/urban/ + /architecture/

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1st for comfy

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>>53153166
honestly no idea if it's hard or not

but I guess developers choose to build modern apartments designed for people from 21st century and not everyone have some fetish about old traditional european architecture, a lot of people would say it's kitschy or too fancy

most people actually don't even care about external looks so yeah - it's easier to just go with modernist, minimalist looks

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So is hard to make apartments and buildings similar to Pic related?

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>>53153319
Rotterdam is completely different

I guess WW2 is the reason :^) ?

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>>53153385
oh ok
i like pic related arquitecture

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>>53153393
this is just a historical centre mainly kept for cultural reasons

there is a way better housing now than that especially in a dense metropolis...

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>>53153442
you know there are people legitly liking modern architecture too - that's why it's a thing after all

I just don't understand people who demand a lot of new buildings to be built in old fashioned way

it's like going back to 19th century and saying these people "no no, let's build it like in the Middle Ages"

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>>53153762
>you know there are people legitly liking modern architecture too - that's why it's a thing after all
and 75% of people don't really care that much anyway kek

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>>53153762
i like buildings with glass
they look way better than with pure concrete

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>>53154269
yes of course they do

>>53153442
Is that what Tbilisi actually looks like?

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>>53154927
yes
pic related looks comfy and its in tbilisi

>>53154705
which country is that?

>>53155125
Interesting
>>53155179
That's Shanghai, The Bund, is what I think it's called.

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>>53155179
lad there are flags there

>>53155382
>That's Shanghai,
that looks really nice and still chinese move to other countries

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>>53155491
China is relatively poor especially rural areas

>>53155491
Well Europeans built that part of Shanghai so that's why it looks nice.

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Mexico City

>>53153762
There definitely can be an era better another. Late 19th and early 20th architecture imo was the best

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>>53155720
Shanghainese old towns are pretty good too.

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>>53155125
Wow that is /comfy/

>>53156067
Yeah they do, too bad they're tearing a lot of those down

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>>53156021
every era has something great to offer

there is no "best" or "worst", atleast that's what I believe

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>>53156171
where? they are probably just tearing down some rundown

also the ones I post are probably just reconstructed anyway

>>53156067
Damn, who had the idea to put these disgusting neon lights...

>>53156564
Is that one Chink shitting in the street lmao? I've seen them shit and piss in public here in Honolulu before and it's disgusting.

>>53156585
I like them wew

it's really chinky - muh lights muh fancy ornaments

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What do you guys think about this?

>>53157237
It's like some American town and a Japanese one merged together

>>53157237
ugly imo, it looks so boring

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>>53157237
about what ?

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It's growing...

>>53157469
What is that?

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>>53158098
Jeddah Tower, the future tallest building in the world (1000m+)

>>53158256
Why do they need it to be that tall? Why do these Gulf Arabs build all of these cities filled with highrises in a desert?

>>53158351
because the view must be pretty nice, specially at night
i would do that too and add some old arquictecture too

i dont understand why MENA prefer western countries instead of UAE

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>>53158351
>Why do they need it to be that tall?
For the same reason Chrysler Building, Empire State Building and Sears Towers went for the world tallest building record
>Why do these Gulf Arabs build all of these cities filled with highrises in a desert?
Jeddah has 3.4 million people. It's not exactly building in an empty desert.
>>53158661
>dont understand why MENA prefer western countries instead of UAE
Prefer how? As an immigration destination? UAE is pretty small(so all these immigrants can't go there) also I think Europe has much more liberal immigration policy and actually all the policy. And even despite ridiculous wealth of Gulf States, Western Europe is still a better place to live (welfare, tolerance, equality, freedom of speech and religion) as long as you aren't an oil sheik.

>>53158661
I guess and yeah it could be nice
>>53159239
>For the same reason Chrysler Building, Empire State Building and Sears Towers went for the world tallest building record
That's a good point
>Jeddah has 3.4 million people. It's not exactly building in an empty desert.
I didn't know it was that big and also isn't that building being built in a brand new part of the city?

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>>53159368
yeah they are building a whole new district, they are not just building 1 tower

personally I think it looks like a drammatic overinvestment(I actually thought that this Jeddah Tower won't be even started), but we will see...

>>53159576
Well I guess they have to do something with all their oil money and I guess they want to do what they UAE did and try to get other other things besides oil into their economy.

>>53159239
>Western Europe is still a better place to live
they just complain about white privilege and want those countries to adapt to their rules like no pork, no cross(crusades), no christmass trees, etc

muslims in muslims contries, western customs go against muslims customs

I wish I could live on the countryside.
But it's expensive and there are no jobs.

How can anyone enjoy living in a major city?

>>53159576
>drammatic overinvestment
they dont know what to do with that oil money, only millionares will go there and people from the mafia

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>>53154927
I was there about a year ago, snapped this pic
definitely an underrated, top tier cosmopolitan city

>>53159655
Yes that's probably the case, Saudi Arabia is completely reliant on oil, UAE has tourism and financial sector(though even they are reliant on oil, besides Dubai).

What's funny, almost every world tallest building record was followed by economical crisis.

Even the last one - Burj Khalifa is the case.

>>53159657
That was Western Europe's choice too. They have chosen to go multi-cultural - though their population is still predominantly Western, you can't say they are homogenous, they are far from it. While they still praise all of the Western values, they agreed to have shariah law areas in their countries where even their police can't intervene. More and more Western Europe is starting to look like some cosmopolitian dystopia.

Islam is islam, it's not just a religion, it's a political system aswell, designed to conquer, to dominate everyone and everything and every sphere of life. You can't really blame these people, they were raised from kid like this.

Their values, their customs their whole lifestyle condradict ours, in addition to that a lot of Muslims, especially extremists hold a grudge on the Western world because of colonial rule. Actually Islam from it's very beginning was holding a grudge - back then it was on Romans and Muslims were obsessed about Rome(or atleast Constantinople). They are our nemesis and we should be aware of that, I don't think allowing them to build a self governing areas in our countries is the way to go.

>>53159692
Living in the countryside isn't expensive at all, living in a major city is MUCH MORE expensive.

But yeah there is no jobs, no entertainment, no higher education, quite restricted social life etc.

>>I wish I could live on the countryside.

The grass is always greener...

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One of new Hefei CBD's renders. Currently in preparation. The tallest tower will be 550 m tall.

>>53160312
>You can't really blame these people, they were raised from kid like this.
i know that

>back then it was on Romans
Islam came after rome fell

are you polish?

>>53160754
>Islam came after rome fell
Eastern Roman Empire survived(and no one at the time called them other than "Romans") and still controlling crucial parts of the Middle East and North Africa like Egypt and Syria so if Arabs ever wanted to expand they had to beat them. But even after that and taking control of basically all of the MENA Muslims were so fucking autistically obsessed with wiping out Byzantines and seizing Constantinople...

>are you polish?
Yeah I'm Polish, why?

>>53161244
>Muslims were so fucking autistically obsessed with wiping out Byzantines and seizing Constantinople
they werent obsessed, you are putting it like if europe is the center of the world

it was just conquest

>>53162356
because constantinople was actually the centre of the world and a major trade hub

>>53162450
actually it wasnt

Ctesiphon(Sassanid capital) was the largest city before arab invasions

>>53162509
Both cities had a population of ~0.5 million, its impossible now to say which one was larger. But Constantinople was more relevant.

And initially yeah Muslims probably were more against Persians, Byzantines were "People of the Book" after all, but Sassanids were easily steamrolled and their culture and religion never was any kind of competition to Islam, they were easily assimilated. Christianity on the other hand, was a competing monotheistic universal religion with great influence and great potential so I think Muslims realized that it's a much greater threat to their jihad. And Byzantines were the symbol of Christianity, Constantinople the wealthiest and richest Christian city.

I watched some historical Muslim movies(made by Muslims) and it really depicts both Arabs and later Turks obsessed with muh Constantinople.

Also, it's year 2016 and Muslim extremists still can't get over the fact they didn't conquer Rome yet. See, ISIS video with Rome.

>>53162862
ok ok ok
even with clear sources that says that Ctesiphon was the largest city and problably more relevant that constantinople and you still say the contrary so i will just leave it here.
>>53162862
>but Sassanids were easily steamrolled and their culture and religion never was any kind of competition to Islam, they were easily assimilated
if you read some history you will know what really happened but you are just blocked with europe being the best of all.

and i stopped reading right after that
you white people are very ignorant on foreign history, atleast have the decency to read before writting those stupid statements, good night