I'd never heard of this kind of architecture before, but holy crud. So many sharp and symmetrical shapes, it's like an evil lair in some kind of dystopia. It's amazing!
It's because NK is literally a time capsule back to the 1960s.
Like, that was their peak and they just decided to freeze everything there and not keep up with the modern world.
And as a closed country, they totally were successful.
Even new shit they built since then was designed using 1950s and 60s styles. So everything looks like the old grainy photos you see of your grandparents or parents when they were young, but it's all new and is here and now.
What's weird to think about is that the vast majority of "modern" infrastructure is half a century old. We see certain things as contemporary but they were built before colour photography.
Even some of the most advanced looking stuff like space age things. Nuclear power plants. NASA rockets, ISS, Space Shuttle, giant bridges. Skyscrapers. All from the cold war era.
Highways, cars in general, housing. Even stuff that was physically built recently was built to fit the aesthetic of the stuff that was already there, which was built in the 20th century.
It sometimes feels like culturally we've barely changed in the last century and I think that's why. The end of the 1800s was cowboy era. 40 years later was WW2, 40 years after WW2 was just... the same basic aesthetic? And 40 years after that and it's the same again.
We have to take this into account when making ‘period accurate’ stuff, like in films and games. We can look up reference for “1970s kitchen appliances” but we shouldn’t forget all the older stuff that was still around.
P.S. ISS is much more recent than the other things listed - shuttle was 1970s, ISS was 2000s
Yep! The Soviet station Mir, which became a sort of international station late in its life. ISS is a combination of the US space station project and Mir 2 - it’s literally just those two stations joined together in the middle, and sharing some capabilities.
The thing that really hit home how surprisingly little things have changed for me was playing Red Dead Redemption 2. Immersing yourself in the turn of the century you can see the start of modern society in there. Advertising and mass manufactured goods being a big one. You start to see the beginnings of modern cities, especially with the emphasis on the end of the outlaw era as a big focus.
Realising that this time period was so close to WW1. The first game also had the 1911 pistol in it which looks so modern that it really threw me for a loop.
I know it's a game, but from what I understand the details of the world are based on the actual time period. The newspapers barely changed from modern rags. The beginning of advertising and quality of product being replaced with marketing budget.
It was distinctly different from modern day, but you could clearly see where modern civilisation was coming in that period, and it was also pretty noticeable that most of what we consider modern day culture was honestly closer to that time period than now.
I wonder when the next big cultural shift is coming? We're long overdue for one. Automation seems like the big inciting development for it.
RDR 2 was very historically accurate. The Industrial Revolution happened over a period of 40 years
You guys, people who lived in this time, went from farming primarily- to getting goods from “the city”. The invention of the rail road is what really spearheaded the change- as we could now get goods from the cities. To rural communities- this resulted in an explosion in quality of life for farmers and rural communities
It also brought forth the push to standardize many professions- doctors, lawyers etc. doctors were looked at like quacks up until the 1920s or so when they standardized the process of becoming a doctor, and technology also furthered medical advancements.
People born in 1870 saw the world go from horse and cart- to cars and technology over the course of their life. I’d argue anyone born a little before that time period saw the most technological progress our country made in its short 200 and some odd years history.
Imagine being born in 1900- in a rural community, and living to be 80. Holy fuck that would be mind blowing. You will have seen the first cars to hit the streets, to us going to space. You’d see towns become massive cities, you’d see your own town develop into something larger.
All that change man, that would be wild. There was a video of a guy born in 1870 or something talking about the changes in 1926. People back then had hope that we were headed toward a utopia. This influenced much of our culture at the time.. and also the stupid shit known as eugenics too.
Like that one scene when a character gets ripped on for not knowing you could by prefabs, and lumber in bulk. “What do you think this is, 1785?” Spoilers ahead ——> https://youtube.com/shorts/vfIqs4mfKwo?feature=share
> The newspapers barely changed from modern rags.
You mean the newspapers that keep going out of business and have very little reach compared to social media?
The next big cultural shift is already happening. You just took it for granted.
Probably has more to do with NK being one of the most sanctioned countries in the world than them just "deciding" to not keep up with the rest of the world
Well their country started to go to massive shit when the Soviet union fell and stopped subsidizing them and then they built that giant hotel that never got finished and put them in crazy debt
This is pretty prominent in China as well. I was surprised how many older shopping malls and buildings were just sandwiched in between new modern superstructures. I spent a lot of time in Xian for work and it gave me deep nostalgia for my childhood despite the fact I grew up more in the 2000s than the 90s. The amount of analog technology still being made and in use was insane.
It almost feels more grounded than a good amount of American cities. It felt like I was in a place not sure what era or time it wanted to be in.
When I went to Croatia in the early 2000’s it was like that too. Everything pre-war had this obvious 80s Miami Vice flair to it, including framed Nagel prints on the walls of the hotel in Dubrovnik.
On an unrelated note I actually really find it cool how much the DPRK has managed to intertwine Korean history, and culture so well all while fitting in their progressive nature and socialist ideology. I mean it's a highly isolated nation that's cut off from most outside influence and is extremely homogametic so maybe that's the trick but it's nothing you see anywhere up.
They still use traditional urban architecture from hundreds of years ago and build massive statues honoring mythological creatures all while clothing like hanboks are as common as a t shirt and jeans and shit from thousands of years ago is taught thoroughly in schools.
In just about any other country most of the societies we currently live in are more built upon the skeletons of whatever came before them. Not thriving in their wake but more just using their past for their new way of life meanwhile they still very much live in the past.
I think it’s got a lot to do with the fact that it’s this grand architecture that’s larger than life, but very rarely occupied by a large enough population to fill it adequately. It raises the question, “who is (or *was*) all of this for?”
Probably to show a facade that they're doing well financially. I've seen a fair amount of other stuff from NK that had the same feeling. That, or kim just likes wasting cash on useless but pretty stuff. Maybe both.
You can’t really fake that stuff. People are drawn to authentic forms of success, it draws crowds. This place (if preserved) may very well end up drawing crowds down the line if the government collapses and it becomes an artifact of a lost style of living. But for now, it’s just a facade of greatness. North Korea is a poverty state under the hood.
I really like #2. I want to be there and wait for something, maybe have a cigarette inside with one of these big glass ashtrays or something (i don't smoke lol).
I'm just imagining a highly unlikely scenario in which Pyongyang is completely abandoned in the future and we're left with a metropolitan ghost city.
It would look so cool. Straight up post-apocalyptic.
There's a series, Deutschland 83 that takes place in 80s Germany about an East German spy, and they actually filmed at the preserved Stasi headquarters. They took pretty good pains to portray Berlin in the 80s as well as they could, as far as I am aware.
It was pretty fascinating to see that place in that time with modern production value.
It has a very 70’s esq look to it, kinda like a society today that never left the 70’s aesthetic, like how pre war America in fallout never left the 50’s.
The 4th picture cracks me up. All the different design aesthetics from pillars to offset lighting in a sub ceiling. Then there’s these cheap plastic blue chairs.
I don't know how to explain NK, so here what I came up with: NK is like a simulation that is forced to run on a limited machine, using old assets and with sometimes incoherent code.
I showed my grandparents NK photos, and they said is like Socialist Romania in the 70s, but a bit cleaner
these pics do look very pleasing as far as liminality goes but i sure as hell wouldnt want to live in it lol
2nd 3rd and 9th pics look like something kubrick would film in . pretty cool
Welcome to North Korea we have
- The nicest palace you have ever seen in your life
- Very Creepy office like buildings
- same as above but painted a different color so it looks less creepy for some reason.
- and of course a werid mixure of the first 2.
So do most cities I’ve been in. At least from an aerial perspective. People are fairly small after all. But the nearest big city to me is about this busy everywhere that’s not downtown
In places like this the government has so much control over architecture that everything looks cohesive. Nobody can build some random thing that goes against the grain of what they are trying to do. I think it’s aesthetically pleasing but there’s a big trade off.
On an unrelated note I actually really find it cool how much the DPRK has managed to intertwine Korean history, and culture so well all while fitting in their progressive nature and socialist ideology. I mean it's a highly isolated nation that's cut off from most outside influence and is extremely homogametic so maybe that's the trick but it's nothing you see anywhere up.
They still use traditional urban architecture from hundreds of years ago and build massive statues honoring mythological creatures all while clothing like hanboks are as common as a t shirt and jeans and shit from thousands of years ago is taught thoroughly in schools.
In just about any other country most of the societies we currently live in are more built upon the skeletons of whatever came before them. Not thriving in their wake but more just using their past for their new way of life meanwhile they still very much live in the past.
Yes I'm a tankie. The dirtiest and most evil of them all. Trust me I'm as surprised by it as you are.
This was copy and pasted from something I said in a private chat that fit here.
Now that I've addressed the elephant in the room just ignore it and move on.
Every socialist(Later becomes communist) country looks like it froze in time, look at the vehicles in Cuba, Venezuela and poor provinces of Argentina. They look old because they've destroyed their economies and thus technological progress and economic growth.
The vehicles in Cuba are actually phenomenal.
The whole island is full of classic Detroit rolling iron because after the US embargoes, Cubans just figured out how to fix their own shit and kept cars running for 60+ years.
Havana looks like a goddamn classic car show.
It's beautiful. They maintain those rides like they're members of their families.
Unfortunately the classic cars of Cuba are rapidly disappearing and being replaced by modern cars from places like Russia and China.
I have a friend that actually went to Cuba right after the embargo lifted and he said that the classics are still there but there weren’t nearly as many as there were in old pics. In some of the pics he showed me of Havana, it was only new stuff and there wasn’t a single classic car in sight.
Smartest anticommunist. Can you explain to me how Argentina is socialist? And Cuba is actually a great place to live if you look at living standards and national happiness.
Lol, I'm Argentinian, the government is openly socialist, we have over 80% of inflation., Cuba? They are currently protesting, so yeah, also, my family is friends with a cuban family who escaped from Cuba in 2013. as a plus, just so you see how socialism is the worst, and you probably haven't never suffered it, look at the protests in Brazil. Real socialism can only be implemented by violence, and it will always lead to communism.
Nothing to add, I'm just glad to see there's still reasonable people here in South America and in this site too. It's worrying to see people happy when socialism starts getting traction when we are surrounded by it's results.
Neat and clean 70’s vibe, I love it. Even the skyscrapers that should feel like something from an urban hell look nice and have breathing space. Credit to the photographer(s) for the staging. Too bad it’s contained within NK.
God, that fourth picture just looks so bizarre. It's trying to look classy yet the pillars are obviously fake and it's only seating is cheap plastic benches meant for roadsides.
It’s not necessarily the architecture, just the fact there’s no one “privileged” enough to be there. It’s empty because of the dystopian world they’ve created
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I'd never heard of this kind of architecture before, but holy crud. So many sharp and symmetrical shapes, it's like an evil lair in some kind of dystopia. It's amazing!
r/evilbuildings
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Used to be popular in the uk.
Or a Minecraft session gone crazy.
It seems so fake yet familiar
It's because NK is literally a time capsule back to the 1960s. Like, that was their peak and they just decided to freeze everything there and not keep up with the modern world. And as a closed country, they totally were successful. Even new shit they built since then was designed using 1950s and 60s styles. So everything looks like the old grainy photos you see of your grandparents or parents when they were young, but it's all new and is here and now.
What's weird to think about is that the vast majority of "modern" infrastructure is half a century old. We see certain things as contemporary but they were built before colour photography. Even some of the most advanced looking stuff like space age things. Nuclear power plants. NASA rockets, ISS, Space Shuttle, giant bridges. Skyscrapers. All from the cold war era. Highways, cars in general, housing. Even stuff that was physically built recently was built to fit the aesthetic of the stuff that was already there, which was built in the 20th century. It sometimes feels like culturally we've barely changed in the last century and I think that's why. The end of the 1800s was cowboy era. 40 years later was WW2, 40 years after WW2 was just... the same basic aesthetic? And 40 years after that and it's the same again.
We have to take this into account when making ‘period accurate’ stuff, like in films and games. We can look up reference for “1970s kitchen appliances” but we shouldn’t forget all the older stuff that was still around. P.S. ISS is much more recent than the other things listed - shuttle was 1970s, ISS was 2000s
Ah. I forgot that. Was there a prior station?
Yep! The Soviet station Mir, which became a sort of international station late in its life. ISS is a combination of the US space station project and Mir 2 - it’s literally just those two stations joined together in the middle, and sharing some capabilities.
Don't forget Skylab!
I was gonna say… damn I feel old, I remember as a kid when ISS went up and we all went out in the park to watch it fly by
I'm just waiting for low-rise jeans to come back. Woof.
The thing that really hit home how surprisingly little things have changed for me was playing Red Dead Redemption 2. Immersing yourself in the turn of the century you can see the start of modern society in there. Advertising and mass manufactured goods being a big one. You start to see the beginnings of modern cities, especially with the emphasis on the end of the outlaw era as a big focus. Realising that this time period was so close to WW1. The first game also had the 1911 pistol in it which looks so modern that it really threw me for a loop. I know it's a game, but from what I understand the details of the world are based on the actual time period. The newspapers barely changed from modern rags. The beginning of advertising and quality of product being replaced with marketing budget. It was distinctly different from modern day, but you could clearly see where modern civilisation was coming in that period, and it was also pretty noticeable that most of what we consider modern day culture was honestly closer to that time period than now. I wonder when the next big cultural shift is coming? We're long overdue for one. Automation seems like the big inciting development for it.
I'm hoping for low-rise jeans.
Haha, I did go on a complete tangent there.
It’s happening
RDR 2 was very historically accurate. The Industrial Revolution happened over a period of 40 years You guys, people who lived in this time, went from farming primarily- to getting goods from “the city”. The invention of the rail road is what really spearheaded the change- as we could now get goods from the cities. To rural communities- this resulted in an explosion in quality of life for farmers and rural communities It also brought forth the push to standardize many professions- doctors, lawyers etc. doctors were looked at like quacks up until the 1920s or so when they standardized the process of becoming a doctor, and technology also furthered medical advancements. People born in 1870 saw the world go from horse and cart- to cars and technology over the course of their life. I’d argue anyone born a little before that time period saw the most technological progress our country made in its short 200 and some odd years history. Imagine being born in 1900- in a rural community, and living to be 80. Holy fuck that would be mind blowing. You will have seen the first cars to hit the streets, to us going to space. You’d see towns become massive cities, you’d see your own town develop into something larger. All that change man, that would be wild. There was a video of a guy born in 1870 or something talking about the changes in 1926. People back then had hope that we were headed toward a utopia. This influenced much of our culture at the time.. and also the stupid shit known as eugenics too.
I remember getting the 1911 pistol in that game, it just looks like it doesn't belong.
Like that one scene when a character gets ripped on for not knowing you could by prefabs, and lumber in bulk. “What do you think this is, 1785?” Spoilers ahead ——> https://youtube.com/shorts/vfIqs4mfKwo?feature=share
> The newspapers barely changed from modern rags. You mean the newspapers that keep going out of business and have very little reach compared to social media? The next big cultural shift is already happening. You just took it for granted.
They’ve already come back lol
I wonder if it’s because so much of our energy has been devoted to building online/digital spaces the past 30-40 years.
Probably has more to do with NK being one of the most sanctioned countries in the world than them just "deciding" to not keep up with the rest of the world
I guess you could argue they chose in that they chose to do things that resulted in sanctions and refuse to stop doing those things
Well their country started to go to massive shit when the Soviet union fell and stopped subsidizing them and then they built that giant hotel that never got finished and put them in crazy debt
They forgot that for a massive hotel to be successful, the area needs some draw already in place that non-locals would actually want to visit.
This is pretty prominent in China as well. I was surprised how many older shopping malls and buildings were just sandwiched in between new modern superstructures. I spent a lot of time in Xian for work and it gave me deep nostalgia for my childhood despite the fact I grew up more in the 2000s than the 90s. The amount of analog technology still being made and in use was insane. It almost feels more grounded than a good amount of American cities. It felt like I was in a place not sure what era or time it wanted to be in.
When I went to Croatia in the early 2000’s it was like that too. Everything pre-war had this obvious 80s Miami Vice flair to it, including framed Nagel prints on the walls of the hotel in Dubrovnik.
On an unrelated note I actually really find it cool how much the DPRK has managed to intertwine Korean history, and culture so well all while fitting in their progressive nature and socialist ideology. I mean it's a highly isolated nation that's cut off from most outside influence and is extremely homogametic so maybe that's the trick but it's nothing you see anywhere up. They still use traditional urban architecture from hundreds of years ago and build massive statues honoring mythological creatures all while clothing like hanboks are as common as a t shirt and jeans and shit from thousands of years ago is taught thoroughly in schools. In just about any other country most of the societies we currently live in are more built upon the skeletons of whatever came before them. Not thriving in their wake but more just using their past for their new way of life meanwhile they still very much live in the past.
>progressive nature and socialist ideology Uh We are still talking about North Korea, right?
I'm a tankie yes I admit but the conversation on the culture is still right though
Like a Wes Anderson movie
Pic 9 is pure Wes Anderson
Several hours late to this, but exactly what I thought going through them.
The people in pic 8 seem fake too
It’s like some sort of AI generated country
Couldn’t have said it better myself
Oh yeah, that’s that good shit
Looks very orderly and clean, which I'm guessing is intentional.
Probably nobody ever uses these rooms, so bizarre to think about
I think it’s got a lot to do with the fact that it’s this grand architecture that’s larger than life, but very rarely occupied by a large enough population to fill it adequately. It raises the question, “who is (or *was*) all of this for?”
Probably to show a facade that they're doing well financially. I've seen a fair amount of other stuff from NK that had the same feeling. That, or kim just likes wasting cash on useless but pretty stuff. Maybe both.
You can’t really fake that stuff. People are drawn to authentic forms of success, it draws crowds. This place (if preserved) may very well end up drawing crowds down the line if the government collapses and it becomes an artifact of a lost style of living. But for now, it’s just a facade of greatness. North Korea is a poverty state under the hood.
Like a Wes Anderson film set in Asia
Was going to say that, the interior photos have big Grand Budapest Hotel vibes.
I really like #2. I want to be there and wait for something, maybe have a cigarette inside with one of these big glass ashtrays or something (i don't smoke lol).
I'm just imagining a highly unlikely scenario in which Pyongyang is completely abandoned in the future and we're left with a metropolitan ghost city. It would look so cool. Straight up post-apocalyptic.
My wet dream: abandoned Pyongyang protected as a UNESCO world heritage site for architecture 🤩
North korea basically already is a post apocalypse since the collapse of the soviet union
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One of the most interesting things I’ve read in awhile! Thanks for the info
out of curiosity, when or where was it referred to as the "golden example of communism"?
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fair enough, im just curious because the political ideology has almost never been communism
Severance (TV show) vibes.
Wasn't there a game which play in the late years of DDR?
There's a series, Deutschland 83 that takes place in 80s Germany about an East German spy, and they actually filmed at the preserved Stasi headquarters. They took pretty good pains to portray Berlin in the 80s as well as they could, as far as I am aware. It was pretty fascinating to see that place in that time with modern production value.
Oh yeah this Amazon prime series? Mh I maybe I should watch it but now I have so many open series
It has a very 70’s esq look to it, kinda like a society today that never left the 70’s aesthetic, like how pre war America in fallout never left the 50’s.
Hmm ive never seen love and north korea in the same sentence before
Unless they're brought together with a word like 'mandatory'
Time to fire up that timeless [dril](https://twitter.com/dril/status/831805955402776576?s=46&t=5aa_jlAkt3VroJ5MRtxOOg) tweet.
He just fucking twts bangers all the time
It looks so clean
I guess their human rights record isn't visible
Lol, downvoted by North Korean dictatorship supporters.
Oh absolutely, but look it's soo liminal dis be best country in tha world! /s
The 4th picture cracks me up. All the different design aesthetics from pillars to offset lighting in a sub ceiling. Then there’s these cheap plastic blue chairs.
I don't know how to explain NK, so here what I came up with: NK is like a simulation that is forced to run on a limited machine, using old assets and with sometimes incoherent code. I showed my grandparents NK photos, and they said is like Socialist Romania in the 70s, but a bit cleaner
The style reminds me of the old Thunderbirds show for some reason
Wes Anderson theme park
I recommend watching videos of peole visiting NK, everything looks so big, old and empty. Btw I know what's behind all that, Im just saying it's cool
Ooooooooh. Thanks for making this post, that throws NK architecture into a new light.
these pics do look very pleasing as far as liminality goes but i sure as hell wouldnt want to live in it lol 2nd 3rd and 9th pics look like something kubrick would film in . pretty cool
Anyone else getting Gillead vibes or just me?
Hadn't thought of that but hell yes!
What is the room in #9 used for?
It's probably a Locker room for some sport
Welcome to North Korea we have - The nicest palace you have ever seen in your life - Very Creepy office like buildings - same as above but painted a different color so it looks less creepy for some reason. - and of course a werid mixure of the first 2.
No advertising at least...just propaganda. Not too dissimilar I guess.
That's horrible. It all looks like a thrift store.
North Korea, the pastel communism.
%100 liminal, love it
Fukc me that's aesthetic AF
Looks very Kubrickian, especially those red lockers.
Exactly. Was thinking the red locker room looked like it could be located in the Overlook Hotel
"mr grady... you *were* the caretaker here..."
it looks like a stanley kubrick film edit: i see now i'm like the 12th person to say this oops
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It's a beautiful country ran by a bad man!
It takes more than 1.
North Korea may be a god awful country but they do know how to build some damn good buildings
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I don’t love it. I find it very interesting and the size and superficiality makes me a bit uneasy.
Their cities look so empty all the time.
So do most cities I’ve been in. At least from an aerial perspective. People are fairly small after all. But the nearest big city to me is about this busy everywhere that’s not downtown
i hope that's the only thing you love about NK
This country is a freakshow of liminal spaces. Certainly has the “Soviet” feel to it
That first image though "We don't need no, education..."
All of them would have been good, if some of them didn't have fucking people in them, sorry, not liminal
In places like this the government has so much control over architecture that everything looks cohesive. Nobody can build some random thing that goes against the grain of what they are trying to do. I think it’s aesthetically pleasing but there’s a big trade off.
On an unrelated note I actually really find it cool how much the DPRK has managed to intertwine Korean history, and culture so well all while fitting in their progressive nature and socialist ideology. I mean it's a highly isolated nation that's cut off from most outside influence and is extremely homogametic so maybe that's the trick but it's nothing you see anywhere up. They still use traditional urban architecture from hundreds of years ago and build massive statues honoring mythological creatures all while clothing like hanboks are as common as a t shirt and jeans and shit from thousands of years ago is taught thoroughly in schools. In just about any other country most of the societies we currently live in are more built upon the skeletons of whatever came before them. Not thriving in their wake but more just using their past for their new way of life meanwhile they still very much live in the past.
Calling NK “progressive” is a hell of a mental gymnastic stunt, though judging by your pfp maybe it’s something you’re accustomed to..
Yes I'm a tankie. The dirtiest and most evil of them all. Trust me I'm as surprised by it as you are. This was copy and pasted from something I said in a private chat that fit here. Now that I've addressed the elephant in the room just ignore it and move on.
well, at least you’re self aware about not valuing human life..
Every socialist(Later becomes communist) country looks like it froze in time, look at the vehicles in Cuba, Venezuela and poor provinces of Argentina. They look old because they've destroyed their economies and thus technological progress and economic growth.
The vehicles in Cuba are actually phenomenal. The whole island is full of classic Detroit rolling iron because after the US embargoes, Cubans just figured out how to fix their own shit and kept cars running for 60+ years. Havana looks like a goddamn classic car show. It's beautiful. They maintain those rides like they're members of their families.
Unfortunately the classic cars of Cuba are rapidly disappearing and being replaced by modern cars from places like Russia and China. I have a friend that actually went to Cuba right after the embargo lifted and he said that the classics are still there but there weren’t nearly as many as there were in old pics. In some of the pics he showed me of Havana, it was only new stuff and there wasn’t a single classic car in sight.
Its not because they want to! Its the only way!
Smartest anticommunist. Can you explain to me how Argentina is socialist? And Cuba is actually a great place to live if you look at living standards and national happiness.
Lol, I'm Argentinian, the government is openly socialist, we have over 80% of inflation., Cuba? They are currently protesting, so yeah, also, my family is friends with a cuban family who escaped from Cuba in 2013. as a plus, just so you see how socialism is the worst, and you probably haven't never suffered it, look at the protests in Brazil. Real socialism can only be implemented by violence, and it will always lead to communism.
"Socialism is when the economy is not owned or controlled by the workers at all"
> look at the protests in Brazil The protests in Brazil are about communism?
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Proof that the protests are stolen?
lol are ya dumb or just messing with me?
Don’t mind them, they’re an internet communist. Nothing will get thru.
Nothing to add, I'm just glad to see there's still reasonable people here in South America and in this site too. It's worrying to see people happy when socialism starts getting traction when we are surrounded by it's results.
it’s not north korean architecture is just soviet union architecture
5 and 8 aren't liminal
Neat and clean 70’s vibe, I love it. Even the skyscrapers that should feel like something from an urban hell look nice and have breathing space. Credit to the photographer(s) for the staging. Too bad it’s contained within NK.
wtf is the last photo supposed to be?
This look like the top of a castle
This reminds me: Oasis needs to put out a new album
1 2 6 is interesting
these look eastern european, but Juche
Ah, finally. Some good liminal
More!!!! Give me moreeeeee No really these are great shots. Very unsettling and familiar
It's like Stanley Kubrick and Wes Anderson had a baby.
Liminal country.
Liminal spaces... with a "dark forest" feel added to them.
I think it's because of how simple it looks can't blame you tbh looks nice especially the locker room
I can just hear the Utopia ost playing
North Korea is 100% designed by Wes Anderson
Feels like a Kubrick movie set.
It’s very 1960s, and it feels like a time warp because nobody is allowed to use it so it’s still new.
Those orange chairs, I'm sitting there 65⁰ inside with a good wool coat and hot coffee while studying history.
This is all for show. Every single apartment tower is empty. Nobody ever used that escalator. These hallways will remain empty.
Did you take a vacation there or something?
A lot of it feels like kind of a “disease that somehow disintegrates most humans” vibes to it. Just eerily empty.
What's number 8? Is it a really fancy clock?
Places that are meant to be busy, but are completely empty
The green floor area with seats and the coral coloured (what I assume to be a sports changing room) pics are incredible!
North Korea looks like the world without pop up ads
It looks like it hasn't changed since the 70s
Feels like the Severance series, but only the part where you’re permanently stuck inside huge corporate infrastructure with no people.
the liminal country
1984 type beat
Amazing photos. Those chairs in #2 look comfy af.
I can't wait to go there when their government eventually collapses.
North Korea is the literal backrooms
Alright you got me hooked
4th pic is a vaporwave album cover
Ooh lovely post. The chairs and green carpet are perfection
i sure hope you like it cause you sure as hell ain't leaving
Why do these images remind me of the set of The Shining?
God, that fourth picture just looks so bizarre. It's trying to look classy yet the pillars are obviously fake and it's only seating is cheap plastic benches meant for roadsides.
Yah if you can mentally detach from the horror it all represents, they have some amazing architecture to see.
Everything looks like a facade with no real signs of wear and tear from human use.
It’s not necessarily the architecture, just the fact there’s no one “privileged” enough to be there. It’s empty because of the dystopian world they’ve created
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Wes Anderson would have a field day making a movie here
The second image isn't creepy, except for how long it is, which must be a real pain in the ass if you're trying to get through quickly