khaldoon
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khaldoon
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Slowly but surely, construction is beginning.
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Tim MacDonald
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Visible progress from last update.
Pinski
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That’s one hell of a pit
drum118
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All 3 holes were this deep, but this one has a smaller base.
khaldoon
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Divas S.
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capitalism ☹
ciceror
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Imperialism had the best architecture
communism is just concrete Stalinist rental apartments
early capitalism - in New York and Chicago also had great architecture
someMidTowner
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Nope, just not even remotely accurate or fair of a statement to make.
There were a variety of styles behind the iron curtain, and reducing the entire architectural legacy of most of a continent through the 20th century to "commie blocks" is just plain wrong.
Stalinist architecture - Wikipedia
Ceausescu’s Architectural Apocalypse - FPIF
Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s “urban renewal” ripped the heart out of Bucharest .
fpif.org
The 13 most bizarre Soviet-era buildings that are still standing today
A selection of some of the most bizarre buildings to survive the fall of the Soviet Union in countries like Croatia, Georgia, and Bulgaria.
www.businessinsider.com
ciceror
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These are buildings that were made to be landmarksNope, just not even remotely accurate or fair of a statement to make.
There were a variety of styles behind the iron curtain, and reducing the entire architectural legacy of most of a continent through the 20th century to "commie blocks" is just plain wrong.
Stalinist architecture - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Ceausescu’s Architectural Apocalypse - FPIF
Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s “urban renewal” ripped the heart out of Bucharest .
The 13 most bizarre Soviet-era buildings that are still standing today
A selection of some of the most bizarre buildings to survive the fall of the Soviet Union in countries like Croatia, Georgia, and Bulgaria.
this discussion is about these residential buildings - which were the pinnacle of ugliness in Soviet times
Divas S.
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are we just going to ignore the hundreds of concrete apartment blocks around our own city..? It was more of a worldwide architectural trend at the time than anything else
someMidTowner
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You said nothing about residential buildings until this post. You just made a blanket statement that was not true.