Was your town ruined in the 60 and 70s?
Was your town ruined in the 60 and 70s?
Isaac Scott
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Noah Diaz
Nope
Julian Sullivan
Jaxon Cox
Dictator Franco was obsessed with providing affordable houses, so he filled most of Spain with blocks, even mid-sized towns have them.
Gavin Green
No, but it was in the 70s & 80s, like a lot of cities here
Aiden Hughes
>that slightly non parallel lamppost
This triggers my autism.
Nicholas Cook
Basado y Francoempastillado
Aaron Myers
Kek, most things are crooked and old here. Nothing really gets replaced or repaired.
Isaiah Lopez
Our roads are complete utter disaster after winter
Aiden Miller
Yes
Benjamin Peterson
>NOOOOO NOT THE CRUMBLING, OUTDATED AND USELESS OLD BUILDINGS THAT I NEVER CARED ABOUT UNTIL NOW
Aiden Sanders
Yes, in Edmonton we tore down many older buildings and replaced them with ugly Soviet-esque buildings. We still do the same, except instead of Soviet architecture we get ugly modernist buildings.
Joseph Garcia
Here is the worst looking commieblock in Edmonton. I live near this and hate it.
Tyler Evans
No, it was booming in the 70's supposedly from what my dad said. I think it went to shit in the 80's because the Irish economy went to shit and it also suffered from connotations of republicanism with the Troubles and all that
Charles Price
Here is an example of the "wonderful" modern architecture infecting my city. Most recent Street view coverage of this street is from 2014, both houses were finished between that year and 2015. As I recall, these ugly homes ironically won a local design award. Fuck this city.
Lincoln Smith
This town hasn't changed much since the medieval period. Still the same streets, many of the same buildings and all that.
Almost all of the new buildings are outside the city walls.
There's literally 900 year old apartment buildings here.
Gavin Peterson
aaaa i got tooth ache from this pic
Brody Cook
Those windows are extremely triggering
James White
Oh wow he wanted to provide his people with a home off the street what an obsessed monster
Lucas Richardson
Yes
Can't post pic but Gothenburg.
Some of the 17th and 18th-century buildings in the center were torn down and replaced with cheap commieblock-looking houses, a giant mall was built there (which these days is full of gypsies and afghans), and several of the buildings had the facades changed in order to look more "modern".
Jeremiah Lewis
And let's not forget, the steaming pile of shit award goes to: Constable Daniel Woodall School!
Fucking garbage looks like an industrial building.
Evan Miller
Aren't most of the houses from the 1600s though
Noah Sullivan
Due to certain historical events we didnt even have to deliberately destroy the old buildings before 'modernization'
Camden Richardson
Most US cities were destroyed in the 80 and 90s because of the wetback invasion.
Jaxson Brown
yeah but that was by black people and white flight
though the city did tear down a lot of older buildings and also removed the cobblestones from roads
Brayden Cooper
Almost forgot to mention the most common sight in downtown Edmonton: the ugly, poorly maintained surface parking lot, usually courtesy of Impark. Many historical buildings were torn down in the 70s & 80s to flood our city with these eyesores.
Logan Martinez
1500's to 1600's yes. But it has the one of the largest collection of medieval buildings left standing. Buildings like Gamla Apoteket, Engeströmska huset, Johan Målares hus and many more.
Not to mention non-home buildings like the old cathedrals, churches and the wall it self.
Can't forget old Kruttornet, build in the 1100's.
Grayson Butler
Yes
Eli Bailey
american urban planning is a disgrace.
Cooper King
They were almost gonna replace the whole city until people started protesting.
This is Stockholm, btw. You can see the damage. on google maps.
Jayden Ortiz
Yeah
David Adams
>more greenery
>more natural light
>more efficient
>easier to evacuate if an emergency
>isn't a giant box of matches
based
Andrew Perez
Yeah, pretty much.
Didn't stop in the 70s, though.
Charles Thomas
>efficient
Its car city down there and all meth heads hang there.
Adam Bennett
Yeah
Gabriel Parker
what will we say when brutalist or 70s architecture gets demolished 70 years from now. I think it’s more than a distinct possibility that we’ll romanticize or even genuinely appreciate it.
Robert Powell
>I think it’s more than a distinct possibility that we’ll romanticize
I will remind them what they replaced
Ian Ramirez
this happens with literally every architectonic style. After a few centuries, only the best and most beautiful buildings from a specific style survive, while the millions of other "filler" buildings either decay or replaced, and are forgotten.
Dylan Sanchez
I will spit on them
Cameron Lopez
There was a housing crisis that lead to Franco doing that, retard.
Jace Edwards
This is all because of capitalism and communism.
>Build to maximize size and profit.
We need monarchs to take over again.
Liam Diaz
It won't because classical architecture is rooted in objective beauty and brutalism is rooted in academic abstraction.
Ryder Jackson
the only 80+ years old buildings that survive are those overbuilt 1 or 2 stories houses or public buildings
this isn't muh modernism conspiring to destroy beautiful old buildings, your average house, built for the middle class just has a lifespan
concrete cracks, moisture starts sipping in, rebar rusts and expands, the only way for a building to last more than a century is over paying and compromising on "features"
Colton Jenkins
In the 60s someone detonated a bomb at a black church in the city I live in and some other black people got hosed down but other than that nothing happened
Alexander Peterson
>soul
>soulless
John Jackson
>concrete cracks, moisture starts sipping in, rebar rusts and expands,
literally this
Brody Cooper
you can't build something 4+ stories tall with only concrete, otherwise the bottom floor would be 70% pillars and 30% actual usable space
you can make buildings last 2 hundred years, but say good bye to high density
you could always hire a mason and spend a small fortune to "beautify" your facade
Caleb Johnson
>europe
>yes of course
Owen Sanchez
>You can make buildings last 2 hundred years
Literally any old town
Ian Anderson
buildings that old are rarely over 5 stories tall, and have smaller internal volumes and are not necessarily cheaper than buildings made with more modern techniques
they're fine in literally who places but are less convenient on large proper urban centers
the only luxurious and aesthetic buildings commissioned by monarchs were public buildings and palaces anyways, the plebs have always lived in meh buildings
as I said, nothing stops the common people from hiring a mason/commissioning a more classic looking building
Aaron Jenkins
>buildings that old are rarely over 5 stories tall,
Exactly. The building we build today are fucking dumb and require parking space just adding onto the cost. The fact that they aren't as durable even makes it worse.
Easton Morgan
Nah, it was build in the 60 and 70s.