@killdozerkitty it seems vaguely based on the roads around the major city in each state. george is fine when you’re up around atlanta but once you pass macon going down i75 it turns into mad max set piece. and new york has the best road in the world once you get out of the city—beloved taconic
@prettyalbatross i don’t mind it, there are these four increasingly tall buildings i can see from my front window that all sided in vinyl and i find it quite cute. their siding is terribly cheap except for the first but they go red, pink, yellow, beige with brown accents and they look nice
@prettyalbatross brick buildings were built because they were once the most cost effective fire-proofable material. i’m not making a point but to an extent isn’t it backwards looking nostalgia for a particular america to say this development would be any better if it was just all brick?
@prettyalbatross i’m agreeing with you i just don’t think you target ought to be affordable construction—you aren’t getting back all brick constructions.
@prettyalbatross they try to create a set you can live a sort of fantasy in not a building that interacts with the buildings around it to create an environment suited to life
@prettyalbatross buildings have always been built affordably to emphasise a facade. the problem with these new developments that are built en masse is not that they use siding to save costs it’s that they’re insincere about their method and don’t respect their environment