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did buildings get uglier after people decided new buildings should be illegal, or was it the other way around
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They got worse when the supply of master craftsmen willing to work for starvation wages dried up (so, basically, after WW2)
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How much more expensive is it, in today’s terms, to build something like Grand Central Station vs a new, modern, brutalist monstrosity? It feels like modern construction costs are astronomical, and it’s not going to craftsmen
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Other way around. Buildings got uglier because war survivors couldn’t handle stimuli of architecture and never got help for their trauma.https://commonedge.org/the-mental-disorders-that-gave-us-modern-architecture/ …
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This was a fascinating article on how war and mental conditions might have affected architecture. Thanks for sharing!! Bookmarked it!
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They got uglier after we banned building. Regulatory compliance hikes cost, leaving less money for aesthetics. Much of the regulation came because 1960-70s progressives believed building hurt the environment. So they froze us in time.
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Single best article I’ve read on this subject https://www.politico.com/amp/news/magazine/2019/11/29/penn-station-robert-caro-073564 …
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just take the orange pill already, will you? this is the slowest god damned rabbit hole tumble I've ever seen
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