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Originally Posted by antinimby
If only that was true. Unfortunately, it isn't. Older, more classy buildings are one by one replaced by more banal and many cases, ugly new buildings with exposed floorplates, AC vents, cheap wiggly glass, balconies, blank walls, etc. Stuff you don't even see in third world countries now.
With a few exceptions, most of the new stuff are poorer in design and material than those found in many other cities.
If the new stuff we're getting now is what the future holds, then give me 1939 New York instead.
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This is actually a good point, since I'd rather them never tear another building down and never build another one than tear down so many great pre-WWII buildings in exchange for building some great skyscrapers. So in fact, it's worse than a mausoleum - what's famous is stubbornly insisted on never being upstaged, while everything that's small, relatively unknown, and at the same time beautiful architecture, is getting torn down for condos.