• Dasnap@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    There is a middle ground. Living in a concrete block city probably isn’t the best for your mental health.

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      3 months ago

      Show me an office tower that is not built with wrought iron and concrete. The thing people don’t like about Brutalism is its honesty. If a layer of chinzy art deco spray painted Styrofoam is the difference between making it through the day and cracking up, you’ve got bigger problems.

      This also heavily undersells how beautiful a clever concrete structure can be. I’ll take eye-popping geometries of stone over flat texture-less mirror-window walls any day.