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*This comic was about France in 2021, but this style seems much more widespread.
People don't use materials they pick up in the immediate vicinity anymore, with stone being of different colors in different regions and different materials being locally available, forcing the use of different construction techniques. They use manufactured materials that all came out of the same factory and brought over by truck.
Carcinization of architecture. All structures evolve to box.
These white boxes are everywhere, as one of my daughters call it, they lack personality as one of a normal house and don't look practical or especially luxurious beyond looking like an office building.
The white box and brushed metal styles are not because someone decide to make everything look sterile. It's because most people don't want to completely rebuild their houses/apartments every 10 years. It's extremely wasteful and expensive to do it.
My town is the top frame. The industry that was here previously crashed big time in the early 1900s. There were no jobs, so no one wanted to live here. The old city never got redeveloped. So the official buildings and even the high school are from another time. Same with the houses. Now itβs part of the charm and what brings people to visit.
Where I live, having a flat roof is absolute madness. The snow load would collapse it during the first big snowstorm.
Why do you need big heavily fortified steepled roofs when snowfall is shrinking and you're not worried about roof collapse?
Why are you using heavy lumber, stone, and plaster to build a frame when steel is cheaper and hardy plank more reliable?
Why do you need a chimney?
Same in Canada, all those "modern houses" are the same, a box with small wide rectangle windows, it's horrible.
In my experience they're mostly painted yellow rather than white, but yup this is pretty accurate.
If the design's boring and copy-pasted everywhere, how could people grow attached to their houses? Furthermore, if people had to go to apartments, like for unwieldy prices for years now, they would be desensitized on the part of losing the house.
well things like HSR do interconnect a country and so unifies and therefore interconnect a culture.
now multiply this x100 with air travel and the internet.
I think it's less about the railway and more about standardisation of materials/building codes
Actually itβs more about building the houses as cheap as possible, because although French houses are generally much sturdier and better insulated than North American homes, building codes are not really well controlled here. They donβt even do plumbing and electrical inspections in new builds.
Are there zoning laws related to building footprints vs lot size, or maximum building square footage? In the US, many of these utilitarian box structures are designed to take advantage of the maximum allowable building size on a specific lot (This varies greatly by state and city)
oh no, current trend is different to four previous trends? whatever shall we do
Media literacy moment
the artist is worried about current architectural stylings being samey, yes? and contrasting it with older styles, yes? and those older styles are not only from different areas, but different eras, yes? and people have been complaining about this since the tudor era, yes? stop me if i'm missing a step.