To be fair, its probably better than those plastic spiral slides they used to have that seemed like they were designed to generate static electricity…
Do those kinds of slides even still exist? Y’all know what I’m referring to right?
Hmm this just gave me a thought… We could harness the power generated from hyperactive kids sliding down those slides at Burger King, and feed it back into the grid.
Compare with this real concrete slide from Romania, built in 1964
Brutalist playground!
Go ahead children, train your spatial abilities in an entertaining manner, for the revolution!
Looks kind of awesome as a skate ramp
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
Aw, I thought it was so beautiful and it turns out it was because an artist made it to be beautiful.
That’s really cool! Thanks for adding that!
Edit: That site also has this super cool sculpture. https://umtychy.pl/131912-tychy-kosmolot-ii-na-os-m
Where’s my brutalist hempcrete future I was promised?
In the dustbin of history, along with Brutalism itself.
People got too high and forgot to implement the plan.
That’s a total misrepresentation of a late soviet playground!
Where are handles and stopper you can kill yourself with while sliding? Where’s the Hole in the end, the one you feed bad kids to (and it starts to call you ‘tovarish’ at some point)? Where’s someone’s dad (also from CheKa) who takes kids out and never returns them.
You can do better Leutenant Squid. That’s said, I forgive you. But you’d not like to know the lenght my tolerance can go.
Don’t worry, “exclusion zone” means zone where danger is excluded.
Ahh this brings back some childhood memories. I loved framing westeners for crimes that the party committed. That was my favourite subject in school.
It’s a mini bobsled track
I get it’s concrete, but you could totally polish concrete and it would make a great slide.
I lived by a concrete slide that you needed cardboard to use like a sled in order to go down. Otherwise the slide would burn the everliving shit out of you if you didn’t, but damn it was fun
Yes, I also had access to drainage channels and a dam back in the day.
Kinda looks like it once had a layer of sheet metal attached to it at one point.
There’s a granite slide near me that they say gets faster with use, and they were correct. Fastest slide I’ve ever gone down.
There’s something about this wide, flat concrete slide that makes me think it’s not going to work the same
Fun is mandatory.
You see ass-destroying slide, I see the makings of a FFA KoTH paintball/airsoft arena.
They call the design movement Brutalism because the concrete slides brutality shred your ass.
This unironically looks really freaking fun.
A great tag/grounders arena
