If those were in Vancouver it’d be like a trillion dollars worth of real estate, probably in better shape than a ton of million dollar homes.
Brutalist prefabs like that are actually found all over Western Europe as well. It wouldn’t surprise me if somebody in the comments would go “that pic is Paris, that one is from Cologne, that one is from London” etc., i’ve seen nearly identical buildings in all of these cities. Not only that, this style of architecture was originally developed by architects from France, from Switzerland, from the UK, from Germany. When Stalin planned entire cities from scratch while building up a new industrial base behind the Ural mountains, the project also involved city planners from Weimar Germany.
I think the only ideology that was really outspoken against any modern architecture were the nazis :curious-marx:
most of these are fine as architecture just kinda badly mantained
Pictures that are used to show how “bad” they are are also usually taken during overcast spring days before any vegitation has come out. You could put anything in the same light and it would look like shit.
like also considering it is the soviet union i think a lot of aesthetics worries would probably disappear as you have to choose to live there or die on the streets in the russian winter like the danger of homelessness seems real big in russia so ease of construction is important
The horror of people living in 2 or 3 bedroom apartments.
Oh no, you see, they were “Identical” 2 or 3 bedroom apartments.
All seriousness: the number of people who think interior decorating was outlawed in the USSR is definitely not 0.
Communist ideology: house the homeless
Western news: look how much this architectute was influenced by their ideology
communist authoritarian dictatorships will destroy your unalienable human right to be homeless
