Indeed, concrete structures in dry, sunny areas look awesome; here, in Birmingham (Drizzle Capital of the World), they tend to look a bit depressing.
@gatto Indeed, I think that keeping your underlings confused and mistrustful of each other is pretty much Dictator 101.
@Jorpho Holy fork! That research centre looks like it is about to declare war on Belgium.
@Rita_Lynn Congratulations, and all the best with your new job.
If those were cannons…
This was my thought exactly.
His wall plans sound not too much unlike the “Secret Fortress” plans I’d draw as a kid. You know… the one with the moat, and the dragon room (with loyal guard dragons), and the candy room with the jellybean pit!
It was awesome.
There was also a car with wings and laser headlights, but man… I regret never adding a flat black wall of spikey bollards…
Spikes would make it dead easy to climb over the wall using a lasso.
Luckily those black-painted spikes will cool down quickly, making it easier to climb them at night.
I’m assuming the spikes would be used for displaying the heads of anyone who tried to get across. He must surely also have considered making a double wall with a moat in between, filled with nitric acid (or whichever acid is his favourite.) And if an acid-filled moat was too expensive, a water-filled moat stocked with piranhas. Or sharks. Or killer robots. Or the zombies of children separated from their parents. Or his own children.
I dare say Trump would like to have battlements with cannons fired by blonde Valkyries wearing skimpy armour.
Brutalist music ? (spoiler : some obscure dark-synth-retro-wave from a cyrillic country)
Brütalist.
He doesn’t seem to make any effort to look fit.
Or using hands and feet.
Take your upvote and a well-deserved round of applause!
Not sure if Tinyhands is just playing in his usual childish, capricious fashion or if he’s deliberately running out the clock, so he can time the first “real” bit of construction to coincide with Day 1 of his shudder second term.
Nah, it’s that first one. He can’t spell ‘delayed gratification’, let alone practice it.
^ Exactly this.
Though I agree with @johnnyFresh that he makes no effort at appearing fit physically, morally, or intellectually.
Wait… are we the baddies?
My favorite Brutalist building is the Ohio History Center in Columbus; Brutalist architecture celebrates concrete and blocky, utilitarian construction. This bollard fence is goth and militant and cruel, but it ain’t Brutalist.
Ooh, one more! Habitat 67 in Ontario (actually Montreal):
…so… more of a fence then.
