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Urban Tetris

Posted on23/02/202002/11/2021

I believe that urban planners in various cities must have had some sort of obsession with Tetris when they were younger. Unfortunately, they have mixed up more generations of the game and implemented it in their urban planning work. The consequent results often appear like two different versions of Tetris gone wrong. See it for yourself below in the collection of urban Tetris photographs.

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  • SantiaGO Tetris
  • Global Urban Tetris
    • Buenos Aires
    • Montevideo
    • Bogotá
    • Lima
    • More global Tetris

SantiaGO Tetris

Santiago de Chile was the city that originally sparked the whole Tetris idea. With the impressive Andes mountain range in the background and its colonial architecture, Santiago had the potential to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Developers and urban planners however had a different idea.

For some reason, the best that they could come up with was to throw modern towers among the city’s historical beauty to hide its undeniable character. The modern buildings then randomly appeared as if they have fallen from the skies in some bizarre Tetris error. Urban planning at its worst ):

Urban Tetris @ Cerro Santa Lucía, Santiago de Chile
Plaza de Armas, Santiago de Chile
More “Urban Tetris” @ Plaza de Armas
A view of the city from Sky Costanera. Photo by Caio Silva on Unsplash

Global Urban Tetris

To be fair, I must say that the Global Tetris element is not a speciality only Santiago can be mentioned in connection with. In some places, such as in Dresden for example it’s more gentle, in other places it’s rather brutal, such as in many cities in Central and Eastern Europe, and so on. Here are some other examples from South America I have encountered:

Buenos Aires

Urban Tetris @ Buenos Aires could be equally brutal
other places turned out to be a rather gentle Tetris @ Vatican Plaza, Buenos Aires
@ Mirador Galeria Guemes. Picture by EzLeGa from Wikimedia Commons
Corrientes Avenue meets Calle Suipacha. Picture by Jorge Láscar from Wikimedia Commons

Montevideo

and here’s more Urban Tetris @ Montevideo: Castillo Pittamiglio. Picture by Hensolo from Wikimedia Commomns
Restaurante La Pasiva. Picture by Góngora from Wikimedia Commons
Urban Tetris @ Montevideo, Uruguay
and more, Plaza Independencia, Montevideo

Bogotá

Urban Tetris @ Bogotá
More Tetris @ Bogotá. Picture by Delaney Turner from Unsplash
and one more Tetris from Bogotá. Picture by Brian Kyed from Unsplash
and more Bogotá Urban Tetris. Picture by Felipe Restrepo Acosta from Wikimedia Commons

Lima

Tetris @ Lima, Peru. Picture by Daniel AV from Unsplash
Plaza Mayor, Lima. Picture by David Berkowitz from Wikimedia Commons

More global Tetris

If I see another Tetris, I’ll upload some more pics and I would also welcome if you could help me to enrich this collection further, in case you were up to sending me some photos.

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