[Video] - Poland has a HDB block almost 1km long, you also want this in Sg?

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[bobby]

Only if our ministers paid salary are the same as the Polish ones…

 

[laksaboy]

Proven right again.

Thread 'Now we know why so many buildings in SG are brutalist and soulless'

May 26, 2026

The only aesthetically pleasing buildings are the traditional Malay, traditional Chinese and British colonial buildings built before the 1970s.

"Brutalist architecture was literally designed with human psychology as a metric, where the desired end state was a design that made people experience feeling as though they're controlled by an authority, feelings of hopelessness and a sense of unnerving presence.

It was literally an attempt by the Soviet Union to control people by forcing them to live in a sterile and soulless...

• laksaboy
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[404]

Sinkie has the longest HDB block at the junction of Serangoon Rd and Whampoa W

 

[syed putra]

The are Soviet relics. Just like the hdb's. Housing for the common folks.