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Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Frankly, Marty, in France, we have a lot of buildings which look like that and were build by conservative democratic regimes. The love for concrete and grey architecture must be somethind universal, alas!


There's absolutely no comparison.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Marty McFly Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2011 at 14:35
Originally posted by Formentera Lady Formentera Lady wrote:

Rogue Gallery? Ok, this is me on holiday in Switzerland 2009:


Great, open spaces. Switzerland Alps are more beautiful then German ones ?

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Panelak's here:

Pilsen (my city). We don't have much of these fortunately.

Beautiful center of city:


Ugly Prague:

Beautiful Prague:


Bratislava (Slovakia)

Ugly Košice (Slovakia):


Unfortunately, Slovakian's landscape is either rural or with panelak's forming most of cities space. There are exceptions to this rule though:

Most beautiful city is probably Košice:

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I dunno k, those seem like pretty standard 60's-70's blocks of flats.

This is the house I live in (it's not as white as in the picture):



And here's a nice old building on the same street:

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Originally posted by Marty McFly Marty McFly wrote:

I thought about blowing up the school and suddenly, 30 cops turned up from nowhere (others are around). 

Thought police ?

Not much, somebody actually called that bomb is here in school, so ...

Also, you can see how ugly some of Czech buildings from socialist/communist times are.





Yes, the so-called commie-block buildings are terrible. The other pics you posted show it better, they a disgrace. Here in Brazil we have something similar: the COHAB buildings, which were habitation programs carried out by the the right-winged dictators during the 70's and 80's. They are basically like the commie-blocks, just smaller, with worse location and with almost no infrastructure. Thank God most of those have been reformed in recent years in my neighborhood.
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Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Frankly, Marty, in France, we have a lot of buildings which look like that and were build by conservative democratic regimes. The love for concrete and grey architecture must be somethind universal, alas!


There's absolutely no comparison.


Well, maybe in France, it's not as important as the Eastern European countries, but there are some parts of Paris, Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Poitiers, Toulouse, Toulon (to name a few cities I had lived in for a few months or many years) which are... ugly, grey, sad and terribly geometric - in the bad way.
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Originally posted by CCVP CCVP wrote:

Originally posted by Marty McFly Marty McFly wrote:

I thought about blowing up the school and suddenly, 30 cops turned up from nowhere (others are around). 

Thought police ?

Not much, somebody actually called that bomb is here in school, so ...

Also, you can see how ugly some of Czech buildings from socialist/communist times are.



Yes, the so-called commie-block buildings are terrible. The other pics you posted show it better, they a disgrace. Here in Brazil we have something similar: the COHAB buildings, which were habitation programs carried out by the the right-winged dictators during the 70's and 80's. They are basically like the commie-blocks, just smaller, with worse location and with almost no infrastructure. Thank God most of those have been reformed in recent years in my neighborhood.

Interesting, this seem to be common fact across various countries with various history, only some has this more prominently, while others only some districts.

I'll ask you a question Caio, just how much of this film is truth ?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0861739/

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The only photo with visible mobile phone I ever did. Enjoy it while you can. A very old photo, taken 4-5 years ago:



Edited by Marty McFly - November 05 2011 at 18:14
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Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Frankly, Marty, in France, we have a lot of buildings which look like that and were build by conservative democratic regimes. The love for concrete and grey architecture must be somethind universal, alas!


There's absolutely no comparison.


Well, maybe in France, it's not as important as the Eastern European countries, but there are some parts of Paris, Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Poitiers, Toulouse, Toulon (to name a few cities I had lived in for a few months or many years) which are... ugly, grey, sad and terribly geometric - in the bad way.


That's true. There are such grey areas around major cities, and the occasional ugly concrete 70s-80s building even pops up in city centre. The difference is only in degree - imagine living your life in a place where almost everything is like that, and you have option to change anything.
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Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Frankly, Marty, in France, we have a lot of buildings which look like that and were build by conservative democratic regimes. The love for concrete and grey architecture must be somethind universal, alas!


There's absolutely no comparison.


Well, maybe in France, it's not as important as the Eastern European countries, but there are some parts of Paris, Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Poitiers, Toulouse, Toulon (to name a few cities I had lived in for a few months or many years) which are... ugly, grey, sad and terribly geometric - in the bad way.


That's true. There are such grey areas around major cities, and the occasional ugly concrete 70s-80s building even pops up in city centre. The difference is only in degree - imagine living your life in a place where almost everything is like that, and you have option to change anything.


Right now, I'm watching the TV news about the match France/Belarus set in Belarus. Looking at the buildings (and the stadium!), I just can say: "Ah. Yeah. That's how it looks"  Confused
And thinking about movies set up in East Berlin, some places of Poland or Czechoslovakia, the surroundings don't look very, uh, "glamorous".
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You a foot fan? Well that's surprising. Tongue
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Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

You a foot fan? Well that's surprising. Tongue


Non, non, non! I wrote I watched the TV news, not the broadcasting of a football match!
I may be born in Marseille, but you'll never see me in a stadium! The sole time I went to the Velodrome (the most important stadium in Marseille), it was for the U2 concert in 1993.
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Well you could have been watching the football news to be up to date with the latest developments. Wink

Good to see I wasn't wrong about you. Tongue
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Okay, next thing I will post in this thread will be a self-portrait as a footballer. Happy?
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A was lying i am really Charles Bukowski. I am not realy dead that is me in the photo above..  lot of people thougt I was dead but I have another novel coming out whenever it wants to come out. 
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