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This sort of thing goes on everywhere, though those are some extremely bad examples. In my own neighborhood right now a block of older buildings is being knocke
by Finnucane 8y ago
This sort of thing goes on everywhere, though those are some extremely bad examples. In my own neighborhood right now a block of older buildings is being knocked down. Most of them were fairly nondescript, but on the corner there was a particularly nice old granite bank building, so the facade is being saved, which will probably end up as the entryway for some new block of flats. Designed, of course, in some completely different style.
- jen729w 8y agoWelcome to Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia. Just round the corner someone has kept the most ludicrous, skinniest piece of brick facade; meanwhile an acre of land is being cleared behind it for what will presumably be an ugly behemoth of tiny units that everyone hates. I’d love to know how much keeping that facade cost. It’s shored up with a couple of tonnes of steel girder.
- incompatible 8y agoThe only thing they hate more is housing they can't afford at all. Facadism isn't particularly new though. I remember somebody saying the same thing back in the 1980s, that in the future it would be considered ridiculous. Now here we are in a "future generation" and it's still going strong. I think the best thing would be to document the old buildings and then demolish them, so that they can enter history gracefully. Nothing lasts forever, and modern cities need new buildings.