@mattblaze I still think the Waste Incineration Plant in Vienna (which also supplies heat to the city) is the undisputed winner in the beautification stakes with its Hundertwasser design. But I agree that the stark, often brutalist architecture of power plants has its own beauty. I love Torness Power Station on the beautiful East Coast of Scotland and Dungeness, down in the South, particularly when viewed from Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage garden. Both give quite an eery vibe

@mattblaze When I have visited DC that was actually my impression. The architecture felt like a Disneyland version of many of the old European cities that had been part of the old Roman Empire. I was also reminded of that when I visited Skopje in North Macedonia a few years ago, which has undergone a “pseudo-classification” in the 2010s. Because of its location, it felt more like it made sense for those buildings to be there. But they were just as fake. blocal-travel.com/balkans/mace