Ordinary Banana

@nairalos bricks are nice too I'm pro-brick

@literalbanana yeah the bricks definitely add a lot to the building. this is a style that could have been very bad, but the bricks helped

@literalbanana for example, if they had used concrete, this would have been a merely above-average brutalist eyesore

@nairalos yes - my city looks nice because of all the brick art-deco stuff left over and later stuff copying that

@literalbanana absolutely -- more people need to copy things that other people like! what city is that?

@nairalos reno nevada - the generic housing developments are still ugly af but the old parts of town are lovely

@nairalos and there's some effort here & there to build in the old style with bricks

@literalbanana yeah contemporary housing, especially out west, is super ugly it's nice they have older architecture too, and imitate it