Compare with this real concrete slide from Romania, built in 1964
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To be fair, its probably better than those plastic spiral slides they used to have that seemed like they were designed to generate static electricity...
Do those kinds of slides even still exist? Y'all know what I'm referring to right?
Hmm this just gave me a thought... We could harness the power generated from hyperactive kids sliding down those slides at Burger King, and feed it back into the grid.
For anyone interested, this is one of a series of sculptures in Poland meant to evoke playground equipment. You can crawl on it, but it's not actually meant as a slide.
https://umtychy.pl/131896-tychy-rzezbiarskie-formy-zabawowe-na-os-g-zjezdzalnia
Aw, I thought it was so beautiful and it turns out it was because an artist made it to be beautiful.
That's really cool! Thanks for adding that!
Edit: That site also has this super cool sculpture. https://umtychy.pl/131912-tychy-kosmolot-ii-na-os-m
Brutalist playground!
Go ahead children, develop your spatial abilities in an entertaining manner, for the revolution!
For instant fun, just add skateboard!
I was thinking this was intended for skateboards and scooters.
The sand at the bottom suggests otherwise.
Superman by Goldfinger started playing in my head upon seeing the image.
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Yeah if the kids don’t love it the skateboarders will
That unironically looks like a good time. I hate metal slides cuz they always build up a lot of static electricity and burn my ass during the summer
I don't know that you'd get much speed going down that slide. Or slide very far either.
People have forgotten the simple joy of climbing to the top of a sketchy structure and suffering major contusions and broken bones on the way down.
joy
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Hint: some things are intended to have ice on them. This is a kick-ass slide!
I almost wonder if this may have been more of a winter attraction. I could definitely see rocking my snow skate in a park built like this.
I feel like if they’d just maybe put a top coat of some sealer or something on it it’d work good.
Yeah but concrete would just be a cheese grater on your flesh
I think you can get concrete pretty smooth if you really want... You can also put a coating on it that would make it very smooth. Maybe this had some kind of coating on it back in the 70s/80s? Probably not, but who knows.
That's the way I like it
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Where's my brutalist hempcrete future I was promised?
People got too high and forgot to implement the plan.
In the dustbin of history, along with Brutalism itself.
That's a total misrepresentation of a late soviet playground!
Where are handles and stopper you can kill yourself with while sliding? Where's the Hole in the end, the one you feed bad kids to (and it starts to call you 'tovarish' at some point)? Where's someone's dad (also from CheKa) who takes kids out and never returns them.
You can do better Leutenant Squid. That's said, I forgive you. But you'd not like to know the lenght my tolerance can go.
They call the design movement Brutalism because the concrete slides brutality shred your ass.
I get it's concrete, but you could totally polish concrete and it would make a great slide.
I lived by a concrete slide that you needed cardboard to use like a sled in order to go down. Otherwise the slide would burn the everliving shit out of you if you didn't, but damn it was fun
Yes, I also had access to drainage channels and a dam back in the day.
Kinda looks like it once had a layer of sheet metal attached to it at one point.
There's a granite slide near me that they say gets faster with use, and they were correct. Fastest slide I've ever gone down.
There's something about this wide, flat concrete slide that makes me think it's not going to work the same
Not gonna lie, that looks fun as hell to play on
I can see so many hours of my childhood friends and I playing army battles defending this as a fortress.
Yeah the mixed comments are interesting, one gets the impression many here only see that as a slide intended to give kids road rash and have no sense of potential in other uses.
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Ahh this brings back some childhood memories. I loved framing westeners for crimes that the party committed. That was my favourite subject in school.
Don't worry, "exclusion zone" means zone where danger is excluded.
Looks kind of awesome as a skate ramp
Even the part where grownups need to duck?
It's amazing that something as inhuman as brutalism ever developed.
When you're thinking of brutalist structures you have to keep in mind the architectural world they were coming into. How the world had rarely seen such, flat, pure surfaces. We take them for granted now, every box building ever built owes something of itself to brutalisim.
But in the wake of WWII, I think it made a statement that things done in this building are done in a modern way. No gargoyles, no baron von-fuckpants, none of the old world trappings.
I find Brutalism to be very beautiful, personally.
Maybe it's because I grew up within walking distance of the Indiana University campus, which has a lot of brutalist architecture (for example, this is the library), but I honestly don't mind it if it's done well. It can just also be done really poorly.
The trees help! (embedded that here:)
Took my mind here 👇 But San Francisco’s 130 year-old de Young Museum isn’t brutalist is it?:
I like it in any case. Doesn’t hurt that it’s one of the most renowned art museums in the country.
Fun fact, the library is not put together with mortar. The limestone blocks are stuck to each other with a special glue.
As long as there's enough greenery around, what's the problem?
Brutalism is mint in the first place, but it really, really gets better with age and foliage. The more moss and lichen and ivy, the better it looks
Fun is mandatory.
It’s a mini bobsled track
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