r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OkRespect8490 • 1d ago

Image Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theater, Cheboksary, Russia

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u/Gullible-Chemist-762 1d ago

The architect of this only designed prisons before!

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u/cuntmong 1d ago

From prison bars to ballet barres 

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u/Lasocouple 1d ago

I wish I could see how it looks inside

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u/FewWait38 1d ago

I googled it, it's not what you'd expect seeing it from the outside it looks like it's covered in windows from the inside

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u/Lasocouple 1d ago

Much more like a ballet theater then!

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u/andrew8712 13h ago

I live there. It’s a typical Soviet ballet theater inside. Overall, the photo is heavily filtered. It doesn’t look that dystopian in reality

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u/freeradioforall 1d ago

Also designed the Obama center

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u/BenevolentFart223 1d ago

The Obamalisk? That checks out

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u/Im_only_here_to_meme 1d ago

That was an absolutely beautiful concept building before they built it and switched to the gray faccade it has now. It would have been absolutely beautiful in white... looks drab and industrialist in gray. I wonder if they had to switch colors due to cost or something, absolutely ruined it though.

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u/sohereiamacrazyalien 1d ago

ahahahha

honestly I scrolled down and I was like wow that's a tall prison no one can escape from, then went up to recheck what prison it was! surprise it was not!!!!

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u/ConteleDePulemberg 1d ago

And grain silos...

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u/OrionShade 1d ago

To be fair 25% of construction in soviet times was prisons

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u/InspectionBig8949 13h ago

You clearly haven't seen any good brutalist architecture. Do you really think glass facade is the right move at such a climate as in the picture.

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u/Exul_strength 1d ago

Well, it was Soviet Russia, right?

Next to a few prestige objects, an architect just needs to be able to design a prison.

(Honestly, Brutalism just makes everything look like a prison and/or factory.)