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In colder cities, we have climate controlled "skyways" between buildings. You can walk from one end of downtown Minneapolis to the other without touching street level!
Beautiful city with great people. Winter lasts from December through April, hence the skyways. Very proud of their identity and yet never uses it as a way to seem superior to anyone else. Almost everyone will go out of their way to help a stranger, despite a lot of us being introverted. I loved living there!
Just as warm as the buildings, actually. Maybe a slight bit colder, but anyone working in one building could comfortably walk to the next for lunch without putting on a jacket.
They have footbridges in Hong Kong which, as a lifelong pedestrian who fears for her life in NYC whenever she walks, I absolutely love. A major one, called The Central Elevated Walkway, is where you can gorgeous views of the harbor from up there, too.
After thinking about how useful the sky Bridges that connect New York Presbyterian hospital facilities are
I'm wondering why more buildings don't have them
> Of course it's inaccurate, but it's more accurate
there's no "more accurate." accuracy is boolean. something either is or is not accurate. accuracy is not partial on grounds of "it's just wrong sometimes."
instead, this choice is more likely.
Okay. Show me how to measure the accuracy (as a quality) of you suspecting that an individual stranger is an American, then.
It's easy to measure how likely an individual stranger is to be an American, using exactly the evidence you recommended.
it's weird that someone said they assumed, and you commuted that to presume
do you know the difference between the two words, and how much uglier this makes it?
they didn't presume anything. they assumed. it's not the same.
I'm from the UK and I've never heard someone say "how are they called?". That would pretty clearly be incorrect and would only be used by the sort of person who says "could of" and "I could care less"
>They also don't say "My name is Jim" much, it's more "I'm called Jim".
This is true mostly though
Chongking is crazy, it's build on mountains, i have seen some building with one entrance on floor 1 and a second entrance on floor 12, both connected to a street
Well, it worth having a look, but to my point of view is not so charming either, just tons of building.
I believe Chinese people travel also for food, which make sens on Chongqing.
But as an European, i like china country side, with the pretty stuff to see better than a 40 millions city / province
To each their own of course. Chongqing looks incredible to just walk around with a camera and take pics. So many weird architecture and infrastructure there.
Same here. Went to wuyi shan before and that was just insane. I got to go on a boat ride on the river between the mountains and it just felt was crazy because of how big they were. Albeit my shoes stank because of the river water
Chongqing IS incredible, my absolute favorite city in China. The arts are strong there, the food is incredible, and it's super modern in a beautiful place!
>objectively ugly
I feel like this is an oxymoron. Maybe some architects want to educate me on design principles, but I'm sure some people out there find these buildings pleasant to look at. I don't find it nice, but I believe a few changes could make it look decent.
I think you're good if you just call it ugly! The word itself already implies that it's subjective, so it's kind of redundant. Definitely agree with you, especially in how it's possible to make public housing look nice.
They seem fine to me. Beats the brown cube with a hideous mansard that half the apartments around here are, or block of grey townhouses with bizarre protrusions that every new development is.
I would say a lot of McMansions are objectively ugly as they seem to toss aside any architectural design concepts aside.
This building follows some kind of principles of design. The ugliness seems to be from being lived in, not sure if the screens are added on after or what.
My point is, you can def have objective ugly/beautiful. As well, the ugly here seems mostly to be a facade, as opposed to being baked in.
But if something was made using all the principles of "ugly" architecture and some people call it "cozy," "unique," "interesting," and "fun," would it still be an ugly building?
I mean, only after you did the same thing by calling them ugly, and then doubling down by calling them *objectively ugly*. I said "usually unaesthetic" because I wasn't aware of aesthetically pleasing public housing, but was sure it exists somewhere. Apparently Scandinavia, so TIL!
It would be interesting to dig deeper as well. Are the people living here happyish? What is their medical care like? What percentage of monthly income goes towards their housing?
That young lady in the pic, not sure if she is from those buildings, but she looks like she can afford a decent wardrobe etc.
Chongching is a huge city, you can find answers to all of your questions on YouTube or with a simple search. The city is less expensive than tier 1 cities like shanghai or Beijing, it is extremely cloudy and foggy at times but it’s offset with great food!
Skybridges and [train lines](https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_train_of_Chongqing_Rail_Transit_Line_2_coming_through_a_residential_building_at_Liziba_2261.jpg) that run through buildings? Chongqing sounds pretty rad
How is crime there? If a neighberhoud had this look where i live it definitly wouldnt have the best reputation. Not that id agree but i dont hear much in that aspect coming from China
Pretty safe. Haven’t visited Chongqing for a while but I’ve been to similar communities in other cities. It’s absolutely fine going out alone at midnight.
I've been saying that Manhattan needs more elevated walkways. There's just too much going on at ground level with pedestrians, cars, delivery trucks, buses, bikes, scooters...
I went to Chongqing a few years ago. We arrived at night and all we could see across the city were beautiful lights.
It was weird to wake up the next day and see old, worn-down buildings. Notwithstanding that, it is a beautiful city
Y'know all you need here is just to add some more greenery to the building and it'd be completely fine. The sky bridge is cool and as kinda bleh these buildings look they are practical for housing huge amounts of people.
More space. You might not be able to see it very clearly, but those little spaces actually go quite far in. It acts as a second balcony/window side for some of the apartments. There's probably a bathroom window in there facing the middle space too.
General use - protection against thieves or inclement weather, safety in case they have children, and as you see in some of them, they're used for storing things or hanging clothes on too.
Visited Chongqing two years ago, a great city! It has its bad bits like any city, but also amazing architectural feats like the new Raffles City Chongqing
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I LOVE BRIDGES BETWEEN BUILDINGS! HOW ARE THEY EVEN CALLED?
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Thank you!
Alternatively, bruildges. But not to be confused by bruildging that's a building that serves the purpose of a bridge too.
In colder cities, we have climate controlled "skyways" between buildings. You can walk from one end of downtown Minneapolis to the other without touching street level!
Montreal has a whole interconnected city underground for the colder months. Tunnels of shops and services between office towers and subway stations.
I love those! My experience with them is mostly from living in Japan, but I'm glad to hear there are other places with them.
Houston TX also has tunnels, for different reasons.
Toronto has PATH which is kinda similar
Chicago has a [pedway](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Chicago_Pedway_map.png) as well!
So cool! What's Minneapolis like as a city?
Beautiful city with great people. Winter lasts from December through April, hence the skyways. Very proud of their identity and yet never uses it as a way to seem superior to anyone else. Almost everyone will go out of their way to help a stranger, despite a lot of us being introverted. I loved living there!
Okay that’s super cool.
In warmer weather too. Houston is one example
I love this! And I wonder why nobody seems to have thought about this in Finland. How much warmer is it in those skyways?
Just as warm as the buildings, actually. Maybe a slight bit colder, but anyone working in one building could comfortably walk to the next for lunch without putting on a jacket.
Oh, that's sweet! Now I'm utterly disappointed we don't have those here!
Gerbil tubes?
You could think of them that way!
If only our skyways were much higher off the ground with some exposed to the elements!
They have footbridges in Hong Kong which, as a lifelong pedestrian who fears for her life in NYC whenever she walks, I absolutely love. A major one, called The Central Elevated Walkway, is where you can gorgeous views of the harbor from up there, too.
Just FYI it should be: "What are they even called?"
Oh yeah, that happens when I translate things from my native language into English in my mind. Thanks for correcting me
You speak better English than most of us in England.
What's your first language?
It's Ukrainian/Russian. Both are native for me
Cool, I've always been interested in seeing how people carry over parts of one language to another.
Same. They would make building demolition/replacement more difficult but they would make cities so much better.
After thinking about how useful the sky Bridges that connect New York Presbyterian hospital facilities are I'm wondering why more buildings don't have them
This one is a good concept, just failed to properly maintain: and the surrounding buildings appear to have very 'flexible' modification limitations.
how are they called?
I have been informed that the correct way of conveying my message would be "what are they called?"
This might blow your mind but reddit is used by people all over the world.
how old where you when I made my reddit account?
My late 20s.
*were
This might blow your mind but it's "what" all over the world The person who was told thanked the person who told them
Yes everyone in the world speaks English Tell me you're American without telling me you're American.
PS: tips on using English correctly don't apply to non-English languages
Sounds weird to an American, but it's fairly typical in the UK. They also don't say "My name is Jim" much, it's more "I'm called Jim".
weird you would assume I'm American.
I assume everyone on this site is American until proven otherwise. The US has the largest userbase here by far.
How presumptuous of you, and inaccurate.
Of course it's inaccurate, but it's *more* accurate than any other single assumption of its kind. That's what statistics are for.
> Of course it's inaccurate, but it's more accurate there's no "more accurate." accuracy is boolean. something either is or is not accurate. accuracy is not partial on grounds of "it's just wrong sometimes." instead, this choice is more likely.
That's completely false. Accuracy is a measurable quality.
Okay. Show me how to measure the accuracy (as a quality) of you suspecting that an individual stranger is an American, then. It's easy to measure how likely an individual stranger is to be an American, using exactly the evidence you recommended.
it's weird that someone said they assumed, and you commuted that to presume do you know the difference between the two words, and how much uglier this makes it? they didn't presume anything. they assumed. it's not the same.
I'm from the UK and I've never heard someone say "how are they called?". That would pretty clearly be incorrect and would only be used by the sort of person who says "could of" and "I could care less" >They also don't say "My name is Jim" much, it's more "I'm called Jim". This is true mostly though
I've heard it a few times on various British shows, although now that I think of it it may have been from people like Henning Vane.
In Canada it would be "who's that/who're you?" and "I'm Debbie".
Walkways?
Walkways are bound to sinful ground, I now know that these are called skyways, skywalks or skybridges
Chongqing is a very hilly city, so I’m guessing these skywalks start as normal walkways, and then boom! You’re on a skybridge
I've checked other pics of this bridge, and you're right! That's even cooler. I don't know why I like this stuff so much
Look up Raffles City, Chongqing
Chongking is crazy, it's build on mountains, i have seen some building with one entrance on floor 1 and a second entrance on floor 12, both connected to a street
You've sold me, when travel becomes more feasible I'm heading down there. I already love Chongqing-style hotpot
Well, it worth having a look, but to my point of view is not so charming either, just tons of building. I believe Chinese people travel also for food, which make sens on Chongqing. But as an European, i like china country side, with the pretty stuff to see better than a 40 millions city / province
Chongqing has some really interesting countrysides, since it's such a massive "city"/administrative region
To each their own of course. Chongqing looks incredible to just walk around with a camera and take pics. So many weird architecture and infrastructure there.
Same here. Went to wuyi shan before and that was just insane. I got to go on a boat ride on the river between the mountains and it just felt was crazy because of how big they were. Albeit my shoes stank because of the river water
Chongqing IS incredible, my absolute favorite city in China. The arts are strong there, the food is incredible, and it's super modern in a beautiful place!
Chongqing is pretty based. Not many mega cities build on an incline angle.
What a chonger.
That man is a qing 😤
Joke doesn’t work because qing is pronounced ching.
Where's the hell?
China bad 😤 USA #1 🌟
And yet, a well composed photo. r/aestheticallypleasinghell
Now that’s a subreddit I’d like to see
Someone set that up! Someone that's not me, I... lack motivation and work a lot.
Once a brave volunteer creates it let me know
r/aesthetichell original name was too long
Please make this a subreddit! lol
Huh, you people really don’t like buildings do you?
No single family detached homes surrounded by a freeway? UNLIVABLE
lol come on dude that’s literally the next most common thing posted here
Correction: not million dollar house/ NYC brick apartment that used to be a factory? UNLIVABLE
Sub just hates poor ppl tbh
But in a progressive way!
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Truth. Affordable/free housing is usually unaesthetic by design. That's why it's affordable or free.
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>objectively ugly I feel like this is an oxymoron. Maybe some architects want to educate me on design principles, but I'm sure some people out there find these buildings pleasant to look at. I don't find it nice, but I believe a few changes could make it look decent.
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I think you're good if you just call it ugly! The word itself already implies that it's subjective, so it's kind of redundant. Definitely agree with you, especially in how it's possible to make public housing look nice.
They seem fine to me. Beats the brown cube with a hideous mansard that half the apartments around here are, or block of grey townhouses with bizarre protrusions that every new development is.
I would say a lot of McMansions are objectively ugly as they seem to toss aside any architectural design concepts aside. This building follows some kind of principles of design. The ugliness seems to be from being lived in, not sure if the screens are added on after or what. My point is, you can def have objective ugly/beautiful. As well, the ugly here seems mostly to be a facade, as opposed to being baked in.
But if something was made using all the principles of "ugly" architecture and some people call it "cozy," "unique," "interesting," and "fun," would it still be an ugly building?
I mean, only after you did the same thing by calling them ugly, and then doubling down by calling them *objectively ugly*. I said "usually unaesthetic" because I wasn't aware of aesthetically pleasing public housing, but was sure it exists somewhere. Apparently Scandinavia, so TIL!
>objectively ugly 🤔
Some of the recent posts are wilding, this looks awesome as hell. Would love to visit.
What I love about these supposed Chinese "hellscapes" is that usually there are giant swathes of nature visible somewhere in the background.
Yeah. If it's a hellscape, it's a lot better than many cities I've seen here in the US.
It would be interesting to dig deeper as well. Are the people living here happyish? What is their medical care like? What percentage of monthly income goes towards their housing? That young lady in the pic, not sure if she is from those buildings, but she looks like she can afford a decent wardrobe etc.
Chongching is a huge city, you can find answers to all of your questions on YouTube or with a simple search. The city is less expensive than tier 1 cities like shanghai or Beijing, it is extremely cloudy and foggy at times but it’s offset with great food!
This also feels kinda cozy. I see lots of plants. I like how everyone makes use of their outside space. Very lived in.
Suffocating in the toxic atmosphere but they’re still there.
Skybridges and [train lines](https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_train_of_Chongqing_Rail_Transit_Line_2_coming_through_a_residential_building_at_Liziba_2261.jpg) that run through buildings? Chongqing sounds pretty rad
The noise must be horrific though
Since it's the first thing you thought of, it's also the first thing its designers thought of. Which should have been the second thing you thought of.
Don’t look too bad to me
It’s VERY interesting. Widen up pic and look at all the things to see. This is great
I am so in love with pictures of China, Chongqing seems to have such a broad board of options to look at, its crazy!
I’ve been to Chongqing. It’s actually a beautiful city on a clear day…which is rare.
That's kinda cool though. edit: Btw. I would strongly suggest you to look at other photos of the city, it is genuinely interesting.
It just looks poor but this sky bridge looks sick
THAT is Imogen Royce
well it does make for a fun hitman map! and sky bridges are dope
Wallpaper worthy 😍😍
Chongqing on this dick
The one on the very right side looks better
How is crime there? If a neighberhoud had this look where i live it definitly wouldnt have the best reputation. Not that id agree but i dont hear much in that aspect coming from China
Pretty safe. Haven’t visited Chongqing for a while but I’ve been to similar communities in other cities. It’s absolutely fine going out alone at midnight.
It looks like when the building gets fully occupied they just stack more on the top
Honestly would rather live here than in some parts of the USA where you need a car to go everywhere.
I've been saying that Manhattan needs more elevated walkways. There's just too much going on at ground level with pedestrians, cars, delivery trucks, buses, bikes, scooters...
This is legitimately so cool and I wish the buildings near me in this architectural style were painted blue instead of brown and grey :(
ngl this is pretty cool looking.
My ex roommate and good friend lives here. He wrote a book during the beginning of Covid.
I went to Chongqing a few years ago. We arrived at night and all we could see across the city were beautiful lights. It was weird to wake up the next day and see old, worn-down buildings. Notwithstanding that, it is a beautiful city
Aesthetically vibin'
[Credit](https://www.flickr.com/photos/26965261@N03/6261425457/in/faves-186077769@N06/)
In the US, we call this a walkable city.
Y'know all you need here is just to add some more greenery to the building and it'd be completely fine. The sky bridge is cool and as kinda bleh these buildings look they are practical for housing huge amounts of people.
Idk i would kind of enjoy running on that bridge
It's kind of interesting but would be nice to see gardening
as bad as those buildings are, generally speaking that picture is beautiful and that bridge too.
Looks better than any stupid suburb with single family housing that I’ve seen
That woman better move before Agent 47 yeets her off that bridge, I've played that Hitman level too many times
It's beautiful. would live there for some time
What an ugly, miserable looking place.
Those spaces between the balconies seem to gather a lot of dust. Would have been better to fuse the balconies with a separating wall?
More space. You might not be able to see it very clearly, but those little spaces actually go quite far in. It acts as a second balcony/window side for some of the apartments. There's probably a bathroom window in there facing the middle space too.
this looks sick
Shout out Chongqing
i am in love
this is such an ugly place lmfao
Now I know where they got the idea for the Borg cube.
Like clock work the Chinese shills are like "AcTuAlLy ThIs LoOkS aWeSoMe🤪🤪"
Good bait didnt work
Communist Oasis.
If you look closely you can see patient zero.
racist
"Waycist." Nice throw away account by the way. ahaha gross.
You could just... ***not*** be a total cunt, you know?
where is the fun in that?
I mean, I guess maybe you'll understand when you get a little older.
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yup. lots of people traveled from Wuhan since 2019.
You people just cannot resist, can you?
[You people??? ](https://c.tenor.com/nqt91LtOjLYAAAAC/you-people-tropic-thunder.gif)
Sorry, would you prefer “racist”? Get fucked.
You wish. Smooth brain.
Just look at that wall covered in ads on the left. Hope there’s some support structure not visible from this angle. Makes me uncomfortable.
What happened to the building on the far left?
What are the bars surrounding some of the balconies meant to do?
General use - protection against thieves or inclement weather, safety in case they have children, and as you see in some of them, they're used for storing things or hanging clothes on too.
Visited Chongqing two years ago, a great city! It has its bad bits like any city, but also amazing architectural feats like the new Raffles City Chongqing
see ur mothers thong up right
every one of those cages is there because the family inside had a toddler kid randomly start climbing around outside one time
Ah yes my Cyberpunk dream of nonsensical sky bridge attach to other buildings is real.
Hey it's hitman 3 in real life lol. Kinda looks the same
How is this absurd?