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Posted by mvdtnz 12 hours ago

The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018)(designyoutrust.com)
176 points | 60 commentspage 2
Hnrobert42 4 hours ago|
I use Firefox Focus on mobile which blocks ads automatically. This was a cool site, so I thought it only fair to visit it with ads permitted.

My god. I didn't even know autoplaying, unmuted ad videos are a thing.

ogurechny 3 hours ago|
This is a repost of a repost (of another repost in certain cases). JPEG resizing and quality strongly suggests it for some images.

You can visit the (linked but not annotated) blog post to get to the original sources.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190308120957/http://blog.prese...

Most of them come from press tours for bloggers that were really fashionable 15 years ago.

Scrolling through the archives of, say, Lana Sator blog on your own would be a much better experience.

andrewl 5 hours ago||
To me they look oppressive and bleak. They are interesting, to be sure. But I don’t find them beautiful. And aesthetics are subjective, of course. I can well believe others find them beautiful.
sequoia-capital 7 hours ago||
So true. I'm quite lucky too. This is the control room I grew up with: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/98/1c/c7/981cc7aae4635e372d1db7f90...
alansaber 5 hours ago||
Battersea power station in London has preserved chunks of the old control room. Sprawling mechanical complexity certainly has appeal, but we all know frutiger aero is the ultimate aesthetic.
waltbosz 4 hours ago||
I like how some of them are/were recently still in use as evidenced by the modern computer monitors.
portly 5 hours ago||
We should reintroduce chef's hats back in the control rooms. Switching with real finesse!
paradoxyl 8 hours ago||
Gorgeous pictures, but I dislike the "chef hats" in the first image. It makes them seem less like top-notch scientists and more like short-order cooks.
tclancy 6 hours ago|
My reaction was, “This is what I imagined McDonalds University to be when I was a kid.”
galaxyLogic 10 hours ago||
I always wonder when I see a picture of a cockpit of an airplane how many meters there are. Don't know why they need so many, what meters do you need to fly a plane?
elzbardico 7 hours ago|
Navigation equipment, radios, autopilot, auto-throttle, multiple engines with multiple parameters to be controlled, multiple hydraulic systems, pressurization and environmental controls. Consider that for each jet engine you have different displays for RPMs, temperatures, oil pressure. Things add up fast.
SoftTalker 1 hour ago||
Modern airliners do away with most dedicated instrumentation (a few critical ones such as airspeed, compass heading, and altitude might still have analog backups) and use a few screens to display all of this. Computers monitor most of the parameters and issue alerts when anything is out of normal.
iancmceachern 9 hours ago|
I used to work for a guy who said at that company we made stuff that "looked like the soviets designed it in the 70s"
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