There is no good reason why our cities couldn't look like this.
We need more environments like these that offer a sublime, challenging & raw experience
Antoine Mörck
108 posts
Antoine Mörck
@RationalBuild
Architect 📐 Form Follows Function 🏢 'Architecture is the Art of Creating Rational Habitats' 🏗️ Unironic Brutalism Enjoyer
Duisburg
Joined November 2025
- A fun option, but this building can easily be saved with a bit of concrete
It’s a mistake to design apartments without thinking about who really matters: the tenants. Not the residents — the anchor tenants that fuel our economy. So our design team made the necessary upgrades. A Waffle House integrated into the urban fabric of this community. - Replying to @HoplitaPlumaThat's why we need to educate people to like this
- This is what I call 'Sublime Rationality'. It's a dialectical negotiation between inner spatial logic and tectonic expression, culminating in a transcendental synthesis of form and perception. But the marble statue accounts wouldn't get that
- It would be better without the tree
- Stunning design. Except for that curve - it's so close to perfection. Also it could have had 20 more stories.This is 252 units, completed in 2023. Brand new construction - and it’s under LA’s rent control (RSO). Why? Because one of the parcels had a small RSO building on it before demolition. When you replace an RSO property, the entire new building becomes RSO. There is a widespread
- I know progress is important, but sometimes I dream that we're back in time, when unapologetic, visionary architecture was still being built Like PEGLI 3 by Aldo Luigi Rizzo. Who wouldn't want to live here?
- I suggest we, architects, step up and show a courageous way forward with our buildings. Architecture can be uncomfortable. In fact, it should be - otherwise it isn't truly art. Few understand this, unfortunately.
Mont Saint-Michel, France 🇫🇷 - I do not understand what they mean by 'dystopian'. I think this is the most rational and efficient way to house large numbers of people. Prove me wrongOmg sustainable living 😍
- The campus model for urban design is severely underrated. It surrounds structures for living & working with light, air and space. But above all else, it allows high architecture to 'breathe' and be viewed from all directions - like it ought to be
- This is unironically my heroReplying to @mattbaran"When you enter a Baran environment, I want you to feel something. I want you to feel challenged. Interrogated. Tired. I want you to feel like I hate you personally because I do." - Matt Baran, dystopian ugliness advocate.
- I will never understand how people could call this 'lifeless'
- Replying to @DmitriyMollaExactly. The sublime composition of that space offers enough life, no matter the bare trees
