So, these people had an impressive stone monument building in place already, and then decided to dwarf it by surrounding it with generic skyscrapers... I'm not an architect but I feel like the greater architectural effect is lost here. Of course, this does fit the cyberpunk setting. (Not criticising the drawing quality of the picture here)
Not criticising the drawing quality of the picture here
Why do I see that so often? Intelligent, clever comments that are ruined by that milquetoast "but I'm not criticizing the picture" that sound like an apology for daring to not blindly love it. It's fine to find flaws in a picture, be it graphically, logically, or in-universe, and you don't have to apologize or anything.
So, these people had an impressive stone monument building in place already, and then decided to dwarf it by surrounding it with generic skyscrapers... I'm not an architect but I feel like the greater architectural effect is lost here. Of course, this does fit the cyberpunk setting. (Not criticising the drawing quality of the picture here)
That monument is the incomplete Palace of the Soviets, which was intended to be over 400m tall. First one on danbooru.
So, these people had an impressive stone monument building in place already, and then decided to dwarf it by surrounding it with generic skyscrapers... I'm not an architect but I feel like the greater architectural effect is lost here. Of course, this does fit the cyberpunk setting. (Not criticising the drawing quality of the picture here)
I do consider that stone monument represents the past and has a strong historical importance that even in a certain future, despite all the big fancy skyscrapers (recalling to a sci-fi movie) which I think people at that time preserve them for certain reasons.
So, these people had an impressive stone monument building in place already, and then decided to dwarf it by surrounding it with generic skyscrapers... I'm not an architect but I feel like the greater architectural effect is lost here. Of course, this does fit the cyberpunk setting. (Not criticising the drawing quality of the picture here)
Most architects into the brutalist/modernist style seem to enjoy ruining previously beautiful areas with the dystopian prison like grey boxes. Though with the Soviets it would probably be more to cut down on the costs of actually building it; and maybe also to demoralize the people that actually have to interact with it.
