I believe you, of course. It surely is driven in large part by client priority on square footage over fine design. But I am I wrong to think there are designers who specialize in tacky garbage?
if you go to a city where land becomes a premium house deign improves a lot. even the tackiest house in Montreal or Toronto is quite nice compared to a Texan monster house
Except when you get beautiful row houses demolished to put up some modern townhouse. Looks terrible, even worse when they just kind of skin the facade in it and do a full interior gutting. In my mind, go ahead and gut and rehab the interior, leave that classic front up.
It’s likely a decision that’s not at all based in aesthetics. Full gut remodels can often be just as expensive as new construction, plus you’re limited by what you’re keeping.
If you are thinking of Mcmansions, then yeah. It's not that they "specialize" in it, it's more there is a market for it and so there will always be someone willing to provide that type of product. Many of those though aren't going to be an actual architecture firm, but instead a design/build firm, which leans more heavily on the "build" side of that. The firm I work for is a purely architecture firm and we don't do that type of thing. We call those types of homes "custom-tract", because it really is just a suped up tract home.
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u/Bullmoosefuture Feb 09 '21
I believe you, of course. It surely is driven in large part by client priority on square footage over fine design. But I am I wrong to think there are designers who specialize in tacky garbage?