So all that brutalist architecture, what if we just painted it? Not one colour, patterns to break it up. (lemmy.ca)

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Has this been done somewhere?

Any other ways to make it look better than tearing it down? Whole bunch of fake glass?

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[-] iusearchbtw@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 8 months ago

It's been done quite a bit throughout Eastern Europe. Here are some examples from Poland:

Certainly a nicer colour scheme than dirty soul-crushing grey.

[-] Lojcs@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Those don't look brutalist to me. I feel like brutalism calls for more than just grey blocks of concrete.

[-] CiderApplenTea@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Not sure if you're making a clever joke, or if you don't know that brutalism is defined by using steel and concrete in large blocks. Might be a mega "woosh" on my part though haha

[-] Lojcs@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I wasn't making a joke. It doesn't feel right to call every unpainted concrete box brutalist.

Edit: https://mcmansionhell.com/post/187806092991/the-brutalism-post-part-2-what-brutalism-is-not/amp

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