Thread by @IDoTheThinking

I don't have a problem with people hating on 5-over-1 buildings. I have a problem with people trying to pretend that streamlining construction designs are fundamentally Capitalist or praising streamlined Capitalist buildings like Brownstones and Victorians just cuz they're old

You like mass constructed boxes with pretty ornaments on them built by Capitalists and were hated by the architecture critics of the time.
Housing construction standards in Communist countries dismissed unique designs considered inefficient at the goal of mass housing.

Architects under Capitalism: All these buildings look the same cause Capitalists are lazy money grubbers

Architects under a system that prioritizes shelter over the aesthetic whims of the bourgeois (From Russia's most popular Christmas film The Irony of Fate, 1978):

Most people's complaints about 5 over 1s arent even about that but its facade. This is a 4 over 1 built in my hood (homeless housing). I suspect people will like this style because the architect used bay windows and a arched roof to look older and hide its box design.

Some architects just suck and make ugly designs they think are futuristic

Correct, when the NIMBYs opposed this building their prime complaint was that the colors were boring and it should be shorter. They would codify bad ideas like this if they could

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