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We associate ‘functionalism’ with the rejection of beauty as an architectural objective. But there are other interpretations. The Detroit architect Albert Kahn viewed himself as a ‘functionalist’, but to him this meant using a range of styles indexed to different functions.

New building design in New York City / Gramercy

“But it’s too expensive” The one on the left is holes on a box with a couple pieces of trim. The one on the right is trying to do 10 different things at once.

There are about 2,578 regulations keeping something like this from being built in the US.

They have these in Philadelphia but next to a sunco

in MAGA world, the $2.90 subway is elitist while the $50,000 F-150 is “working class”

If you’re a luxury developer and you’re not figuring out how to build like this, you’re about to get leapfrogged.

Some new developments in NY. The developers of gray boxes lookin awfully dumb right now.

Our first attempt back in 2012 at cost effective, mass wall masonryーsingle family res. It was in the $150 to $200 foot range back then, as I recall. Builder cost.

It’s insane how anti-urban American cities were in the 1970s and 80s.

You're waging a housing war against rich suburban NIMBYs. Choose your fighter:

West London? Nope UWS of Manhattan.

Details of the Upper West Side

This massive Downgrade in Palmer MA: Brought to you by Cars 🚗

Still waiting for the “You can get that for 300K in Texas” people to tell me what part of Suburban Houston looks like this. Yeah it’s cheaper but I don’t want to die of depression and cultural starvation.

America should have the most glorious, gleaming cities in the world. But we squander our land and wealth on buying, storing and moving cars. Our cities are just places to pass through.

a rite of passage for high speed rail advocates is learning that both china and japan have much weaker eminent domain laws than the USA

The Potato Rows („Kartoffelrækkerne“) This is what they built for working class families back in the late 19th Century. Masterclass.

The Car equivalent of a beautiful Art Deco building sitting next to a spreadsheet style concrete office block.