Detroit

Clearly an opinion absent any formal education in American architecture, al l you're seeing is a bunch of garish boom town junk. Check out the mansions north of the city in places like Birmingham or along the lake in that Gros se Pointe area if you want to see better stuff from approximately the same era but still viable.

All that "formal education in American architecture" does is give us hideous glass boxes and an inability to vocalize the word "ugly".

Surely you recognize that one.

I read average price runs about 13-something (either $13k or $13/sq. ft.), but the property taxes will kill you.

Cheers, James

That is called contemporary. A more representative collection of modern popular options would be like so:

You can't call them ugly.

Not the property taxes, the "neighbors." We are talking Detroit here, are we not?

Den fredag den 20. december 2013 02.33.40 UTC+1 skrev John Larkin:

only three things that matter in real estate: location, location, location

;)

-Lasse

LOL.

The abandoned industrial buildings in Western NY would make a good photo essay. I forget what road it was we took, but there were quite a few of them.

That's usually true.

Good point!

Cheers, James Arthur

And the Erie Canal. I was up there almost a year ago... and it was frozen over :-( ...Jim Thompson

OK, you don't recognize that one. You are obviously "absent any formal education in American architecture."

I can and do. It's ugly.

Niagara Falls? (There's some places that are a bit scary.. still what look like slag piles at the old union carbide plant..)

I find the grain elevators on the water front in Buffalo to have a certain beauty. (Hmm my google link was only three pages long... but search yourself for "grain elevators buffalo".)

George H.

Sad, yes.

Beautiful?

The squalor of your upbringing is showing through.

I wouldn't call any of those plans, "modern". They're more like Californica ticky-tack. ...Jim Thompson

I never lived in squalor. Look at google street view, 318 Broadway in New Orleans, house where I grew up. A few blocks from the Mississippi River and Audubon Park and four universities. My parents were both solid, employed, moral Protestants, and my dad was a Deacon of our church. I went to Ben Franklin High School, one of the first public "magnet" schools in the USA, still one of the best high schools in the country.

My bedroom was in the back, and the huge front room upstairs, facing onto the upstairs porch full width, was my electronics lab. There are condos in SF that are half of the size of that lab. (Heck, my office here is way bigger than some condos.)

Of course New Orleans is The Big Easy, a remarkably democratic place that equally reveres high culture, faded glory, and quality sleaze.

Where did you grow up? Show us.

"... serves as a visitation starting point to this important utopian settlement. River and vehicular visitors' paths converge to set up a universal experience of the pocelin box of grids placed upon an earthen plinth in protection from yearly floods. The building is an object, apart from the historic town in distance and character, whose spatial experiences explore the relationship between architecture and society as the town it reveals once attempted."

I'm pretty sure they made up "pocelin". I don't see it in the compressed OED, and online it looks like mispelling of "porcelain". People couldn't google stuff in 1980.

Well at least it gave thieves a chance to steal copper pipe and wire for recycling! Mikek

Please; you're putting me right off my carnitas taco.