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cross-posted from: https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/701420324655555426

I was summoned for jury duty and all I got was this pretty photograph.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Brutalist architecture is beautiful in its own way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

At least prisoners can't jump the windows

I'm 99% sure there's security reasons for this design

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It makes me feel like I'm walking into the Oldest House from Control.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That game was a love letter to brutalism and bureaucracy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I hqve noticed that judicial buildings a seem to be built to be imposing, as if to imply we rule you petty serfs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah I think that is marble.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I wasn't sure if it counted, but I am a brutalism enjoyer as well.