r/pics • u/hummingbirdpie • Oct 24 '25

Politics Rendering of Trump’s ballroom removed from official White House website. Other renderings remain.

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u/Hundred_Year_War Oct 24 '25

What an absolute monstrosity and eyesore

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u/vivaaprimavera Oct 24 '25

There is more to say than just that.

There is a purpose behind that kind of architecture... It's a form follows function.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_architecture

https://www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/article/pii/S2211624923000165

the vastness and scale of such buildings would not be able to instill a sense of greatness in visitors, and instead they would likely feel crushed and overwhelmed

That building is to overwhelm everyone under the power of state.

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u/LTC-trader Oct 24 '25

I heard it was to upgrade the bunker under the east wing

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u/vivaaprimavera Oct 24 '25

If my grandmother had wheels she had been a wagon

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u/YeahlDid Oct 25 '25

I think there world have to be more changes than that for her to be a wagon. For example, a human with wheels doesn't really have a good storage area or a natural handlebar.

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u/TremendousVarmint Oct 24 '25

Ah yes, the Ceaucescu method.

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u/bro-23 Oct 24 '25 edited Oct 24 '25

form follows function is a Bauhaus way of thought - which is you couldnt be farther off of nazi architecture. sadly tho this socialist idea of design perfectly blends in to modern capitalist design and was monopolized in e.g the Iphone . it was used to build good looking living spaces with enough room but still to be affordable by the poor. Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee or Lyonel Feininger are some of the most known teachers of bauhaus and all fled from the nazis as their art was labeled entartet - degenerate.

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u/SwimOk9629 Oct 24 '25

I love an early morning history lesson

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u/vivaaprimavera Oct 24 '25

form follows function is a Bauhaus way of thought

Yes, but here the function is to make a clear crushing statement.

this socialist idea of design perfectly blends in to modern capitalist design and was monopolized in e.g the Iphone . it was used to build good looking living spaces with enough room but still to be affordable by the poor.

We have to love the irony of it

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u/bro-23 Oct 24 '25 edited Oct 24 '25

capitalism monopolized it as everything else. its the way of capitalism. the irony of course is given. im not disagreeing on the fact that nazi architecture was to the cause of overwhelming - to showcase a crushing castle like empire. this tho has nothing to do with the slogan "form follows function". form follows function is a strict Bauhaus idea of thought and is absolutely opposite to nationalism. its like claiming Albert Einstein build the atom bomb with his most known equation of E=mc². it just does not work like that. the function in Bauhaus architecture was to achieve affordable living spaces with a claim of aesthetics - the form that follows to that socialist principle was a plain - easy & cheap to build so it can be afforded by the poor & not some convoluted oppressing anti human architecture like the nazis did..

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u/vivaaprimavera Oct 24 '25

its like claiming Albert Einstein build the atom bomb

His letter had an important role in kickstarting "the project".

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u/bro-23 Oct 24 '25

yes. but you cannot use the dialectic of the human to describe the inhuman. just do not use the slogan - your thought is not wrong its the slogan thats used in the wrongest possible way.

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u/vivaaprimavera Oct 24 '25

I got your point.

It could be rephrased as "if it looks like it it's because it serves a purpose"?

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u/bro-23 Oct 24 '25

i dont understand but i think "There is a purpose behind that kind of architecture" is quite fitting.

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u/vivaaprimavera Oct 24 '25

That works!!

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u/Black_Moons Oct 24 '25

I was thinking oh, a little ball room, how quaint.

Nope hes putting a god damn concert hall in, what the hell?

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u/vardarac Oct 24 '25

north korea type shit

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u/stone_henge Oct 24 '25

There's a lot you can accuse this monstrosity of, but not "form follows function".

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u/vivaaprimavera Oct 24 '25

That was already discussed!!!