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> Oh, and the cheapness an often obvious design mistakes even in new buildings, mostly due to the boom/bust nature of the housing market: projects grind to a ha
by brnt 7y ago
> Oh, and the cheapness an often obvious design mistakes even in new buildings, mostly due to the boom/bust nature of the housing market: projects grind to a halt during bust, only exploding in a hurried frenzy when the market would happily buy anything as long as it has a roof (leaky.)
I think you may not have been in the Netherlands when you observed this. It's quite easy to overshoot, after all ;)
The rest I will grant you. Even though in my experience (we have friends in 6 European countries) this isn't a Dutch exception. Wasting space on entrances is something only sparsely populated countries like the US can afford I think.
- taejo 7y agoApartments in Berlin tend to have ridiculously oversized entrance halls in my experience. There must be some other driving force here.
- Wohlf 7y agoMay not be the reason, but building codes and taxation can lead to strange outcomes like these. Then again, it may just be superficial, since the entrance hall is the first thing people see.
- taejo 7y agoSome of them are nice, it's true, but I'm mostly thinking of the 19th-century Mietskasernen (rental barracks) where the original objective was to pack as many people into the space as possible. I think part of the problem is that they were originally expected to have people sleeping in every room except maybe the kitchen, so you wouldn't want to have to walk through what is now the living/dining room to get to another room, so you have to reach every room from the hall. So the hall can be long, twisty, narrow and dark... as long as it lets everyone get from the staircase to their bedroom.