Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "Stewart Hicks" channel.

  1.  @Maranville  "Indeed I think most people have a very confused sense of what is truly "soulless"" I disagree. Rather what feels soulless to them differs to what feels soulless to other people (possibly including you). It's a subjective experience and can differ wildly between different people.
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  2. "architecture channels don't admit the lack of humanity and beauty in modern construction styles" Which channels are you referring to here? I've only happened to see architecture channels that do admit those flaws (though that's like 2 or 3 channels). I would like to see an honest defense of modernist architecture, if only out of curiosity.
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  3.  @Maranville  People can be influenced but I wouldn't call different perspectives (on subjective things, I mean) confused whether that perspective is due to outside influence or not.
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  4.  @Maranville  I think there can be good (non-extraordinary reasons) to sometimes tear down buildings.
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  5.  @Maranville  Style could weigh somewhat to one direction or the other but demolishing something due to style alone would IMHO require very extreme circumstances. If some building is ugly it's probably cheaper to make some slight modifications to make it prettier, such as painting it. I was more thinking of cases where either a) some building is currently a very inefficient use of space in a high-demand area, or b) place that has experience large population decline so case can be made for a portion of the formerly populated areas to be returned to wilderness.
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  6.  @hijackstudios  Thanks.
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  7.  @captainobvious9188  In one video on "flimsy American houses" I saw it mentioned that in Japan houses tend to be even "flimsier" than in the US and last a shorter amount of time.
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  8. 1:25 Does the doghouse even have a frame? I thought it was just a mass wall.
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  9. In many places, what is expensive isn't the structure itself but the location. The only reasonable way to make housing cheaper in the face of that (in high-demand areas like successful cities) is to build more housing units per acre. So smaller units or higher buildings or both.
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  10. You just need to find a brick-o-mancer. Touvlomancer? Plinthomancer?
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  11.  @hijackstudios  "clever one directional barriers which allow any water that does get inside to easily escape" How do those work?
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  12.  @hijackstudios  Thanks. Does the thing have a name so I can search more info on it?
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  13. I think it's more important for the first few stories to be ornate.
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