Commie block renovated in a colourful way in Bucharest, Romania

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  1. Commies ransacked historical architecture in Romania to a breathtaking extent

    There’s a Wikipedia article about it. There is even a special term for it, because the destruction was that elaborate and total

  2. I don’t really like it. That’d be too much colour accent even for a smaller building. The owners of the building are probably just tired of plain modernistic facades neglected for decades, so they went a bit over the top with colours.

  3. A good friend of mine once said ‘you can put a BMW Sticker on a Lada, still the car won’t drive like one’

  4. But was it improved on the inside as well? Making a building look nicer doesn’t in itself improve the lives of the people who have to live there. Just ask the people who lived in Grenfell

  5. I really preferred it as it was before the new colour scheme. [Here is a side by side comparison of ‘before’ and ‘after’.](https://imgur.com/a/VnZiMTO) Thanks to u/MonitorMendicant for posting the ‘before’ image.

    Romania is such a beautiful country with many really lovely buildings. I hope this doesn’t start a trend.

  6. Some people might hate them, but all those colors are a middle finger to how the commie blocks used to look like.

    Edit: I forgot to say that in a good way.

  7. Frankly the world could use more commieblocks, in the economic sense. If there is one area where the free market has failed spectacularly, it is housing.

  8. I’m all for renovating commieblocks, but this just looks tasteless and disguisting.

    Just slaping some color on naked concrete is a bad idea, as it will degrade really fast due to rain, snow and fumes from passing cars.

  9. It’s certainly festive. I’ve been throughout East Europe and the blocks are truly grey, cavernous and depressing. When I saw the comedy ‘Eurotrip’ I had to bust out laughing when they arrived there, especially since there was a dog outside a complex with a human hand in its mouth. Yes, I still laugh at that!

  10. See, this is what I warned you about! The globohomo gangbang has already taken over Romania! We must stop these leftist liberals from destroying our culture with LGBT propaganda!

    /s

  11. I think its ugly. Those colors are not pleasant. Like theres no rhyme or reason. Just a bunch of random colors. Not particularly good shades either.

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