damn the free market works! it came up with commie blocks just based on space and energy efficiency! if only we could apply this on a larger scale 🙈
We do. It's called an apartment building.
Idk why people insist on the false dichotomy between commieblock and other types of buildings. Sure there are some truly awful ones, especially in Eastern Europe that are basically high-rise slums. But most of the insanely expensive and luxurious housing is also high-rise residential.
London enters the chat
Something similar in Fermont, Quebec, but it's a wall of these buildings
This feels simultaneously ominous and beautiful
I read a book about a family living in those towers
It reminds me of this image of Norilsk by Elena Chernyshova:
"Nah, ya lissen- id'ain' tha whol' “minin' life ain't dat long, eh” or them few weeks erry summer when tha local browns take down our slow & infirm liken tha ol' days. Nah. It's them winters ya'gotta watch'oot fer der, friendo. Oooh-wee, an' each wunza bigger begich den tha last, I tellya. Oh yah, dontcha'no."
