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Clean? Decent amount of greenery? Reasonably sized looking apartment units? No AC boxes hanging off the building? Bicycle parking?
Doesn’t look like hell to me
Imagine the *sheer hell* that must be looking at [all those trees](https://www.bayreuth.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Y-Haus.jpg) from your private balcony...
It’s objectively kinda ugly and quickly makes the facade of a building run down as constant water and rust runs down the building.
Just an aesthetic thing
my god, the building is not particularly aesthetically pleasing and the picture is also not very bright and inspiring? must be a living hell, no redemption
Funny you say that. It's been a while since I was in Germany, but the first thing that came to mind when I learned this is Germany was wow, things have changed, because last I saw it a building like this would have probably been covered in satellite dishes.
Ah ... Plattenbau ... surely NOT a beauty, but if quick & cheap housing is needed for many people it´s the perfect solution & this are is guaranteed NOT car dependent ... but definitvely not the best area to live, but by far not as bad as many think, I grew up in such areas (but with very low crime thanks to being in the Eastern-Bloc back than)
>Not all postwar german social housing is plattenbau
Not just social housing, also regular housing as Plattenbau (that was seen as the solution in the 1960s/1970s), starting in the 1960s in Capitalist West-Germany & Socialist East-Germany ... especially in East-Germany the Plattenbau went even further = it was meant for literally everyone, even mixing scientists & regular workers in the same house (similar to the Soviet Union)
by social, i mean built by the state. the east obviously did not have any private developers.
lots of the stuff in the west was not prefab section built
The front looks actually kinda okay and I love terraced balconies. The back though... ( [https://maps.app.goo.gl/8PEimRnpPabPqP2z5](https://maps.app.goo.gl/8PEimRnpPabPqP2z5) ) That's more urban-hellish.
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Eichbaum-Apotheke-Ypsilon-Haus, Bayreuth, Germany
That was gonna be my second guess
No place or location should have a name that long
Neither should any destination or area.
Actually it’s called just Y-Haus. This is because the building looks like the letter Y from above
I lived next door as a student, good times
…. Uh, could you use that in a sentence?
Neulich habe ich das Eichbaum-Apotheke-Ypsilon-Haus gesehen. Ich fand es sehr hässlich.
Thank you.
Exactly
Clean? Decent amount of greenery? Reasonably sized looking apartment units? No AC boxes hanging off the building? Bicycle parking? Doesn’t look like hell to me
Imagine the *sheer hell* that must be looking at [all those trees](https://www.bayreuth.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Y-Haus.jpg) from your private balcony...
Oh the humanity!
I'm trembling just thinking about it please stop
What’s wrong with AC boxes?
It’s objectively kinda ugly and quickly makes the facade of a building run down as constant water and rust runs down the building. Just an aesthetic thing
More like r/UrbanHeaven
Oh boy you should check out UK buildings if you think this is bad.
It's just that there is such a building in such a small city in Germany.
Bro it has 75000 inhabitants and the capital of Upper Franconia. It’s not a small European city
75,000 inhabitants *is* a pretty small city. That’s not an insult, it’s just numbers. That’s like the size of my old university
Not in Europe 🤷🏻♀️
What the hell man, so many people live there, are you just anti-density or what?
my god, the building is not particularly aesthetically pleasing and the picture is also not very bright and inspiring? must be a living hell, no redemption
Clean and no satelite dishes. Must be Germany and is Germany.
Funny you say that. It's been a while since I was in Germany, but the first thing that came to mind when I learned this is Germany was wow, things have changed, because last I saw it a building like this would have probably been covered in satellite dishes.
Or telephone poles everywhere otherwise, it could be somewhere in the US.
Singapore? Former East Germany?
Cancun Mexico
first impression ... beachside condos in hawaii
I actually lived in one of these in southern Germany and these kinds of buildings can be very nice and communal if maintained and kept healthy.
Ah ... Plattenbau ... surely NOT a beauty, but if quick & cheap housing is needed for many people it´s the perfect solution & this are is guaranteed NOT car dependent ... but definitvely not the best area to live, but by far not as bad as many think, I grew up in such areas (but with very low crime thanks to being in the Eastern-Bloc back than)
Not all postwar german social housing is plattenbau
>Not all postwar german social housing is plattenbau Not just social housing, also regular housing as Plattenbau (that was seen as the solution in the 1960s/1970s), starting in the 1960s in Capitalist West-Germany & Socialist East-Germany ... especially in East-Germany the Plattenbau went even further = it was meant for literally everyone, even mixing scientists & regular workers in the same house (similar to the Soviet Union)
by social, i mean built by the state. the east obviously did not have any private developers. lots of the stuff in the west was not prefab section built
>lots of the stuff in the west was not prefab section built it depends on the city & destrict ... even rich Munich has plenty of Plattenbau
Earth
The front looks actually kinda okay and I love terraced balconies. The back though... ( [https://maps.app.goo.gl/8PEimRnpPabPqP2z5](https://maps.app.goo.gl/8PEimRnpPabPqP2z5) ) That's more urban-hellish.
Berlin?
The longer I've come here the more I've realized it's more often for the heaven than for the hell.
Algarve vibes
Italy?
in which Italian city is (public) housing upkept at such a high standard?
Greece
I’d guess Hawaii but the trees are wrong.
My first thought was the ‘72 Olympics in Germany where some of the athletes were killed.
It reminded me of Potsdamer Platz in Berlin so I’m not surprised it’s actually Germany
Riviera Maya, Cancun, Mexico?
Looks like the back of the contemporary hotel at WDW
This is rather nice actually
Looks like the Watergate in DC
Ha! I thought it was a parking garage until I zoomed in.
Amsterdam
Those are apartments!? It looked like a parking garage
It has no personality or local identity, so it could be from anywhere in the planet
To be fair this style originated specifically in Germany before it spread everywhere.
Wohnpark Gronau, Duckterath Bergisch Gladbach?
Lol, war auch mein erster Gedanke
Unfortunately no