@ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world
Left wing architecture
2026-04-03 13:52 UTC
Replies (32)
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@wpb@lemmy.world 2026-04-04 07:37
I love this kind of thread. It always attracts some guy who finds it necessary to point out that in the USSR people had to endure the absolute horrors of having roommates. I think I saw him phrase it as them having “survived” roommates once.
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@Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 2026-04-03 21:08
The Soviet Union had higher rates of homeless than the US both back in the 80s and today. Not to mention that commie blocks were notoriously poorly built and maintained. Soviet architecture just isn’t good. After the fall of the Soviet Union, every single ex soviet state in Europe (outside of Russia and Belarus) went on a spree to “decommunize” their architecture because it’s so soulless and terrible, and they’re better off for it. It’s annoying when this shitty propaganda post gets spammed on here every other day with the same misinformation and misconceptions being spread every damn time.
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@DimFisher@lemmy.world 2026-04-04 11:25
That’s communist dude not left, I m sure Denmark which is a socialistic country is left for you too, anyway do some traveling and stop spreading bollocks
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@VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 2026-04-04 06:28
I can think of some things
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@napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-05 02:08
Homelessness is definitely more depressing. That’s not even comparable. But apartment blocks like that are also really, really depressing. Humans are not built for living in a crammed cage of a building.
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@RepleteLocum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-05 08:59
This MF has never seen Vienna. A concrete block that everyone loves and it builds community?
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@AlexLost@lemmy.world 2026-04-04 20:53
I don’t see a problem? State funded infrastructure has a place and purpose in our society. It’s built for function over form. Wonderful architecture is incredibly expensive and amounts to mostly fluff. If you would try to build civic infrastructure focusing on pomp and grandeur over functionality, you would not last long in the public sphere.
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@Steve@communick.news 2026-04-03 14:02
It’s also not left wing architecture. It’s the cross roads of a left wing housing initiative, and a right wing refusal to spend money on the public good. What you get is something akin to unsecured prison architecture.
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@ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 2026-04-03 14:15
yes: right-wing architecture: The best architecture isn’t politically-tainted, but designed to be beautiful first.
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@homes@piefed.world 2026-04-03 14:24
This architectural style is called, no kidding, Soviet Brutalism, and was the primary architectural style featured in the Soviet Union from the 1950s to the 1980s. It’s a divergence from Western brutalism, focusing more on utopian and futuristic themes. So, no, it’s not anything political. It’s a cultural thing. Boston City Hall, for example: The campus of the Rochester Institute of Technology, a.k.a. “Brick City”:
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@mimavox@piefed.social 2026-04-03 14:37
It looks awesome
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@sheridan@lemmy.world 2026-04-03 14:38
Just needs a little bit of paint.
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@smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-03 14:45
Right wing architecture
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@yucandu@lemmy.world 2026-04-03 14:55
One of my favourite Russian youtubers on what it’s like growing up in these places: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1u7XZ9c8fI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhq1fEXKyos
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@UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 2026-04-03 14:57
Ever seen the cooperate housing developments? No individuality in mcmansions coming in a cul-de-sac to your town.
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@backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 2026-04-03 16:08
The structure of this roof cap is exactly like the kind of telemetry tracker that NASA uses to identify dead pulsars in deep space. Cold-riveted girders…with cores of pure selenium.
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@Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2026-04-03 16:49
Yay. More politics in my shitposts
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@olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-03 16:54
I upvote this every time it gets reposted.
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@Teppa@lemmy.world 2026-04-03 17:43
Left leaning people live in gated communities of urban sprawl when they get rich enough, just look at SanFrancisco. Everyone becomes a nimby when their traffic may get worse or a shadow might block their sun, this is human nature irrespective of left/right.
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@moxymarauder@thelemmy.club 2026-04-03 17:59
Commie blocks have had a lot of improvement over the years. I find it interesting how medium-density mixed use zoning in America, and commie blocks in central and Eastern Europe seem to be converging on the same New Urbanist ideals…. also, not sure if this is the best pro-Khrushchyovka content, but I enjoyed Adam Something’s take on them.
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@WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2026-04-03 18:25
More right wing architecture
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@samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-03 19:16
Right wing architecture:
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@Soup@lemmy.world 2026-04-03 19:19
Leftwing architecture is mixed-use, walkable neighbourhoods and community centers built with artistry in mind. It’s beatiful decor to old buildings that feel lived in. It’s parks and bus stops and bike lanes. Rightwing architecture is a functionally dead grass lawn and a house so perfect that it feels not only dead, but oppressive. It’s replacing a slightly ugly group of three or four stores with a chain restaurant and a parking that generates less tax revenue for the city than the “shitty” stores did. It’s the old, dilapidated neighbourhood that’s falling apart because the city is too busy spending everyone’s tax money subsidizing the rich neighbourhood, then taking photos of only it and claiming that it’s better. No sidewalks, no nature, no way to get around without a car and nothing to do once you have one except a 45min commute in traffic to get to work.
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@hayvan@piefed.world 2026-04-03 19:21
It’s called city planning. I don’t know where this is but the commie blocks where I was born were within walking distance of shops, cafes, schools, had cheap central heating, all had children’s parks and green areas between buildings, and public transport to the city center. All at dirt cheap prices since they were not built for profit, and could only be owned by people living in them or rented from the state.
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@OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 2026-04-03 19:32
Search public housing projects america. You’ll find similar photographs.
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@nexguy@lemmy.world 2026-04-03 20:59
Right wing architecture
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@jimmy90@lemmy.world 2026-04-04 05:50
homelessness has many causes but can be survivable and relatively more enjoyable than living in a hell hole poorly designed, maintaned and serviced high density clusterfuck commie architecture fucking suuuuucks
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@deddit@lemmy.world 2026-04-04 06:53
Left wing ideals implemented by greedy self serving capitalists is more like it.
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@Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2026-04-04 13:25
What’s right wing architecture? Blue tarps? But they’re blue! haha, you wings are so silly with your flapping about But seriously, have they not seen an apartment building or strip mall before? The architecture where I live is far from inspiring, it’s just strip mall after strip mall for miles, then some big block office buildings. Yippee
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@basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-04-04 20:26
Actually, I like these building that look like they are from early 3D games
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@Vreyan31@reddthat.com 2026-04-05 00:38
When I visited Berlin, I heard a theory that these Soviet era units were why the cost of living was still accessible to creative-types so a big part of why the city is culturally thriving.
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@Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world 2026-04-05 01:55
But mom, it was supposed to be my turn to post this this week.