Something that doesn't look or feel like it was made at a factory
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2025
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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.
Likewise, it's beautiful, so elegant.
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.
Check out art deco metal band Imperial Triumphant
Anything that is not a square shaped shit brick like so much of the past 50 years.
There's some good Art Deco in Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley
I might have to check it out, thanks!
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.
Brutalism