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Originally Posted by rgarri4
Would you feel better if the pops of color were missing? Because as a material alone, its pretty much used all over in new construction.
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Great video (and thanks ChiPlanner for also posting it). I understand this is a modern way of building and personal taste aside, since we need more housing and this is a cheap & effective way to weatherproof, then build it. But it'd look so much better better if the coloring scheme avoided setting apart the housing as affordable. Given the paint can be any color (likely a little more $ for metallics/mattes), it seems like it's an intentional way to mark those that "don't belong" in a neighborhood.
It doesn't even need to be all monochromatic and/or neutrals, the red example from the video isn't half bad. But in their current state here in Chicago, it's not hard to imagine these will be first on the demo slate when the time comes (~40 years) if they're not renovated inside and out.