OMG that's such an aesthetic!
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I am still trying to figure out who unironically likes Brutalism. Other than Tankies of course.
I am just thankful that where I live they are using modern building techniques to get an old school look. They just built a new apartment complex in my town, and it was built with modern materials to get all of the benefits that come with that, but externally they made it look like it was built with brick and stone (to be fair, parts of it were). Its actually pretty good looking.
Brutalism has one redeeming feature: It is durable. If you like brutalism for its overkill in structural durability, that's perfectly reasonable. A bird can shatter a glass wall flying into it, but a nice yard-thick cement one?
An additional plus to brutalism is it is extremely simple and straightforward. Every design is "box", except the REALLY creative ones, which is "cylinder". That makes it much harder to screw up and turn into a ticking deathtrap when postmodernist intersectional studies majors get hired as architects because we live in hell. They are postmodernists, they can make only pain, failure, and despair, so diverting their output into entirely "despair" can possibly spare the pain and failure aspects.
The Wall is a bit of a combination modernist-brutalism mix. It's all exposed metal and cylinders, and can look perfectly impressive, for its purpose in demoralizing those who'd attempt to cross it, intimidate those near it, and fuel despair in those around it.
But not when built by communists. Most of it was built sub standard to begin with and allowed to decay from day one.
Compared to their other works, at least some of those buildings are still standing. The farms and shit? Already long gone in less than 30 years.