Architecture

Much of the brutalist Tallinn stuff came from it being the venue for sailing events in the 1980 Olympics.

My favourite building there was the TV tower (also put up to transmit Olympic events) which I was fortunate enough to see before it was refurbished and Westernised in 2007-12.

Proper old school Soviet interiors and artwork originally.

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I was already in love with this design, then I spotted the Prince ‘Parade’ Album…time to relocate.

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Sub optimal storage, leaning over in direct sunlight in a hot climate. Bet there’s a lot of warped vinyl in that stash.

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Waiting for the lack of horns to be mentioned.

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:scream_cat:

Should possibly be in the Estate Agents thread.

Or cockpunch.

Man, £1.15m on a leasehold. Batshit.

In the process of unfucking my parents’ financial wankery, I was rather surprised to find that for the maisonette that they built with a friend, they have sold the freehold to the owners for a token amount.

This denying me the smug self satisfied feeling of doing exactly that.

It’s more that it’s an ex-local-authority three bedroom flat on the 19th floor.

It’s architecturally interesting. Important, even. But a million quid?

FWIW there are 88 years left on the lease. So I think you also have a point - that’s moving towards being a problem as well.

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I have a walking guide to Thamesmead by Owen Hatherley. I guess I ought to get my skates on if they’re about to start chewing the place up.

I’d recommend basically anything that Hatherley has written, although if your politics aren’t somewhere to the left of Marx you may feel your blood pressure rising :laughing:

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First a Nazi bunker, then soviet POW jail, then techno club of some fame and finally a modern art museum. Not many buildings of this age left in this part of Berlin, its reinforced concrete structure helped!

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Some war wounds, wondered how many soviet soldiers died on these streets.

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When they say “major book Space, Hope and Brutalism” they’re really not kidding - it’s not something you’d want to drop on your toes.

That’s something I found fascinating and sobering once you start to notice just how much damage there is to be found off the main routes.

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Surely it’s either 1950s or modern🤔 with zero insulation and huge windows it will be a nightmare to heat

I think I could live in here, if relocated to North London.

https://c20society.org.uk/news/listing-for-lincolnshires-mickling-barf-house

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They probably mean and should have said modernist.

Everything post 1880 is modern to you :rofl:

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Not quite sure how you would insulate it without destroying the original system build aesthetic.

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