this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2025
273 points (99.6% liked)

Asklemmy

49908 readers
632 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy ๐Ÿ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I think art deco is one of my favorites. It still has a clean, modern look that ages surprisingly well, even a century later.

(page 2) 44 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[โ€“] apt_install_coffee@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just want a diversity of architecture styles to be common, I love areas that are an eclectic mix of styles; it makes me feel like so many different people care about the area.

[โ€“] Wahots@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It also shows the strength and resilience of an area. Places like that have weathered many booms and busts. It's particularly interesting when one building has many styles, having been continuously occupied for hundreds of years. Or in some cases, even longer.

[โ€“] mark@social.cool110.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@Wahots @apt_install_coffee Universities are good for that. Nothing that old here but my one had 5 buildings from different times (oldest being Victorian era) joined together, using a mixture of direct joins, a shared lobby, and enclosed bridges

[โ€“] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

Universities are like little cities. I love all the different styles they have :)

Art deco rules so much

[โ€“] captain_coldcake@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Something that doesn't look or feel like it was made at a factory

[โ€“] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Likewise, it's beautiful, so elegant.

[โ€“] rabber@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Check out art deco metal band Imperial Triumphant

[โ€“] Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The. Constructivist Era of the Soviet Union; abstract art meets cubism meets the proletariat.

load more comments (2 replies)
[โ€“] Eheran@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Anything that is not a square shaped shit brick like so much of the past 50 years.

[โ€“] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I am a sucker for the MCM ranch, with low angular offset roofs and breeze block scape walls

[โ€“] gazter@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Give me 2, but less mirrors- I've spent enough time in hotel lobbies, thank you. But if it were more theatre lobby than hotel lobby, I'm all for it.

[โ€“] derrickoswald@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's some good Art Deco in Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley

[โ€“] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

I might have to check it out, thanks!

[โ€“] reddig33@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Anything but brutalism.

Less style I just want more pipe organs in buildings. I think the contrast in visual, sound design, and the technology behind them throughout the ages is really cool.

[โ€“] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago
load more comments
view more: โ€น prev next โ€บ