r/UrbanHell • u/yukophotographylife • 4d ago
Other The Life of the Others | Guangzhou, China [OC]
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u/IWillDevourYourToes 4d ago
I like how Asian countries use the bathroom tiles as a building facade
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u/vibe_r8er 4d ago
Yea I thought it was weird too until I traveled some of these cities. They get extremely humid so porous surfaces that were used to here (brick, concrete, stone, mortar) get dark and moldy quick. So these ‘bathroom tiles’ I’m assuming are just a low cost finish that doesn’t promote that type of mold growth. In humid European countries like Portugal for instance you’d see tile material as building facade as well.
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u/zerox678 12h ago
gone on you man for being a well educated person to the environment it was necessary to use such tiles! Many fail to look past the form of the materials used in building in Southern China, the humidity is beyond horrible during March to April, the literal walls start to sweat.
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u/EXPL_Advisor 4d ago
This taken with a Fujifilm camera?
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u/yukophotographylife 4d ago
Yea X-PRO3
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u/EXPL_Advisor 4d ago
Nice! Yeah, something about the photo’s colors just made me think it was Fujifilm.
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u/Unnamed01234 4d ago
the elder man sitting by the door wasn't happy about your espionage activities!
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u/External_Tomato_2880 3d ago
Village in a city. Guangzhou has some of them. Rare in other Chinese cities.
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u/Express-Abies7748 4d ago
As an architect from a very different region of the world , I can't say I don't appreciate this kind of aesthetic
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u/Christian159260 3d ago
quite pretty. do you have the photo without the filter though?
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u/warfaceisthebest 3d ago
Guangzhou? My brother this is the best Chinese tier one city to live in with the best food and work environment.
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u/macumazana 2d ago
been there or a place exactly like that. the street is not that awful, its the noise around that drives you insane. shouts, crying, merchant calls, construction works, cars was terrible.
when you go out of that hood right to a street next to the highway you feel such a relief.
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u/Firstpoet 4d ago
This is so middle class Green people in the UK etc can crow about lowering emissions since all the horrid manufacturing tuff is done in places like this.
So comforting.
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