[fastcarsfreedom]

I hear no outcry about this thread being off-topic. I guess it's safe to post.

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hilarious eh?? I'd be utterly embarassed to live in a place like that

No different than someone saying this about your place in the city. I can understand your frustration at the attitude of some people who live outside of the core--I really can--but you're engaging in the very practice they do.

Of course LikeHamilton is correct--the current 'trend' in home design is exactly that--a trend--I spoke a couple of weeks ago about Burlington--how the city grew northward from the lakeshore and how you can study the variation in style and design over the decades. Does no one remember the 1970s "Tudor" craze?

I actually appreciate architecture (though I am not a 'student' of it)--and I have decried the lack of detail and thought that goes into some buildings these days (commercial in particular). Do I wish we gave birth to the next Mies van der Rohe--of course! Nonetheless I suspect anything today would simply be branded "a cheap copycat fake"--again, I think it's fine to throw out ideas like "well thought" and "well built"--this hotel could be both of those things and you still ridicule it for being "fake"--so again, I ask, how SHOULD this development look to avoid incurring your rath?