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It was so pretty before! (Birmingham Central Library) (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/facepalm@lemmy.world
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Looking it up, apparently the new version was itself demolished in 2015 to make room for commercial spaces, which makes it even more sad.

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[–] 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)

i will never understand how people can find brutalism actively appealing, at best some specific examples (that aren't even proper brutalism) can be tolerable..

Like i'm sorry but it's raw concrete, i.. if you think you find it appealing, you're just wrong, just like you'd simply be objectively incorrect to state "wow i much prefer having a picnic on the surface of the moon rather than in a magical forest"

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, I hate your use of "objective" and "wrong" in here as it's obviously incorrect, but I understand what you're saying. I do find a lot of brutalist architecture genuinely aesthetically appealing myself

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    so like, you'd enjoy sitting in a park surrounded by brutalist buildings?
    That's the part i struggle to accept anyone actually being okay with, to the point that i think the only thing that can truly convince me is seeing you irl choose to spend a week long vacation in a brutalist city rather than e.g. utrecht.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I agree although I understand that there might be a place for the style. The style itself is inherently alienating and rejecting of life so as a building style it is in my opinion best suited for places that want to keep people away or at least want to signal that it is not a place to live. Using it for a library then is an odd choice.

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