(From the "Examples of the Third Reich meets the Havana schools of architecture" files:)

Who suspected that North Korea had such "interesting" architecture?

(CNN)French photographer Raphael Olivier is constantly in search of arresting visual stories -- and travels far to see them in person.

Between commercial work, the Singapore-based photographer will often travel to far-flung or remote locations to produce personal photo series.
In the past, he's explored the messy, mass urban jungle of Chongqing, China as well as the country's incessant drive to build -- resulting, at times, to eerily deserted ghost towns.
But this July, he turned his lens to a different country, visiting North Korea on an architecture tour organized by Beijing-based Koryo Tours.

Take time to view the photos at the LINK

Quote: Rufus T Firefly wrote in post #1

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(From the "Examples of the Third Reich meets the Havana schools of architecture" files:)

Who suspected that North Korea had such "interesting" architecture?

(CNN)French photographer Raphael Olivier is constantly in search of arresting visual stories -- and travels far to see them in person.

Between commercial work, the Singapore-based photographer will often travel to far-flung or remote locations to produce personal photo series.
In the past, he's explored the messy, mass urban jungle of Chongqing, China as well as the country's incessant drive to build -- resulting, at times, to eerily deserted ghost towns.
But this July, he turned his lens to a different country, visiting North Korea on an architecture tour organized by Beijing-based Koryo Tours.

Take time to view the photos at the LINK

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I read that they are giving meth to the builders of that huge skyscraper they are building. Just what I want to do.....go in a skycraper built by meth heads.

One more thing....hispanics doing the jobs Americans won't do.

Zitat

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IMHO that architecture is perfect for sci-fi about a dystopian future. It is stolid, intimidating, sterile, soul crushing

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And now you have just described the architecture which came out of Marxist Bauhaus and which dominated western architecture for over a generation. Those concrete boxes which filled our major city's skylines beginning in the 40s.

Ayn Rand recognized this and the ugliness and authoritarian nature of Bauhaus was always a subtext in "The Fountainhead".