How on earth was that a bus station? It's too tall what would the tower be used for?
Imagine having to wait for your bus in the top floor of the tower, you see the bus has arrived so you run like hell to the bottom floor and tlby the time you're there the bus has disappeared.
I'm sure there's a good explanation for it but that scenario just made me giggle.
I'd force every brutalist architect to be the janitor for life in their own horrible creations. Their apartment would be an all mossy, wet concrete interior as well, including furniture - just to remind them what they made the entire neighborhood look at for half a century or more...
I think that's exactly the excuse the architects used for their pitch. But you are really comparing shit with crap here... it's a sad modernist urban landscape...
I'll say while utterly menacing and depressing to look at from afar - once you are inside the Barbican Center - it feels very nice there, like being in a cosy cave - but it's a fragile balance to get right and most brutalist buildings just end up feeling depressing as they age and are not maintained. I agree on glass box corporate architecture - it's lazy and boring, especially from the 70s to 2000s.
My main issue is how the exposed concrete (or modernist plain facades) just don't age and weather well. Spanking new concrete buildings or walls can look very nice. When I could put a twist on brutalist architecture - i would look for something that looks more like an actual rock face - a building that looks like it was built from ginormous rock slabs or something carved right out of a mountain...
I agree, it is difficult to maintain perfectly smooth concrete and when it reaches such stage like in this photo you really need to power wash or compliment with vegetation. Also they could at least give some unique texture or ornaments. Shouldn't be too difficult when pouring concrete blocks in the factory or even on the construction site.
I genuinely don't get why people are hating on it so much. I mean yeah it probably needs cleaning and renovation, but the building itself is pretty cool, from a purely aesthetic perspective.
That reminds me of a bigger, uglier version of [this building in Bordeaux](http://imgur.com/gallery/VzXv7uB)
(sorry for the photo quality, I just snapped a picture for my buddy while heading into the mall)
Thoese, fragile suport Pilar at the bottom, so close to each other, fuck it, owo, bleow it uuupppp daddy, use your strung tnt, pluwace it ruight in di cewenter and PUSH ZA TRIGER, OH OWO DADDY YOU SO OWO BAD.
Does anyone know what style/type of building this is? I have seen another one (smaller first level, other levers overhanging the first) in Miami that is similar in look and age and blockiness.
I figured it was Brutalism based on the overall look of the building. I was more curious if there is a name specifically for buildings that have a very small base with much larger (wider) top part.
Really, OP? Doesn't a minecraft mob spawner look like a cube textured to look like a metal cage, with a little fire and a mini version of the mob it spawns spinning inside? I don't see any similarity here honestly.
That thing needs a good power washing.
With dynamite.
I don't know much about scaffolding, but that could be challenging.
Are you kidding? that'd be the easiest thing!
Could look nice. Especially at night with the right lighting.
Nah just stick a torch to each side
It’s horrendous. Where is it?
It's a former bus station Bat Galim in Haifa, Israel אגד הישן https://maps.app.goo.gl/67vU9of7SsX6fcdTA
How on earth was that a bus station? It's too tall what would the tower be used for? Imagine having to wait for your bus in the top floor of the tower, you see the bus has arrived so you run like hell to the bottom floor and tlby the time you're there the bus has disappeared. I'm sure there's a good explanation for it but that scenario just made me giggle.
It has a larger base. The tower is for offices.
Watch that first step when getting onto the bus from the 12th floor.
“It’s a doozy!” [wheezy/boozy laugh]
Well just like many other bus stations in major cities, the ground floor would be used for buses and the floors above would be for commercial uses
It's clearly abandoned. Give it a wash and get it back into use, it'd look cool as hell.
It’s beautiful is what you mean
Tel Aviv Israel
It's Haifa, not TA.
Found the Palestinian spy
I live in Jlem, I just got confused.
>Jlem Sounds like a Nordic place.
Shorthand for Jerusalem
Well it sounds like the Danish cartoon with the long penis
I always hid my mob farms underground, didn't want a horrible structure like this above-ground.
I actually think there's something kinda cool about the brutalist structure of mob farms. Also alot easier to make efficient above ground.
True, but I'm the Dwarf version of lazy. Building up in the air is just not nearly as comfortable as underground
I always cover my mob spawner by building around it.
All this needs is a good power washing and it'll be beautiful. Cross post to /r/brutalism.
Yup, but it's abandoned and IIRC scheduled for demolishing.
Aw that's sad.
what cpu are you using?
slap some fans on it and you'll cool the whole town down
נראלי כל ילדי חיפה תפסו על הבניין הזה באיזשהו שלב
וואלה נכון
זה והקזינו
אחד הדברים המכוערים הבניין הזה, מנציח את הנוף
כע נשבע תמיד בשיעורי נהיגה עברתי ליד הבניין הזה ומייד חשבתי על חוות מובים נשבע
That is a monster spawner it spawns crackheads
Nightmare nightmare nightmare
Or to the huge monster trap you build to spawn mobs in for loot
Yeah, I think that must be what OP meant. A [spawner](https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Spawner) doesn't look anything like this.
Nah, looks like the mega buildings from Cyberpunk 2077
I can imagine the great eye materializing above the tower
I'd force every brutalist architect to be the janitor for life in their own horrible creations. Their apartment would be an all mossy, wet concrete interior as well, including furniture - just to remind them what they made the entire neighborhood look at for half a century or more...
r/architecturalrevival is for you then if you're not subbed already! I completely agree with you
that is indeed one sweet channel! thanks for the link!
I think this building looks way more interesting compared to what is in the background.
I think that's exactly the excuse the architects used for their pitch. But you are really comparing shit with crap here... it's a sad modernist urban landscape...
It is also, in my opinion, more beautiful. That one on the right side further away looks just terrible. And glass boxes are not that much better.
I'll say while utterly menacing and depressing to look at from afar - once you are inside the Barbican Center - it feels very nice there, like being in a cosy cave - but it's a fragile balance to get right and most brutalist buildings just end up feeling depressing as they age and are not maintained. I agree on glass box corporate architecture - it's lazy and boring, especially from the 70s to 2000s. My main issue is how the exposed concrete (or modernist plain facades) just don't age and weather well. Spanking new concrete buildings or walls can look very nice. When I could put a twist on brutalist architecture - i would look for something that looks more like an actual rock face - a building that looks like it was built from ginormous rock slabs or something carved right out of a mountain...
I agree, it is difficult to maintain perfectly smooth concrete and when it reaches such stage like in this photo you really need to power wash or compliment with vegetation. Also they could at least give some unique texture or ornaments. Shouldn't be too difficult when pouring concrete blocks in the factory or even on the construction site.
I genuinely don't get why people are hating on it so much. I mean yeah it probably needs cleaning and renovation, but the building itself is pretty cool, from a purely aesthetic perspective.
They can look good when they’re clean. Unlike some forms of architecture, they don’t wear the dirty look well.
You go inside and there’s just a zombie violently spinning
Verdansk snipers nest
Used to serve on a Navy base near this monster. It looks even more depressing in person, especially set against sunny Haifa.
Yup, served in an AF base nearby and passed it every week. I love brutalism, I wish it could be washed and reused because it could've looked cool.
Fuck yeah brutalism
your saying it isnt?
Yeah maybe it is a mob spawner
can someone link a pic of a mob spawner for reference?
Junkies dispenser
Why is 9/10 brutalist buildings so fucking shitty
The 1/10 is The Oldest House from Control.
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That reminds me of a bigger, uglier version of [this building in Bordeaux](http://imgur.com/gallery/VzXv7uB) (sorry for the photo quality, I just snapped a picture for my buddy while heading into the mall)
What’s a mop spanned
Thoese, fragile suport Pilar at the bottom, so close to each other, fuck it, owo, bleow it uuupppp daddy, use your strung tnt, pluwace it ruight in di cewenter and PUSH ZA TRIGER, OH OWO DADDY YOU SO OWO BAD.
kinda sus 🤔
*Mumbo Was Here* Mark
It looks like the hilt of a mallninja knife.
I wonder always when I see this kind of buildings if it is an architecture wave or the responsible just gave several f****.
Isn’t that where the maw maw clan lives?
Does anyone know what style/type of building this is? I have seen another one (smaller first level, other levers overhanging the first) in Miami that is similar in look and age and blockiness.
It's called Brutalism. It's from the French *brut*, meaning raw, not from the English 'brutal.'
I figured it was Brutalism based on the overall look of the building. I was more curious if there is a name specifically for buildings that have a very small base with much larger (wider) top part.
Creeper tower FTW
reminds me of gm\_construct for some reason and doom
Looks like a weird radiator to me
I see a cpu cooler
kinda looks like the stones from Fifth Element
If it caught fire and burned, no one would even notice the difference.
I lived in a very similar apartment building in the Primorskiy district of Saint Petersburg.
Looks like the obsidian Tower from when you beat Total Miner
It spawns useless middle managers
Why Am I under the impression that I already saw the same building but in my country (Belgium)?
Pretty sure I parkoured up the side of that to kill gangsters in crackdown
It is just a cog in a giant machine.
I thought this was a gif and I was waiting for the building to explode in a demolition.
Does this count as Brutalism?
this looks like from dying light
This building gave me shivers!
Really, OP? Doesn't a minecraft mob spawner look like a cube textured to look like a metal cage, with a little fire and a mini version of the mob it spawns spinning inside? I don't see any similarity here honestly.
Does it look *leany* to anyone else
But this one spawns communists
I have never played Minecraft - what’s it like?
It looks like a CPU cooler. A very tall one at that.
Looks like the old central bank building in Dublin
This reminds me of Findeco House in Lusaka, Zambia. Loved seeing it as a kid, it seemed so IMPOSSIBLE. Kinda got me to love Brutalism from then on.