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3. Meh....concrete w/o sealing is an allegerists nightmare..

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Wed Dec 1, 2021, 02:22 PM

Dec 2021

they ripped down a good portion of a brutalist public building in Orange Co. NY. I held some m,eeting in a new firehouse and suddenly was overcome with whatever was going on in the building. I discovered the contractors left piles of concrete dust in an electrical trench and behind steel structure that spread it what the HVAC was working.

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How four architects set the agenda for late 20th-century modernism on a quiet creek in Cornwall [View all] Celerity Dec 2021 OP

There have to be better examples. I would not like living in those. Seem like industrial warehouses Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2021 #1

to each their own Celerity Dec 2021 #2

Meh....concrete w/o sealing is an allegerists nightmare.. Historic NY Dec 2021 #3

I generally like the design but the use of CMU walls is a drawback, IMO. yonder Dec 2021 #4

Vegetation needs to grow a lot higher. eppur_se_muova Dec 2021 #5