These buildings deserve a thread.
 

COMMIEBLOCKS!!! Look at this shit!!! Its an architectual mirracle!!!





LOOK AT IT!!!!!!! Pieces of eye candy!!!

Is it your home ?

No, the first one is the industrial part of Belgrade (city i lived in before i moved here) But yeah I lived in the first picture in the ones in the bottom right corner when i was around 0-6.

You wont kill this thread!!! Long live Commieblocks!!!!

this is what we have in Berlin:





That first picture is Berlin-Marzahn, in the eastern part of the city, but in the West, they also had some style (here's Märkisches Viertel in the second picture):

AMAZING!!!!! I like the yellow ones in the middle!!!! EPIC!

Now, what about these?





(Nanterre, France)

My city was made my corporate swine.

the first one looks like an alien landing strip

Nothing can beat this.

Ugliest fucking place in the whole world.

One of the parts of Bratislava called Petrzalka.



Damn, I'm fortunate I don't live there.

 

 

BUILDINGS, BUILDINGS, BUILDINGS !!! MORE BUILDINGS !!! I LOVE BUILDINGS !!!
Are you pleased, buzzo ?

I was actually looking for a picture of Petrzalka... I couldn't remember the name, but google helped me... eventually i gave up, because i couldn't find a picture that really matched what i was looking for...




you get such a nice view on Petrzalka from the castle...

Ha, I wanted to post a picture of Petrzalka too!!!

I did remember the name (with the accent thingy on the z!), as I stayed in one of those flats myself for about a week once. I wouldn't call it the ugliest place on earth though. OK, it's not pretty, but at the time I thought it looked really fascinating. I remember indeed taking a panorama of pictures from up where the castle is, looking down at the wide stretch of concrete blocks on the south bank of the river.

Wikipedia has a picture from that viewpoint. It's not the whole panorama of course but it gives an idea of what the view is like from the castle.

I see Petrzalka is quite a phenomenon around Europe :)

porkherrie, yes, the view from the castle on the other bank of Danube is quite fascinating. By the way, in the meantime, many new buildings and skyscrapers keep arising in the City and look at that what's behind the bridge nowadays:

Buildings aren't the problem. It's the people you put in them.

I guess Petrzalka is certainly something that sticks with you when you're in Bratislava. Also for me it was the first time I saw old-school communist Plattenbau architecture. It's weird that I just realised that I only know the German term for it. I don't even know if there's a dutch word for it (which doesn't mean we don't have plenty of ugly appartments blocks ourselves though!)

What is that thing behind the bridge and is it finished or is it still in progress? The last time I was in Bratislava was about 10 years ago so I'm sure a lot of it will look different now. Maybe I'll get to see it again someday.

yes, that's why Chernobyl looks so beautiful.




I just remembered someone (maybe waxy?) posted a link on the old board to a site that had pictures of an abandoned Japanese island. I forgot the name but it looked really fascinating.

It's still in progress, for God's sake :) . A lot of high-rises have been built in the recent past years which is good, because it gives the city a bit of a modern look.

Amazing its genious. Go commieblocks!

haha, ok... I thought it would be, but I just had to exclude the possibility of it being a 20 storey parking garage or some thing.