Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:21:13 | 7 comments | 2 images
What is the name of this style of building/skyscraper that is seemingly so prevalent in third world countries? You see buildings like this all throughout Africa, Eastern Europe, and China. They're not quite commie blocks, since they don't feature any type of residential characteristics oftern associated with them
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:23:20 No.17451014
>>17451009
"brutalist" architecture
"brutalist" architecture
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:26:51 No.17451023
>>17451014
I think this is an appropriate answer but it seems like third world countries in particular took their own approach to brutalism. In the west, brutalist architecture played with geometry more and was more monolithic. In third world countries (and the Soviet Union) it seems like brutalism was more like just a way to contruct concrete cubes with windows.
I think this is an appropriate answer but it seems like third world countries in particular took their own approach to brutalism. In the west, brutalist architecture played with geometry more and was more monolithic. In third world countries (and the Soviet Union) it seems like brutalism was more like just a way to contruct concrete cubes with windows.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:32:01 No.17451039
>>17451009
There's nothing like this in Eastern Europe. Buildings that do look like this are "commie blocks", and are residential.
There's nothing like this in Eastern Europe. Buildings that do look like this are "commie blocks", and are residential.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:37:18 No.17451048
>>17451039
I can find examples of similar looking buildings in places like Kazakhstan
I can find examples of similar looking buildings in places like Kazakhstan
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:38:33 No.17451050
>>17451009
I guess it is typically fuctionalist
>>17451014
They're not (exclusively) brutalist. People use Brutalist to descibe every vauguely square grey building, but there's more to it than that.
>>17451023
Brutalism wasn't really a big thing in the soviet union.
I guess it is typically fuctionalist
>>17451014
They're not (exclusively) brutalist. People use Brutalist to descibe every vauguely square grey building, but there's more to it than that.
>>17451023
Brutalism wasn't really a big thing in the soviet union.
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:40:43 No.17451056
>>17451050
>Brutalism wasn't really a big thing in the soviet union.
I guess it depends on how you broadly you want to define brutalism but the Soviet Union definitely had its fair share of brutalist-esque architecture
>Brutalism wasn't really a big thing in the soviet union.
I guess it depends on how you broadly you want to define brutalism but the Soviet Union definitely had its fair share of brutalist-esque architecture
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:58:37 No.17451092
>>17451056
These are panel buildings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panel_buildings_in_Russia
>brutalist-esque
Ehh, I guess, but they're as much brutalist-esque as they are International-esque, Bahaus-esque or whatever-esque. Might as well just call it modernist if you aren't too bothered about the specifics. I think Brutalism just specifically gets the flack because it's the one everyone knows and has an ugly name, but ugly square blocks aren't unique to it.
These are panel buildings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panel
>brutalist-esque
Ehh, I guess, but they're as much brutalist-esque as they are International-esque, Bahaus-esque or whatever-esque. Might as well just call it modernist if you aren't too bothered about the specifics. I think Brutalism just specifically gets the flack because it's the one everyone knows and has an ugly name, but ugly square blocks aren't unique to it.