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cross-posted from: https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/701420324655555426

I was summoned for jury duty and all I got was this pretty photograph.

#architecture #NewJersey #Newark #BlueSky

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Looks like you got summoned to the prison for jury duty.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

When I was a kid I used to drive by the Pirelli building all the time and dreading that I might have to go to work in a big, beige building like that one day. I never liked buildings like that until somehow it just clicked for me in my late twenties. Now I think brutalism and similar styles are wonderful.

Anyway, maybe I'm just a weirdo, but it was actually surprisingly pleasant in there: clean and calm with friendly, easy going staff. I kind of regret getting excused a little bit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] sangriaferret 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's a beautiful building but it's frightening to see in real life. A monolithic lair for some unseen unknowable horror.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Part of what I like about it is that it's not pretending to be something else. It looks like a an extremely secure, resilient building, which is exactly what it is, but it still looks good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I actually think thats a pretty building, while finding the other buildings mentioned in this thread boring to ugly. Just to put in my two cents. At least this one has a prettier color.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh. You like brutalism.

Well look where I went to school.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

A lot of US Courthouses are physically connected to the Jailhouse and PD, I assume it's the same for other nations but idk.