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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
It's the 1400 year-old original, actually. And you're moving your goalposts again.
Horyuji is definitely the size of a multifamily building, and is obviously of a higher quality than a Sixties prefab.
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Are you saying that most housing made of wood in Japan are 1400 years old? I'm not the one moving goalposts, you are.
What whatnext said:
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Originally Posted by whatnext
So many Japanese buildings are built in wood precisely because of its impermanence. When an earthquake knocks it down you scrap it and start again.
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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
Yet those ones were obviously built to last. As were the Norse ones half a world away where earthquakes were much less of a thing.
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Sounds like you are implying that most Japanese buildings are made of wood and are 1400 years old, when that doesn't make any cow sense at all. You can't use the example of one or two Japanese temples made of 1400 year-old wood to say that all homes made of wood are made to last. So if the old pagoda is made to last, why aren't all wood house in Japan made this way? Sure, if you have money growing on trees. Truth is, most economical woodframe homes built in modern times are just shitty.