Praha suburbs

[PSC 0]

I've stumbled across these images of suburbs of Praha:

Suburb gallery

I find these images very aeathetical, but also very depressing and desolate. They cause some kind of end-time mood in me.

I hope that I never have to live in such an area...

[PSC 0]

This one looks quite nice as well:

[theavonlady 2]

These should be in the real life photo thread, IMO.

Are these all Soviet era buildings?

[Placebo 29]

Real life photography thread is for pics taken by the people that post them, not sure how much of a lifespan a thread such as this has but I'll leave it for now.

[WhoCares 0]

These are typical examples of the mostly east european, as we in Germany call it, "Plattenbau" style of the seventies.

Edit: Link to some pictures of such buildings in Berlin/Germany.

[PSC 0]

Are these all Soviet era buildings?

I guess they are. In the description of the gallery it says ''collection of communist architecture''.

I'd really like to see a comparison of different buildings of this type from all countries around the world to see the differences. USA, Russia, China, Japan, W-Europe, Israel, etc. You know what I mean. Of course they would have to be of the same time period.

[cozza 24]

Third Pic, First post- Never seen anything like that To me. Those building look like Goverment housing the Govermant makes when over population. There some in Melbourne but not that many,

[theavonlady 2]

Third Pic, First post- Never seen anything like that To me. Those building look like Goverment housing the Govermant makes when over population.

Looks like Petrovice.

[BraTTy 0]

Wow thats big city compared to where I live,we don't even have one street with buildings that large ! Nice pics

[cozza 24]

Third Pic, First post- Never seen anything like that To me. Those building look like Goverment housing the Govermant makes when over population.

Looks like Petrovice.

Not even Nogova would have that many people in it Anyway. More house than were I live. I'm the only house where I live. My closet naibeher is 5 k away.

[theavonlady 2]

Not even Nogova would have that many people in it

Of course not! It would lag.

[llauma 0]

Those are typical buildings built in the 70's that you can propably find in all of europe. In sweden lots of those were built so everyone could get an apartment.

We call those places "betong jungles" in sweden

[cozza 24]

Not even Nogova would have that many people in it

Of course not! It would lag.

LOL

[Postduifje 0]

They look kinda similar of some pics I shot last summer when I visited Bratislava;

pic 1 | pic 2

[ozanzac 0]

For the first picture, I'm not sure of which will/has age(d) worse. The western art peice or the eastern bloc buildings.

Very contrasting designs and architecture. IMO, Neither appealing on their own or in the company of the other.

Mind you, slap on a coat of modern paint onto the drab concrete buildings, and a do some rendering over the old/depressing/boring bricks and the mood and feel (as well as Property Values) of the entire neighbourhood would instantly change for the better.

How much would one of these buildings cost to buy, and how much for say, an entire complex of buildings. I see these things as a developers goldmine.

[SpongeBob 0]

Why do these shit head vandals spend money painting some cryptic message on the walls when that whole apartment block could use some paint.

[Gollum1 0]

Why do these shit head vandals spend money painting some cryptic message on the walls when that whole apartment block could use some paint.

What would be the point in that? They're doing it to be rebellious "shit head vandals", aren't they?

[cozza 24]

Graffiti cool. If u go around the high school were i am u'll se Batdog graff (and also alot of Sam C is gay ) people pay money for "artist" to graff up a wall of a buisness to make it look rebeloiis

Thats ya history today    

[Edge 2]

I just would like to give some more info on the Czech (and Slovak) "concrete jungles", for I spent 21 years in a building like that.

The first buildings of this type were built in late 1970s, but their construction continued until "Velvet Revolution" in 1989. There is onyl one basic type of the construction used, I have seen only small differences in details (cellar windows, doors etc., based on local manufacturer) as I visited various parts of the country.

There were variants built according to storeys - standard 8-storey building, 10-12 storeys (called "tower") or 4 (called "candy"). Socialistic urbanists used these variants and a bit of concrete and asphalt to completely ruin the landscape around big cities, creating whole city parts composed just of these buildings. These parts are quite big, housing usually 10000-100000 inhabitants (depends on size of city).

Apart from looking ugly, the buildings were badly built, but for many people it was only chance to live in their own flat. The system distributed flats among organisations, which offered them to potential employees. This was the way my parents got their flat back in 1980, they had to move to the city in which employer was able to give them one.

Today, this is cheapest way to live relatively comfortably (central heating, water) and it becomes popular among younger people to have one- or two-room appartment in such building.

Generally said, I became wery happy when we moved from our 3-room appartement in the "rabbit-shed" to a small house. I am sorry if I bored somebody, but it is hard to forget...

[cozza 24]

isnt there only one elevator and no stairs in those buildings

[Apollo 0]

Quote[/b] ]How much would one of these buildings cost to buy, and how much for say, an entire complex of buildings. I see these things as a developers goldmine.

To late boy! you should have invested in real estate in tsjechia or poland ,near the German border ,before they came into the EU. Now much of the ground on that borders is being bought by Germans who wanna live in cheap Poland/Tsjechia where they get 20X more land for the same money.

[Postduifje 0]

I am sorry if I bored somebody, but it is hard to forget...  

Not at all, it was a nice read

I know these buildings are plain ugly, but still they have something that interests me (that is, to look at, not to live in )

[Gadger 0]

Pretty much the same thing here in north Manchester , albeit the other side of Europe:

road where i used to live:

there used to be 12 of these tower blocks and an additional 34 set of massionette blocks, but only a few of each remain now

[raedor 8]

...and somewhere there you'll find BIS

but they moved now to praha center, near the radschin

[cozza 24]

BIS worked in a run down aparment.......Kool work space. I work in a fish and chip shop.