Would anyone mind explaining to me why brownstones are considered attractive? I've run into several folks today that are hot on brownstones...I just don't get it.
Original brownstones, like those built in turn-of-the-century NYC, are beautiful and have a charm and personality that you seldom see in architecture today. The stuff being built in The Woodlands is a thrown-together shadow of the real thing, without the quality, detail, or durability of genuine brownstones. But then, most, if not all, of the construction in The Woodlands is uninspired and built with no real care or attention to detail by builders who hire the cheapest labor they can find, i.e. workers who know how to hammer in a nail and can do it quick. I'm sure the same can be said for neighborhoods all over the country, but having lived in this area for thirty years now and witnessed a lot of it up close and personal, I know that here it is true. Builders these days are more concerned with stuffing their pockets with cash than with creating a lasting work of architectural art. And what are we left with? Crappy, ugly junk buildings that all look the same and will be candidates for a wrecking ball within twenty years.
East Shore The Woodlands
in Points North
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Original brownstones, like those built in turn-of-the-century NYC, are beautiful and have a charm and personality that you seldom see in architecture today. The stuff being built in The Woodlands is a thrown-together shadow of the real thing, without the quality, detail, or durability of genuine brownstones. But then, most, if not all, of the construction in The Woodlands is uninspired and built with no real care or attention to detail by builders who hire the cheapest labor they can find, i.e. workers who know how to hammer in a nail and can do it quick. I'm sure the same can be said for neighborhoods all over the country, but having lived in this area for thirty years now and witnessed a lot of it up close and personal, I know that here it is true. Builders these days are more concerned with stuffing their pockets with cash than with creating a lasting work of architectural art. And what are we left with? Crappy, ugly junk buildings that all look the same and will be candidates for a wrecking ball within twenty years.