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Old Posted Sep 16, 2012, 1:11 PM
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fine but the rogers bldg structure itself evokes outer loop suburbia, not urban dystopia. although i suppose those suburban ring road office park bldgs are a kind of dystopia in themselves. office space/salaryman world and all that.

back to more urban or bladerunner-esque dystopia, i would cite london's barbican as a prime example. here in nyc our version of that would be roosevelt island. also, century city in los angeles is another that comes to mind, mostly due to being the setting for conquest of the planet of the apes. 60s-70s futurist settings or earlier seem to evoke this effect more than 80s-present bldgs and settings do.

doesnt have to be bldgs either, for example jg ballard's westway. of course, everything jg ballard=dystopian.
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Well, Co-op City and Cabrini Green combined are over-shadowed.
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Doesn't get much more dystopian than the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago -


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Cityplex Towers, Tulsa

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Doesn't get much more dystopian than the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago
That's a pretty menacing photo, but any building would look dystopian if it were given the same stylistic treatment. Personally, I never got a dystopian vibe from the MCC. In fact, I find the Willis Tower a few blocks away much more dystopian (though I still love it).

Another photo of the MCC:


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Still looks pretty dystopian to me.

I've seen it in person countless times, and I'm always struck by how evil it looks.
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Richard J. Daley Library (University of Illinois at Chicago), designed by Walter Netsch:

http://www.uic.edu/depts/oaa/walkingtour/12library.html

Behavioral Sciences Bldg (UIC), also by Netsch:

http://www.uic.edu/depts/oaa/walkingtour/9bsb.html
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those buildings in chicago would look more natural if they had human (or goat) blood running down the sides.
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Some housing projects in the Paris' suburbs have a dystopian look :

Noisy-le-Grand (used by Terry Gilliam in Brazil) :








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These monstrosities are surprisingly in keeping with Sublime/dystopian tradition. Ledoux and Boulle would be proud.
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Ahhh! My eyes! The famous crack stacks of minneapolis!
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Sao Paulo's Victor Civita Plaza:

It may not fit preconceived notions of the dystopian aesthetic, however I cannot think of a more apt example. The Plaza consists of a series of walkways raised above a contaminated site. The trees, plants and ecologies that we traditionally associate with health and recreation are here too contaminated for humans to interact with. The Plaza is located on a a brownfield site previously used for garbage incineration. Is this the future of our post-industrial cities?

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The Torre De David in Caracas. Designed to be an officer tower but was abandoned in 1993 and became a vertical slum in the past couple of years.
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The Torre De David in Caracas. Designed to be an officer tower but was abandoned in 1993 and became a vertical slum in the past couple of years.
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absolutely fascinating. I've never seen anything like that core...except parts of the interior of the walled city of kowloon (the courtyard above the yamen).
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I've spent a while inside exploring the Cityplace Complex in Tulsa. It's just as bad on the inside.

Here's Fort Worth's highrise jail.

DSC_0518 by Micro55, on Flickr

I've also been inside here as part of a tour with my college. I actually was depressed for days afterwards, seeing how these people lived, worked, walked around with chains, knowing they had families, and that some of them had taken and ruined lives. Some of the prisoners were sticking their arms through the bars, begging for anything and declaring innocence. Incredibly dreary atmosphere.
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Ahhh! My eyes! The famous crack stacks of minneapolis!
The term is a bit of a misnomer. The original crack stacks were the Hiawatha Towers which are a public housing project a short distance away but people in the suburbs thought that was a reference to Riverside Plaza so that became the crack stacks in people's minds. The Hiawatha Towers were a much more dangerous and socially dysfunctional place. They are also much less interesting architecturally. At least Riverside Plaza is so over the top in its' brutalism that it has an ugly/beautiful thing going on, the Hiawatha Towers just sit there:


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