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i love brutalism but i also think we have too many art deco skyscrapers and need some art nouveau skyscrapers so i doubt i'm gonna muster any hate for Dan's love for pretty buildings
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This is one of the first things I've ever seen you be confidently wrong about
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so you're saying you don't want this, but defiguralized and ninety-three stories tall, in midtownpic.twitter.com/OlNhAduTEV
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Art nouveau is good actually. There's no excuse for brutalist style in anything that isn't a prison.
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you forgot fortresses and nuclear waste storage facilities that need to convey terror to civilizations thousands of years in the future
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Replying to @halvorz @danlistensto and
there's also a really outstanding, uh, Soviet hydroelectric facility i think that i can't seem to find right now
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okay fair. I don't like brutalism for human architecture but I frickin' love it for infrastructure, especially infrastructure in the middle of nowhere. a cold, desolate vibe works great in the wilderness
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Hydro-Quebec has some really sweet facilities up north that have a nice Forerunner vibe going on
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You make a good point. I will amend my statement to: Brutalism is only suitable for prisons and monuments to the hubris with which we wield our stolen fire.
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fuck yeah, monuments to the hubris with which we wield our stolen fire
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Replying to @chaosprime @danlistensto and
and that's how i became a brutalism stan
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The next Tower of Babel will be built in a different style on each floor, a prefiguration of the shattering of physical laws and shifting forms to come in recompense for a second trespass.
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