Likewise, it's beautiful, so elegant.
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I want anything that isn't low effort, bland, inoffensive. I hate modern trend towards boring. I love everything that isn't landlord white.
I just want a diversity of architecture styles to be common, I love areas that are an eclectic mix of styles; it makes me feel like so many different people care about the area.
It also shows the strength and resilience of an area. Places like that have weathered many booms and busts. It's particularly interesting when one building has many styles, having been continuously occupied for hundreds of years. Or in some cases, even longer.
@Wahots @apt_install_coffee Universities are good for that. Nothing that old here but my one had 5 buildings from different times (oldest being Victorian era) joined together, using a mixture of direct joins, a shared lobby, and enclosed bridges
Universities are like little cities. I love all the different styles they have :)
Check out art deco metal band Imperial Triumphant
The. Constructivist Era of the Soviet Union; abstract art meets cubism meets the proletariat.
Genuinely curious: why use an AI image instead of the many real Constructivist buildings?
I especially this one, nice balance of raw concrete and ornamentation:
Unaware. Just grabbed the first example from a search.
Anything that is not a square shaped shit brick like so much of the past 50 years.
Anything but brutalism.
Less style I just want more pipe organs in buildings. I think the contrast in visual, sound design, and the technology behind them throughout the ages is really cool.
I am a sucker for the MCM ranch, with low angular offset roofs and breeze block scape walls
Give me 2, but less mirrors- I've spent enough time in hotel lobbies, thank you. But if it were more theatre lobby than hotel lobby, I'm all for it.
There's some good Art Deco in Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley
I might have to check it out, thanks!
Brutalism