Just wondering if anyone read the article in this week’s New York Times regarding construction in the United States(http://nytimes.com/2004/08/08/arts/design/08IOVI.html). I find that the US commercial construction industry certaintly lags behind that of many other first world nations, especially in newer cities such as Dallas, Houston, and Orlando the downtown architecture is appallingly bad. I’m not saying Eastern Europe is any better at this point in time and some new US projects such as the Strada Center(MIT), Disney Concert Hall in LA, etc. are world class. Some older brick US industrial buildings (thinking of some I see in Boston, NYC, Fort Worth, TX that are unlike those abroad) have a wonderful aesthetic while maintaining function; is this something we can return to? Certaintly can’t see why 10K of brick/concrete ornamentation couldn’t go into our newly built brick townhouses, we are certaintly spending thousands more in kitchens and landscaping now.
How do you all feel residential construction is going in your area? Are generic subdivision homes still all the rage or has that tide turned towards some differentation between the new things being built?
-Ray
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From what I'm seeing around here (MA), all the houses going up are in the "cookie cutter" design, all the same number of windows, doors, only difference being the color. No unique features at all. Same for the McMansions going up,just on a larger scale.
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