Soulless apartment buildings and planned uniform communities...Where all houses look the same and have the same color...

Soulless apartment buildings and planned uniform communities...Where all houses look the same and have the same color. Please discuss.

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So we're discussing UN Agenda 21?

Urban planner here.

Cities regulate too much. Also part of the problem is that developers build this shit to sell it to investors later. They don't care beyond 5 years out

I meant to say, Americans are being herded like sheep into uniform, crowded Stalinesque apartment buildings and planned communities. I hardly think it's a coincidence. Meanwhile our best houses are being sold to Chinese millionaires for investment only.

Hey urban planner why are all the new houses in Los Angeles ugly white stucco boxes.

Yes agenda 21. No new desirable housing seems to be built any more. Either ugly communist buildings or planned communities or ugly modern box shaped houses. Something is afoot.

Part of the idea behind the big window craze is to pander to the youth craze of being exposed. You know, the youth that likes to send pictures of each other taking their clothes off and masturbating in their free time.

That's living the dream in Colombia

Rural North Carolina here.

Join us in the promised land.
Own a house.
Own land.
Own guns.
Be free.

are you fucking serious?!
>dat cute as fuck building
>souless

GET ON MY LEVEL.

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This guy is right OP. That building is dank. I have one of those near me and its fucking comfy as hell because there's a library right across the street and a subway right in the building.

What are the people who live in there like? Are there pretty girls at least?

I like lots of tall and messy buldings
Make me remember cyberpunk
>pic related

anybody out here in california noticing these developing at lightning speed as well?

These things are popping up like wildfire from freeway projects especially the sr91

Why does everything in Russia look gloomy and grey?

That's the entire idea. It traps the youth into perceived economic viability and comfort.

Google did the same thing near where I live in order to kick out the niggers and import the chinks. I thought Google was supposed to be about hiring smart people, but apparently not. It's all about the bennies.

>Are there pretty girls at least?
sure

No wonder you older rusian cunts come to canary islands so much

because its in our mind. back in CCCP russia was simple and straight as a block.
it...didn't worked actually.
at the end people got fucked by that socium and became depressive

Don't lie Vladimir, Russia has a fuck ton of beautiful women.

post war buildings
losing over 20 million of mostly military aged men will fuck your infrastructure planning up

Dunno man, I don't work in California. Never would either

Dude.. what are those smaller houses between blocks? I live in similar block, in better condition and renovated though, so it doesnt look that grim, but still.

Construction fag here.

The quality of new construction is terrible. These hip looking 'luxury' condos are built to a lower standard than low income housing projects from the 80s.

Ok Rudolph. (or whatever the fuck is meme-name of Canada)

I love your block buildings. Love me some concrete and iron/steel.

>Dude.. what are those smaller houses between blocks?
Probably some social/goverment building like school or some shit like that.
>Latvia
oh shit..yeah., i know. Latvia, Poland, Estonia - all have the same style of souless commieblocks

once people say OK live in the City they are easily pulled into hard core gun control laws and reparation level taxation.

>be american
>had a good big meal with tasty pizza/hamburger/super neat dorito/nachos whatever else
>live in a comfy FUCKING ENTIRE HOUSE with your family where you have a bigass room just for you (in russia an entire family would live in that room)

>oh Vladimir i like ur style! :D
>only concrete and iron! not some gay shit amirite? :D

s-sure...

True public housing is more akin to communist construction than modern gentrification developments.

Looks good. Better than commie blocks.

Although I can't help but shudder at the thought that it will look dated in the future.

>there is a difference between communism and gentrification
American Education, everybody.

>Live in tropical country where cocaine literally grows outside
>wants to live in cramped shitty apartment

Don't get us wrong, we realize your apartment blocks look soulless, we just like that its honest about it in the design

Watch this.
youtube.com/watch?v=kb5RIGnu-jQ

Ye, autumns and winters are the worst months. It was easier when I was working in Tyumen, becuz shit was so brutal and it was too cold to think about suicide.

I'd believe it

I'm going to pretend there is a drunken Slav sitting on that swing.

I heard Sup Forums likes religion, right? :^)

Because it's late autumn.

My mother-in-law has a condo in a building similar to that in Bostom. $2,400 a month and all the fixtures, and entire kitchen are IKEA products.

Literally every new low rise apartment or house in Toronto looks like this it pisses me off and every single high rise is just a blue box

They exist only to be demolished..

It's Wu.

depressing

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I'm in Broomfield, CO at the Aloft. Someone please fucking shoot me.

Why is red brick so comfy

I thought Russians lived in the commieblocks for the work week but went back to cozy countryside dachas for the weekend?

Looks like Vancouver desu

Sandstone is the true comfy master race.

wew lad no they have a five day workweek to keep the factories running 24/7 which failed because it made neighbors unable to spend time with each other.

They go for vacations to dedicated vacation cities. Yeah, that one worked really well, too.

>thought Russians lived in the commieblocks for the work week but went back to cozy countryside dachas for the weekend?
dude WAT.
W H A T
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Commieblocks were built back then for working people of russia. To stick them into those boxes like sardini into tin can.
More people stuck in 1 box - better = more work force for russia.


Such shit like your picture is from 19-20 century. Nowadays only 90y/o people live in those somewhere faraway in the village.

Post Modern and Deconstructive architecture was a mistake

wut, my family has a nice dacha. Huge comfy garden

Ah, so you're in the party?

Yeah, bath looks like how I imagine a typical English town would look. We don't really have that here though it's mostly brick

>Geometry is soulless.
Fuck you, buddy.

Real estate agent here. They do this as a marketing thing. Nobody wants to pay for a quality house anymore. They build shot and call it "modern" and people eat it up. Also Jews made real estate super expensive so that ties in too. And by Jews I mean Chinese.

good goy

I think modern architecture is a step-up from the commie-block style buildings I see over here, but I would really like to see actual craft back in architecture where pleasant looking architectural features are common and impressive as they once were. Modern architecture really just feels like it is in the same vein as modern art where it is a "reaction" to traditionalist values that just looks like an excuse to put less time, money and effort into making a building yet also calling it revolutionary in design and anyone critical of it guilty of "not getting it".

Opinion polls have consistently shown that people prefer traditional architecture over modern architecture, so there is clearly a disconnect between the public and people who design the buildings they have to look at every day, so I think it's either that architects just want to be paid more for doing less or it's an "emporer's clothes" situation. I hope that one day sense will return to these fields so that aesthetically pleasing buildings and artwork can be built and celebrated rather than having to look to the work of my ancestors to not be embarrassed over the cultural output of my fellow contemporaries.

That looks like a luxury condo. Thats not even close to a souless apartment building.

And they make them smaller and smaller, my 100 square foot apartment is 900 a month, a condo half that's like 400 square foot would cost half a million, and then your all glass wall will fall out

this man is kind of hot.
saved

Nah it's garbage there's like a 100 of those here if it's some quick and cheap 6 story condo thats being built they all look like that

Why the hell do you have gay porn?

Because he is gay?

Most of the buildings here that are nice are completely illegal to construct now because of zoning regulations, minimum parking requirements. setback regulations... it's a socialist fucking nightmare in land-use policy people.

Gross

Some condos are going up downtown that won't have any parking, they're just building over all the parking lots now too and it's impossible to find any parking anywhere anymore

Government regulations and federal housing rules means we only get either detached single-family houses or big shitty towers, but nothing in between.

its weird its almost as if people follow trends

>can't have underground parking

wut

Are the developers just too cheap to dig deeper?

That's too bad. You guys have the most land in the world and cheap energy from natural gas. No need for these concrete tombs anymore. Embrace the coziness.

Slapped together glass and concrete boxes with a few bits of painted wood tacked on must be destroyed.

For a long time we just got high rises, so many 50 storey buildings even one condo that's like 70 floors or something. Things are slowing down now and they're building mostly mid rises from what I've seen

For one building specifically they're preserving a historic building and it's being built right next door to the eaton centre. It's going to have bicycle parking. But I think they're just being cheap and tying to appeal to hipsters with the bicycle parking

Exactly--it's simple economics. Land is scarce, parking uses land, so we should make it compete for land with everything else. If parking is really so valuable developers will supply it. Using gub'ment to force developers to include it makes no fucking sense, and it means we can't build cool ye olde neighborhoods that everyone loves.

>Why the hell do you have gay porn?
Oh that?
im not gay. i just have few gigabytes of gay pictures to be sure to have something to troll normies on facebook. :^)

>muh house looks the same as everyone elses!
What are you, a fucking art student faggot or something? Who gives a shit as long as you have a comfy roof over your head?

If it really bothers you that much just toss a coat of paint on it and do some landscaping.

That's pretty disgusting

>being this of a normiefag
get out

I don't mind, I admire the convenience.

Being a normie means you're a bisexual liberal sadly

it's just like my stalker games

This thread satisfies my autism.

The world needs efficiency not creativity.

>I don't mind
These huge new projects will never look as good as they do now--in 50 years they'll be shit. That's why small-scale developments tend to be better; they can replace buildings and upgrade to it all fresh.

new suburbs
youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs

this is true. most russians are wealthy and only pretend to be poor online using old photos from commie era

Dem black soot stains on sandstone are just the best

By the way,the souless degenerate Alejandro Aravena won this year's Pritzker Architectural Prize with an astounding collection of malformed burtalist trash:

pritzkerprize.com/2016/works

Now that he is an "Award Winning Architect", his shit will soon be defacing your city's skyline.

because he is russian

Even the playground where you are supposed to have fun looks sad.

Russia, a-are you okay? Do you want some milk and cookies?

that looks like some design abortion from the 70's. those windows probably don't even open.

This building makes me want to oppress the people for their own good.

>Russia, a-are you okay? Do you want some milk and cookies?
th-thanks US. Not sure if i can afford it tho

This is what happens in a welfare state when the poor breed to ad infinitum