On: Brutalist Design Is the Bad Influence We All Need

[azernik]

There were a whole bunch of such buildings on the UC Berkeley campus, and one was allowed to be covered with vines like that - absolutely gorgeous.

[saltcured → azernik]

I think there is something aesthetically pure about those big concrete monoliths in a setting like Berkeley, or further north, where you can seem them in dense fog and smell fir trees at the same time. They start to remind you of tall cliffs and cave dwellings, rather than childrens' toys strewn on carpet.

[azernik → saltcured]

Or another way of putting it - it gets you an aesethetic balance between nature and this austere artificiality.