How do you feel about modern architecture? I don’t mean the stupid shit you see art museums housed in...

How do you feel about modern architecture? I don’t mean the stupid shit you see art museums housed in. I mean buildings that genuinely take the materials of today to their limits and show human ingenuity.

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I feel a deep sense of admiration towards the ultra high IQ city people who managed to build them.

I dislike them. They are eyesores and make cities look all the same.

I disagree with the notion that they make everything look the same. I’m a huge fan of classical and renaissance architecture but I think humans naturally need to evolve from that or be stuck in a cultural dark age. If you want to see cities look the same, drive through old confederate towns in the south. They’re all square brick buildings built on a railroad track. It’s almost like Minecraft; however, I connect with them on an emotional level

Witg modern architecture, we will hit a point where there are only a few wats at best to make the most efficient buildings.
New things aren't bad, but the idea behind it is purely utilitarian.

You do know that skyscrapers need a certain shape so that they dont collapse or get blown away by wind?

I hate them, not for some dumb "urgh skyscraper ugly" bullshit but because being in a city surrounded by big buildings makes the urge to kill myself stronger. What buildings look like doesn't matter.
So? Buildings should be built for a purpose, not to look pretty.

I do know that, but it doesn't make an excuse. I disagree with the idea behond skyscrapers along with the result of them baing put up.

Not all modern architecture is soulless, for example the ((Steinway)) tower in New York is pretty kino. It's the thinnest skyscraper ever built and it's about the same height as WTC 1

Skyscrapers should not be considered the representatives of modern architecture. They're usually extremely similar, bar a few notable exceptions. Smaller buildings are what its all about.
Look up Brazilia and all of its awesome buildings, or anything by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Of course, we face mediocre architchture daily, so its easy to think it mostly sucks. All architectural styles were plagued with mediocrity, and only the truly great works were preseved. Same thing will happen with the newer styles.

Its horrid. It is a style that they shill everywhere but it belongs nowhere. They say its to save cost but these glass and steel cocks cost much more in upkeep. They eliminate the feeling of civilization. There is no feeling of life in these designs just efficiency and tasteless arrogance. There is a reason that buildings like those and commie blocks always fall to shit, no one wants them.

those are fairly unique, same as pic related, but bland cookie cutter office towers and condos are a shame

>How do you feel about modern architecture
Parasitic, like cancer. It literally consumes traditional architecture

That could be literally anywhere, if it wasnt for the gook scribble on that building I can make out, you wouldn't be able to tell where that was

The reason for this parasitism is quite simple:
(((modern architects))) know that their disgusting shit is not loved by anyone, because it's ugly and shitty, but they are unable to accept this, so they build it in the middle of traditional buildings, thus tourists and people will notice it, like it or not.

>it’s a style that they shill everywhere but belongs nowhere

See you’re the one shilling here because I know that you’re quoting a fucking meme picture from here.

Culturally, I understand how the classic European architecture has a magical and comforting feel to it. It’s wonderful and it matters to us because it is our history as westerners. Do you think a nip would feel the same way we feel whenever they walk around a small town in northern Italy or Prague? They get their comfort from Kyoto.

The history of architecture has always been about very talented artists using brick and mortar as their brush and the earth as their canvas. That then becomes the backbone of our culture.

I believe that it’s pretty important for humans to move on into larger, more ambitious architectural concepts. It progresses us as a society. The large glass buildings you see ARE a part of western culture. They are almost ALWAYS constructed by white engineers who get their education in a prestigious American or German university. This sort of architecture shows what races are established enough to make it into the next millennium. Shanghai? All of those large buildings are designed by whites. Hong Kong, Singapore? Same thing.

Leave history alone. I get annoyed by people who fail to do their own research getting involved in a topic they don’t know much about. If we keep building classical styled buildings in our major cities, then we fail to innovate and we become history.

And this is why I hate modern architecture. Because whenever I look at a modern building in a historical area, i can imagine the face of the arrogant, hipster fuckerturd (((architect))) who built it.

See this is just shitty architectural design, built by a shitty architect. This is not the fault of modern architecture.

>I think humans naturally need to evolve from that or be stuck in a cultural dark age.
You've fallen into the trap of thinking new is better. The problem isn't necessarily glass and steel but rather the absence of warmth and human proportion. I think the sterility has an effect.

Oh, and lets not forget the politically motivated rape of traditional architecture

>A fucking bottle opener

No, warmth can be produced by modern architecture. I’m not a fan of the bullshit industrial look where concrete walls are the norm with a white rug and grey couch in the center of the room. That is not warmth. But I don’t think that the solution to that is to build in a gothic style with modern technology.

>shitty architectural design, built by a shitty architect
Modern architecture bred out this shitty design, material and architect.

kek

>Kino
What is this? Why am I suddenly seeing this word so often?
Fucking hate when this happens.

Building next to the British Parliament.
Bongs demolished a bunch of traditional brick buildings for this.
Bonus: the "chimneys" are supposed to represent the Victorian London's chimneys

Well he didn't mention the material but the proportions. The problem I have with architectural hypertrophy is that he only looks good from afar. It's skyline centric, but once you're in it it usually has a very aseptic feel, like you're in some sort of laboratory.

Quality material

High class design

>DUDE SQUIGGLY LINES!

Falling for the ((((IQ)))) jew

It screams in your face: "THE FUTURE IS HERE, FUCKFACE"

german term for the highest of cinema. A term abused by Sup Forums autists, but they are our greatest alliy so we use it too

Frank Lloyd Wright would be proud

>It progresses us as a society.

Opinion discarded.

(OP)
It's shit. Traditional architecture is the way to go.
Do you want more commie blocks? Because that's how you get more commie blocks.
Beautiful.

Buildings should be wider than they are tall.

buildings are like creatures who adapt to growing conditions (human needs). So I like to see them change over the time.

Middle one is alright. Other two are shit.
USA should return to art deco as the standard. The new post-modern WTC is a blemish on the New York skyline.

I thought for a moment it looked good in the thumbnail till I saw the horror in the full image

glass dildos nothing more

Redpill yourself, newfag:

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>Effeciency
I am no constructor but those forms and angles don't look very practical at all

I think it's a testament to the subjective flaws of free market capitalism that all of the world's cities are being filled with steel skeletons covered with plate glass, because that is the easiest and fastest skyscraper to build

>This is not the fault of modern architecture
Yes it is.

Literally a dick size contest between the rich

>checked
Who said anything about gothic style?
>only looks good from afar
good point leaf
also, architecture developed to reflect the ideals of a society and the people within it. modern skyscraper architecture ignores context and local history and just plants itself in places, disrupting the cohesion.
kek

did they tear it down or was it a fire or accident?

dude weed lmao

you seem to know a bit about this subject. would you care to post the most beautiful example of a building from the past 5-10 years that was constructed (and would blend seamlessly with) in the classical style of european capitals, vs the most beautiful of modern designs? i wouldn't know where to look to find the best

Tore it down to build apartment for the refugees.
No, I'm not making this up.

completely fucked over the obvious comfy aesthetic of the area

here's maximum aesthetic to counteract that horrid tumor

It's not done to force art. It's done to demoralize a culture. Cultural landmarks being bulldozed for (((modern))) architecture is pretty much the enemy's main MO. They're trying to erase beauty and replace it with ugly identity-less consumerist utilitarianism.

The Stadtschloss is a prime example. (((They))) literally blew it up at the end of the war just to demoralize Germans, then built a commie parliament building over the ruins. Once Germans nutted up and bulldozed the commie shit to rebuild the old Prussian building, (((other communists))) shrieked and demanded the new building be turned into an abomination, which it now is.

kek

I like

(((Modern architecture))) is terrible

However stuff like the new World Trade Centre and the gherkin in london are actually kind of cool. Things that are meant to be beautiful, not some deconstructive eyesore

>It progresses us as a society
kill yourself.

>stripped classicism 4 lyfe

It was also done by a literal Jew.

dude pixels lmao

This destruction of traditional European archecture and replacement with these new age Jewish brickblocs is one of the most underrated tragedies of the modern condition

Its called Italian Rationalism which evolved into Littorio style

>monuments to capitalism
>not necessary

There’s a reason why most modern architecture is built in Asia and it’s because the current standard for modern architecture doesn’t blend well with historically European architecture. It doesn’t make sense for modern architecture to be built among classic cultural architecture and that is a point I have been trying to make. London is London and it should stay as London. Brussels is Brussels and it should stay as Brussels, etc. Newly developed cities have absolutely no reason to maintain that sort of style though. An American city has no reason to adopt and build new buildings in the style of tsar St. Petersburg but it seems to happen a lot. It’s the civic nationalism of architecture.

It doesn’t make sense for a civilization that no longer follows the traditions of its past to continue building that way. Maintain and preserve it but don’t mock it by recreating wonders from centuries ago with petty nostalgia.

When you begin building cities for the future it will only make the cities of the past more protected and respected

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go live in a mud hut

>those vice city feels

this guy gets it

All three of these are complete shit.

Left looks like a fucking bottle opener, and it wastes the valuable edges/corners on elevators etc. just to make that top bridge piece usable.

Middle is just a standard tower with garish chinkshit exterior.

Right seems like utter shit, with an outer worthless shell spiraling around a cylindrical/conical core, so the window views are like being inside a cage.

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Its a mixed bag some are cool some are shit.

>supersized microwave

I'll raise you.

I like the right one. I think the cage effect was intentional to let the worker bees know their place in the hive.

Yeah pretty cool design :)

does this thing cook people and melt parked cars' interiors?

I don't grasp how architects have not learned that huge reflective concave surfaces are hazardously retarded.

You're full of shit.

The reason there isn't much modern architecture in Europe is simply because own cities don't grow that fast.
Not going to bulldozer existing building just to put up something new.

When we do build something new, it's usually very modern.

plaza del fascio is a favorite
stripped classicism is different from italian rationalism or littorio, famlam
look it up

The horror
Lou Ruvo Center in Las Vegas

Show us how to build a skyscraper using 500 year old masonry techniques.

i was talking about EUR
Id say EUR is rationalist

We're in an awkward embryotic stage of mega-cities. Modern skyscrapers will hopefully look like quaint tenements compared to the superstructures we will have in the future. We don't even have multilevel pedestrian areas yet. I can accept soulless steel as long as it's at such a scale as to make the details irrelevant--an 'aesthetics of scale' effect.

I can hear it beg "kiiiiill meeeeeee".

those who are not bs buildings are just amazing

True, every year 5000 people burn to death and 10.000 cars go up in flames because of modern architecture.
It is a well known and very real problem.....

/d/ would appreciate their giant dildo-esque shape

I remember reading an article from a few architects working together. Whenever they would be hired for new projects (around the world, mind you) they would start researching local materials, building customs, style, etc. Then every single time without fail, their unique and culturally appropriate designs (ie. chinese style roof in china) would be rejected for a plain glass box.

> Architecture
> I mean buildings that genuinely take the materials of today to their limits and show human ingenuity.


You mean structural engineering, you filthy brainlet.

What about this

educate yourself, toothpaste

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You fuckers dislike rationalism so i'll post something else

You’re just simply not understanding the point that I’m trying to make here. I’m not condoning modern architecture in historical cities, at all. I’m genuinely just saying that the recreation of classical architecture with modern technology is a joke and shows a lack of innovation from our civilization. Most modern architecture is shit and that is because it’s a lot harder to design a modern building that looks appealing than it is to building a fucking rectangular building based on the golden ratio. Those buildings are just so simple that they are very easily comforting. They were marvels in terms of ancient and classical.

It's fucking ugly.

I wonder what they'll do in 30 years when all these 100+ story buildings look dated as shit

Horrid commie block with a pastie on top.

900 year old towers>Skyscrapers

This guy made another deathray in London I believe, it was melting cars hahaha

>Be autistic architect
>Repeat the same mistake again and again
These fuckers will thrown into the ovens alive

>tfw they will never make a windmill shaped skyscraper.

why is that adjacent building so rusty on the right side?

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