LWDT 8: Hitting the Marx

[Liriena]

What's hilarious about it is that it's basically like the mansions but turned up into heights of utter absurdity.

Oh the millionaires have a bar in their house? And a home theatre room? And a pool?

I NEED TWELVE BARS IN MY HOUSE, TWO 50 SEATER CINEMAS, SEVERAL POOLS.

NINETY THOUSAND SQUARE FEET. That's 17 miles squared. 17 miles at a straight line in a car at 30mph would take you half a fucking hour. Average walking speed is 3mph. It would take five fucking hours. Why would you want to live in that kind of building?

Makes me wonder what the worlds first Trillionaire is going to do. A death star? I bet it's a death star.

Fuck's sake... at least Rococo and Baroque arquitecture were aesthetically pleasing in their excess.

[The East Marches II]

What's hilarious about it is that it's basically like the mansions but turned up into heights of utter absurdity.

Oh the millionaires have a bar in their house? And a home theatre room? And a pool?

I NEED TWELVE BARS IN MY HOUSE, TWO 50 SEATER CINEMAS, SEVERAL POOLS.

NINETY THOUSAND SQUARE FEET. That's 17 miles squared. 17 miles at a straight line in a car at 30mph would take you half a fucking hour. Average walking speed is 3mph. It would take five fucking hours. Why would you want to live in that kind of building?

Makes me wonder what the worlds first Trillionaire is going to do. A death star? I bet it's a death star.

Fuck's sake... at least Rococo and Baroque arquitecture were aesthetically pleasing in their excess.

Our gilded age types built some nice places. Frank Lloyd Wright is pretty good. McMansions deserve what they get :^)

[Blyathuania]

What's hilarious about it is that it's basically like the mansions but turned up into heights of utter absurdity.

Oh the millionaires have a bar in their house? And a home theatre room? And a pool?

I NEED TWELVE BARS IN MY HOUSE, TWO 50 SEATER CINEMAS, SEVERAL POOLS.

NINETY THOUSAND SQUARE FEET. That's 17 miles squared. Just going one end to the other at a straight line in a car at 30mph would take you half a fucking hour, let alone actually travelling the whole thing and visiting every room.

Makes me wonder what the worlds first Trillionaire is going to do. A death star? I bet it's a death star.

They're also all architectural and interior design monstrosities and almost certainly quite badly made and hideously energy inefficient. This also applies to a lot of the multi-millionaire's mansions but the bigger the buildings get the worse the problems become.

Right. The more garish and gauche the house, the better the house. :^)))))))))))))

[Kubra]

Fuck's sake... at least Rococo and Baroque arquitecture were aesthetically pleasing in their excess.

Our gilded age types built some nice places. Frank Lloyd Wright is pretty good. McMansions deserve what they get :^)

Man the weird thing with McMansions is they're always so concerned about what it's like "inside". But then why bother with the outside look anyways?
i tell ya what, if I'm ever more rich than I've got sense, ima make myself a commieblock mansion. Cool af inside, a single giant concrete brick outside.

[Ostroeuropa]

Our gilded age types built some nice places. Frank Lloyd Wright is pretty good. McMansions deserve what they get :^)

Man the weird thing with McMansions is they're always so concerned about what it's like "inside". But then why bother with the outside look anyways?
i tell ya what, if I'm ever more rich than I've got sense, ima make myself a commieblock mansion. Cool af inside, a single giant concrete brick outside.

I'd rather buy my home town and live in the old lords estate while letting the residents live there *mostly* rent free (upkeep costs only), then just treat the whole town like my home. Expect free meals and so on from the restaurants etc.

I'd have horses and fields and a manor on a hill on the entrance to town. A nice seaside location. All my friends closeby, hometown hero.

Maybe hold some kind of raffle for poor kids to obtain riding lessons or some shit. I've always liked that place, it's understated but pretty cool.

Billionaires have no souls I swear. What's even the point of some monumental pyramid like structure in bel air with no person for miles except you?

EDIT:

Oh. And I'd buy up the necessary properties to make way for our fucking railroad to get re-laid. Goddamn Tory ministers and their stupid shenanigans closing our train station ("Your station is too large and doesn't sell any tickets hyuk hyuk we're closing it." V "We're a tourist town you incompetent shithead, ofcourse we don't sell tickets, it's a destination station, not departure" "WELL ITS NOT MAKING A PROFIT!" "YOU ARE FUCKING TOO STUPID TO RUN A COUNTRY YOU THATCHERITE TWAT! IT MAKES OTHER STATIONS MORE PROFITABLE!"), and now there's shit in the way so we can't have it back. Move the people living in the way into nicer houses.

I mean Christ, with *billions* to spend you can straight up turn life into a game of civilization. Why would you waste it on nonsense like a gigamansion?

[The New California Republic]

i tell ya what, if I'm ever more rich than I've got sense, ima make myself a commieblock mansion. Cool af inside, a single giant concrete brick outside.

Is Brutalism back in fashion?

[Kubra]

i tell ya what, if I'm ever more rich than I've got sense, ima make myself a commieblock mansion. Cool af inside, a single giant concrete brick outside.

Is Brutalism back in fashion?

in. Better timeline

[Washington Resistance Army]

i tell ya what, if I'm ever more rich than I've got sense, ima make myself a commieblock mansion. Cool af inside, a single giant concrete brick outside.

Is Brutalism back in fashion?

Brutalism is the ideal architectural style tbqh

[Proctopeo]

Is Brutalism back in fashion?

Brutalism is the ideal architectural style tbqh

I prefer Art Deco. Peak ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ right there.

[Cekoviu]

Brutalism is the ideal architectural style tbqh

I prefer Art Deco. Peak ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ right there.

I prefer postmodern Albanian bunkerism.

[Pasong Tirad]

I prefer Art Deco. Peak ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ right there.

I prefer postmodern Albanian bunkerism.

What do you think those bunkers are made of?

That's right. God-given concrete. Loads and loads of concrete.

[Cekoviu]

I prefer postmodern Albanian bunkerism.

What do you think those bunkers are made of?

That's right. God-given concrete. Loads and loads of concrete.

The Albanian postmodern style is a little different from classical bunkers. Instead of concrete, they're constructed as domes made with a lattice of knockoff Mona Lisas and trash bags stolen from a Durrës garbage truck, and are typically surrounded with a lava moat heated using a kilometers-long solar panel farm (although some purists argue that the solar panels are an American innovation and the old Albanian method should be used, which is to have five hundred thousand people constantly running in human-sized hamster wheels to generate the power).

[Northern Davincia]

Brutalism is the ideal architectural style tbqh

I prefer Art Deco. Peak ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ right there.

This is peak design.

[Kowani]

I’m not sure if LWDT mentioned it, but Lula da Silva, Brazil’s Ex-president, has just been releasedfrom prison.

[Philjia]

Is Brutalism back in fashion?

Brutalism is the ideal architectural style tbqh

Britalism is the architecture of dread.

[Dumb Ideologies]

Brutalism is the ideal architectural style tbqh

Britalism is the architecture of dread.

dread is the human condition

[Ostroeuropa]

I like most architecture tbh.

[Pasong Tirad]

I’m not sure if LWDT mentioned it, but Lula da Silva, Brazil’s Ex-president, has just been releasedfrom prison.

LULA LIBRE

[LiberNovusAmericae]

I’m not sure if LWDT mentioned it, but Lula da Silva, Brazil’s Ex-president, has just been releasedfrom prison.

And he is no doubt corrupt, just like the other Brazilian politicians.

[Nakena]

I’m not sure if LWDT mentioned it, but Lula da Silva, Brazil’s Ex-president, has just been releasedfrom prison.

Funny enough he was the darling of (both neo and left) liberal MSM for the past sixteen years.

Meanwhile Bolsonaro relationship with the media is somewhat more hostile.

[The New California Republic]

I like most architecture tbh.

There are some examples that I like, for examples the Casa del Fascio of Como, where I need to forcibly separate out the negative associations of it in order to like it; and I do like that particular building. A lot.

[The Empire of Pretantia]

Is Brutalism back in fashion?

Brutalism is the ideal architectural style tbqh

What fucking drivel is this
I'm burning this thread to the ground if someone says anything positive about brutalism again. Brutalism is just cheapskates trying to pass off their ugly concrete slabs as art.

And I don't care if this thread is made in the style of brutalism, JDAM beats concrete.

[Proctopeo]

I’m not sure if LWDT mentioned it, but Lula da Silva, Brazil’s Ex-president, has just been releasedfrom prison.

Okay.
I feel like he'll be back there soon, though. It's very unlikely that a man whose administration was plagued with corruption at every turn had no part in any of it.

[Torrocca]

I’m not sure if LWDT mentioned it, but Lula da Silva, Brazil’s Ex-president, has just been releasedfrom prison.

That's amazing news :3

[Northern Davincia]

I’m not sure if LWDT mentioned it, but Lula da Silva, Brazil’s Ex-president, has just been releasedfrom prison.

That's amazing news :3

I don't see how.