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Why is everything so ugly?
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#12Why do communists build brutalist buildings?
I don’t think the recent trend in abandoning aesthetics is accidental.
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#13The debate about how we can’t make classic beauty anymore will always be around (and it’s not very interesting).
But what strikes me in some “ugly” cities is how accepted it is to let things be objectively ugly, for example in some cities you can see how a building wedged between two beautiful buildings has been torn down but the effort to build a new one seems on hold. As if owning the building/land gave the right to leave a scar for any amount of time. In cities where this doesn’t happen I imagine you simply don’t get a permit to leave an ugly hole. Build it or face a stiff fine, perhaps forcing you to sell to someone who would build. Seems like the only reasonable way of keeping it tidy. A lot of UK inner city areas look like this for example.
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#14The submitted link contains an anchor/hash pointing to the middle of the (long) article. Why?
Poster was as sloppy as the author himself
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#15It's hard for me to understand what the author is exactly talking about without seeing more images.
its a word salad rant. An exercise in style to say mostly something that could be summed up in a few sentences.
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#16The submitted link contains an anchor/hash pointing to the middle of the (long) article. Why?
its art?
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#17There's a lot more variation nowadays imo, and you can find whatever you are looking for, consciously or not. If you want to find ugly, you can. If you want to find vibrant bright colours, you certainly can, too. At least in the UK, in both London and Manchester, where I have lived, you can find the best and the worst of many kinds of styles. Where I visited in Belfast, also. Also in Indonesia, from Bali to Jakarta,…
Theres a style I see on HN where ppl disagree with the post at the start, the halfway in agree with the post. Im not sure if thats a new thing or if I just started noticing it. > sure, the "general vibe" is also kind of persistent, but I think the general vibe has been quite bland in many places for a while.
The article is talking about the new ugliness somewhat more, that's what I am trying to address.
But, ironically, my comment of "you can find what you look for" is applicable for your observation too ;)
Besides, it's okay to agree with some points and disagree with some points.
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#18The submitted link contains an anchor/hash pointing to the middle of the (long) article. Why?
Maybe for people (like me) who stopped reading the article half-way through when it was posted about a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33894679
The title should have had an additional exclamation point.
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#19As much as I claim to like brutalitism as a design philosophy, I do think we could bring back some things like classic marble architecture. Maybe some new fountains
there is no money for that anymore
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#20Yes, but isn't it cyberpunk as fuck? Welcome to living out your wildest nightmares.