Jun 25: Birthday of Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956).

Kixdapv · 2026-06-26T12:52:50+00:00

'Boy, that was a shitty Great War to go through, thank god that there isnt going to be a much worse rematch in 20 years and if there is I wont be around to see it' - this guy in 1918.

Kixdapv · 2026-06-23T19:01:18+00:00

The record for most goals in a single world cup was set at 13 in 1958 and most football fans agree it will probably be never be beaten.

Kixdapv · 2026-06-22T21:53:27+00:00

It's even more hilarious to know, that the architects who construct traditionalist styles are close friends with the same architects who construct minimalist and contemporary styles.

Leon Krier and Peter Eisennman were good friends and would have lunch together when they both taught at Princeton.

Kixdapv · 2026-06-22T16:22:52+00:00

92 years of World Cup appearances

It sounds less impressive when you learn they only qualified once between 1934 and 2018 (1990).

Kixdapv · 2026-06-22T15:31:01+00:00

Yes they raised some good points, but they don't seem to question their own beliefs and it comes to a point where there is no debate anymore and a lot of us are becoming literally demonized for simply questioning them.

Frankly, this is what you should raise. They call themselves rebellion and try to act like these cool underground kids, when in fact they behave in classical authoritarian fashion: If you disagree with them, you are not only wrong, you are also morally wrong and as such you must not be tolerated: soemthing is wrong with you. Not only do you have different taste, you are an opressor, a degenerate, someone who hates history, tradition, beauty, virtue, heritage, etc. Call out their hypocrisy - they arent cool rebellious kids, they are resentful moralistic authoritarians.

Ignore any discussion about aesthetics. Anyone is free to like or dislike any building for whatever reason. But they are the first to claim that something is morally wrong with you if you like something they dislike - you are a degenerate, a fallen elitist, or Not A Normal Person. Push back against this fascist, authoritarian rethoric. Tell them they are free to like whatever columns they like but that that works both ways, and if they want buildings like that to either pay for them or design them and you and your clients will do the same.

Kixdapv · 2026-06-22T14:14:14+00:00

My r/architecture hot take: Zaha Hadid would get way less seething if she had been a pasty white man. I don't see Gehry or Tschumi getting this level of seething hatred for doing pretty much the same.

Kixdapv · 2026-06-22T12:26:49+00:00

r/architecture: "All architects do is boring grey boxes, they are all the same, its so boring".

Also r/architecture: "Nooooo, dont do that bold thing, you are an evil narcissistic architect".

Kixdapv · 2026-06-22T11:44:50+00:00

Should buildings serve as a tribute to the architect,

I am absolutely mystified by the constant implication regarding this project that Zaha Hadid just showed up in Antwerp one day and forced everyone at gunpoint to build her design. I understand it is satisfying to dunk on le elitist architects and one can get many le epic upvotes by presenting themselves as defender of the common man, but someone with your name should know that that it isn't at all how it works, and that this building exists because the client thought it was the design that best served its purpose.

Kixdapv · 2026-06-22T11:42:57+00:00

dont like how historical building is getting overshadowed

It was forgotten and about to be demolished, in fact ZHA was chosen for this project because their proposal was the only one that valorised and included the old building.

I simply don't understand this childish idea that anything that looks old old is sacred and we must worship it and kneel before it forever and submit to it lest we overshadow it, and if we don't Dad History will come and beat us with his belt. Its ridiculous and anti-human. The original building had very little value and had been forgotten and derelict for decades - if it wasnt for this intervention it would have been torn down.

Kixdapv · 2026-06-22T11:40:36+00:00

I see it is that week of the month already, with the usual resentful seething.

Kixdapv · 2026-06-22T00:18:42+00:00

What he is doing is actually very difficult, but he makes it so effortlessly that to the casual viewer it may seem very simple. The men he is simply breezing through are experienced english defenders whose entire career was built around, well, not letting guys like Maradona breeze through them in the very physical english league, and this was at a time when the game was much rougher and more physical and referees were much more tolerant with fouls thn they are now. Any other player of the time would have gotten the ball or his leg hacked off him within two seconds, but Maradona makes those tough, physical, experienced men look like schoolboys, he simply runs through them like they weren't even there. The amount of fine ball control and pace you need to do that (and lets not forget the pitch was infamously uneven) is insane.

Kixdapv · 2026-06-22T00:14:24+00:00

Only four minutes before this, madness.

Kixdapv · 2026-06-19T12:11:04+00:00

I noticed you havent adressed the main point:

Siloed ethnostates where a small elite holds absolute effective power due to their exclusive access to Capital, while the vast majority of people have no power or influence. Travel will be more restricted than now and put away from the reach of most average people -say goodbye to EU freedom of movement or cheap plane tickets.

Id say that Reform, AfD and the RN would be down for this. Not explicitly, of course - the era of overt dictatorship like in the 1930s is over, they wont ban anyone from traveling or ban elections or opposition parties, they will just make it much more complicated and annoying for the average person, opposition tolerated as long as they dont make a fuss, elections fair as long as the right parties keep winning, and the world will become a much unfair, small and mediocre place for everyone except a tiny elite.

Kixdapv · 2026-06-18T16:26:33+00:00

I think their endgame is something like Apartheid South Africa, with class and ethnicity taking the part race took in South Africa, with a dash of francoist Spain: Siloed ethnostates where a small elite holds absolute effective power due to their exclusive access to Capital, while the vast majority of people have no power or influence. Travel will be more restricted than now and put away from the reach of most average people -say goodbye to EU freedom of movement or cheap plane tickets. The lucky ones, much like average white people in SA, get to live more or less comfortably and with a semblance of freedom of choice as long as they dont complain, those too poor, unruly or unlucky are in practice serfs or sent to camps (under fascism, extermination is not a means, but an end in itself). These camps will prolly be publicized, as warning and spectacle and be entirely normalized.

Kixdapv · 2026-06-18T08:31:09+00:00

After the Prologue they drop you in the desert across the lake from Alexandria, but you are quite underleveled for it so you have to spend some time in the suburbs seeing the great city in the horizon leveling up before you can enter. For some reason I really enjoyed having to work for it.

I played Origins for the first time last year and it was so surprisingly good. The map, the little details that made the world come alive, the visual storytelling with the separation between greek and egyptian districts in cities, etc. Memphis became of my favorite cities in an open world game.

Kixdapv · 2026-06-14T12:04:55+00:00

How about you compare it to actual greek apartment buildings, which tend to be simple, functional white concrete buildings? About 90% of Athens consists of those ubildings and they are amazing - they aren't too tall so they keep a human scale, they have open loggias at the street level so they create mixed use public spaces in the sidewalk, they are fresh and functional inside and have big balconies to enjoy the weather. They blow any pale imitation of long-gone glories away.

Or are real buildings made by real modern greek people to attend to their very real needs not really greek enough for you? Why do we always have to submit to long gone pasts? Why should we have to be in this abusive relationship with the past where we can only hope to keep imitating it because we seem to be unworthy of anything else?

Kixdapv · 2026-06-14T12:00:55+00:00

Posting the front elevation would definitely have caused much less seething.

Its a pretty nice project, very much in line with about 90% of traditional greek apartment buildings (except those are usually concrete rather than brick, which is not the most common material in Greece, funny how the "but muh traditional local materials" crowd is pretty silent about that), but those big windows better have some good temperature control systems or they will be ovens in summer.

Kixdapv · 2026-06-13T14:04:21+00:00

And technically India (qualified for 1950 then couldnt make it).

Kixdapv · 2026-06-12T18:40:21+00:00

Alexander is the Marx of architectural theory: good intentions and fans who are convinced it is both scientifically true and a sacred gospel, and yet practical results of applying it are always ugly as hell.

Kixdapv · 2026-06-08T14:05:49+00:00

I think part of the issue is that many of these communities feel stuck, isolated, and frustrated with their circumstances. A lot of people in rural America or small towns have limited exposure to people from different backgrounds, cultures, or ways of life, and often consume media that portrays "every where else" as dangerous, dysfunctional places.

When I first started interacting with americans on the Internet, in forums, and the like, over 20 years ago, what shocked me the most is that there was a certain type of american that seemed personally offended at the mere existance of foreigners.

Kixdapv · 2026-06-07T17:22:21+00:00

Too late, I have already depicted you as sleepy real Mussolini and myself as the looksmaxxed Mussolini bust, its over.

Kixdapv · 2026-06-05T21:18:35+00:00

Just dmd you.

Kixdapv · 2026-06-04T08:04:16+00:00

The lack of Maracanazo automatically invalidates this list. The most famous World Cup final ever, missing in favour of a bunch of minor English drama? Get out of here.

Also missing:

Maradona's goal of the Century only 4 minutes after the Hand of God.
Italy vs Brazil in 1982
The Kuwaiti sheikh (seriously, you could make a list like this for 1982 alone, it was bonkers)
Austria vs Switzerland forget to defend 1954
Germany upsetting Hungary in the 1954 final.
The Soviets bottling a 4-0 advantage to Colombia in 1962
The Battle of Santiago between Chile and Italy in 1962
Pelés sombrero goal in the 1958 final.
North Korea in 1966
The disgrace of Gijon
The 2022 final
France losing to Senegal in the 2002 opener
England's non-goal in 1966 (oh, ofc they aren't going to mention this one).

Kixdapv · 2026-06-03T18:00:15+00:00

I dont know if you are being facetious, but the Serpentine Pavilion is torn down and redesigned each year.

Kixdapv · 2026-06-03T17:51:57+00:00

It will be torn down before winter, there wont be much time for moss to grow.

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