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A common misconception

1d 16h ago by lemmy.ml/u/yogthos in funny@lemmy.ml from lemmy.ml

We should paint them like this

I would not be against it

I would never refuse to be in favor of it.

Far be it from me to raise my voice in protest whene'er it may come this way

after they have evolved into junkyard rubble

in case there's anybody out of the loop: the tweet is making fun of a discovery made around 2010 related to the ancient greek statues, which do no longer show their colours and seem white although they used to be painted

irl in context, when you're actually on the Southbank. it's really not that bad.

Specifically the national theatre which is my favourite. Also bits of the southbank are painted.

historically accurate "no green even though they had blue and yellow" color palatte

Let’s not do this to any buildings that weren’t designed for it.

And, let’s design some for it.

Don't @ me I like brutalism, especially in the middle of the day when the sun's the brightest. A nice rest for the eyes in a city of flashy reflective shit.

I like the bottom one better…

government started painting the largest brutalist building in my city, a public museum. the architects, historians and the like living in nearby where like "wtf you doing?" it was order to stop and sandblast

Where is the other post like this about the other painted brutalist architecture? I can't find it.

Here you go

https://lemmy.world/post/46314480

Thank you, kind stranger

Brutalism is cool. I especially like "functional" brutalism like how a lot of Telephone Switching offices were built in the brutalist style during the Cold War to be resistant to nuclear explosions. Efficacy of surviving a nuclear blast aside, it did make them resistant severe weather events which is certainly a quality I'd want for my critical infrastructure.

I'd also be all for carving bas-reliefs on the walls of brutalist buildings and other hardy art decorations.

Everything looks better in color.

grayscale doesn’t

Agree, unless it's in color.

That does sound colorful.