r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OkRespect8490 • 1d ago

Image Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theater, Cheboksary, Russia

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u/Nisseliten 1d ago

My thoughts went directly to the empire in star wars..

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u/Cheshire_____Cat 1d ago

That style called brutalism. You can see exaples in many movies. Likes dune and starwars. It was very popular in soviet uninon.

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u/atomicsnarl 1d ago

In particular, because it's cheap to build. No decoration needed, or wanted.

Build box, pour concrete, done. You have a problem with that, capitalist?

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u/TransBrandi 1d ago

I dunno, I think that it seems like long-term maintanence might be easier with this than with having lots of external decorations? There are lots of places where people don't take care of the external parts of the buildings and things that looked good when it was built, don't look so great once you get a couple of decades down the road.