They make the point, this is in The Guardian, because of course it fucking is, that, you know, the Barbican, very nice.

People like it.

Nice piece of brutalist architecture.

Requires a shit ton of upkeep to, you know, make it still look like a nice piece

of brutalist architecture, as opposed to a big, a big concrete fucking, like, slap.

A parable as it's often called.

Yes.

Yeah, exactly.

Whereas Cumberd all got none of that, and so part of the reason why it looks like shit

isn't just that it's like a bad idea, although it is, or that it's an idea implemented

badly, although it is.

It's that it's also been sort of like strangled in the cradle.

Yes. And the same, the same thing happened in in scopia, right? Like like, like

1963, there's a massive earthquake in scopia, levels the entire city, kills tons of

people. It's a huge like one of one of the biggest like natural disasters in Europe, uh, during the 60s,

right? And then essentially the Yugoslavian government gets help from, uh, friendly governments

to redesign the town core and they get Kenzo Tongue and all these metabolist architectures

to build these futuristic, uh futuristic projects, mainly for public

good. And then they're kept up until Yugoslavia disintegrates. And then all these buildings

start falling apart. And the ruin porn people start coming in and architects start finding

this place, quote unquote, interesting.

But instead of the brutalist kink.com armory.

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