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Re: Most people prefer traditional architecture

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I don't think this computes. Modern 'efficient' industrial design can absolutely fail at efficiency. I have lived in spartan, utilitarian apartments that you could tell were built without any regards for efficient use of living space, and ended up wasting huge swaths of their floor area to interior corridors, winding tunnels between rooms, random walled off mystery areas and overall such poor planning that I'm sure d…

> The Empire State Building was famously built in a year. Nowadays the most utilitarian housing project takes longer. This is true, but usually fewer people die in the construction of those utilitarian housing projects

You're not counting the people who die of homelessness, or of depression because they seem stuck in a situation where they'll never have reliable housing, or in a car accident on their too-long commute, or of a heart attack because of years of stress related to rising rents, or...

Justice delayed is justice denied, and housing that takes years to build because of stupid NIMBY bullsh*t is just an indirect way for the haves to tell the rest of us to kys.

Re: Most people prefer traditional architecture

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Isn't that exactly their point? Every new building looks like an iPhone: sleek glass and metal.

I can't believe this has to be said, but glass skyscrapers predate even the first iPhone. The is hopefully the high watermark of Apple fans thinking Apple invented something they didn't.

That wasn't my point, or the point of GP. It's that modernism has become acceptable. So much so that everything from our buildings to our cars to our phones have the same style.
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