Love that cold brutal architecture. A photographer's delight. Thankyou for this.
@markist76
4 жыл бұрын
F*ck it. I'm going to Belgrade. I've been stuck in Thailand for the past 3 months waiting to get back to China. I can't bring myself to going back to the UK so Belgrade it is!. Thanks for the posting the videos!
@davidostrowski679
4 жыл бұрын
Epic! Do it man!
@mihajlobujisic2006
3 жыл бұрын
There is a huge amount of pride in everyone depending on what block you're from.
@davidostrowski679
3 жыл бұрын
thanks! I thought that might be the case,
@davidostrowski679
4 жыл бұрын
Hi everyone! If you prefer reading, you can check out the accompanied blog post at www.thetaoofdavid.com/europe/belgradesbrutalistarchitecture - you can also leave comments there. You can subscribe on my website main page to receive email updates when I post a new blog post! What do you think of brutalist architecture? Next up sees the return of Igor from the Belgrade Eats video, we're doing some proper exploration in some interesting (abandoned!) areas of Belgrade. Then I'm off to Niš for a week. If you have any recommendations, let me know below or send me a DM on Instagram!
@natasastankovic2708
4 жыл бұрын
Hey! Fantastic video! Great observations!!! I really enjoyed it. You figured out how to get unstuck in a lift! So you proved to be an experienced adventurer! Yes, I agree we should respect the cultural heritage! It's interesting term-BRUTAL architecture!
@davidostrowski679
4 жыл бұрын
I was overtaken by the excitement and forgot I had to close the door lol. The one in my place stays shut on it's own. Serbian lifts!!
@natasastankovic2708
4 жыл бұрын
@@davidostrowski679 Hahaha....It's so much fun to see you coping with it! Great job!
@odmorrs
4 жыл бұрын
Welcome to Belgrade 🙌 my city 😁
@petarlukic1885
4 жыл бұрын
And mine 😂
@m.m.o.carmyshop1164
4 жыл бұрын
Hello guys 🙋♂️ David, welcome to Serbia! Enjoy in burek 😁
@bebaspasic2179
4 жыл бұрын
Welcome David to Serbia,glad you like burek 😀 Maja,Peter 🙋♀️
@davidcolman3649
4 ай бұрын
Belgrade architecture is awesome, I have just returned from 2 weeks there and ended up with 8000 images.
@dccoulthard
4 жыл бұрын
"When I'm not filming, I get a little bag of plasma."
@davidostrowski679
4 жыл бұрын
Plazma is life!
@pavle6378
3 жыл бұрын
Next time you visit, make sure to visit blocks 45-70, they are the best and biggest example of brutalist architecture.
@davidostrowski679
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, will try to remember!
@FinnDelMundoTravel
4 жыл бұрын
Loved this video. What a pity you couldn’t charm your way up to the romantic revolving restaurant - those mid-century / space aged looking buildings are interesting!! Off to check your website now.
@davidostrowski679
4 жыл бұрын
Gracias amigo. The tour guide I drove in the Zastava with said he may be able to persuade the security guard. Watch this space!
@wunder1385
4 жыл бұрын
these buildings are absolutely beautiful
@veejhonz1209
4 жыл бұрын
Brutal ❤️
@Ivanhoo11
4 жыл бұрын
Wow man, nice great video. I like very much. Belgrade is vibrant mix city. Amazing brutal arhitecture in that part of city. I'm glad you're not filming modern restaurants, popular places, cafes, city center... this is the real thing
@JohnnyRockermeier
4 жыл бұрын
In Mikhaila Petersons Podcast with Jason Fung she said, she and her Dad ar right now in Belgrade as well - the intellectual Capital of the world.... seems the place to be in 2020!?
@christianpollach9925
3 жыл бұрын
If you come again to Serbia, visit the town of Pirot and the old workers block called staro tigrovo naselje. It unique in Yugoslavia and more like UK
@davidostrowski679
3 жыл бұрын
Cool, I should be back in December!
@Maldives2025
4 жыл бұрын
that lift cracked me up
@thornbird6768
3 жыл бұрын
Monumental 👍🏻 I love it ♥️
@Filip-gv3hu
3 жыл бұрын
You were filming outside my School
@charmaynesavage4869
4 жыл бұрын
Great video as usual
@davidostrowski679
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Charmayne!
@nickthomas181
4 жыл бұрын
Great vid I'm from Burnley ( UK) winner of The 1970 Joseph Stalin Award For Brutal Achertecture and yes I like that Achertecture.Thanks. David check out the vivid colour film the did on the relaunch of Birmingham City Center mid 70s you could have had any from Crossroads do the voice over no,let's go sexy .....Telly Savalas...it's a hoot.I so so want to come to the Balkans on a budget including Serbia as ex Yugo owner ( I towed a small caravan with mine!) I want to to do Yugo tours. Have you ever been to Novi Sad? Would you do a video from there?. Keep up the good work ,cheers.
@davidostrowski679
4 жыл бұрын
@@nickthomas181 omg i need to read about Burnley that's amazing! Yes Novi Sad was originally planned for March for the weekend I was meant to get back from Sweden but then corona happened. Same with Niš. Niš will be in 2 videos time and will be going to Novi Sad in late July!
@nickthomas181
4 жыл бұрын
@@davidostrowski679 I also need to apologise the Joseph Stalin Award is a standing joke . In Burnley Town Center about 1970, they even pulled down our Odeon, not by normal means,(Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation Odeon founder) No in Burnley they had to dynamite it .....to replace it with...Kennings Garage ..I know right . The Bull Ring film I mentioned is good. Burnley has become a miss mash, but Cinema 123 a 1970s brutalist cinema in the town centre in the upper concourse was boarded up for thirty years and only just demolished in the last 12 months remember the rest has been kept so it's cutting through 70s concrete and rebars.
@davidostrowski679
4 жыл бұрын
@@nickthomas181 ha i wouldn't know, typical Londoner never been north of Watford lol
@wildbill9919
5 ай бұрын
I really like the Blok 28 apartment that has windows that resemble TVs.
@neilrmartin1984
4 жыл бұрын
Great stuff! It (the architecture) definitely took a while to grow on me - I'm no Mr Bald 😊. But now having seen it from Belgrade to Bishkek, with numerous points in between, I find it familiar and almost comforting (help ...). As you say the uniformity - and stretch - of the Soviet system is incredible. As for block pride, my prize would definitely go to Tashkent - the citizens there seem to have a genuine pride in their buildings - both inside and out
@davidostrowski679
4 жыл бұрын
Totally with you there sir!! I've always loved it, especially in Chisanau and Bishkek! Tashkent is on my list - my grandmother served there in the army during WW2 after she escaped from Siberia (Poles taken to Siberia in 1940, she even wrote a book!)
@neilrmartin1984
4 жыл бұрын
@@davidostrowski679 Tashkent/Uzbekistan is well worth a visit and (normally) easier to get into than some of the CAS now that the visa requirement has been dropped. Great people, good food and Bukhara, Samarkand etc a must see, although probably not in the height of summer! Hope you get to see it before too long. I also made it to Turkmenistan for a few days but that's another story .. .
@milicaradovic-zupunski2985
3 жыл бұрын
Love the ending of your video. You rock !!!
@arkonalover7993
3 жыл бұрын
These buildings are so cool!
@crissdrums3975
Жыл бұрын
Great video
@davidostrowski679
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, I did a sequel a year later!
@Resmith18SR
4 жыл бұрын
Hi David, You're seeing things and venturing out into places like Serbia and Belarus that I will probably never get to see in person, so it is very interesting. I'm still in Cuernavaca Mexico and it's just starting to reopen, but a lot of places are still closed here. I think July 15th more restaurants and stores will open up here. Have you ever visited the Republic of Georgia? I believe that I or any U.S. citizen can stay there for one year without having to leave the country. I'm not sure about U.K. citizens but it's probably the same. You're living the dream.
@davidostrowski679
4 жыл бұрын
hey rick! RIP Kennons lol. Yeah I've been trying to get to Georgia for ages now, it's still closed to foreigners. also 1 year for me. Also been trying to get back to Mexico but my flight keeps being cancelled.
@Majorfatal1
3 жыл бұрын
You should check "chinese wall" building, the longest building in Bg
@davidostrowski679
3 жыл бұрын
thanks I should be back in December
@Majorfatal1
3 жыл бұрын
Block 21, I can sugest you a guide to Belgrade if you like.. kzitem.info/news/bejne/1G-Y2IBtp5-HhJw
@changename8820
3 жыл бұрын
Nice video, unike 👏👏👏
@narancauk
3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. I am from blok 23. Thank you for doing justice to these old brutalist beauties...May God bless you David and St George protects you on your quests!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@davidostrowski679
3 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Thanks brate! I will have to come back to Blok 23 next time I'm in town! They are absolutely beauties!!
@narancauk
3 жыл бұрын
@@davidostrowski679 I am in that faulty lift building 44 Entrance flat 7.If you around you will get free lodgings. God bless you bro.
@brilliantbutblue
4 жыл бұрын
Hotel Jugoslavia is £39/ $70AUD a night on Booking.com, apparently its very underwhelming but ld love you to stay for a peek. The Housing Districts look like Housing Commission Flats in Australia (very 70's) and the lifts are as dodgy as heck here as well, Grenfell towers comes to mind as a fire hazard!! In Singapore they still build these types of housing estates called HDB "public housing" (l lived there for 5yrs) and much like those you showed each estate has its own community/greenspace/ shops etc. I like seeing the grunge side of cities rather than endless drone shots of rice fields, beaches and blondes in flowey dresses doing the insta worthy shots. "Its not what you see but how you see it" and you portrayed this exceptionally well in your story👍👍
@davidostrowski679
4 жыл бұрын
i reckon i'll have to book a night when i get back from Nis!
@milica7835
3 жыл бұрын
Since you are interested in architecture, you should explore apartment plans of new belgrade cause they're very unique- they had the most flexible space composition and were the most progressively designed in the whole europe back in the 80s, they are mostly open spaced and have walk-through dining areas so that they can be easely reorganized if needed
@milica7835
3 жыл бұрын
Also they were all made almost literally in factories. Industry was at so high level that whole walls, even whole rooms in some cases were made in factories and then transported to the site and then put together like puzzles 🤩
@davidostrowski679
3 жыл бұрын
Awesome, sounds interesting. I am in Mexico now but should be back in Belgrade late December
@buzz895
4 жыл бұрын
Great Video! on a technology note-the red progress line is broken up into very convenient sections. Is this down to your editing or a new KZitem thing? X
@davidostrowski679
4 жыл бұрын
New youtube thing! I write the timestamps in the description and it does it automatically
@dragandraganic
3 жыл бұрын
I don't know why people think of communism when they see brutalist buildings (you make the same mistake in most of the video). Brutalism, as well as its predecessor, the so called International Style, is a movement within western architecture, although probably the best known brutalist architect was actually Japanese. When it comes to mass-scale communal buildings, have you not heard of council estates in the UK? The difference is, they used good materials in Yugoslavia, and tried to be up-to-date with architectural tendencies in the world...
@davidostrowski679
3 жыл бұрын
I have no idea how you came to that conclusion. Everything you said I described in this video and other Belgrade videos. I have been quite clear that brutalism doesn't equal communism and I purposely avoided associating the two in over 20 Serbia videos. I have even mentioned in another video about people mistakingly describing Belgrade as being full of 'communist' buildings. I've also mentioned UK council estates in numerous videos, including in my Minsk videos. Trust me, I spent most of my teenage years up crumbling post-war council blocks in West London
@davidostrowski679
3 жыл бұрын
06:21 - the only mention of communism. This is a direct reference to a video in Minsk I filmed in April 2020. I was comparing Televizorka to khruschyovka post-war architecture there, and I clearly said the word 'similar'. I assume you haven't seen my Minsk videos. Hope that clears it up
@dragandraganic
3 жыл бұрын
@@davidostrowski679 Sorry, I misunderstood it. True, those buildings WERE built at the time of communism - which in Yugoslavia was different than in other Eastern Bloc countries in that it was much less authoritarian.
@novak83bg
3 жыл бұрын
@@dragandraganic it was less authoritarian and based on workers self-menagment... unique kind of communism
@carlosbermudez1459
4 жыл бұрын
Hey, TOD🙂 Enjoy ur vids😎 Have u ever been in Colombia or Peru?
@davidostrowski679
4 жыл бұрын
hey, yes both, I was in Peru in 2009 and Colombia in 2018 (I did some videos in Medellin)
@mihajlobujisic2006
3 жыл бұрын
Come to block 61
@davidostrowski679
3 жыл бұрын
I should be back in December, we will see!
@qq7647
4 жыл бұрын
15:50...the colour of the river...lulz
@elliotwonderland36
4 жыл бұрын
Did you try plasma + milk?
@davidostrowski679
4 жыл бұрын
Not yet! Someone told me it's common for Serbian kids. Making crunchy nutella is epic!
@buzz895
4 жыл бұрын
@@davidostrowski679 Genghis Khan's armies used to bleed their horses and mix the blood with milk. Yum
@elliotwonderland36
4 жыл бұрын
@@davidostrowski679 Well u have to try it man! It's addictive af. Also there's hot milk or cold milk variant. I eat cold in summer, hot in winter.
@basedlukashenko5249
4 жыл бұрын
is serbia open ?can I come
@davidostrowski679
4 жыл бұрын
yes borders are open as normal
@goodfella5654
4 жыл бұрын
Lukasenko is Serbian friend!
@rebeccar4312
4 жыл бұрын
did you make it to mexico and if so would love to hear about your flight experience in these pandemic laden days...
@davidostrowski679
4 жыл бұрын
nope my flight has been cancelled 3 times now. I wrote a blog post about my flight from Minsk to Belgrade, was interesting!
@novak83bg
4 жыл бұрын
That guy from the outdoor gym looks like he's wearing diapers.. :) Nbg is my favourite part of the city... I love the vibe and the feel of space, green and brutal... And Nbg offers all three... also it has access to both of Belgrade rivers... There is some pride in from what block you are coming, but mostly the pride is just being New Belgradian... Nbgd jbt! (And that wasn't a yugo by the way...) Sorry I had to say that :DDD it's a part of Belgradian spirit to pick on someone when the other guy is showing that he is annoyed :) My advice - try not to explain yourself to other guys (yugotour vid)... I read all the comments back then... When talking to (especially New) Belgradians, play it cool, if you show weakness or have need to explain they will usually pick on you :D Those comments were hilarious man :) You were so defensive and explanatory... and you are British, British sence of humor is similar to ours.. I think that Serbs are the only Slavic nation that has that "western" humor spirit full of cynicism, and you behaved like most other Slavs back then, you took it serious, I remember the comments good... After this analasys of yugotour vid comments :) - Plasma :) it has a plain taste to me, but it's healthy... it has vitamins, minerals, good balance of carbs/protein/fat... that's why it's good for travel... and I'm talking about regular plasma not that icecream sandwich you took :D Sorry if I make mistakes in English, I absolutely hate to make spell checks :D It's a cool vid, I absolutely share your views on architecture and I'm glad to see you again in my hometown! :)
@davidostrowski679
3 жыл бұрын
I obviously didn't read this properly before lol. Yeah that video was hilarious. The only reason I purposely get like that sometimes is comments + arguments = more interaction = youtube promotes the video. The attitude must be my 50% slavic roots lol By the way I should be back in December ;-)
@novak83bg
3 жыл бұрын
@@davidostrowski679 If that was true, than you wouldn't shut those comments off ;) and if everything is in self-promotion and monetarisation than western roots are more dominant in your prrsonality :D December, I just hope we don't have total lockdown, quarantine by than.. /:
@EnriqueMarq
4 жыл бұрын
Oops! ..a distraction, eh
@Jugozvuk
Ай бұрын
Its not brutalist architeccture its only ARCHITECTURE, YOU DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO NAME our Yugoslav heritage like this! THIS IS INSULT!
@jimsullivan6634
3 жыл бұрын
A brutal dictator (Tito) built many brutalist buildings in Serbia. Coincidence?
@Jugozvuk
Ай бұрын
This is pure hatred over Yugoslav architecture. It can be seen that you are not even architect using this disgusting words overr this fine YUGOSLAV ARCHITECTURE!
@hektorhoxha3208
3 жыл бұрын
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3 жыл бұрын
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