Dismal Soviet Industriral Architecture

[McCauley]

This sort of dystopia will very likely be the world your children's children grow up in, unless you are affluent enough to escape it.


http://fluxusfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/OnFluxcities1.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Baikonuriss.jpg

http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/3120/dsc4087.jpg

http://englishrussia.com/images/kadykchan_city_broken_dreams/6.jpg

http://englishrussia.com/images/abandoned_city/10.jpg

[McCauley]

City of Vilnius. What wonderful, glorious monuments the Soviets built as a testament to their presence.

http://photos.wikimapia.org/p/00/01/65/23/80_big.jpg

[McCauley]

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Jz2O6VOj--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/185enccbjkypzjpg.jpg

http://www.bloomberg.com/image/ibPK0RU0N31s.jpg

http://www.npointercos.jp/images/Kiev2006ssbIMG_8736.jpg

[McCauley]

http://www.urbancentre.net/citylife/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/DSC_2096-1.jpg

http://www.karakalpak.com/images/geog20.jpg

[Prisoner Of Ice]

Future looks like it will be a combination of Soviet Russia, African Nigeria and Nazi death camp all roled into one. With daily Jihad bombings.

[McCauley]

Future looks like it will be a combination of Soviet Russia, African Nigeria and Nazi death camp all roled into one. With daily Jihad bombings.

I'm not sure I could live in one of these cities. I honestly don't know if I could survive without the familiar presence of oak trees around me.

[zhaoyun]

It is evident that Communism hates beauty.

But there is a certain beauty in the nihilistic dystopia of it all.

[McCauley]

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[SobieskisavedEurope]

Communist buildings are as ugly as communism is as an ideology.

[McCauley]

Communist buildings are as ugly as communism is as an ideology is.

It probably reflects how it felt to live during that era.

[SobieskisavedEurope]

It probably reflects how it felt to live during that era.

Communism is a robotic zombie drone factory which turns humans into dead beings. (Literally by killing them, or by killing their souls.)

[Vlach]

http://www.outdoorphotography.ro/galerie/thumbs/Casa%20Presei-02.jpg

http://www.cotidianul.ro/images/stiri/0811/1313225519palatul-parlamentului.jpg

http://www.ibishotels.ro/data_files/galerie-foto-atractii-turistice/34/large_bulevardul-unirii_34.jpg?1358331237

Bucharest

[McCauley]

http://www.outdoorphotography.ro/galerie/thumbs/Casa%20Presei-02.jpg

http://www.cotidianul.ro/images/stiri/0811/1313225519palatul-parlamentului.jpg

http://www.ibishotels.ro/data_files/galerie-foto-atractii-turistice/34/large_bulevardul-unirii_34.jpg?1358331237

Bucharest

Why do you not tear these buildings down? They are disgusting looking, I hate this kind of architecture.

[Han Cholo]

Why do you not tear these buildings down? They are disgusting looking, I hate this kind of architecture.

Because most of the population lives there?

[Yaroslav]

I like it. Gets the job done, that's all that matters.

[McCauley]

Because most of the population lives there?

The whole city wasn't built by Soviets I hope, we have a similar kind of cheap, hastily built concrete buildings here and they are a stain on the city. Usually Soviets just threw together massive apartment blocks to house as many people within the smallest possible area.

A lot of Eastern European citys still have these buildings, I think they should get funding from Western Europe to replace them. It's not just how they look, it's what they symbolize.

[ALSh]

Why do you not tear these buildings down? They are disgusting looking, I hate this kind of architecture.

The goverment would need bilions to compensate the owners. Its not that easy to destroy property.

[McCauley]

The goverment would need bilions to compensate the owners. Its not that easy to destroy property.

Yes, I understand that. It was more of an angry remark than an actual suggestion.

[Manifest Destiny]

I find that sort of architecture fascinating, but aesthetically unpleasant.

As others have said, it's like a physical representation of an ideology.

[Vlach]

The whole city wasn't built by Soviets I hope, we have a similar kind of cheap, hastily built concrete buildings here and they are a stain on the city. Usually Soviets just threw together massive apartment blocks to house as many people within the smallest possible area.

A lot of Eastern European citys still have these buildings, I think they should get funding from Western Europe to replace them. It's not just how they look, it's what they symbolize.

I started a topic with old buildings and zones from Romania destroyed for "modern socialist" buildings.
BUT NO ONE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT THIS, there's a problem in this forum.

[Vlach]

Why do you not tear these buildings down? They are disgusting looking, I hate this kind of architecture.

The parliament and the press house looks fine for me. The blocks are horrible.

[McCauley]

I started a topic with old buildings and zones from Romania destroyed for "modern socialist" buildings.
BUT NO ONE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT THIS, there's a problem in this forum.

Yes, I know my friend, no one cares about actual intelligent discussions. They just want to argue and call people subhumans unfortunately, because that is apparently more fun.

[Han Cholo]

Mexico has similar architectures in some places, despite we've never been a Socialist or Communist country. These pics all taken by myself (in movement in a car) 2 years ago. Now I'm better with the camera and could have done better (lightning, contrast, impact, etc).

This place extend for over 2 quare miles.
http://i.imgur.com/eOPCLoJ.jpg

These are the same habitation complex
http://i.imgur.com/NyuvScd.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/boAjBH3.jpg

[McCauley]

Mexico has similar architectures in some places, despite we've never been a Socialist or Communist country. These pics all taken by myself (in movement in a car) 2 years ago. Now I'm better with the camera and could have done better (lightning, contrast, impact, etc).

http://i.imgur.com/eOPCLoJ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/NyuvScd.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/boAjBH3.jpg

Buildings like this are just oppressive to the spirit. I would much rather live in a tent or a hut than a place like this. Just from staying in buildings like these for a few nights, you feel crushed and massed like ants in a catacomb. I think it should be illegal to build living structures that crush the spirit.

These kinds of buildings are also purely a product of the modern era, and unfortunately we are probably only in for more. This probably what the majority of people will live in if population growth doesn't slow.

[LightHouse89]

Future looks like it will be a combination of Soviet Russia, African Nigeria and Nazi death camp all roled into one. With daily Jihad bombings.

That's what 'hope' and 'change' is though.

[Han Cholo]

And now, other "industrial one". (Yes, I put a filter on photoshop.)

http://i.imgur.com/6SgCjCo.jpg

[Kiyant]

They look quite ugly but they are quite comfortable

[Vlach]

From Warsaw I think:
before
http://s8.postimg.org/6ma16sw4l/DSC01936.jpg

after
http://s8.postimg.org/kk1e3l8yt/DSC01942.jpg

Romania,Slatina
http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/380/19031105.jpg

[McCauley]

From Warsaw I think:
before
http://s8.postimg.org/6ma16sw4l/DSC01936.jpg

after
http://s8.postimg.org/kk1e3l8yt/DSC01942.jpg

Romania,Slatina
http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/380/19031105.jpg

That's quite good, it just takes some good effort to make these places look more homely.

[Vlach]

That's quite good, it just takes some good effort to make these places look more homely.

I live in a block like this :) ( but i have a lot of green places near). I will try to make some photos from my neighborhood

[Fortis in Arduis]

Even Western Europe did not escape this style. Here, Preston Bus Station:

http://www.wearedorothy.com/uploads/uploads/777x553/Dorothy_DO_0048%20Lost%20Destination_Frame_Preston _Web.jpg

http://www.weheart.co.uk/upload-images/prestonbus3.jpg

http://payload108.cargocollective.com/1/9/302712/4476832/LeeGarland_PrestonBus_0057.jpg

http://jennibarrett.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/preston-bus-station1.jpg

[Graham]

This sort of dystopia will very likely be the world your children's children grow up in, unless you are affluent enough to escape it.


http://fluxusfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/OnFluxcities1.jpg



Reminds me of the old flats my mum stayed in Livi. With the water running down the walls. The renovated and destroyed quite a bit of it just after my mum left. :D

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/2196679.jpghttp://i.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore/l/SC01075684.jpghttps://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/t1.0-9/552434_10151028814059826_796306627_n.jpg

[Fortis in Arduis]

Do not ask me how or why, but I do know Livingston, and probably someone whom you know. Strangely atmospheric place, with very limited restaurant options, and seeming lack of amenities in general.

[Selurong]

Omigod. Soviet architecture is so depressing.