BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoSo all that brutalist architecture, what if we just painted it? Not one colour, patterns to break it up.message-squaremessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up167arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up160arrow-down1message-squareSo all that brutalist architecture, what if we just painted it? Not one colour, patterns to break it up.BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square34fedilinkfile-text
Has this been done somewhere? Any other ways to make it look better than tearing it down? Whole bunch of fake glass?
minus-squareCiderApplenTea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoNot sure if you’re making a clever joke, or if you don’t know that brutalism is defined by using steel and concrete in large blocks. Might be a mega “woosh” on my part though haha
minus-squareLojcs@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoI wasn’t making a joke. It doesn’t feel right to call every unpainted concrete box brutalist. Edit: https://mcmansionhell.com/post/187806092991/the-brutalism-post-part-2-what-brutalism-is-not/amp
Not sure if you’re making a clever joke, or if you don’t know that brutalism is defined by using steel and concrete in large blocks. Might be a mega “woosh” on my part though haha
I wasn’t making a joke. It doesn’t feel right to call every unpainted concrete box brutalist.
Edit: https://mcmansionhell.com/post/187806092991/the-brutalism-post-part-2-what-brutalism-is-not/amp