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Welcome to Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia. Just round the corner someone has kept the most ludicrous, skinniest piece of brick facade; meanwhile an acre of land
by jen729w 8y ago
Welcome 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.