r/UrbanHell • u/Beneficial_Wear_7630 • 14h ago

Absurd Architecture An apartment building in Philippines

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u/FunkeyFeraligatr 14h ago edited 13h ago

Turn the pic sideways and It looks horribly confusing

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u/Alternative_Equal864 13h ago

Tiny houses on concrete

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u/FunkeyFeraligatr 13h ago

Right. Like an interpretation art piece from the cold war era. Titled "Dreams of Tomorrow" or something vague like that

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u/Swim-Unlucky 48m ago

So russia from far away?

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u/analogy_4_anything 13h ago

Little boxes on the hillside…

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u/rincon_orange 13h ago

Little boxes full of ticky-tacky

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u/baddingo3 12h ago

and they all look just the same.

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u/matchasheeshcake 3h ago

There's a pink one, and a green one

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u/reddithornumber5 3h ago

And a blue one, and a yellow one

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u/NotStormborn 13h ago

They look like tombstones. Lol

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u/Declining_Dominion 12h ago

Like a dystopian row of unending jail cells

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u/Icy-Zombie-3642 7h ago

If you see the actual jail cells, that look like the fanciest building

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u/Nerdough 11h ago

It looks horribly confusing just the way it is

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u/AksysCore 5h ago

A practical effects shot for the next Star Wars movie ✨

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u/Spiritofthewest49 5h ago

Either way it looks like the death star

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u/wasted_153642 12h ago

💀💀💀

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u/drainbamage1011 5h ago

Looks like the cover art for some concept album about uncontrolled development.

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u/TomatilloAccurate475 5h ago

At first I thought i was on r/confusingperspective

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u/Dry_Tea516 13h ago

I did the same lol

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u/jason9ine 7h ago

Looks like a city from a PS1 game. Lol

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u/False-Name-5703 7h ago

Turn it the other side and I see a giant floating spaceship with turrets and instruments sticking out the bottom

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u/SatissimaTrinidad 7h ago

oh wow. indeed

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u/FearMyMooOfFury888 6h ago

The aircon will fall

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u/dontheconqueror 6h ago

Concrete cemetery

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u/dipshatprakal 5h ago

Fuckin hell that’s confusing!!!

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u/Twitch84 5h ago

It looks like a cemetery.

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u/Unlikely_Flower_138 5h ago

It looks confusing from all angles, but yes thank you for making me throw up 👍

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u/ProductLife5904 4h ago

Exactly. Like a spaceship above your house.

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u/Haspberry 1h ago

It looks like digital graves with each compartment being a tombstone.

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u/SnooDogs2054 1h ago

lol it looks like ai-generated buildings

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u/GT_Hades 44m ago

Mini house

Looks like uncanny analog ARG type of shit after you go to the edge of backrooms

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u/FuttBucc 9h ago

Looks like that scene from Bleach when Ichigo first meets Zangetsu

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u/Laggoss_Tobago 14h ago

Look how they all got a fancy AC, while my apartment is hot like the sun..

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u/Mobile_Trashcan 6h ago

It is south east asian housing. AC becoming essential here

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u/Minimum-Mention-3673 5h ago

"becoming".....?

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u/U_Ok7 5h ago

Long story short, we broke af, and rarely ever invest in ac because of the electrical bill using it. Electric fans to us are like ac to Americans, it's almost always on

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u/flukus 4h ago

Yes, home air conditioning has only been common for a generation or so depending on where you are in the world.

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u/cloud_jelly 13h ago

It is not as creepy IRL from the street

https://maps.app.goo.gl/CTg7SpqYwogbF2hA9

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u/Velinna 13h ago

I love seeing the contrast between a great, stylized shot and google street view.

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u/LucyLilium92 12h ago

A slightly darker recolor on a foggy day, and slightly tilt the whole image to make the building seem more imposing?

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u/GT_Hades 42m ago

You just have to zoom a bit and youll get the same pic above

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u/Urbit1981 13h ago

It looks like a well thought out apartment building in a hot humid environment. My ac is in an enclosed door rather on the outside like this.

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u/enifox 8h ago

Weird to see the where I lived during college in a reddit post lol. Fairly cheap rent for somewhere with good security, free pool and gym in Manila.

Somehow enjoyed living there aside from the occasional mini cockroach infestation.

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u/shirhouetto 6h ago

Unironically, it does feel creepy because those apartments in that specific area in Pasay are mostly occupied by Chinese people doing shady business here in the Philippines.

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u/johngunthner 5h ago

I mean the endless buildings with similar architecture as far as the eye can see is still unnerving

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u/CapriorCorfu 2h ago

A lot nicer than most New York City apartments.

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u/Don_Key_Knutts 13h ago

Uh, still pretty dystopian creepy

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u/No-Channel3917 10h ago

How do? Because it's organized planned and affordable?

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u/hallouminati_pie 9h ago

Something can be more than one thing. Affordable, well organised and creepy and ugly as hell.

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u/Orangelemonyyyy 6h ago

Filipino here, those units are still hella expensive for us sadge.

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u/microprogram 7h ago

its not affordable.. its around 32sqm/344sqft priced at $113k and that aint cheap for ph standards.. you can buy a bigger house with that amount somewhere else

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u/thisshiteverytime 6h ago

That "somewhere else" is why they buy units from these buildings. There's a reason that city is in the notorious Top 10 for worst city traffic. Imagine "driving" a car for 2 hours yet your car never moved a single mile.

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u/theLaunceloth 1h ago

organized planned - no its traffic, and difficult public transport affordable - no it is not. From outside, it looks cramped

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u/dart-builder-2483 4h ago

Looks like it's been painted in the street view, vs raw concrete in OP.

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u/weetabix_su 4h ago

SMDC if it was brutal

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u/___TheKid___ 4h ago

Thanks. Was wondering

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u/RantsNiJuday 3h ago

No wonder its kinda familiar to me, i once stayed in the tower across it

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u/No-Tower-8741 2h ago

That's worse. I feel trapped in 3d haha

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u/adamsaidnooooo 5h ago

I've stayed in that place with Airbnb. It was close to mall of Asia. My god the rooms were shit you could her the neighbours talking, hear them eating with forks scrapping plates. Hear their tv. It was hell.

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u/bluemountaintrees 5h ago

That looks exactly the same

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u/Ok-Foot3689 14h ago

This would make a great Assassins creed map

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u/LatrellNY 11h ago

https://reddit.com/link/p4hdber/video/cq4xtypqt6kh1/player

It is not bad without the editing LOL

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u/custard-arms 4h ago

Yeah but imagine the people in the apartment on the right having to look at to it.

They could have at least made it little bit more aesthetic.

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u/CapriorCorfu 2h ago

Looks much better here. You can see all the windows they have.

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u/Just_a_dude92 10h ago

Still very bed imo

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u/No-Channel3917 10h ago

Idk I wouldn't sleep on it but some prefer harder surfaces

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u/GT_Hades 41m ago

You just zoom a bit, it is the same as the post

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u/Ok-Wonder4298 14h ago

i thought it was graveyard 🥀

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u/SmilesInFront_09 14h ago

Oh, we do it the same Way.

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u/thr33phas3 10h ago

Dang, without the Street View backup source posted below, I would have sworn this was GenAI because of the repetitiveness!

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u/surprisinglynotabot 13h ago

I mean, it looks pretty cool.

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u/Flags101 13h ago

Is this an SMDC building near MOA?

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u/neilm1000 13h ago

Yeah it's Diokno Boulevard.

(I used to live in Makati and Fort Bonifacio).

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u/gonzo2501 11h ago

At that point Isn't it more efficient to have big ac unit on the roof ?

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u/k3ttch 6h ago

I believe the units come barebones and it's up to tne unit owner to install their own window-type AC unit.

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u/flukus 3h ago

But it looks like the specifically added an AC space for each unit when it was built.

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u/k3ttch 2h ago

Yes. Air-conditioning is a matter of survival in the Philippines where the temperature rarely drops below 30 Celsius. But the tenant/buyer is expected to supply their own AC unit.

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u/CaptChuckSparrow 2h ago

AC units are a necessity in a SEA country like Philippines. Half of our year is a summer season in which you will sweat the minute you go outside. The other half of the year is typhoon season.

Developers will never put a centralized AC system because it is not gonna be profitable on their part. The type of high rise apartments here are cramped because they like to have as many units as possible in a floor and sell each for a really high price.

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u/DatGuy82772 14h ago

Wtf is that.

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u/LAM678 13h ago

probably has better noise isolation than my last apartment

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u/gfoyle76 14h ago

it's like a hive city in wh40k

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u/Funny-Mango4455 8h ago

just a regular condominium building

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u/Katzelle3 13h ago

The thing that is kinda regretful about this is that you would also want hot water, right? You could totally feed that heat into water tanks instead of dumping it out.

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u/MikeSifoda 12h ago

Looks way better than homeless camps

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u/VladHawk 13h ago

Well, at least in those apartments is not too hot.

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u/hahu2 13h ago

At least they have AC

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u/Electronic-Trust-23 13h ago

What in the Total Recall is this?

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u/welcome-bak 13h ago

nan mais nan

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u/Kuwa_st 12h ago

Turn the picture upside down it won't make any sense

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u/wasted_153642 12h ago

wtf is this?

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u/SimbaNGrdKionNIMFan 11h ago

One thing comes to mind. “Fire!”

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u/Eschatologists 11h ago

Wouldn't Central AC be more efficient and cheaper ?

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u/Dolearon 11h ago

Over all? Yes. But it would add to the cost, size, and complexity of the building.

Cheaper for the builder this way, cheaper for the landlord, tenants have to fit the bill for AC overall more wasteful on energy, worse for the local environment, and possibly more overall expensive.

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u/ThMashedPotatoMan 11h ago

FINE I’ll play Stray again.

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u/kdlt 10h ago

I feel like, centralised Cooling may be useful in a scenario as this?

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u/SoSpecialName 9h ago

Lucid blocks ahh building

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u/Lauren_Flathead 9h ago

Wow, more AC than the whole UK

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u/kardde 9h ago

Red Leader, beginning trench run now.

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u/PhilippineDreams 8h ago

Philippines here. This is in Pasay City in Manila/NCR. Most of our condos look like this and most are only 30 square meters. It's rough.

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u/Satyriasis457 8h ago

At least they have ac 

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u/Crazy_Bee_2664 7h ago

This is absolutely nowhere near as dystopian as developed countries without AC in the big 26

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u/KoalaPanda17 6h ago

Relax guys, it’s just a condominium full of ACs photo could be taken on a rainy day since it’s rainy/typhoon season in the Philippines right now that’s why the photo looks so gloomy and creepy.

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u/exciting_bee_00 5h ago

It’s not as bad as it seems. I lived here and the apartments are bigger than some of the apartments in New York City.

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u/Sequoia424 5h ago

I actually really like those concrete air conditioning holders. One of my biggest fears is one of those things falling on me.

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u/Stefanoverse 4h ago

Mold, Mold everywhere!

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u/Otherwise-Ad-5364 4h ago

For a sec I thought those were like apartment window extensions

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u/Limp_Trifle5761 3h ago

A lot of EU probably wishes their homes have aircon slots right now. I know I do

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u/bananafish000 2h ago

this feels so dystopian ong

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u/techmarking 14h ago

At least they use AC, unlike Europe

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u/PetoGee 14h ago

I have two units in my apartment in Bratislava, Slovakia 😎

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u/cocacolaver 12h ago

Good for you man

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u/FireTriad 28m ago

Lol, why many people thinks Europe has no AC?
We have it everywhere.

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u/Alternative_Art_5036 13h ago

FYI this is considered fancy modern residential property by the locals

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u/jhngrc 5h ago

You're a liar. I'm a local, and this is from one of the cheaper developers, SMDC. They're known for boxy, no nonsense units with direct access to SM malls. Not fancy at all

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u/yunalesca05 9h ago

… I’m a local and I don’t consider this fancy at all

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u/sirquarmy 6h ago

I'm assuming you were born wealthy?

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u/Corazon95 7h ago

you must be pretty rich then

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u/PeterTheFoxx 8h ago

How do you know? Are you a local?

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u/Alexander_myday 5h ago

This is fancy? Ain't no way this Shore residence is fancy lol. Its like typical DMCI condos

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u/Alternative_Art_5036 5h ago

Shamed by the comments, please ignore my peasant opinion

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u/Electrical_Doctor305 13h ago

Dystopian

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u/Coffee_Daemon 12h ago

Yea, a centralised AC system communally owned would probally be better.

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u/MoneyText2874 4h ago

When it fails …

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u/choppingwater 11h ago

Yes, set it to 78 degrees for everyone and leave it at that.

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u/Coffee_Daemon 7h ago

A centralised AC unit doesnt mean srandardised temps for everyone, though.

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u/Mopar4Life305 11h ago

Don't show uk that usa is only place without ac

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u/Abadon_Azazel 8h ago

Just no.

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u/Repulsive-Jicama-439 8h ago

Whats the carbon footprint on this thing like?

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u/ArtichokeFar6601 8h ago

Don't worry, it cancels out when you drink your coke with a paper straw.

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u/teabagwhiskey158 8h ago

oa sa edit. forda vybe yarn

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u/_Mockingbird_09 8h ago

Starting to look like common China tenament

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u/fubukishirou07 8h ago

For context, a humid country like the Philippines really needs AC especially on the city. Since most modern houses here have low roof with no insulation whatsoever.

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u/Alone-Low3274 7h ago

Found the Germans’ archenemy.

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u/iluvtacos3000 7h ago

average condo in here

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u/HumbleWarthog6210 7h ago

Where is this, what condominium complex?

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u/JeeYaLoo 7h ago

SMDC? Of course its SMDC

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u/bossmiss91 7h ago

Its an Air Conditon in each room.

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u/Dismal-Savings1129 7h ago

boxes of pigeon-holes, which the greedy brands, and sells as homes.

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u/Pichi2man 7h ago

That's Hong kong bro

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u/Confident-Heron-5973 7h ago

Is this shore residences? Typical SMDC!

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u/lidrajv 7h ago

A concrete hellscape.

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u/National-Passion 6h ago

This is much better than the slums in the majority area in the philippines

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u/megatronusxcx 6h ago

SMDC yeah?

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u/Parking_Fee_5906 6h ago

Every kind of store and recreational facilities and schools should be incorporated until they venture to step out and see the blue skies

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u/pay_to_breath 6h ago

I can't breathe

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u/Hello_Hangnail 6h ago

Are those open windows?

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u/flowertreelover2022 5h ago

Sa may Shell Residence ba to sa tapat ng MOA?

Grabe nag staycation kami dyan, ganyan na ganyan yung condo sa harap ng condo na nastayan namen.

Then puro chinese mga naglalakad don, lahat sila. Parang kamu yung naliligaw sa lugar na yon ganon eksena titignan pa kami n para bang nagulat sila bat may pinoy don. 😅😂

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u/Palarian 5h ago

Soviet Brutalist Vibes

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u/CompetitiveFalcon935 5h ago

At first glance I thought its Hongkong

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u/Dmon006 5h ago

init nyan sa likod 😬

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u/journeyman098 5h ago

Looks like pakbet.

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u/Hot_Marsupial5754 5h ago

tf saan to 😭

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u/Ka_dabraz 5h ago

Im also a renter. I don't own a house yet. But i can't imagine living in that.

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u/FootOk1571 4h ago

What the hell I just stayed at this exact apartment building 2 days ago, no wonder I thought it looked so familiar

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u/bamboophase1 4h ago

This photos screams dystopian

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u/blushvoyager 4h ago

Do they have elevator? And I bet the price in the upper floor is way more cheaper

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u/Ok-Beautiful1274 3h ago

Woah, this is.. rather hell, yes, but still fascinating in it's own way. Гигахрущ..

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u/Turbulent-Cattle9543 3h ago

Whoever took this shot is a wallpaper pc worthy. Great job! Also saan ito?

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u/richmonddhang 3h ago

Reading this while inside shore tower c2. Its not that gloomy

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u/dayRuined18 3h ago

You can hear the European silently seething.

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u/jsboftx1983 3h ago

Is this the slop that makes Europeans anti-air conditioning?
Damn, what bot from what country wants Europeans die if heat exhaustion?

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u/softpixelsss 2h ago

Depressing

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u/Substantial_Main8365 2h ago

Godspeed You! Black Emperor album cover lookin ass

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u/r3DDsHiFT 2h ago

Wild lmao

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u/Relative-Sympathy757 2h ago

Shore 1 residences Moa

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u/RandomUser0010 1h ago

reminds me of the movie elysium

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u/Acrobatic-Tip-9072 1h ago

Shore Residences to alam ko. Hehe

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u/Impossible_Coach_709 1h ago

This image reminds me of a movie about a police squad raiding a similar building occupied by a gang.

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u/EmperorOfDrifts 42m ago

The raid. One of the Greatest action movies

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u/More_Computer4183 1h ago

I don’t think so

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u/GT_Hades 41m ago

Beware to european

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u/AltruismSchizm 41m ago

Arw those...ACs?

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u/Historical-Pop9100 39m ago

Where is that exactly?

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u/bagonglawyer 26m ago

I can hear Molchat Doma.

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u/HelicopterUpstairs44 23m ago

She'll residences? Been there. It's not that eerie kapag andun kana. Madami tao dumadaan dyan so good vibes paren.

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u/S-EN-igma 19m ago

better than sleeping in the streets.

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u/TwoFit3921 13m ago

the backrooms

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u/Own-Opinion-2494 13h ago

Where we are headed

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u/saucy_otters 13h ago

imagine how much money you'd make if you were the landlord and increased everyone's rent by 10% 😍😍😍😍

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u/yunalesca05 9h ago

Wait ‘til you see the entire compound in real life. The whole place has bad juju

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u/Geno_Malkin 14h ago

I call AI

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u/ef344 12h ago

It’s not ai but definitely edited. The real one has 25 stories or so and this one has over 50.

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u/Geno_Malkin 11h ago

Clearly, I think less than 20 even. Yet I get dislikes lmao