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This concrete playground slide looks like brutalist architecture

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According to Boing Boing, a concrete playground slide in Bucharest, Romania, has become an internet curiosity thanks to its striking design. Built in the late nineteen-fifties or sixties in the Floreasca neighborhood, the towering structure features sharp angles and an all-concrete construction that makes it look more like a brutalist monument than a place for children to play.

Source: https://boingboing.net/2026/07/08/this-concrete-playgroun...

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