People in the west never hear anything positive about communism, so...

Everyone knows what their news talk about. A few people read books, but not many.

I would not want to live under communism, but it certainly is portrayed as more crazy than it actually is.

There are zero tv shows about communist people doing normal things in life. Its pretty much a banned topic that people go out and party, watch movies, eat pizza... Same as in the west. We are not very different.

And if you travel, you see this. Its just people. But yes, the leaders are insane. In every major nation.

And your examples are actually political.

Best I can do is indsutrial brutalism

Vehicular manufacturing utopia core

Please be AI. Im overstimulated just from the still image

Quiznos :( 💔

State capitalism architecture

I bet the people in that tower complain bitterly about the 'poors' spoiling their view.

Once you notice hostile design, you see it everywhere.

My favorite is the bench with no shade. It's a giant fuck you. You could sit here however you are going to sit in the full force of the sun.

So many tiny Pharaohs!

This doesn't look slave plantation-y enough.

I also can't find the pointy white hat.

Honest question: WTF is this?

Some insect is going to have an existential crisis finding those

Could they not have just put a lazy garden or something in instead...

That seems like a lot more work and expense

Honolulu has a bunch of brutalism, along with a bunch of other architectural movements

https://thinktechhawaii.com/more-tropical-brutalism-humane-architecture/

I had to screen grab it, but there is actually a brutalist bhudist temple in Chinatown in Honolulu

I would say "socialist modernism", not " soviet brutalism". Because there are a lot of examples not from ex USSR.

This is Belgrade, Serbia (ex-Yugoslavia):

Museum of Modern Arts:

Hotel "Yugoslavija":

So, no, it’s not anything political. It’s a cultural thing.

Soviet housing either followed or was contemporary with Le Corbusier's ideas of affordable ‘habitation units’, the now-famous cookie-cutter blocks with minimal decoration. The OOP is quite correct in calling it leftist, since the purpose was to have lots of cheap housing: the USSR had huge expansion of it during the fifties-seventies, with massive migration from rural areas to cities (following the less-neat redistribution of housing, wooden barracks, and communal living in the thirties).

Can't say I like the outcome too much, because arguably same population density can be achieved with lower-rising houses, since they don't require huge areas between them to have any sunlight. Khrushchev-era districts can be much cozier than later ones, since five-storey buildings are placed closer and have trees right outside the windows.

Love me some brutalism.

Prisons silly.

A 300 million dollar mansion for one person. A 1.2 billion dollar prison complex for a few hundred people . Everyone else is homeless and lives under a bridge.

Because they think things make them extraordinary. They can't imagine the lives in those buildings being good without extraordinary things.

McMansions and parking lot deserts?

But everything gets depressing if all looks the same.

Leaded paint no doubt.

Right wing interior design:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQk3VgnCvzZWTVRK8XbRBkyguWI0H8PGU72PdeIXIT3gh2PoGyhQe-4y8A&s=10

Why is the background smooth behind the swastika?

It would help if you found something less dope-looking. This pic is like 1920s New York, but with a swastika.

Corpo housing isn't mcmansions. They're factory built homes shipped to site and dropped on locally poured foundations, sometimes with basements.

Sure, they can be decent sized, but the mcmansion is overly large and aimed at a different crowd, a crowd that's increasingly unable to afford them.

Source; I grew up in a corpo housing development from the 60s or 70s. The houses all looked identical from the outside, but had a few different floor plans, one down the street was actually two of the wrong halves put together, which meant that one of the closets didn't have a door and could only be accessed by someone crawling in through a gap near the ceiling.

Thankfully there was no HOA, so the houses quickly picked up some individuality.