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The only thing I see wrong with all the new housing in Seattle is that it all looks depressingly alike, especially around the new Facebook building. It's like
by scottlegrand2 7y ago
The only thing I see wrong with all the new housing in Seattle is that it all looks depressingly alike, especially around the new Facebook building.
It's like someone fed a bunch of pictures of apartment complexes into a generative adversarial network and built whatever it output. But kudos to them building in the first place rather than doing the San Francisco shuffle.
- zwkrt 7y agoI understand the concern, but if you think about it a lot of the old brick apartment buildings that came before also looked very similar. There are tons of older brick apartment buildings with stairs up to a covered entrance, the only real differentiation between them is whether they have bay windows or a flat exterior. I completely agree that the new, large, flat, monolithic buildings are not very visually pleasing, but I wonder if two generations from now people will look back at them longingly. Maybe they won't last that long.
- CydeWeys 7y agoIt's always been the case that the majority of new construction hews to whatever style is currently in. It's more expensive to vary everything up and commission unique design languages for each building, and constructing housing affordably is more important than providing eyecandy for passers-by. I live in East Village and it's basic five floor brick walk-ups everywhere.