Architecture and urban planning

Architecture is visual so I will put it in here... What is your favourite architecture style? Mine is still modernism. About urban planning... The city where i live in is really separated into 3 eras. The pre WW2 era, the socialist era and the capitalist era of urban planning. The city core which was built in the pre socialist era is really packed. Tight small streets. Packed buildings. There are no high rising buildings, and where there are some, those stick out like a sore thumb. Also the streets are usually bland, all points of interest and parks are usually centered around a few hotspots. And at points it seems like there was no urban planning going on at all. The second layer around the city core is dominated by socialist urban planning. And however much i dislike/like socialism, I think this is the coziest one of the three. This is the part where skyscrapers and high rise residential buildingst start to appear. However, instead of it feeling packed, the urban planners made a point of surrounding each building with a layer of greenery. Like here just outside my apartment building I have 3 public parks in the radius of 50 meters around me. Also, each bloc has an obvious industrial area and an obvious but thinly spread social activity area. Or rather every second apartment building has a coffee shop in it's first floor. And a private residential area, which because it was private, it was obviously more tightly built with houses, but it still benefits from it's more well planned surrounding area. Each bloc has it's own kindergarden and elementary school or two. Each neighborhood has it's own high school. Everything is sort of evenly spread out, and with a bit of looking around you can very clearly see the intentions of the urban planner. The latest part is the third layer, the outer capitalist layer of urban planning in the city. It is again getting tight, while now they do provide some minimum of greenery between the buildings, they do it more to just fulfill a minimum of regulations and are instead trying to squeeze out every last inch of space. The whole thing is still not as chaotic as the city core, it is also does not feel like it was planned out with a grand master plan. And although points of interest are not as centralised as in the city core, there is a reappearance of hotspots. meaning youhave to walk a 500-1000 meters to your nearest park, coffee shop, random point of interest, instead of having one just across the street, And when you get there there is usually a dosen of them. How do your cities look alike?

it's hard to choose just one style...maybe Art Deco? but then again, I think you can create beautiful work in any style that may also have works that I don't like

>>473 I love apartment buildings, probably cause I grew up in them. Yes, even (and especially) commieblocks, though I'll try not to post those

>>474 Just realized you can (still) post multiple images (it's less obvious)

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The core of my city has a lot of late 19th/early 20th century buildings, mainly brick/big stone, from when it was a port in the British Empire. that heritage later lent itself to a lot of public buildings (it's a provincial capital), but unfortunately not all (see: mid/late 20th century [and beyond] public buildings in North America) curiously, there's very few high-rises, despite being city (in metro terms) of over 300k there's lots of nice detached homes, from Victorian to Spanish villa styles, and all sorts of comfy but not boring ones oh, and of course, the trees. especially the Garry oaks and arbutuses. greenery really livens up any urban space, and I love when it becomes a part of the architecture

L. to R. >Ryugyong Hotel, Pyongyang, DPRK North Korea's finest, most uncanny hotel (though it's much less dystopian with the glass panels). Construction began in 1987 and it STILL hasn't fully opened for guests. 105 stories, with 5 revolving restaurants planned for that top section. >CCTV Headquarters, Beijing, PRC The HQ of China's state television, finished in 2012. A nice example of China's embrace of (post?)modern, futuristic arch. >Les Choux de Créteil, in a southeast suburb of Paris, France A group of apartment buildings built in the 1970s. Those rounded blobs are balconies. Modernist communal living without the overbearing blockiness.

>>477 >not many high rises in the old part of town The same can be said about my city. It's 700k ciziens and the core was built in the 19th century or earlier. Very few if any high rises. The high rises begin in what is essentially the socialist layer. Back then the city boomed due to mass industrialization and urbanization.

I very much adore Constructivist and Futurist architecture. The catch is, since these two styles were present in the early XX century, the execution was often very different from what was originally planned on paper, especially with Constructivism. I would certainly like to see these two styles revived with the usage of modern technology, materials and proper adherence to the original plan. First picture is an example of Futurism by Antonia Sant'Elia. Second is an example of Constructivism by Lakov. And the third picture is a photograph of James R. Thompson Center, architecture of which was highly influenced by Futurist architecture.

I can't stop laughing when I see this building in my city. Just a tower built in between 1996 and 1999, property of a Spanish telecommunications provider. It's a fuarrrking old phone... dude.

>>797 fuarrrk you weon, the fuarrrking phone is great.

>>797 I like it

>>797 what is your problem conchatumadre, the phone is the best caca build in that country

>>796 Really love this kind of architecture and art as well. Would like to mention Yakov Chernikhov as one of my personal favorites.