What do you think about the present trends in architecture and urbanism? (Examples from ongoing or recently finished projects in Prague)

by GPwat

25 comments

  1. Many of them are very generic, they could be in any city in the western world.

  2. It’s looking nice, but very similar to any new building project. it’s lack a bit of local architecture design and ornamentation.

  3. I like them.

    Wouldn’t you want to live in one of those buildings? I heard anti-imperialists prefer to live in their own palaces, but only their supreme leaders can afford it.

  4. I hate it. It’s cold, thoughtless, careless. I prefer organic structures that fit in with their surroundings rather than these boxes of concrete, steel, and glass, that stand out like a sore thumb.

  5. Just like everywhere else. Generic cheap shit north west european … mix of German, Danish, Dutch… provincial and probably low quality. Not going to lie.

  6. JFC we just want universal healthcare, affordable housing and accessible education and not worry about if the buildings are bendy or straighty

  7. insipid globalist slop, just like everywhere else

  9. This cubist phase will one day be in the past. That’s what I hope.

  10. Contemporary architecture style, it’s everywhere in Europe.
    I think it does look nice, but I don’t know how it will hold up for the test of time.

  11. Extremely ugly and surprisingly hard to maintain. I miss the 18-19th century architecture

  12. It’s sad that actual architecture and urbanism trends do not take into account the local architecture styles. Europe has a rich and diverse history of architecture, I wish current architects would make less cubic blocks and more modern versions of past architectures (like picture 8).

    Of course innovation is important and I hope it would be less rare and exceptional.

  13. Shrug. If you hadn’t said Prague, I would have guessed it’s the new neighbourhood they are planning here around the corner in north Finland.
    It is all so generic.

    At least they seemed to have allowed for some breathing space around the buildings. Here new developments are build on tiny lots. You look straight into eachothers tiny little houses. Squeeze as much buildings as you can into as little space possible. So depressing and claustrophobic.

  14. I really despice the trend for fake bricks glued onto the facade. It’s popping up everywhere in the city I’m living now and it looks tacky and ugly af. I think it should convey value….but meh.

  17. Big fan of green, walkable spaces. Architecturally pretty boring, but I don’t really care too much how a house looks vs how pleasant it is to live in.

  18. I hate it. Its sterile, ugly and becomes decrepit very fast.

  19. I like it. Now if only those apartments were affordable for normal people and wouldn’t be bought instantly by vulture investors

  20. Very generic and gentrified but there is an attempt to introduce nature and walkability even if the nature is sparce and the walkable area is just concrete sprawl.

    Hopefully we can get good density housing that’s got actual personality, historical roots, and colour instead of whitewashed and minimalist modernism as it feels just like a modernist approach to the 90s brutalism approach both that its cheap and simplistic to mass produce. I also hope the nature integration and walkability improves with a focus on regionally specific biodiversity and animal/insect life and actual nice looking walkable areas that aren’t just sparce concrete squares or lanes but filled with shopping, cafes, and interactive activities etc.

    Places to live have simply become isolated dwelling and the interim between residence and work has been neglected and cut through by car centric infrastructure which is damaging not just to the environment but also to human interaction.

    What’s the short, mid, and long range public transport like? Trams, buses, high speed rail?

    I wonder what the parks and nature areas look like? Are they close by?

  21. make skyscraper in Fachwerkhaus style. fuck modern architecture (especially brutalism) I’m so glad to live in a town with mostly houses that are older than 200 years.

    what is so bad about this?: [random pic](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.fotocommunity.com%2Ffachwerkhaeuser-d80f98fe-0baa-46e4-badb-289e4e1423e0.jpg%3Fheight%3D1080&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=833308e0f8394e18b37654022b92cdd265c9e7420753ddbc7728a1ce9ef5a0cd&ipo=images)

    all the wood used is stored co2 so it’s good for the environment, survives multiple generations and looks better + you can paint your house in fun ways.

  24. I like the attention that some of these try to have for green spaces, but they all look the same everywhere you go. You can’t tell if it’s southern, central, Western Europe, Scandinavia etc etc

  25. These neighbourhoods tend to look the exact same through Europe. These photos could just as well be from some new neighbourhoods of Helsinki.

    I kind of a faint praise I can give is, they look a lot better than the 1960s/70s concrete blocks.

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