Who else absolutely love these things?
Who else absolutely love these things?
Jack Lopez
Aaron Hill
I hate them so much. But they keep building them here.
Kayden Richardson
I love them
Alexander Richardson
i love residential towers
Jonathan Long
Not me, they're disgusting.
Connor Brown
I have mixed feelings. They're shit, no way around that, but I am somewhat drawn to gloomy and intimidating architecture.
Caleb Jackson
i like low storeys commieblocks.
huge commieblocks are disgusting
Oliver Edwards
desu commieblocks makes people depressed, that's the reason why suicide rates are so high in eastern europe
Levi Rodriguez
It's terrible. I was growing up in them and I'm glad I don't have to go back ever again. Fuck this style of life. You should be proud of your own country.
Jacob Stewart
architecturally they are bland but that's kind of a given considering the rapid number of urbanization. but i like them for their convenience. they are usually self contained communities with groceries and services on the ground floor that make it really easy to get shit done.
James Williams
I like them so long as there are lots of low level single family homes all around them which never happens.
Blake Bailey
>t.never live in one
commie block are concrete sarcophagus, oppresing and depressing for most people.
Cameron Butler
>groceries and services on the ground floor
No actually not. That's the issue with these. If you are in a resettlement here. There are no stores, no small bakeries, or little shops closeby like in city centers. You have the big supermarket at the end of the settlement where you can only go by car. The settlement itself is bland and fucking grey and empty. It's depressing as fuck. Also, mostly poor people live there, because these are mass produced houses. Thus, hipster bakeries and cafes wouldn't even be able to survive there.
Ayden Morgan
pic is the one where I was living
David Moore
Oliver Moore
Are they getting rid of these in favor or neighborhoods with houses or are these still built a lot?
Liam Gonzalez
The would be fine with fresh paint, good cladding and no cheap AC unit
Levi Scott
Jason Rogers
They are from old GDR times. They are teared down slowly. Nobody wants to live there. Mainly poor people or people living on neet bucks use them, because they can't afford any better.
Eli Turner
no thanks. they're ant farms.
Carson King
I absolutely love them
Colton Hall
Nice to hear. Hopefully one day the east will be brought to the same standard as the west.
Jonathan Smith
Great window views at night
Hudson Cooper
Brandon Sanders
Isaiah Torres
Parker Watson
It would be better if they had balconies.
Alexander Hughes
Joshua Reyes
First of all tearing down huge apartment blocks for single family houses isn't financially viable, secondly it would be a major urban planning error because a lot of these are reasonably close to the center as they've been built in bomb flattened neighborhoods after the war, and if you made the area low density now you'd regret it for a long, long time.
Dealing with them can't be generalized, it depends on the area and the potential of the building. Some closer to the center get renovated entirely. Some on outskirts of shrinking cities where there's zero appeal for housing left get torn down entirely. And then there's this really interesting approach of reduction where they'll take a few floors off the top, cut a few gaps right down the middle and turn the remaining substance into three or four floor tall smaller apartment blocks with added balconies and sometimes other additions. Ends up significantly cheaper than tearing down the entirety and then erecting new apartment blocks. These here used to be a single big long commieblock.
Dylan Wright
The east is in a quite high standard already. These blocks are mostly empty. And nobody owns them anymore, except some bankrupt house owners. So it's impossible to remove so quickly, as nobody is responsible for it, except the city who can invest the money in more useful things than tearing down rotton buildings. It's the same as Detroit in the US.
Jonathan Campbell
Kayden Lewis
Meh.
Leo Sullivan
>old pics from Norilsk
That doesn't count
Grayson Roberts
Juan Perez
Here alot of these resettlement were mostly built on the outscirts of the city or were entire new cities just built of commieblocks. Pic is Erfurt city center, most of the city centers are fine and look better than west German cities.
Eli Jones
This is what happens when you are to smart too plan ahead.
Saint-Petersburg btw.
Christian Gray
Those aren't commieblocks
Brayden Mitchell
I'm well aware of how Halle Neustadt is built, my dad grew up there. Halle however wasn't a bomb target, no vital infrastructure in the city, the important bit was Leuna to the south. There are different examples though. Magdeburg got largely devastated and now has commieblock neighborhoods dotted all over the place. I used to live in a commieblock neighborhood in Leipzig 15 minutes footwalk to the historical center, very valuable location, that's why they renovated it entirely.
Eli Collins
Those ARE commieblocks, Ivan.
Also that wasn't Norilsk, is Vorkuta.
And 90% of small russian cities look exactly like that, Ivan.
Ryder Nelson
tfw no cyberpunk Japanese capitalistblocks
Landon Gutierrez
fucking awful
completely defaced one of the prettiest neighbourhoods in my city with these monoliths of shit
Grayson Murphy
No, that's pre-commie architecture from SPB, you brainless fucking retard
Aiden Jackson
rate
Christian Murphy
Where are the windows? Is every room apart from the living room artificially lit?
Michael Martinez
They have windows they are just small. Keeps the heat in during the winters
Matthew Edwards
purgatory-tier
Asher Perez
anyone but eastern europeans
Samuel Rivera
Those on the other hand look fantastic. Straight and clear and crisp and just the right amount of pastel contrasts in the windows. Absolutely timeless.
William Mitchell
Hunter Wood
I like tall buildings, but only when they are built to look nice.
Nathan Price
>Meine Stadt, mein Bezirk, mein Viertel, meine Gegend
Meine Straße, mein Zuhause, mein Block
Meine Gedanken, mein Herz, mein Leben, meine Welt
Reicht vom ersten bis zum 16. Stock
Do you have many blocks in west Germany ? East Berlin has some mos impressive I've seen
Cameron Hernandez
There are only a few of them in the west. Eastern Berlin has the largest number of commieblocks