[foofoo55]

They have their beauty as objects of art, but certainly not as a place that I would enjoy occupying or being around. Brutalist architecture with a Chinese flair.

[donkeybeer]

Most of it doesn't look brutalist to me. See this for example: https://www.pritzkerprize.com/sites/default/files/styles/max...

It looks like a normal house just without paint.

[vonneumannstan]

I bet you live in SF and find the Tenderloin 'pleasant' and 'not so bad if you don't go out at night or alone' too.

[donkeybeer]

I looked up Tenderloin and it all looks quite normal traditional architecture? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenderloin,_San_Francisco#/med...

Whats the problem there?

[vonneumannstan]

Ah yes when I'm surrounded by active drug users and the mentally ill my first thought is to architecture as well.

[donkeybeer]

And why do you think that matters to this topic at all? I don't live in SF I don't know about its crime rate. How on earth is the architectural quality in any way shape of form related to crime rates? Why even bring up such a ridiculous unrelated point?

[vonneumannstan]

Its about aesthetics and if you can't figure that out then its obvious why you find bleak soviet apartment blocks appealing and concrete bomb shelters.

[donkeybeer]

I don't live there so I can't comment on level of crime. But architecturally I find no fault here.