>>8029332Well yeah I would assume most buildings built over 100s of years ago are not exactly up to modern health, safety and energy efficiency standards. That is not at all a rebuttal to the fact that Communist brutalism is shit.
The fact that you had to go back to buildings constructed by an empire with the architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries to say 'oh Communist buildings good' really says a lot, doesn't it? I wouldn't expect any building constructed in the age of pre-Victorian gas lighting and indoor plumbing to be structurally sound without major updating. Maybe if Bosnia hadn't been under shitty Communism for years they would have been able to correctly fit systems into buildings that literally were not in existence when the buildings were designed and built.
Western Europe has plenty of old buildings, we have houses going back to the medieval era that are safe, but of course they take money and time to fix up for the modern world. The problem with buildings that are literally centuries old is not their poor engineering and design for the time but the fact that the amenities required for modern existence have completely changed and buildings need maintenance.
Those buildings have certainly stood up to time better than Communist shite that is falling apart decades after it's construction. The point is: you can, and should, build things that are not crushing to the human spirit. Obviously if the choice is between 'death by exposure' and living in Communist blocks people would choose the latter - but so would one choose a literal cave over death.
Retard-tier Bosnian take.