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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors
•  Info The premises and characteristics of brutalist architecture are all too often categorically dismissed as urbanistic obscenities. There are many examples that aesthetically work very well though. This passage, leading from the platform of Munich subway station Candidplatz to the surface, is one of those. What I like about it is the minimalist, absolutely reduced, yet visually almost magnetic, maybe futuristic approach to designing a very banal, merely functional architectural feature; all by myself --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:43, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:43, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 06:46, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - Great! Very impressive light control, if that's the correct expression. Question, though: Is this really Brutalist architecture? Minimalist, yes, but I think of Brutalism as something else. And I like this architecture, too, given how you depict it, but I probably wouldn't take much note of it, otherwise. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:23, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment Interesting question. If the/one definition of brutalism is based on the notion that "surfaces of cast concrete are made to reveal the basic nature of its construction," then this passage qualifies easily as beton brut is almost everything you get to see. Any architects/art historians here? --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:42, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment - I'll look forward to that reply. I think of Brutalism as being like this, this, this, this, and maybe especially, buildings in this style. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:01, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

• This looks more like functionalism than brutalist architecture to me.

And  Support --w.carter-Talk 11:33, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

•  Support Lovely perspective. 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 12:26, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
• Weak  Support Good composition. Looks a bit posterized in the background (stairs). --XRay ^talk 13:02, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --ElBute (talk) 15:57, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support per Ikan's observation about how you avoided blowing out the lights ... that's the only way this could have worked. Daniel Case (talk) 02:44, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Ralf Roleček 13:34, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support − Meiræ 23:05, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 05:02, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --LivioAndronico ^(talk) 17:29, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 12 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /INeverCry 17:28, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

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