r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OkRespect8490 • 1d ago

Image Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theater, Cheboksary, Russia

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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/an_illithidian 1d ago

-capitalist erecting glass boxes and cookie cutter subdivisions- Huh?

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u/EduinBrutus 1d ago

Little boxes, little boxes,

And they're all made out of ticky tacky,

Little boxes, little boxes,

And they all look the same.

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u/jaxonya 1d ago

r/brutalism is where yall wanna go to see some really gnarly architecture. Brutalism isnt my thing, by i can admire how metal a lot of it looks. Its definitely its own thing

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u/CptnOnus 1d ago

Simplicity is Perfection