I'm living in a seventy-year old building - maybe older. It's just lovely, I can't say enough good things about it. It has new windows and such, of focurse.

I'm living in a seventy-year old building - maybe older. It's just lovely, I can't say enough good things about it. It has new windows and such, of focurse. Do it right in the first place and it will be livable forever. People are physical beings with well-known needs - warmth, protection from the elements, water and plumbing, privacy, comfort, sunlight, air, lack of health risks (fire, unsafe water, outgassing materials, damp, mold, etc). A good solution to this problem will be a good solution a century from now, with minor modifications. People should be less into ripping things up just because they get bored with them. Even if we reuse materials, the environmental cost of a new building is huge.