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#41 Sparky

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Posted 10 April 2018 - 08:25 PM

Seeing as how we are discussing the Jubilee neighbourhood today, I am happy to report that the cleansing of the exterior of 2020 Richmond has begun. Here is a shot of a section that has both an untouched area and an area that has had it's first wash.

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#42 Rob Randall

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Posted 10 April 2018 - 09:10 PM

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Posted 11 April 2018 - 05:57 AM

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#44 Rob Randall

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Posted 16 January 2021 - 07:21 PM

"...one of [Trump's] last acts in office was to issue an executive order that new federal buildings must be built in a classical style. What they should not be, it specified, is Brutalist.

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Not only is Brutalism no longer an applicable style, but hundreds of its best buildings are in danger of being lost forever through neglect, ignorance and laziness. Many have been demolished or are currently threatened. Trump’s executive order ingrains (at least temporarily) a prejudice against modern architecture’s most maligned moment, a utopian approach which aimed to reconcile the monumental with modernity.

The housing estates and libraries, town halls and theatres, parking garages and apartment blocks that were the fruits of this concrete explosion are being lost at an alarming rate, in the US and beyond."

 

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#45 Mike K.

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Posted 16 January 2021 - 07:22 PM

Brutalist architecture is awful. He might be right with this one, since few nice things are referred to as brutal.

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#46 m3m

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Posted 16 January 2021 - 07:37 PM

Hating on brutalist architecture has become just as banal as the buildings themselves.

I personally love brutalist architecture. Check out the Maltese parliament building. Stunning example of modern brutalism.
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#47 Mike K.

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Posted 16 January 2021 - 07:39 PM

Yeah, whatever. It’s one of the worst eras of architecture. I’m glad it happened so we ensure it never happens again.

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#48 Nparker

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Posted 16 January 2021 - 07:51 PM

...It’s one of the worst eras of architecture. I’m glad it happened so we ensure it never happens again.

Not unlike the Trump presidency.



#49 Dr. Barillas

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Posted 18 January 2021 - 11:55 AM

Brutalist architecture is awful. 

 

I find it to be one of the most interesting. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 


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#50 Brantastic

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Posted 18 January 2021 - 12:28 PM

I think that brutalism, like any style, can be done well or done poorly. I just think that 95% of the time it was done poorly. Most brutalist structures are cold, austere, and depressing. It's sort of a weird executive order though, to ban something that hasn't been a popular architectural style for decades. Has there been a resurgence in brutalism in DC or something? This is the architectural equivalent of banning the production of new disco music. 



#51 Rob Randall

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Posted 18 January 2021 - 12:31 PM

It is an unusual order. The only other time I can recall a leader officially banning stark modernism for government buildings in favour of classical styles it was a guy with a funny little mustache--can't remember his name.



#52 Mike K.

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Posted 18 January 2021 - 12:33 PM

:cop:  Godwin's law alert  :cop:

 

I think this might be a VV record.


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