Incredible Soviet Brutalist Architecture

[editor]

There's some stunning buildings here:

Soviet Brutalist Architecture Photographed By Frederic Chaubin

 

[editor]

 

[DotCommunist]

theres a book about soviet era bus stops that came out recently, some amazing ones:
Soviet Bus Stops: Amazon.co.uk: Christopher Herwig, Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell: 9780993191107: Books

 

[danny la rouge]

There's some stunning buildings here:

Soviet Brutalist Architecture Photographed By Frederic Chaubin

Love the first two, but the third looks well bleak!

 

[danny la rouge]

theres a book about soviet era bus stops that came out recently, some amazing ones:
Soviet Bus Stops: Amazon.co.uk: Christopher Herwig, Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell: 9780993191107: Books

You made me buy that, you bastard! (And at the wrong time of the month. When the bairns are greeting for a meal, I'll tell them where to visit their anguish).

 

[gosub]

 

[DotCommunist]

You made me buy that, you bastard! (And at the wrong time of the month. When the bairns are greeting for a meal, I'll tell them where to visit their anguish).

its nice to see that those ones have largely conformed to the orthodox definition of the word 'shelter' rather than our wonderful late capitalist british bus stops which balance the needs of keeping people slightly out of the wind with the need to make sure homeless people don't get to sleep there. Benches at an angle and just narrow enough for an arse, not a back at all. Gaps between the three walls so the wind can whistle in and make it pointless to try and kip there. Cunts.

 

[weltweit]

There's some stunning buildings here:

I am not so sure they are stunning, I think the word "Brutalist" is quite a good description

 

[editor]

I am not so sure they are stunning, I think the word "Brutalist" is quite a good description

I think they are, but then I really like my block (which only counts as neo Brutalist):

 

[Crispy]

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[Celyn]

Love the first two, but the third looks well bleak!

Third one is like Cumernauld Town Centre, only worse.

 

[Celyn]

The second bus stop pictured - am I somehow reading the picture wrongly, or does it really have a notice (perhaps a timetable) stuck on it in a position too high for anyone to read? Weird.

 

[danny la rouge]

Third one is like Cumernauld Town Centre, only worse.

I was looking for the St Enoch clock. I mean, where do Georgian Ministry of Highways staff arrange to meet each other?

 

[danny la rouge]

The second bus stop pictured - am I somehow reading the picture wrongly, or does it really have a notice (perhaps a timetable) stuck on it in a position too high for anyone to read? Weird.

Roughly translated it says "Don't lean out of the Windows of the upper decks of buses".

 

[not-bono-ever]

theres a book about soviet era bus stops that came out recently, some amazing ones:
Soviet Bus Stops: Amazon.co.uk: Christopher Herwig, Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell: 9780993191107: Books

fuck.

guess what I have been taking pictures of for the past year

ach

 

[DotCommunist]

fuck.

guess what I have been taking pictures of for the past year

ach

for real?
post em. I saw a couple from the 'stans that intrigued me in how you could clearly see an older style but also a modern build. Like a blend.

 

[mrs quoad]

fuck.

guess what I have been taking pictures of for the past year

ach

Typical.

You wait forty years, then two come along at once.

 

[laptop]

I am not so sure they are stunning, I think the word "Brutalist" is quite a good description

This, too, is stunning:

 

[not-bono-ever]

for real?
post em. I saw a couple from the 'stans that intrigued me in how you could clearly see an older style but also a modern build. Like a blend.

Its my mates project TBF, i do the breaking and entering of collapsing abandoned buildings, he likes his concrete bus shelters....

 

[sim667]

There's some stunning buildings here:

Soviet Brutalist Architecture Photographed By Frederic Chaubin

Is he the photographer who had loads of stuff up at this at the RA a while back?

Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935 – review

 

[NoXion]

Love the first two, but the third looks well bleak!

Third one is my favourite actually. It looks bleak but so do some mountains.

 

[Casually Red]

I am not so sure they are stunning, I think the word "Brutalist" is quite a good description

It comes from the French for " raw concrete " ....beton brut .

Not a lot of people know that .

 

[Casually Red]

My favourites this one on the way into Novi Beograd ..Belgrade new town ...from the airport . That's a revolving restaurant at the top . Probably still doesn't work .

 

[not-bono-ever]

Revolving resturants were a big thing in the ex-Eblokker and related countries. The standard tour groups to Pyongyang always have a meal of barbequed bloody raw duck in a revolving resturant. In a city with no electricity at night

 

[Celyn]

If no electricity, how does it revolve? Then again, with no electricity, perhaps no-one can see that the duck is raw, but I can't decide whether that makes it better or worse.

 

[spartacus mills]

I can recommend Roman Bezjak's ''Socialist Modernism''. This review has a good number of sample images.

A Vision in Concrete: Photographer Captures Beauty in Communist Architecture - SPIEGEL ONLINE

 

[not-bono-ever]

If no electricity, how does it revolve? Then again, with no electricity, perhaps no-one can see that the duck is raw, but I can't decide whether that makes it better or worse.

they probably have a generator - these places are Potemkin in nature anyway

 

[Celyn]

they probably have a generator - these places are Potemkin in nature anyway

Perhaps they could make it pedal-powered, and everyone could eat a whole lot while using calories by desperately pedalling to keep the damn thing going round.