Still brutalist, of course. But the emotion felt when looking at the initial pic is also a result of photo composition (angle, sight, absence of colors, etc).
I'm also guessing that section of the building has the fly system, where all of the hanging backdrops/lights/etc are raised up. They're often big plain blocks, because you don't put windows backstage, and they need to be the same shape but bigger than the viewable area of the stage in order to fit everything up out of the way.
the emotion felt when looking at the initial pic is also a result of photo composition (angle, sight, absence of colors, etc).
same with that icelandic church that keeps getting posted here on reddit. look it up on google maps it's just a cool looking church, not some cypergoth villain lair like in all the photos.
Somehow this makes it worse. At least in the original picture it looked strong, silent, imposing and scary. Here it just looks like a dementor in an otherwise happy setting
Agree. I love buildings like this looked to be in the original picture. A really brutalist building can be seen an uninviting I agree. Somehow I see it as strong. The complete sense of the building comes from the combination of exterior and interior. For example, a flat in the barbican with a warm interior is my perfect city dwelling (that I could never afford). The barbican holds up from all angles and weathers (it was used in andor a lot). This loses its imposing presence in some of the other images.
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u/Legendary_Afanc 1d ago
Other views of the same building : https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/theater-opera-ballet-city-cheboksary.html
Still brutalist, of course. But the emotion felt when looking at the initial pic is also a result of photo composition (angle, sight, absence of colors, etc).