For anyone interested, this is one of a series of sculptures in Poland meant to evoke playground equipment. You can crawl on it, but it’s not actually meant as a slide.
https://umtychy.pl/131896-tychy-rzezbiarskie-formy-zabawowe-na-os-g-zjezdzalnia
Brutalist playground!
Go ahead children, develop your spatial abilities in an entertaining manner, for the revolution!
They call the design movement Brutalism because the concrete slides brutality shred your ass.
Ahh this brings back some childhood memories. I loved framing westeners for crimes that the party committed. That was my favourite subject in school.
It’s amazing that something as inhuman as brutalism ever developed.
Maybe it’s because I grew up within walking distance of the Indiana University campus, which has a lot of brutalist architecture (for example, this is the library), but I honestly don’t mind it if it’s done well. It can just also be done really poorly.
The trees help! (embedded that here:)
Took my mind here 👇 But San Francisco’s 130 year-old de Young Museum isn’t brutalist is it?:
I like it in any case. Doesn’t hurt that it’s one of the most renowned art museums in the country.
