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Originally Posted by the urban politician
^ I'm all for preservation, but that is one freaky looking face
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Have you seen all the crazy faces in Prague? They have lots there haha!
Maybe not this particular example, but I'm wondering people usually seem to love buildings like this with Greco-Roman ornamentation. These type of buildings are landmarked. Why don't more developers building new buildings with Greco-Roman ornamentation today? It can be done with cheap plastic resins now, no need to use terra-cotta. I've bought some foam interior ornamentation that is really cheap for my own home. I'm making it into a Bavarian palace for a few hundred dollars! This stuff isn't that costly today with plastics and foam. They can be painted any color. It makes it look timeless, historical, and classy.
Also there's a book called Get Your House Right that every developer should read. It discusses how to use Classical proportions on any house or building. There's a reason older buildings look good, it's because they used Classical proportions and Greek orders based on 2500 years of building history. Today, people build buildings with no thought for the proportions. This isn't even that hard or costly to do right, it just takes a sensitivity for proper proportions. Things like the Greek orders, almost every building I've seen built before 1930 used the proper Greek orders. But almost every building today that attempts a cornice fails at the Greek order of a proper cornice.