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Moscow can be terrifying
It just keeps going and going...
Feb 9, 2020 3:39 AM
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It just keeps going and going...
hectomet
Here on your left, you can observe "Outside of Matrix"
borkaborkasson
Some say he is still driving and filming that building.
Serkus
Each block is a troll farm for a different subject.
casbott
FaustsAccountant
The HOA meetings must be hell
docneel
This is still better than what they had during the Soviet times.paper thin walls, no heating terrible
Petrolholic
Damn commies
katuk20
Russia’s main urbanist Varoamov hates this type of construction, mnogoetazhka (sing.) He says it creates ghettos. This one is especially big
zenoshogun
ProxyPlayerHD
what is terrifying about that? just looks fucking awesome
KristanDL
It's fucking human hive! And you get neighbors of million sorts of mentalities, from quiet to one that piss in the elevator. /1
KristanDL
Party and stomp above your head in the middle of night. Also parking there is nightmare. I live in smaller kind and I despise it.
jamojacko
What’s the betting they’re 30% occupied and less than half of those have working utilities but hey someone got paid
Noraneko
too true :<
thatsnotaknife
Holy fucking hell
blackzver
Fuck this place! - Pizza guy
EricPisch
Just a standard citizen voting education centre
seentoomuchdeath
Ah, Trump tower. Finally got one did he?
Eddyrock
That’s one big building
nastynate666
For you!
TimmyDans
For Us.
ililililililililililililili
Efficient!
KidCurry3005
Definitely not in the Public Health perspective. That many people in that closed space is bound to lead to some disease or illness.
AzgarOgly
You haven't seen Moscow subway at rush hour. This beehive is a safe sanctuary compared to public transit.
FurtiveGlancer
Because terrible winter's, that's why...
UWAGAGABLAGABLAGABA
Terrible winter's what?
fibbertitgibbet
Efficient to heat, large buildings are.
AzgarOgly
Because land is expensive, living rooms at shortage and building companies have awful lot of money.
depressedByte
Looks someone allready said they were post socialism buildings. I stand corrected.
depressedByte
I don't know man. These look like socialist era buildings. During the industrialisation, they made humongous buildings like those to /1
AzgarOgly
Socialist era buildings where typically up to 16 stores high. 25 at dawn of Perestroika. This one is more than 30.
AzgarOgly
Little googling said ЖК «Дом на Беговой» — Хорошевское шоссе, 12с1 was built in 2011.
depressedByte
Create whole blocks, with all the stores you could need.Primary kindergartens, primary schools.You basically didn't have to leave the block.
depressedByte
Source, my father grew up in one of them.
alcaray
"...twisty little passages, all the same..."
IFkWthmysckson
Nothing sais your special like the architectural embodiment of dread.
Guessmyusername
Fucking Judge Dredd, that shits a mega city
TwoFlower68
Compared to cookie cutter US suburbs, the chance of you being on a first name basis is better in a high-rise
TwoFlower68
You'll certainly know their first names by hearing it through the walls whenever they're fighting lol
XenoHorse
You assume other countries build paper thin walls like in the US. :P
TwoFlower68
I live in Holland and early in the morning, when it's quiet outside, I can hear what my neighbours say.
TwoFlower68
Granted, they have loud voices and these houses were built in a hurry, just after the war and with reclaimed bricks, but still
XenoHorse
:O
LullabyJones
I cannot conceive of a building that larger
prodmerc
Look up New York? Or Dubai?
longleggedbeastie
Or HK
LullabyJones
*large
SupposablyPersnickity
Would need google maps to find your apartment...
Onlymadethistocommentoneday
Jokes on them, I need Google maps already!!!
LjubljanaJeNajlepseMestoNaSvetu
They use Yandex
Manwathiel
There's a very lovely Russian film whose premise is based on nearly this very thing.
SupposablyPersnickity
What’s it called?
ididmyparttoo
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Manwathiel
...pation. (The Irony of Fate.)
whatyoushouldnotdo
Which mega city is this?
SometimesIKnowStuff
Based entirely on what I saw in the gif and not at all from what I read in the title I'd guess it is London.
WhyWouldIUseMyRealNick
Are there a lot of Russian flags in London?
FifthPint
There is 0% chance of getting a planning permission for something quite this flippin enormous in London.
prodmerc
You'd have to spend like, a trillion pounds just for the land :D
ChloeRed
Plus all the traffic is driving on the right.
ChloeRed
With traffic driving on the right? Doubt that.
SometimesIKnowStuff
I mean, it says Moscow in the title so my answer was more of a slap in the face to the person who asked which mega city this was from.
immortalpusser92
It says Moscow in the title you twat.
ChloeRed
Yes, that's why I was saying "doubt it" to the person guessing it's London. Do you always reply to the comment after the one you wanted?
immortalpusser92
Oh, my bad. That was meant for old mate “whAT MEga CITY IS tHIS”
Krashtestdummy
littlebluepetal
jonhamsandwich11
Well played
Kialna
Looking on google maps, it doesn't seem /that/ inconceivably big? https://goo.gl/maps/qfLGeSQb2fJa3Ykq7
AzgarOgly
Well, it is 250+ meters long. That is quite impressive.
hotdoginathermos
Hey! They've got a Planeta Zdorovya!
xBufferzz
https://goo.gl/maps/vh9sn8uPiQxbKvs28
EvilDeadTed
Yeah, seeing it in a narrow window just makes it look larger than it is. I've seen hospitals that big.
DeKetsendeRechter
That and it's probably slowed down a little.
jeeeps
What’s the name of this building?
craycray606
It’s called a komunalka
jeeeps
Apartment on Khoroshevskoye Shosse. There’s rooms on airbnb for $250/night
jeeeps
*apartments
LjubljanaJeNajlepseMestoNaSvetu
Housing block no. Something
ZeroDucksToGive
Moscow
ThisUserNameReallySucks
Gifs that end wayyy to soon
atarujun
But I'm liking the odds of meeting someone cute in the laundry room.
kittybuttwiggle
Typically in these eastern european prefabs every unit has its own washing machine, so that cutie would be you or someone you live with
ZeroDucksToGive
Not if I randomly do my laundry in someone else’s apartment
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
You mean they won already before even starting? Awwwww, so sweet.
Izograf
Russians have their own washing machine in every apartment
EvilDeadTed
America needs more of this.
KristanDL
They tried. Turned to ghetto. Got demolished.
seenweirdthings
Monotonous buildings?
findyourbliss
It’s like a hive.
literallyahuman
That poor pizza delivery guy
Knowyourcats
No pizza delivery guy ever came up in my building, always rang and I had to go downstairs to retrieve it
hotdudecurator
Mine either until I moved somewhere that had an elevator. All of a sudden they were willing to bring it to my door haha
AzgarOgly
The outer door is locked and pizza guy does not have a code.
hotdudecurator
Mine was like that too, but could press my apartment number and my phone would ring and I could press 9 to open the door
hotdudecurator
That apartment complex is like a city. I mean, they should just have their own restaurant with pizza delivery!
everettrues
at least they are building housing. California needs more housing
packardcaribien
It's hardly that companies are unwilling to fulfill demand for new housing. It's the government stopping them.
ReadaNewBook
Isn’t the problem the rent? Not that there aren’t enough homes? I remember reading that there are more empty homes in america than homeless
TwoFlower68
But those are socialist houses! Socialist!
access
Not at all. While they're typical apartment blocks, they're built as standard for people to buy. Almost always you buy a bare brick shell.
access
It's then upto the owner to lay floor, render walls, install lighting and toilet, door ways etc. It's desired that way.
Eleshar24
They ain't building shit. This was built in the soviet era.
AzgarOgly
No, it was not. Monsters like that are built now, not then.
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pleaseconsiderthatImightbejoking
LA has laws specifically to prevent the construction of high density buildings.
pleaseconsiderthatImightbejoking
LA has laws specifically to prevent the construction of high density buildings.
RustyLongshanks
Soviet architecture has a way of being both incredibly bland and brutally intimidating
TheAziz
It's called brutalism after all
Eleshar24
It is socialist realism. Has nothing to with brutalism.
WhatsYourStoryHomie
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Serenitis
Brutalism comes from the French "béton brut". It literally means bare concrete.
MyRespectableAlterEgo
I didn’t know this and it’s my favourite style of architecture. Thank you for the knowings +1
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
And that architecture is not brutalist, btw. Brutal, sure, but not brutalist.
Serenitis
This. Also, Brutalism owns.
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
Fuck yeah! What is this building? I've never seen it.
TheObviouiator55
Brutalism in a nutshell
LjubljanaJeNajlepseMestoNaSvetu
This was built in the 2000s
pennywise1540b6
Same soviet phylosofy? Public home departments?
LjubljanaJeNajlepseMestoNaSvetu
Wtong. This was built by private capital for profit.
pennywise1540b6
China? Do you know the place? Is it safe (build by the norms of safe construction)?
LjubljanaJeNajlepseMestoNaSvetu
This is in Russia.