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Capitalist Architecture
« on: July 08, 2020, 05:12:45 PM »
Ha ha. Woke Twitter account wants you to know that there is nothing more depressing than "capitalist architecture". Doesn't go as planned:

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/07/08/twitter-account-about-cool-buildings-wants-to-know-if-theres-anything-more-depressing-than-capitalist-architecture/
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Re: Capitalist Architecture
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2020, 05:21:41 PM »
Because Soviet-sponsored architecture consisting of rows of utilitarian gray concrete blocks is so absolutely uplifting...
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Re: Capitalist Architecture
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2020, 05:54:54 PM »
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Re: Capitalist Architecture
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2020, 06:01:18 PM »
Because this is so much better

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Re: Capitalist Architecture
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2020, 08:56:58 PM »
I don't tweet but lurk a bit.

I follow https://mobile.twitter.com/Western_Trad

He posts photographs of Traditional Western Architecture contrasting it with the drek of modernism.
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Re: Capitalist Architecture
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2020, 10:47:41 PM »
Quote from: Ron on July 08, 2020, 08:56:58 PM
I don't tweet but lurk a bit.

I follow https://mobile.twitter.com/Western_Trad

He posts photographs of Traditional Western Architecture contrasting it with the drek of modernism.
Modernist architecture is a plague, high explosives is the cure.
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Re: Capitalist Architecture
« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2020, 12:30:12 AM »
Someone needs to write a novel about capitalism and architecture.
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Re: Capitalist Architecture
« Reply #7 on: July 09, 2020, 08:09:17 AM »
Quote from: just Warren on July 09, 2020, 12:30:12 AM
Someone needs to write a novel about capitalism and architecture.

Someone in particular, or just some rando?
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Re: Capitalist Architecture
« Reply #8 on: July 09, 2020, 09:21:23 AM »
Quote from: just Warren on July 09, 2020, 12:30:12 AM
Someone needs to write a novel about capitalism and architecture.

I have a vague recollection of someone already doing that.  I think the author's name was Annie Sand or something like that.
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Re: Capitalist Architecture
« Reply #9 on: July 09, 2020, 09:36:52 AM »
Quote from: just Warren on July 09, 2020, 12:30:12 AM
Someone needs to write a novel about capitalism and architecture.

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Re: Capitalist Architecture
« Reply #10 on: July 09, 2020, 10:03:48 AM »
I've got in my imagination this movie.   A mash-up of the Sergio Leone Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns, and Atlas Shrugged.   Some random minor character in a dusty saloon asks "?quien es John Galt?".    Cue the good the bad the ugly theme, and in walks the stranger, a gunslinger, oddly familiar, with "a face without pain or fear or guilt."  Noone dies, mostly, but people disappear into the desert.
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Re: Capitalist Architecture
« Reply #11 on: July 09, 2020, 01:36:01 PM »
Quote from: fistful on July 09, 2020, 08:09:17 AM
Someone in particular, or just some rando?

That was objectively funny.
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Re: Capitalist Architecture
« Reply #12 on: July 09, 2020, 07:36:22 PM »
Quote from: just Warren on July 09, 2020, 01:36:01 PM
That was objectively funny.

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Re: Capitalist Architecture
« Reply #13 on: July 10, 2020, 09:21:46 AM »
Quote from: WLJ on July 08, 2020, 06:01:18 PM
Because this is so much better


??? I'd expect Cyrillic characters on the sign . . . unless this was a facility meant to house Westerners.
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Re: Capitalist Architecture
« Reply #14 on: July 10, 2020, 09:29:39 AM »
Quote from: HankB on July 10, 2020, 09:21:46 AM
??? I'd expect Cyrillic characters on the sign . . . unless this was a facility meant to house Westerners.

Yeah, should be  ГУЛАГ according to wiki
Just an image I randomly picked from a google search, I suspect it's from a movie or something. The brightly colored bags (garbage bags?) to the left caught my eye right away as suspect. Didn't think about the sigh characters until you mentioned it.
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Re: Capitalist Architecture
« Reply #15 on: July 11, 2020, 05:30:53 PM »
Or this:



(From fineartamerica.com, Daniel Hagerman)
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Re: Capitalist Architecture
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Re: Capitalist Architecture
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