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Concrete is ugly, rough and it crumbles. Good stone is beautiful and very durable.
by guard-of-terra 11y ago
Concrete is ugly, rough and it crumbles. Good stone is beautiful and very durable.
- jacquesm 11y agoUgly -> taste, Rough -> you can have concrete with arbitrary levels of polish all the way up to shiny smooth if you finish it right, crumbling is a property common to all crystalline materials including all the stones found in nature, with the exception of some precious stones with incredible hardness. That's why stones tend to be round, erosion gets the better of them over time. Concrete takes a long time to really set (depending on the thickness of the pour: up to centuries!) but can be used relatively quickly after the pouring in a load bearing construction. And even if you don't particularly like the material, in the end it is what you can make out of it that is ugly or beautiful (Compare a bunker with say the CN Tower in Toronto or the Sydney Opera). For the general use case of 'poured stone' concrete does quite well.