I think art deco is one of my favorites. It still has a clean, modern look that ages surprisingly well, even a century later.
I have a really big thing for 70s PNW homes done really, really well. The vaulted ceilings, open concept main areas with multiple levels, the sunken living rooms, the cedar used everywhere… just leave out the shag carpet and I’ll be A-OK.
Art Nouveau. So much beauty, style and experimentation in only 20 years.
Art deco.
Use LotR to tell the difference. If it looks like it was made by the elves, it’s art nouveau. It if looks like the dwarves cranked it out, it’s art deco.
Squares are a dead give away for dwarves. Knife ears don’t like square corners.
Yes please. Fuck the white grey and black colour scheme of todays interiors.
Brutalism. The few brutalist buildings in my city are a welcome respite for the eyes against the blinged out crap they’re building nowadays.
Good brutalist architecture can take your breath away. It’s so solid, so permanent, so delightfully uncompromising.
Renaissance exterior of building. Carvings in concrete. Stone block buildings. Gargoyles. Corner decorations on ceilings.
Prairie and Craftsman Bungalows. Unfortunately, I don’t think that either is a particularly energy efficient design.
Brutalist
Gorgeous brutalist, not “let’s cut corners and costs” Soviet brutalist, but Le Corbusier tier.
The. Constructivist Era of the Soviet Union; abstract art meets cubism meets the proletariat.
Genuinely curious: why use an AI image instead of the many real Constructivist buildings?
I especially this one, nice balance of raw concrete and ornamentation:
Unaware. Just grabbed the first example from a search.
I want anything that isn’t low effort, bland, inoffensive. I hate modern trend towards boring. I love everything that isn’t landlord white.
Art deco, full stop.
I’m a sucker for that 60’s retrofuturism. The sleek, clean, and curved design of it all with such an optimistic view of the future is such a satisfying and happy vibe
Absolutely gonna agree with OP. Art deco is absolutely amazing and 100% my pic.
Haussmanian , as in multi-story mixed use buildings : 6 or 7 floors. Bottom floor is for businesses. Top floor is subdivided in small but cheap one bedrooms. Built in an H, O or U footprint with a central courtyard for the whole building to share. Facade can have art nouveau architectural elements but whatever is cheap is good.
Any style older than 60 years that is not brutalism.
Things used to have decor before, we’ve moved to a functionality only infrastructure, it’s always done in the cheapest way possible and it’s sort of depressing
I’m reminded of this video about how changes to the construction industry starting in the '50s resulted in the loss of ornamentation in architecture
Cool, yet unfortunate.
Waterfall. Agile is a mess.
Nice.
Affordable Housing
Big beautiful brutalistic concrete block with some fucking space!
Cool, if it’s also Art Nouveau.
too real
