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by riazrizvi 2892 days ago
I live on the Peninsula in the Bay Area, SF's suburbs. Recently there has been a huge uptick in apartment building, mostly because Caltrain is building apartments on their land. I rent so I like there is some downward pressure on property prices. However one problem with these apartments blocks is that they make them cheap and they look lame. Nothing like the nice apartments in Italy or France. It's too bad. There should be some big tax break for good architecture.
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>There should be some big tax break for good architecture

As much as I would love it if modern builders tried making things look nice again, in practice I think this would just result in glass cube copypasta and beige foam

This. Why do every single new condo building in the bay has to be ugly ?