>soviet architecture

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>american suburbia

>American and soviet architecture

>architecture

>making monuments in an industrial society

Why do they do this? Nobody is impressed when you have machines build it.

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>>1986041
you are like little babies

watch this

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>>1986435
>>1986437

That could only be Hong Kong

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>>1986456

>>1986041
I thought amerifats build fences

OP, it's a pretty mixed bag. Some of it isn't so bad, others are just hilariously awful.

>>1986465
There's two types of suburbs

1) Older, more spaced out houses with more variation and almost always fencing. You get a real mixed lot with these, and you may even up with brown people as neighbors.

>>1986041
2) Is what we call a "Leased Housing Community" which doesn't mean shit, but the neighborhood is run by a committee who will give you endless shit if your grass is to long or god forbid you paint your mailbox. Everything you do is heavily regulated and no fences because they want to see everything you are doing. Probably less brown people.

I live in option 1. My neighbors have chickens, geese, dogs, and 3 broken cars in their back yard. My co-worker lives in option 2. He is getting notices in his mailbox urging him to get rid of the tree in his front yard, while simultaneously being told he cannot cut it down.

why is every 3rd thread on /his/ is somehow russia-related?
don't you Ivans have your own imageboards?

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>>1986547
NSA trying to force narrative for WW3

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Soviet architecture in stalins time was like Naziarchitecture.

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>he doesn't like soviet architecture

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>>1986037
What's wrong with it?

>>1986776
The buildings in the back are disgusting

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>>1986789
that doesn't look structurally sound

>>1986041
>people still pretend this isn't a comfy and efficient form of housing for its geography and market

inb4 some dumbass yuropoor starts advocating commie blocks

>>1986789
>wen u visiting bae but u get lost in teh stare ways

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>>1986840
Pic related is what euros would advocate for burger.

>>1986846
Looks like section 8 housing

>>1986789
ayylmao

>>1986435
>>1986437
>>1986456

Feels cyberpunk, man

>>1986523
I also live in option 2. It blows. The HOA flipped shit at my dad for "blocking the door to his porch with a potted tree."

>>1986753
Yeah, fucking garbage.

>>1986041
Little boxes on the hillside.....

>>1986753
its awesome in evil kind of way, like mordor

>>1986789
>9/11 proof architecture

>>1986854
lmao, too right

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>>1986041
>implying this is better
cyka blyaat, my bydlo friend

>>1987739
>tfw used to live with a friend in Russia in one of those

They called our mile-long hunk of concrete "The Chinese Wall" because you had to walk around the whole damn thing or risk using the tunnel in the middle for cars and all the fun that could cause.

>>1986776
>oldies want to destroy this great achievement of architecture

>>1987991
nothing more than a reminder of oppression

>>1986846
It is incredibly comfy to live like this.
>>1986840
>forced to drive literally anywhere you'd like to go
>comf

>>1986789
if the blocks moved shit would be awesome

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I need to know the style of architecture of the churches on the bottom row of this postcard, as well as the final church on the top row. Is it Gothic Revival?

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>>1986075
They were selling the dream of a new era to peasants, machine made things were impressive back then.

The USSR produced some of the best architecture of the 20th Century.

And lots of crap. But a lot of that's due to the need to be practical and cheap in a time when they were getting squeezed by the international community and were essentially self-sufficient. We in the West don't have that excuse, we were just lazy and greedy.

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>>1986840
An endless sea of soulless, mass-produced, cheaply-built tract houses that all look exactly the same that's filled with with fake squares of grass with no trees in sight isn't "comfy", Anon. Pic related is what an ACTUAL comfy American neighborhood looks like.

white kids from America raised in the suburbs wouldn't last two nights in a commie block

t. raised in a commie block

>>1989363
good thing we dont live in the wild and have to fight for food like wild vatniks in a moscow alleyway, Boris

>>1989363
Good thing we'll never have to

>>1986037
Socialist Realism is beautiful, you idiot.

>>1989361
>with no trees in sight
actualy many/most comieblock plans incorporated a lot of green buffer work(parks and lots of trees), and when you add into the plan a concept of centraly loacated amenities(shopping and the like) withi housing blocks it was a pretty efficiant and practical way to plan shit...i think it comes down to implimintation and after care rather than "huurduur, commie blocks suck"

the concept of afordable standerdized housing built around a sense of utility/comunity/and acesability is a nice idea and in the long term more workable/sustainable than the american suburban picket fence and a lawn

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>>1989363
Congrats, the generations before you fucked over your people for centuries so you could post about how big your dick is on a Tibetan Scissor-kicking site.

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>>1986041

>being cucked by Home Owner Jew.

Yeah. No thanks. I actually like having a yard and not having to pay some cucklord for no reason.

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>>1986753

Look what happens when you let extreme leftist ideologies infect the masses.

>>1989288
I enjoy driving.
Its a far better deal than having to take public transit anywhere.

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I used to be "metropolitan" Goy like most of my peers until I was redpilled on land, the government, and leading a sustainable life.

Dont get me wrong, I'll still do business with the landcucked, just as long as what Im purchasing is "BIFL".

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>>1987303
From Russia with love

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>suburbs
>commie blocks
LMAO-ing at ur life
http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2011/05/22/reader-story-how-i-built-my-house-without-a-mortgage/

>>1989651
That's fair. I like to still get around when I'm in no state to drive.

>>1986437
So how come everywhere but Europe can into highrises?

>>1987181
Why the fuck are HOAs like this?

I have read HOA forms before but they almost never give explanation or reasoning for their decisions or rules and almost no one I know in the neighborhood knows who the HOA are.

>>1986846
That's poor people housing here

The worker's paradise, everyone!

The socialist parasite destroying any ounce of culture.

They should have bombed every school of higher learning in France and Germany.

>>1989674

Europeans are comfortable with their small penis size in comparison to the American or Chink, who need to compensate for their inadequacies.

>>1989678
The arts actually flourished under the Soviet Union. The Seven Sisters were built then and also artists like Eisenstein, Prokofiev, Pudovkin and Khachataurian revived the culture.

>>1989685
The arts flourished for like a decade or two if you're being generous.
And then it all went to shit.

>>1986041
These kinds of gated communities are cozy as fuck.
My friend used to live in a place exactly like this, and we could skate, bike, luge etc in the street without worrying about traffic or angry neighbors. His seemed to have more common areas than this pic does though.

>>1989361
However monotonous suburbs are you clearly have never lived in one. They are huge, the square footage in an average middle class home would be much more than that house. You are only paying for the property value in cape cod. You can trick your house out to be super high tech on the inside for that money. They arent cheaply built. You get a nice pool and a huge yard. Everything is well kept and all your neighbors are in the same economic strata as you are.

You are just pissed because people found what most people want in a living situation and found a way to mass produce it. No one wants to live in shitty wooden stand alone houses that become decrepid over time. Cape cod has stayed in good shape cuz its a well-known wealthy area. Most places like that are turning into ghettos cuz people are moving into communities are the poor are buying up the small houses like in pic.

Source: Have lived in apartments, classic suburbs, high end comminities that are still technically suburban, have relatives that have a house like that actually in cape cod, have lived in a delapidated area where houses used to look like that but are now falling apart.

Take away: Live in the subrubs unless you can afford a stand alone mansion, in which case go for that. Otherwise you are just being an idiot.

>>1986037
Given the time and what they were trying to achieve I actually think its pretty cool. Its not the most asthetically pleasing but tht was kinda the point, it has a place to be in architecture. It was supposed to be all about the shear awesomeness of industry and efficiency.

>>1989288
great in the winter when you don't want to pay for heating but completely suck in the summer or when your neighbours want to sleep without blankets and heating is free. Because of that i use to think that 15 c was pretty hot.

>>1986057
This, why did the absolute least aesthetic countries become superpowers

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Soviet architecture is bad, mkay?

>>1989776
>they aren't cheaply-built
Tract houses being cheaply-built has been a problem ever since their inception in the '50s.
>ur just jealous
Stop. I don't care about the amount of money any involved party has. I'm purely referring to the visual appearances of neighborhoods.
>Cape Cod
I pointing out Cape Cod in particular. The reason for that image's filename is because the style of the house is Cape Cod Revival, and as far as I know, it's impossible to tell if it's actually even located in Cape Cod or not.
>houses on old streets are run-down shitshows that only poor people live in
In my town, houses on old streets (mostly from the '40s through the '80s) make up the majority of housing, and not one street is socioeconomically-depressed.

>>1989860
>I pointing out
Shit.
>*I wasn't pointing out

>>1989776
Kind of agree with this.

If you're not wealthy, personally I would avoid most housing that was built prior to the mid 80's. Yeah that old house looks "cute" and traditional, but it's most likely unrennovated and has a shitty kitchen, bathrooms, floors, and will be much more cramped and have fewer bathrooms than a more modern home.

Older homes are more difficult to keep clean, there always seem to be weird little spaces behind the toilet or stove that are really hard to get to and gather dust and grime. In my expirience you have to clean twice as often in an older house to reach the same level of clenliness.

I've been so much happier when I moved into a newer place, everything is more roomy, convinient, and ergonomic and it all just werks. Fuck having one tiny ass damp bathroom, now I have two bathrooms that are normal sized and give me room to breath. Fuck the tiny kitchen with minimal counter space, now I have a bar and can move around while I cook.

When it comes to my home I want higher celings, floors that are easy to keep clean, plenty of sunlight, a more open floorplan, a kitchen island/bar, and bathrooms with bigger sink counters. Fuck "authenticity", history, character, and "good bones". I like all those things, but not for my house. Everything about home interiors gets better every decade, unless I have enough dough to knock down walls and remodel the kitchen and bathroom the newer house will almost always be better.

Modernist*

>>1989786
>Seven Sisters
>not aesthetic

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>>1989665
>One does not simply walk into Moscow. Its black gates are guarded by more than just slavs. There is evil there that does not sleep. The FSB is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with snow, ash, and drunks. The very air you breathe is a poisonous fume. Not with ten thousand men could you do this. It is folly.

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what is the comfiest kind of house and why is it the Colonial?

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>>1990183
Georgian houses are just unexplainably comfy, and I've never even lived in one. It's probably because of their stately-but-not-pretentious appearance, as well as their association with American patriotism and the founding of a nation. They're also generally pretty old, and old houses are basically synonymous comfy.

>>1987768
>all the fun that could cause.
kek

>>1989330
Is that fucking kwntucky? Anyway in yurop check out austro-hungarian neo gothic from late 19th century, especially in polish galicia

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>>1990183
I really dig carpenter gothic. I want my house to look haunted.

>>1989363
Is living in commie blocks worse than living in west european version of commie blocks?

>>1989373
Magnitogorsk?

>>1989674
Come to Australia and you'll see what happens when the Eternal Tradie is king. The quarter acre block needs to be abolished.

>>1990513
It's fucking Kwntucky all the way through. Paducah has a bretty cool historic district.
>>1990597
Second Empire is a REAL man's haunted house style.