@frickhaditcoming photo on the left is of the conservatory in the barbican performing arts centre in London.
Photo on the right is a building in Barcelona
@carbontwelve @GreenandBlack I like brutalism and gardens.
@GreenandBlack ppl often act all scared when they see images like this
or at least nihilistic but
idk to me it seems like a nicer place to live we should have plants everywherepls
@Mooncake cities shouldn't be built solely for humans, they should be built to fit all life that inhabits it
@GreenandBlack @Sylvhem Yeeeeeeessssss. I love this aesthetic. Ground cover spilling over the top of a concrete wall is 😙👌.
@benhamill @GreenandBlack @Sylvhem Seriously this is positively heavenly.
@MmeLibertine @benhamill @GreenandBlack That's my favorite kind of building too ^^. But I wonder how much it is convenient to maintain.
@Sylvhem @MmeLibertine @GreenandBlack Yeah. Plants tear things down over time. Especially concrete, which is sorta like very weak rock, so plants have a lot of practice breaking things like it. Ideally, you put a lattice work or cladding between the plants and concrete to preserve the structure.
@benhamill And you also have to take into consideration the quantity of water it will consume.
@Sylvhem @benhamill @GreenandBlack I feel like I didn't think about this enough, cos my first thought was "so many places for spiders to hide."
@GreenandBlack last aesthetic of humanity
@GreenandBlack can't wait for that future
@GreenandBlack is this solarpunk
@GreenandBlack I dream of a future that looks exactly like this
@starwall @GreenandBlack In the long run everything has to be recyclable and so in the deep future technology and biology converge.
@GreenandBlack this is how brutalism is supposed to work. The building is a blank canvas.
@GreenandBlack my only acceptable form of brutalism. This is one I spotted at UCSD
@GreenandBlack this shit is my aesthetic tbh
@GreenandBlack at last, brutalism makes sense
@GreenandBlack Plantalism.
See also: trans-plantalism.
@dredmorbius @GreenandBlack Rootalism! (I’m so sorry.)
@GreenandBlack I think I'm in love! 🤩
@GreenandBlack The building where I work is heavily brutalist-inspired. A terrasse was restored recently, with concrete tables, wooden benches, and a lot of bamboo pots, it is a surprisingly working aesthetic.
@GreenandBlack swear i saw this area in Nier Automata :o
@GreenandBlack yes excellent
@GreenandBlack There's a brutalist office building-turned-hotel near my workplace that tried to jazz things up by adding color and banners during the conversion, but this is so much better!
@GreenandBlack I should've said "tried to spruce things up."
@GreenandBlack
Such an oximoronic statement and yet they go so good
@GreenandBlack I broke into that conservatory once by mistake.
@kawaiipunk
There's a story there, I'm sure...
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@GreenandBlack i love this so much but i believe they must utilise native plants rather than just very pretty ones (not that natives cannot be very pretty, just that humans have a knack for preferring non-native plants) for it to truly benefit everyone
that said, the tropical plants are absolutely gorgeous
@GreenandBlack This is exactly what Sao Paulo gets right about brutalism, and exactly what London (mostly) gets wrong about it.
@GreenandBlack we've achieved self sustainable utopian eco anarchism!
@GreenandBlack this but with native species for the environment the building is in and I am 9001% on board.
@GreenandBlack what is/was that?