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Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)

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Re: Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)

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Post by benjijay »

rors wrote: post #102
ghm2199 wrote: post #92

If you want to get a feel of what brutalist architecture is like up close, go to the Barbican in london if you can. Its quite surreal. Very much in-your-face concrete exposure. Yet, to walk and experience it with your eyes is a study of contrasts: a giant, comparitively modern, greenhouse, has a glass roof open to the sky and yet many floors have no light or windows at all. And in the outdoor spaces, like the fountai…

The Barbican is not a typical brutalist construction. The term brutalist refers to béton brut, which means raw concrete. I.e. you can see the shape of the wooden slats used as a cast. The concrete in the Barbican was finished by drilling to create a dappled pattern, which obliterated the shape of the slats. There are also lots of post modern elements. For example, the columns of the girl’s school have pyramids at the…

If you find yourself in West London, also check out Brunel University, all of the older buildings are pure brutalism

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Post by p-e-w »

dodomodo wrote: post #71

I don't like it, from a pure brutalistic view point this obviously doesn't make any sense, it isn't practical and it doesn't make any effort to create a shape that is esthetically pleasing. The urban decay is even more outrageous, the whole appeal of urban decay is that it is "real", it's the thinking about all of people that went through the same structure throughout the years. Of cause it doesn't mean you can't mak…

It’s unfortunate that brutalism has become synonymous with “crumbling concrete”. That was certainly not the intention of the brutalist architects, but rather a side effect of the poor quality of the (sometimes experimental) concrete mixtures. 21st century (neo-)brutalist buildings won’t suffer from this.

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Post by ge96 »

gcr wrote: post #11

If you like brutalism, you might also enjoy the Quake Brutalist Map Jam 3, which released last month: https://www.slipseer.com/index.php?resources/quake-brutalist... My favorite map is ‘One Need Not Be a House’ by Robert Yang, which was inspired by Louis Kahn's "brick brutalism" masterpieces in Bangladesh and India, as well as contemporary level design like The Silent Cartographer. The artist writes about their proce…

Just finished reading Masters of Doom crazy Quake is still a thing today

I do really like the fast pace of Doom Eternal and Dark Ages which you can see here I think

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Post by sam-bee »

thesuitonym wrote: post #115

Do I like it? No. Do I want one on my desk? Absolutely not. Do I think it's even brutalist? Not in the least. But it's still a cool as hell project. People need to do more things just because they want to, and to hell with what anyone else thinks.

It's very liberating, crafting something for yourself with no intention of selling.

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Post by sam-bee »

chasd00 wrote: post #99
gwbas1c wrote: post #34

Related: Anyone know where to get that kind of keyboard in the photo? Specifically, where the number pad and arrow keys are on the left? I've been looking and looking, but the best I can find is using a narrow keyboard with a separate number-pad only keyboard on the left. I'm in the US. (It's better for your right shoulder to keep the mouse closer to your body like in the picture.)

yeah that keyboard is definitely different than what I'm accustomed to. My son pointed out that shift-2 is not '@' but '"'.

It's an English (UK) keyboard layout

Re: Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)

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Post by ricardobayes »

This is awesome, one of my friends actually wanted to make a laptop top and bottom case from concrete. Thin enough it could even work but would still be heavy. Definitely very stylish. Related: this design studio in Hungary creates a lot of concrete products, including designer bags. https://www.stylemagazin.hu/kiemelt-hir/A-het-designere-Ivan...
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