One of the Juneau Village Towers apartment buildings, photographed in the soft haze of our misty “wintry mix” today.
With their Brutalist looks, the towers of this apartment complex have always reminded me of the old Soviet Bloc style housing. Ugly, utilitarian, and possibly even slightly menacing. But the mist hanging over downtown Milwaukee today softens the concrete structure’s hard edges.
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I am a college professor (PhD in English, concentration rhetoric) at Milwaukee School of Engineering, where I teach film and media studies, political science, digital society, digital storytelling, writing for digital media, and communication. While fragments of my teaching and scholarship interests may quite naturally meander over to my blog, this space is intended to function as a creative outlet, not as part of my professional practice. Opinions are my own, etc.
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As long as the elevator doesn’t go out.
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It’s a long walk down😄
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Brutal in fact
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Hahahaha😂
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Yes. Describing them as conjuring up images of “Soviet Bloc style housing” and “[u]gly, utilitarian, and possibly even slightly menacing” is very accurate, at least in my opinion. I’d hate to have to live in one of those buildings.
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Same here, although I feel guilty casting aspersions on buildings that surely are still housing people even today. Of course, that’s me projecting my Midwestern American sensibilities onto the situation. Maybe if I had a different value system (like, if I became a communist?), I’d see something I’m missing now.
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I love the contrast of the tree and the bench as well. Just such an interesting picture.
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I was walking back to my office from a meeting and thought exactly the same thing!
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