I hope you've read both sides of that issue, e.g. https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/04/the-scruton-tapes-an-ana...
Complaining about modern architectural style is being a culture warrior, but designing and building it is neutral and impartial...
Re:Crimes in Concrete
by dsfyu404ed on Monday May 13, 2019 @07:07PM
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Building at the high end (the kind of stuff HN cares about) is partly an exercise in artistic style which winds up being political.
Building at the low end is apolitical. With razor thin margins that crap doesnt make the cut. No matter how many millions of square feet of warehouse and pole barn you build there is no room for opinions, style and politics when your margin is pennies on the dollar.
Re:Crimes in Concrete
by inflatableDodo on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @07:42AM
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>Building at the high end (the kind of stuff HN cares about) is partly an exercise in artistic style which winds up being political.
>Building at the low end is apolitical.
You have an decidedly odd view of what people are interested in and what makes something political.
Re:Crimes in Concrete
by jonhendry18 on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @05:26PM
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Low-income housing is extremely political.
He's incapable of not being political. Publishing conspiracy theory garbage about Soros at the time of a major hunt for antisemitism in public life was what got him fired.
(The author of the original article, Dalrymple, is also a full time culture warrior)