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[paganel]

> it has the grace you'd expect of a 60's housing project in the eastern bloc

Maybe because I'm now writing this comment from inside a 70's housing project in the (former) eastern bloc, but lately (meaning the last 2-3 years) I've seen a re-appraisal of the eastern bloc esthetics.

Apart from these two FB pages (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Socialist-modernism/337958596... and https://www.facebook.com/thecommunisttenant) there are countless Instagram accounts where one can find really interesting photos of the (mostly brutalist) eastern bloc buildings from that era.

[_delirium → paganel]

For western brutalism, there are also photo-blogs like: http://fuckyeahbrutalism.tumblr.com/

IMO the b/w photography this blog uses does flatter the buildings a bit; in full color in person they don't have quite the same feel.

[bane → _delirium]

"Brutalism - for people who like living in unfinished construction sites covered in seeping water damage"

I cheer a little on the inside whenever I see a brutalist building being torn down. There's so very few buildings of the type that are worth anything, and so many of the type that barely last a generation before needing repairs that amount to new construction cost.