Original question by @[email protected]

I think art deco is one of my favorites. It still has a clean, modern look that ages surprisingly well, even a century later.

  • countrypunk@slrpnk.net
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    9 days ago

    Frutiger Aero. This is what the future should have looked like. It’s a beautiful balance between nature and technology. I love the glossy, transpartent, rounded nature of it all. The colors are bright and fresh but relaxing at the same time.

    I’m also a big fan of mid century modern. It does a good job at incorporating a natural look. On the outside, the buildings are usually low profile and blend into the landscape well. On the inside, there’s a lot of nice, quality natural materials like wood and stone that are used throughout.

    • countrypunk@slrpnk.net
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      9 days ago

      More Frutiger Aero photos because I can’t stop thinking about how beautiful it is:

      One thing about it is that it ain’t the most homely of aesthetics and architectures. It’s almost always in the context of a workplace, airport, shopping center, etc. In an ideal world I’d live in a mid century modern house and work in a frutiger aero workplace.

      • countrypunk@slrpnk.net
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        9 days ago

        Yeah, one thing that I’m not a fan of with some of the pictures that I selected is all the white. I like it better when there’s other colors and white is just the accent.

    • Stovetop@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Looks like brutalism to me. Not sure if there might be some more specific subcategory I’m not familiar with, but generally anything using big geometric slabs of concrete is brutalist.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      That’s where I had my senior <whatever non-denominational church thing right before you graduate> ! Stunning, inside and out. Much pink!

      Google says: Baccalaureate service. ? Sure doesn’t sound right to me.

  • andrewta@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Not sure what it’s called but I’d like to see buildings looking like this again

    This is the Library of Congress in Washington DC

    • SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Neoclassical, palladian, renaissance. The majour difference from similar archictectural styles is the geometric perfection of the spaces and the lack of irregular features. Opposite of that, baroque is all about overdecorating things and having irregular features, like a non spherical ‘barrueco’ pearl. Hence the name.

  • wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io
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    9 days ago

    Utilitarian - Row houses and small single family starter homes.

    Detached single family housing is suffocating this country and the environment. I’d rather leave the woods to nature and nature walks, not streets and houses.

    In addition to that, utopian architecture, like arcologies.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    And the Art Deco crowd wins the poll!

    Had cousins whose entire home, bar the sun room, was Art Deco. Not just the furniture and paintings, even the magazines and lighters and ash trays. Quite a collection!

  • SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Brutalism always fascinated me, i tried to model some building in 3d modeling tools in this style, churches public squares you name it. These huge, empty and vast monuments to the industrial nature of a building are like monolyths in a city. They claim their existance and you can’t ignore them.

  • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    Beaux-Arts, I just think it’s beautiful and intricate. I’m also a fan of Frutiger Aero and Googie mentioned already, which seems contradictory. Is there an architecture style that somehow combines Beaux-Arts with either one of those?

  • mhague@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Roman revival… most anything with arches, pillars, ashlar, obvious lentils, a strong sturdy feel.

    But also high tech / structural expressionism.

    (Uniklinikum Aachen, Germany)