What the heck ever happened to grandiose architecture?
Architecture that mirrored the greatness of the aspirations of the, well, aspirants?
How did our cities turn into soulless human-minimizing ant colonies? (See BW picture)
Where did the planning go that resulted in cities that actually have at least some green in them, such as Central Park in NYC?
I, for one, would like to see gigantic columned buildings that 100-foot-tall giants could easily walk in an out among.
Coupled with vast swathes of friendly, living, breathing greenery.
Why can't we start afresh out in areas traditionally locked up as Federal Land? Barren, completely useless wastelands, such as Greece, are glorified by their awesome arechitecture. Why can't we do the same?
Bring the soul back to our cities, back to our people!
Welfare (trillions lost in taxes to pay for it), outsourcing to China/3rd world (lost jobs and wealth) and women's suffrage (double workforce, destroy wages) destroyed economy and made it too costly to spend on art or architecture. Premium for space in million+ population centers lead to tall, soulless communist blocks.
another issue is pollution. not on the climate change nonsense, but general pollution that didnt exist before industrial revolution is why buildings lose their ornaments and various claddings. Acids destroy limestone. Sulfur Dioxide, etc led to significant increases in the rate of corrosion on limestone, sandstone, and marble. Maintaining older ones is very costly now in certain areas.
Another common issue is kikes want to make money. Cheap, garbage concrete that breaks down in 30-50 years means more money in pocket. Building things to last means no money.
Oof, trying to equivocate a bunker with architecture meant for civilian life, what a turbojew.
Evan Campbell
Architecture became an insulting expense rather than a spiritual duty of beautification of one's nation, in fact, art is a threat to the (((established order))) as it informs of a higher ideals and creates solidarity even– gasp– attachment to one's home. Just look at how people dress today if you want to understand how degraded we are as a people, absolutely shameless kitschy blobs that haven't an ounce of respect to be pleasant.
No one gives a shit about cities in multiracial societies. Everyone feels like resident rather than a citizen obligated to maintain it.
I always loved Detroit's style before it was occupied by the usual insufferables. It always triggers niggers and jews showing them what it was like before they arrived.
the modernist and post-modernist styles typified by steel frames and sheet glass are the perfect examples of globalism at work. with their cloying angularity and sterility there is nothing identifying what country these could be in. all individual flavor has been stripped from the Building (I use the capital B purposefully) to create an imposing and dreadful monolith, that could be plunked down in any city, at any time.
art (and its extension architecture), as we know, has been under attack by (((certain interests))) for some time, and I think these movements of architecture exemplifies this attack. they are supposed to instill a feeling of awe and wonder at their majesty and beauty, distinctly expressed through a unique cultural lens. other anons have provided excellent examples of a cultures' values being expressed through an architectural medium. when these are pulled away to reveal a structure of pure function devoid of form, you reach the (((globalist))) ideal: a world free of individual expression.
JEWS HAPPENED TO IT, FAGGOT. Art Deco was the last white architectural form in history. It was destroyed to make way for communist ✡brutalism.✡ Everything since has not been art.
Hunter Wilson
Always been partial to the IG Farben complex. Right mix of a call to the old, the need for efficiency, and balance with nature when it was built, now it's concrete jungle you'll also find some Egyptian influences in the surrounding area
Oof. You did it again. Brutalist buildings aren't bunkers. They are death traps. Concrete residential buildings collapse in a devastating manner and aren't implicitly durable. A bunker is durable because it is designed to be durable. A brutalist building is ugly because it is designed to be ugly, not to be durable. Your pea brain is assuming because it is made up of a lot of concrete, that it is durable.
David Hill
a perfect expression of the Poles themselves then
Tyler Cox
This is shitposting.
Henry Ross
"Renaissance leaders like the Medici were marked by views of the ancient Roman historian Sallust who had been deeply hostile to a situation that had developed in the decadent periods of Rome where there had been, in his words: 'Publice egestas, privatim opulentia' (public squalor, private opulence). Sallust and the renaissance leaders believed that in a healthy society, the public sphere itself should be opulent, that is beautiful, refined, appealing, so that the wealthy classes would not be tempted to withdraw exclusively to private estates, and so that all citizens would be uplifted by a pleasing vision of communal life." For more on the Renaissance philosophy: youtu.be/fI1OeMmwYjU Source: instagram.com/p/Boc3q4lFeNR/
Humans shouldn't pretend they are allergic to curves or colors. A log cabin has more soul than any of these.
Jonathan Cruz
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Julian Torres
this is a slide thread
Jack Carter
It's not. A key aspect of human civilizations is the architecture. Ugly people live in ugly houses. Ugly thoughts come to mind when looking at ugly things. Humans are not meant to be ugly.
Carson Kelly
Jews are hideous, and are born out of baby torture.
Elijah Perez
Honestly, while less grandiose. I'd like cities built on a human scale with little compact walkways, alleys and pedestrian-only streets (like little European villages) that are mixed use, residential and commercial everywhere (like Tokyo) where every few streets is divided by a little park (like Savannah Georgia). Then in the middle of the city you can put something more impressive in stature like a capital building and whatnot. It should be incentivized that strangers talk to each other and lax commercial store laws (the only thing illegal is they need to be spread out over the city, if not it'll be like poor Asian countries where all the little stores are all clustered together) so small stores and services are peppered around the city. Imagine little pubs and bakeries and fish vendors, and little food stands.
Huge chains should be banned, although some exceptions could be made if it fits the motif of the city, and doesn't drown out local vendors. Cops should do most of the patrolling on foot, in small beats and work out of police booths (they should have access to motorcycles and other vehicles when strictly needed to chase someone down. Their uniforms should be impeccable, and must be measured so they maintain an athletic build while on the beat (cops in desk jobs or whatever can get fat, I guess) they should be trained in customer service and be a city ambassador (if the job allows) and primarily deescalate situations (but since they'll be no muds, this is much less of an issue) . The city shouldn't be built on top of nature, rather than around it, with rivers flowing through the city and streets driving around dense trees. Like Tokyo, everything should be done to dissuade car use in the city, including fast, safe and extensive public transportation. The city should fund all sorts of exercise and outdoor activities so people actually go out and enjoy the streets.
Again, the goal shouldn't be a capitalistic one (be a hub to make money!) or a commie one (how can we cram in the most people for cheap?!) but to make a place where humans live humanly.
Literally commieblock trash. International and comblock are the two worst imo. They are usually the cheapest too, so it's not illogical they exist. As for the "modern" takes on shit, usually mimicking biologic or mineral shapes that are very impractical for buildings, they can be real expensive as noted. They are also usually trash, for every Sydney Opera House there are a zillion Jewggenheim museums.
In the end it comes down to race, whites make anything work well, just look at the Nazi bunker, it's fashy-comf wave. Just need Jews out of the way to get things done.
Chase Cruz
I wish he had been able to build his 1,730 meter skyscraper.
Traditional style can't produce a structure that can house thousands of people with a small footing. These shit-hole urban cages are filled to the brim, sometimes, with millions of people, in a limited space. They need to fit them somewhere. Not just for housing, but for work. You might have a thousand people working in an office building in the center of a city. The only way to fit them is by building up, and you can't exactly construct a 30 story building in the style of Roman architecture. The shit is ugly, but when it comes to housing so many people in such a small area, functionality has to take precedence. As for modern artistic expression in architecture, well yeah, that's just shit. The concrete towers though, there's no other way to really do it. As for housing for common people, it hasn't changed much. These buildings of old that we think are so beautiful are few and far between. Churches, libraries etc. Not housing for common people. Our architecture hasn't changed that much. We didn't have necessity for 50 story buildings 200 years ago, nor could we build them, so they didn't change, they're new. Court houses and churches, among other things, still have some semblance of European style to them. Things have changed, but these really exuberant, beautiful buildings of old were few and far between. They weren't every structure of their kind (not every church was Saint Basil's Cathedral, most were little plain wooden/stone churches). I'm sure there's people out there still building nice architecture, but it's just drowned out by all the modern necessities of the bloated urban area. There was never a time when when European architecture was mostly grandiose. The majority of things built were always plain and boring. It's only the beautiful and impressive structures we preserve though.
I agree that we build these ugly places out of necessity. However it's bullshit that most building built were plain and boring; at least in old cities. These buildings like in the picture all had their own style and are way more ornamental compared to the housing blocks we built today. Here in the Netherlands we tend to build what we call vinex blocks. They're almost always ugly plain looking houses. However, like you said these houses are way more efficient in their spacing use, energy use etc.
One thing we do well here concerning city planning is the use of tree. Even in our city centers we use a lot of trees. The picture of the street with trees is just outside of the city center in my hometown. Even if not all of these buildings are new and beautiful the street itself is.
What happens when the bolts holding one of them on rusts enough and a gust of wins blows it down and it crushes someone?
Tyler Peterson
heh you watched that too? Pretty neat little series about 13th century building and life. Medieval architecture often gets a bad rap but it really was a whole step above the classical world. Very complex structures and a lot of skillwork. Also when a castle was built brand new they probably looked actually kind of beautiful because they usually white-washed the outside
Chase Moore
That actually looks beautiful
Camden Watson
No it's not.
I actually agree here. The two pictures you posted were….decent IMHO. I still believe that the vast majority of modernist/internationalist (and especially brutalist) buildings are pure cancer, but there are SOME decent examples (pics related).
Architecture should be based on fractal geometry. It provide more space and could be programmable to change the shapes of buildings depending on seasons, sunlight direction, natural disasters etc… Stuff that your mind cannot handle !
Jaxon White
Lately it is getting better. They are now making more variation in a single street and building more in a Dutch style. Of course it isn't comparable to the houses they build in 1900.
Also the name "University of Technology" is retarded, might as well just make a University of Science because everyone's too dumb to actually come up with a real name
Daniel Nguyen
I thought of something better than weak trolling to add to this thread.
You building-picture mows should try for something a little more intrinsically grand. You're defending a system of arrogant greebles. Where's the novelty? Where's the recognition of intrinsic value? Your styles are inefficient. For that matter, where's the recognition of intrinsic grandeur? Your greebling might show fine in a monolithic construction, but it probably wouldn't.
You want to protect some architectural vision? Go back to school for yourself. Rejuvenate yourself and rejuvenate your ideas. Quit griping like you want the next generation to pick up the torch. It's not like you lot would recognize a fusion of styles that wasn't created by one of you, so get up and do it yourself.
I know this is a postnational world forum broadcasting everywhere - so hey, look up your nation's version of corrupt real estate policies. See if you can make millions defending your "artistic vision" while you're out there trying to claw architectural progress back a few years. Y'might do some good for yourselves and others.
Owen Mitchell
jews
Nicholas Reyes
he did a fucking fantastic job too
Kayden Hernandez
a bit star trek-y for my tastes
but i will say that brutalism and post modern architecture is 100% made for skateboarding
Adrian Green
They stripped away all cultural references and meaning in architecture leaving only function, no history, no meaning, no culture, no identity, the perfect environment for the NPC.
people need to realize the what the big city is today , gays , trans , and chimps. Thats by design. That is a good thing. Its pandoras box. We trapped them there. If you go yourself you are an idiot.
Nolan Adams
art and artists need cultural hubs in order to exist and pursue their passion. what youre doing is creating a feedback loop where art is damned to a thousand years of further bastardization.
the advancement of civilization comes from these cultural hubs. they should not be abandoned
Hunter Phillips
Figures from Gottfried Feder's "Die Neue Stadt"
The second figure is a cartoon comparing urban and rural birthrates. The idea of Garden cities was to create communities small enough that people would not feel estranged from one another and have a close connection with nature and agriculture, yet large enough to provide work, theater, pools, baths, sport facilities, and a selection of many goods and services.
The main problem with modern/postmodern architecture is that it looks extremely fragile, with glass used everywhere and odd struts(?) used rather than strong solid concrete basis. It's very uncomfortable.
Cooper Gonzalez
This. Good architecture tells you the story of your ancestors, it inspires you, it communicates meaning. Brutalism is just an artistic statement at best, and spiritually oppressive at worst.
I'm not against new architecture, but which country are pics related from? Only in one you can tell that they're (all) from Japan. There's nothing wrong with any of them, but one of them is much more meaningful than just "neat and cool-looking".
japs unironically do brutalism way better though its just like in my chinese cartoons besides, they also are heavily rooted in tradition so theres contrast abound between the two as well as interesting hybrids like tht 2nd one imomaybe its the foliage but that one really looks distinctly japanese
Jaxson Murphy
There is no sky and you are trapped
Ha ha you can't destroy this it already looks destroyed
It reminds of a bad bone injury
Isaiah Collins
Aye. This is EXACTLY what I was thinking while browsing through these soulless images. They're all either made out of basic shapes with no details, or they look twisted and warped with random jagged shapes sticking out all over the place.
It is quite literally generic housing blocks for mindless NPCs. The irony is they keep going on about muh culture, muh diversity. What culture? There is no culture, no identity, no roots, nothing. There is only muh dik, muh generic capeshit movie #625, and muh soycastic humor from talk show #46.
It's like you want their souls to die. There is something profoundly jewish in the notion of perpetual war as part of stable daily civil life.
Jack Smith
Utter trash. Not because commieblocks.
But they have failure of functionality people usually are no aware off. Buildings itself are fine but surrounding area is failure. Idea was to have vast green areas. Sort of park around the buildings.But this parks doesn't work. They are always totally empty (easily spotable on every photo). No use by people. Not sure why probably some deep psychological mechanisms or something but people find themselves utterly uncomfortable in these areas. And this is a huge waste. See how largess these empty areas around commieblocks are. And they are not used at all. Waste.
This is my upgrade of large commieblock system. There should be no open areas at all. Only streets for cars are open air. Everything else is buildings. Towers growing out of low mall like buildings. Towers are housing. Flat ground level buildings are public utility (parkings, stores, services, leisure areas, attractions ) . Because malls are better version of pedestrian streets. Turn city into one non stop malls.
Because the only people that can build the complex buildings of yore are the Freemasons… Hello thats why they're the Freemasons…
So the very people with the knowledge to make these builds are choosing not to in order to dehumanize us.
Elijah Russell
Overtly Masonic Architecture
Henry Ortiz
Malls have same proportions and scale as "living" streets. Scale that can be comprehended (4 floors rule) and used by human being. Malls like these streets don't have car traffic of its sheer noise, power, speed and danger suppressing humans and pushing them on the outskirts of existence. And malls are better because they always have perfect weather.
I saw when you start making high density artificial environment don't stop. Go full artificial.
Andrew Parker
The (((Art Critics))) orchestrated this.
Matthew Hall
Penn Station is a crime against humanity.
John Nelson
Kikes everywhere in the second pick, that's gotta be Jew York City
You know that Castle on the right is Neverland Ranch build by neckmustaches manchild who decided to shut himself from the outside world in his fantasies? Its very cool architectural implementation of isekai indeed but you should be aware of this castle substance.
Most known German castle is literally park of attractions build in the 19th century. Ironic.
The buildings in Total Recall (the 1st one) were filmed in Mexico.
David Cooper
Students got nothing to do with it, because then you'd still get the occassional brilliance. This is our post war masters enforcing their own degenerate style on us.
Gabriel Lee
sounds fucking orwellian tbh
judging by street sign, jews, time period and architecture id say its LES manhattan
