Why are Latino commieblocks comfier than Eastern Euro commieblocks ? idk if this pic is Brazil or Colombia but damn it just looks so nicer than whatever commieblock from Russia, Ukraine, etc.
Why are Latino commieblocks comfier than Eastern Euro commieblocks...
Christopher Thompson
Robert Perez
Pro tip, they are not. They dont have ac and sometimes they dont have elevators.
Eastern commieblocks have heating.
Aiden Taylor
they look worse to me
Bentley Thompson
Those are normal apartments, not commieblocks
Dylan Jackson
you do not know anything
Carson Roberts
That looks nothing like here and I doubt it's anywhere close here, looks like hong kong.
Michael Miller
Yep.. my first thought from the thumbnail was Korea
Julian Adams
Latam? Idk man, this looks like Hong Kong to me.
Dylan Ramirez
>normal apartments
xDDD
Joshua Reyes
It looks worse. They've shat all over the landscape. At least in Eastern Europe they don't build them in areas of natural beauty.
Sebastian Rodriguez
Here's what the densest city in Brazil looks like, note the tacky yellowish high-rises with colored details, the typical sea of grimy off-colored orange and gray roofs and overall lack of consistency and urban planning.
Elijah King
Except they aren't
Charles Reed
>normal apartments
Oh you poor, poor and miserable soul.
Aaron Harris
looks better than my house
Cameron Thompson
>giant ant colonies full of brown ppl
yes, very comfy lol
Justin Davis
New Russian commieblocks look nice and clean. I would live there
Nicholas Myers
They're not cuboids
Alexander Gray
Eastern commieblocs are propably 2-3 decades older than these.
Mason Perez
The mountain does look like the ones in Hong Kong.
Jackson Scott
This is what Bundang, a planned city full of gommieblocks built in the early 90s near Seoul, looks like. The average price for a 1,250 sq ft flat there is like USD 800,000.
Charles Hill
geography and layout, UV bleaching
Sebastian White
Evan Taylor
Blake James
Commieblock thread?
Caleb Mitchell
soul
seoulless
Austin Cruz
Luke Foster
soul
Evan Russell
Because that is Hong Kong
John Gray
all those look like shit
only east asia has good looking commie blocks
Connor Hall
Leo Lee
where is that? looks a bit like late soviet union gommie blocks but im not sure.
Carter Garcia
I think that's Moscow
Michael Jackson
>Why are Latino commieblocks comfier than Eastern Euro commieblocks ?
What are you talking about? There was a science behind soviet blocks. There always had to be a certain amount of open space, sport facilities, a theater every district, a school and grocery shop within a few minute walk of each neighborhood. The gold standard for soviet development was that you'd never really have to leave your neighborhood for the necessities of life when you're young and old. They came with ample greenery and transit connections nearby. Gotta remember, this way during the height of the modernist push and in the USSR eyes, modern architecture. There is very little shared in concept with latino concrete jungles
Chase Sanchez
They were shit.
Off yourself commie shill.
Jordan King
Jason Perez
1. they're just capitalist apartment complexes, so they're maintained well because the real estate developer wants to sell them or rent them out, it's not like in communist countries where apartments were given for free but since there was no choice, their quality was extremely poor and they looked so ugly
2. everything looks better with tropical sun
Brayden Reed
Spain is the housing block capital of the western world. Don't pretend like your housing is any better, jose
Levi Lewis
I'm 100% sure this is Hong Kong
Carson Cooper
imagine a forest fire there lol
Connor Williams
>There was a science behind soviet blocks. There always had to be a certain amount of open space, sport facilities, a theater every district, a school and grocery shop within a few minute walk of each neighborhood
it can be true but doesn't change the fact that these commieblocks are just ugly and depressing
in Finland they also built blocks but they don't look as bad as the Soviet ones, they have better architecture (bigger windows for example), maintenance etc.
Logan Bennett
That looks Asian.
This is Brazil's commieblock doom AKA São Paulo.
Jackson Perry
This is the Bijlmer in Amsterdam
I can tell because my wife's bf lives there
Nathan Wood
looks like a page from Akira if you imagine it in black an white
Isaac Ramirez
Could you do a commie block inspired in mesoamerican pyramids or general arquitecture?
How would it look like?
How could I get someone to do some concept art?
Evan Walker
Well, yeah. Nobody denies it was ugly. Even khurschev said so and he was the guy behind it. Pre WW2 forced industrialization, WW2 razing all your cities and a post WW2 boom are a problem for housing. It's not like the USSR didn't build more traditional housing under stalin. It just wasn't feasible on the scale they needed it to be
Xavier Wright
Ryan Garcia
Pyramids are pretty bad for housing. The whole point of commieblocks is to give every apartment natural light and ventilation, and for that you need to maximize the façade per square meter of usable floor, that's why commieblocks are always shaped like X, L, T I, S, etc. If you build a pyramid for housing the people (or whatever you put) in the middle won't get any natural light and ventilation becomes a problem, as well as evacuation, etc. Another solution would be to make just a big hall in the middle (pic related), but if you are going to spend so much money building something like this, you might as well just build normal commieblocks.
Noah Williams
Again, the example of Finland proves that you can build commieblocks that have all the 'ideological' features yet don't scare people off with their ugliness and horrible maintenance level.
Joseph Howard
Tiered buildings are easy to do, it doesnt make economic sense
Gabriel Phillips
>ugliness and horrible maintenance level
That's mostly just down to the exterior cladding
Easton Hernandez
a house in the suburbs with a backyard should be a human right, especially in the pandemic era where people stuck in commieblocks can't even go out
David White
Is that the city where everyone dies before age 55 because of the heavy air pollution?
Michael Thompson
>That's mostly just down to the exterior cladding
we know the reason but for some reason the solution is not applied too often
the fact is that Soviet commieblocks don't have to be that ugly, but THEY ARE
Isaiah Lewis
I love Finland, but their architecture seems bland to me (although well maintained).
Honestly I don't understand why Alvar Aalto was a "genuis".
Xavier Flores
Coldest city on earth(100k minimum population). It's based around some the largest nickel-copper deposits in the world, so the entire place is just a huge smelting city
Brandon Ross
The trees. Nature makes it look more inviting. It's probably still hell to live in.
Luis Walker
>the fact is that Soviet commieblocks don't have to be that ugly, but THEY ARE
I literally agreed with you right here
Thomas Morgan
I'd rather have bland but well maintained buildings than ornate and flamboyant houses that are literally falling apart.
Elijah Barnes
but it's a poor excuse, as I said Finland also was in need of cheap housing during the post-war boom yet they could make their houses look not repulsive at least
well, there's even a difference between commieblocks in small Tallinn and powerful and rich Moscow, still in the former one they look much better.
Chase Davis
Architecture is the only industry that revolves around impressing other architects but applies to the lives of everyone. So despite people saying shit is ugly, their circlejerk doesnt allow them to think past vague descriptions of their work like "avante garde"
Wyatt Adams
>implying it's forest
There are asphalt streets and parks under those trees, full of people.
Wildfire impossible there
Oliver Sullivan
a lot of finnish commieblocks (and nordic in general) are just as ugly as russian. biggest difference is that they are maintained better.
Luis Cooper
It's such a shitty place, but the beache around it (4 ilhas, bombinhas) are top tier.
Samuel Wright
they have comfier climate than eastern europe
Aiden Adams
They are not.
t. expert
Dylan Robinson
It's literally just complaining about level of maintenance. Finns compare their cities to Chernobyl for jokes
Christian Green
That covered highway is really nice
Nicholas Jones
Korean developments are the god tier of soulless architecture and ant like living. Buildings even have ads for the companies that built them
Eli Roberts
The names are reversed, which is the joke
Kayden Long
one particularly ugly thing about the eastern european commie blocks though is that you can see how they are made of prefabricated parts. it's very noticeable in the lower picture you posted.
Benjamin Gray
>comfier
Gavin Thompson
What's wrong with the area?