Post

Reformed Archaria Steppe wrote:

all of this. and the sad thing is you can use concrete/stonework to good effect. just ask frank lloyd wright.
https://cdn.thespaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Ennis-House-by-Frank-Lloyd-Wright.-Photos-by-Mary-E.-Nichols-courtesy-Hilton-Hyland-8-683x1024.jpg
also the cookie cutter housing project culture sucks. "let's build a 300 house neighborhood with 3 blueprints and just rotate them every other house."

Woah. That's actually really cool! I wish this kind of artistic interpretation was more commonplace, instead of having a slap-on concrete modern monstrosity that looks like it came from a corporate dystopia where art is banned. Everywhere I look, the buildings are all glass (which I really don't mind, as long as we don't get crap like the Walkie Talkie in London) and blocks of concrete. It's simple and cheap, I get that, but it's a frickin eyesore. It's all neutral colours! ALL OF IT!

And when it isn't it's blue or some other ugly bright colour that doesn't work well with the surrounding landscape. Because of the cheap, direct, and corporate architecture. I HATE IT! I hate Mexican houses too, they're literal frickin blocks of concrete. Sure, they'll survive an earthquake and tornado and whatnot, whereas American houses get blown away at the slightest whistle, but they're SO FRICKIN UGGO >_<

I will note that coastal Mexican cities (and probably wealthier ones) have better and prettier houses, from the leftover Colonial era. They're beautiful!