| Maybe we don't have the same modern architecture ... My experience from Sweden and France: - Windows are bigger than ever today, at least in Europe. It used to be that windows were not that big to keep warm inside, and because they were expensive to build, nowadays most buildings have super huge windows, and so do houses. They have actually grown so big that you need to find ways to STOP the natural light from the windows. - Single glass panel? Where do you even live? Old buildings have that, in modern ones you have triple pane glasses, and central AC in big buildings is a necessity. Right now I work in a XV century building and the air is MAGNITUDES worse that what it was in a modern office we had, evne when opening the window, because the air flux is not optimized and there is no AC. - Doors in old buildings are smaller, they have gotten much bigger due to requirements of accessibility, and you can actually open them with a button now. - Never seen a main entrance in the back, and modern buildings don't even have parking lots because fuck cars and hurray for public transports - Elevators are always over dimensioned and not so much a trouble, spiral stairs are still very common - Likeliness is a real thing, but on the other hand it can be the same in old buildings as well, the thing is that usually they have changed a lot so places are different, but it will be the same with modern buildings with some time. Regarding the room numbering most places I was at had a very logical system and it was independent to the modernity of the building. - There are much less doors than it used to be, spaces are actually too open now which is annoying for noise. I wish we had more doors in offices. On the other hand in apartments it's very nice, what were people thinking before ?I would say we have maybe half the walls there were 60 years ago, so half the doors. Who needs a freaking hall with doors to go in each room in a 70m2 appartment? Now they are finally opened. - That has been a problem only in old buildings in my experience because they lack signs. Modern buildings always have really well indicated bathroom, sometimes unisex, with a big logo on the door, not just a random wooden door that could be a kitchen, a meeting room or the bathroom! - Sound isolation is so much better now. It used to be bad (before 1940), it went horrible (1940-1970) and now it's finally OK. |
Yeah we don't. Welcome to the US.
> Never seen a main entrance in the back, and modern buildings don't even have parking lots because fuck cars and hurray for public transports
(weeps silently)
Also re: sound insulation:
>It used to be bad (before 1940), it went horrible (1940-1970) and now it's finally OK.
My definition of "modern" is, essentially, postwar, so it includes all the monstrosities from the 1950-1970 era. We are doing better now, that's true.