Brutalist playground!
Go ahead children, develop your spatial abilities in an entertaining manner, for the revolution!
That unironically looks like a good time. I hate metal slides cuz they always build up a lot of static electricity and burn my ass during the summer
I don’t know that you’d get much speed going down that slide. Or slide very far either.
People have forgotten the simple joy of climbing to the top of a sketchy structure and suffering major contusions and broken bones on the way down.
For instant fun, just add skateboard!
I was thinking this was intended for skateboards and scooters.
The sand at the bottom suggests otherwise.
It’s amazing that something as inhuman as brutalism ever developed.
When you’re thinking of brutalist structures you have to keep in mind the architectural world they were coming into. How the world had rarely seen such, flat, pure surfaces. We take them for granted now, every box building ever built owes something of itself to brutalisim.
But in the wake of WWII, I think it made a statement that things done in this building are done in a modern way. No gargoyles, no baron von-fuckpants, none of the old world trappings.
This unironically looks really freaking fun.
Compare with this real concrete slide from Romania, built in 1964
For anyone interested, this is one of a series of sculptures in Poland meant to evoke playground equipment. You can crawl on it, but it’s not actually meant as a slide.
https://umtychy.pl/131896-tychy-rzezbiarskie-formy-zabawowe-na-os-g-zjezdzalnia