/tan/ - Then And Now

old: Post old pictures of your city and modern day pictures to compare!

Town's been here since the Romans, maybe older. Only really grown in the last 100 years though.

The centre is nearly always preserved and actively protected. It's really hard and paperwork-intensive to buy one of those buildings to destroy it and build anew.

Some commie jew objected to them. Israel at the time was all about muh environment and sun power, so houses should have large ugly windows to get more sun warmth instead of using heating.

Nice.
Here in Brazil the lower scum simple put billboard over the buildings and let the original adornments fall apart.

Imagine you wake every morning and have to look at this!

Lope de Vega, one of the most prestigious theaters in Spain

I liked the contrast of sand stone and limestone put together.

2017
some lion king shit

100 years ago...

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Lyon

100 years ago..

Erosion is going to take the church in 200 years...

Now

Old town centre got demolished to make way for a shopping mall.

Now

100 years ago...


I don't mind really

good whatever

Yeah, it is what I love about our architecture, we have been using the same material since the Roman days.

As a whole

Now


Singapore cry tears of enviousness looking at this amazing progress in just one hundred years

Sasuga Russia

Ahhh yeas, the modern synagogue.
How quarters did it take to build the fucking parking lot?

4000 hours in mspaint

Look at this, m8. Even the ruins are beautiful. Can you imagine what a ruin of a modern glass/steel building will look in 1000 years?

Then

now

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im getting to like doing this edits

You population in the early 20st, was about 38M. Now it's about 67M. You main cities more than quadruple in size. It was all internal migration from rural regions?

What are those balls in the ground?

pedestrian safety i guess
if a car steers off the road it will hit that instead of a person

Yes. Lyon is well-known for its gastronomy drawing from the nearby rural regions of Savoie, Auvergne, Bresse and Bourgogne, where a lot of people came from.

I will never understand the reason why people enjoy so much live in a crowed city instead a comfy town.

Because of work, because the city can be comfy, because they like being with people, etc.

Main avenue of Rio de Janeiro, 1910

Amen, brother

And today

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Fuck...

I hear that there is a insane fight bettwen Rio and São Paulo over architecture.
Cariocas brought property in São Paulo to construct commie blocks and Pulistas did the same to make Rio look trash.
Don't know if it's true, but at the end everyone loses.

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>a fucking box
What happened with the dome?

Different perspective?

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yep
the buildig was damaged during the siege of budapest in 1945 and when the commies took over they decided to renovate it without all the ornamentation because they deemed the building too bourgeois with them

same story with the building in this post

Found some from Rio (which is a popular and well know city outside brazil)

At less they keep the arch windows.

Most changes have taken place in the last 26 years

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Any picture before soviets?

São Paulo

>literally nothing

Also, found this depressing image.

Please, ignore the cancer watermark.

is there a picture before the ruins ?

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Damn, this is depressing me lads

I was searching exactly this. But i don't think that a non German speaker can find it.

What is wrong? Looks well preserved.

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the brit ones make me want to kill myself

why would they destroy that
brits have no soul

I actually like the 3rd pic
It's a shame if they tear down something like pic 1 to do it though

You have to see the yellow and green buildings up close to see how shoddy they are now. I'm just realizing now how comfy our downtown was in its heyday.

Why the commies from Hungary keep most part of the architecture but the rest almost lose it all?

well compared to Warsaw Budapest survived the war and the commies in a pretty good shape, still many of our historic buildings were either destroyed during the war, demolished afterwards or refurbished in a crude manner

Man, this is sad to compare.

not really in russia (st petersburg) there was a general architect, not sure the english translation.
it was near impossible to ruin the city centre, most stuff that were removed had to do with religion or icons/emblems of the former regime.
the shitty buildings are more of a capitalist thing from what ive noticed, as its by far much more cheaper.
due to stalin kept building top tier houses, beautiful and sturdy khrushchev started building lots of shitty buildings as the war didnt end that long ago and people had problems with housing living in communals.
he promised that they would be torn down in 20 years as real housing would be remade but this sorta never happend and those boxes are still left.
theyve started removing them recently but what theyll replace it with im not sure.
maybe this is relevant to thread but my english is a shit forgive desu

Likely got hit by Germans in the war... and cost too much to rebuild...

Then "modernism" of the 60's arrived... and fucked everything up.

Thanks for the explanation. Make sense what you said.
St Petersburg must have suffered a lot, because it was under singe and being constantly bombed for years...

The contemporary skyline makes me think of Southeast Asia.

Every big city outside Europe looks the same.

it did but stalin was still in rule for 8 years after the war, most of the centre been rebuilt i was mostly talking about the buildings futher out

1929

top left today

top right today

bottom left today

bottom right today
r8 pls

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>Türkheim
oh how ironic that name is now

Such a shame we abandoned our inner city.

Same. For some reason the government and architects hate old buildings. They always replace them with disgusting "modern" cubes that everyone else hates.

oh fuck off, its the same joke every goddamn time
the name originates from a tribe of thuringians that settled here around 500AD

Pretty good.
WTF happened here?
I will be honest. I did not know that Peru was so nice.

I've had this pic collecting dust for some time, it's Oslo

Used to be a cigar manufacturing plant, now it's an university.

F

WWII, then modern architecture.
the museum is still there but the glass building in the middle is blocking the view

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>uni right next to train tracks
how many students attempt suicide there?

I didn't know it was THIS nice just a few decades ago. Most of our downtown was built in the 20s and had a good run until the 70s-ish.Then the 80s came and fucked us up hard. People and investment fled towards the periphery. Damn shame.

Why would you care, it's a humanities uni.

During the 70s

clasicism is pretty lame
you see those kind of buildings everywhere in Dublin wich is an otherwise awfully ugly city

Now

(Place de la Victoire, Bordeaux)