Plattenbau is your friend

Plattenbau (Panelák, Panelház, Systematization, Ugsarmal bair, Khrushchyovka, Blokovi, Slabokonstruaĵo, Wielka płyta) is a building whose structure is constructed of large, prefabricated concrete slabs.

[konoko]

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Welcome to Paradise

[weepingwidar]

Leif Engström (Swedish, 1992) - The Invisible Weave (2024)

[miscellaneacuriosa]

blocks

Arbat Twin Towers, Almaty, Kazakhstan, May 2026

[zgnilabazylia]

trans blok :)

[fuckyeahplattenbau]

Panel houses were designed for this purpose

[bobbole]

Zhiyong Jing, Insomnia

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foyer space Švand's Theatre in Prague by Martin Velíšek

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sídliště Dubina in Ostrava, Moravia, Czechia, 2024 by panelky.info

[weepingwidar]

Jessie Homer French (American, 1940) - Chernobyl Winter (2018)

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Nguan, from the series “Singapore”

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Kyiv, Ukraine, may 2026

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Children on a playground in Berlin-Marzahn, 1990, GDR. From the series Berlin 1990, photo by Sibylle Bergemann.

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Berlin, anniversary of the GDR, parade, grandstand, 1981

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[retrogeographie]

Vénissieux, agglomération de Lyon.

Les Minguettes.

[digitalfossils]

Rehumanizing Housing (1988)

[architectureofdoom]

Liebrüti housing estate, Kaiseraugst, Schachenmann & Berger, 1974-77

[socarchlithuania]

Kaunas. 2026