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A Community about large, cheaply built, suburban homes with design flaws and a lack of architectural integrity also known as “McMansions.” On Thursdays we celebrate the opposite: good suburban architectural design.

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I don't like this. >:( They could have improved what was already there, but they just made it sterile and boring

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It reminds me of a commercial building that went up about a decade ago now in my town. It's a brick, iron and glass facade that's meant to look like a 1910's city building, you know kinda artsy brickwork and all wrought iron railings and such...except it's too perfect. Everything looks machined. The windows are obviously large single panes of glass with a lattice in front of them rather than individual lights in a frame, so the reflection in the windows is too uniform, the bricks are too perfect, a lot of the details are obviously decorative instead of functional as they would have been on the genuine article. And underneath it's a breeze block and steel girder building like every other strip mall in town, it's just got a fancy face on it that they'll chip off in another decade and replace with something trendier.