I enjoy looking at pictures of Brutalist architecture, even stuff like in the OP, because I'm from eastern Europe, I grew up in this kind of environment, and it gives me nostalgic feelings. You can take a nice picture of a Brutalist building, with good lighting, and when I see one of these, it reminds me of childhood.

Also by the way, that photo of the commieblocks in the OP looks terrible, but it's taken in winter and there's a crane. At least in my town, these commieblocks might look ugly on their own, but commies had the advantage of not having to worry about property rights, so these high-rise apartment blocks are surrounded by greenery. Trees and parks and big patches of grass aren't part of brutalism, but they're linked together in my mind because that's how it was done here.

Nowadays, modern property developers mostly build shit where the buildings look as ugly as these, if not worse, and on top of that there's not a single tree in sight, because they have to pay for land and it's expensive. I'm far right, but I honestly shudder to think what the housing situation in this country would be like today if literal fucking Bolsheviks didn't spend half a century building Panelaky.

I do love modern efforts to build with actual aesthetics, though. Hungary seems to be making huge steps forward there.

I enjoy looking at pictures of Brutalist architecture, even stuff like in the OP, because I'm from eastern Europe, I grew up in this kind of environment, and it gives me nostalgic feelings. You can take a nice picture of a Brutalist building, with good lighting, and when I see one of these, it reminds me of childhood.

Also by the way, that photo of the commieblocks in the OP looks terrible, but it's taken in winter and there's a crane. At least in my town, these commieblocks might look ugly on their own, but commies had the advantage of not having to worry about property rights, so these high-rise apartment blocks are surrounded by greenery. Nowadays, modern property developers mostly build shit where the buildings look as ugly as these, if not worse, and on top of that there's not a single tree in sight, because they have to pay for land and it's expensive. I'm far right, but I honestly shudder to think what the housing situation in this country would be like today if literal fucking Bolsheviks didn't spend half a century building Panelaky.

I do love modern efforts to build with actual aesthetics, though. Hungary seems to be making huge steps forward there.