of the hill) than trying to build two carriageways next to each other.

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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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                I pass that Wealdstone Motors building pretty much every work day.

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                  Wow. Lovely. The only one that elicits a bit of a yawn is The Empire Pool. Maybe it's just the angle. But the rest are great.

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                    My city has the solution to any housing crisis: just 3D print some more houses.

                    Artist impression:



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                      Yabba dabba do.

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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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                            Em I don’t think he a communist, George

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                              He's described himself as much enough times, or maybe it some tongue-in-cheek thing which gets lost in print (at least to me).

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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 Post
                                    Some very brutal architecture in this Guardian spread of modernism in Skopje:

                                    https://www.theguardian.com/cities/g...ia-in-pictures
                                    Skopje is batshit mad, it's one of the best places I've ever been.

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                                      Couple of those remind me of those Skopje phots remind me of the extension to the City of London Guildhall.

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                                        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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                                            Casa del Portuale, Naples:

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                                              Wow, that is one fuck-you statement!

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                                                More modernist than brutalist though, the massing and the extent of the square glass facade aren't in the brutalist mold.

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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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                                                    The Oxley Business Centre, Crows Nest, Sydney (photo courtesy of my daughter as I was carrying the takeaway):

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