Anon is no Architect or even a Realtor. If anon's disgust for these strip malls lining every road reached a boiling point over ten years ago, don't even want to imagine the disgust our President has been feeling for even longer. Thing is, ten years ago, anon had ZERO clue regarding the Communist infiltration of this Country and the buildings being just another tip on the iceberg being rubbed into our faces 365-24/7.
Soviet Brutalist architecture Louis Kahn is said to have invented the modern steel reinforced concrete structure in 1903…Reinforced concrete soon proved to be a revolutionary material: cheap and durable. By 1905 hundreds of new buildings were made with this. In 1929, when the Soviet Union set up its first five-year plan and needed to build large numbers of apartment blocks for its citizens, it invited the Kahns to set up a school of architecture in Moscow. This school is said to have taught over 4000 practicing architects. Later, in the post-war years, when Britain needed to set up inexpensive but large scale construction it reinvented the Soviet style of the 1930s and 40s. This was dubbed The New Brutalism. https://archive.md/BNlVC https://anotherglobaleater.wordpress.com/tag/soviet-brutalist-architecture/
First, the rapid industrial growth demanded by Stalin in the years before the war pressed him to pursue the fastest and most efficient building methods available. The reinforced concrete technique that most of these buildings share was developed by Albert Kahn and his brother, Julius, in Detroit in 1895. Essentially replacing wood with rebar, the major advantages to building in this manner were fire prevention and less restrictive interiors…
In the early 1930's, the Soviet government's American Trade commission, led by Saul G. Bron, contracted the Kahn firm to build the Stalingrad Tractor Factory (1929), the first of its kind in the USSR. Quickly afterward, the Soviet government signed a second agreement with Kahn, naming their firm the consulting architects of all future industrial construction in the country.
They also established an architectural academy, to be led by another Kahn brother, Moritz, in Moscow. This trained roughly 4,000 Soviet architects and engineers and led to some 500 buildings to be designed for the first Five-Year Plan. These architects would go on to dominate the Russian landscape for years to come… https://archive.is/JPUWO https://gwern.net/doc/economics/2010-melnikovaraich.pdf