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Originally Posted by ThatOneGuy
I don't see any point in saving those. They look quite run down and ugly. If those were the only historic buildings in the area, then keep them, I suppose.
If a city wants new buildings that aren't modernist, they should simply build new ones in the old style. You don't keep rotting old buildings unless your city is a living museum.
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The thing with those buildings is that they were built with VERY high quality materials compared to what was used in postwar American and obviously what we use today. They are NOT rotting.
Buildings like those, while they may be showing signs of their old age, were built to last... forever. Even though they were built as simple, functional commercial structures for a relatively inexpensive cost, they used higher quality brick, stone, wood, and plasterwork than we use in our most expensive buildings today. They require a minimum of renovation when compared to postwar buildings simply because of that fact... and can be renovated with only largely cosmetic updates to last another hundred-plus years.