[The North One]

Originally Posted by niwell

100x this. For every well-designed and proportioned Victorian (for instance) building there's a gaudy knock-off combining multiple architectural styles and covered in way too much ornamentation. They just tend to be overlooked because, old.

Even these so-called "knock-off" prewar buildings are still nowhere near as bad as what modern architecture has produced. You're nitpicking with this. Obviously nothing is perfect, but it was a hell of a lot more nearly perfect than the shit we produce now.