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Re:Skopje’s eccentric post office (2021) by PhilipRoman on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @03:56PM (#43188112)
Call me unsophisticated but the building in that picture is beautiful. It won't win any awards, but the place as a whole is very pleasing to the eye.
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Re:Skopje’s eccentric post office (2021) by BobAliceInATree on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @10:06PM (#43190892)
It's all very superficial. When you get up close to it, you can see it's not built very well. And if you just walk a block or two away, it gets significantly more dirty and grungy.

I wouldn't be surprised if 20-30 years from now, it's all crumbling.

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Re:Skopje’s eccentric post office (2021) by supersrdjan on Thursday February 27, 2025 @01:23AM (#43191854)
It’s already decaying, tiles coming loose, glues coming undone, grime building up. And yeah, up close everything looks cheap, like it was built to be a temporary movie set.

(Talking strictly about the neoclassical stuff.)

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