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Do you actually know this from Turkey? It’s hard to explain, but the investor went bankrupt and this Neuschwanstein domino city stands half-finished and empty.
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I find these apartment buildings prettier than many buildings I see here in Germany.

Interesting, I didn’t know that!

FAZ writes among other things: “On Berlin’s Friedrichstraße the architects wanted to revive the shapes of the old city, but didn’t dare to build what really made the beauty of the houses of the old city – the projections and recesses that give a house depth, caryatids, bay windows, volutes, rustications, cold marble, heavy velvet, sizzlingly boiling Gothicisms, the opulently overloaded façades of the Gründerzeit...”

If not even the architects dare, we shouldn’t expect too much from the average builder. ;-)

What still isn’t clear to me is the following: Even my grandparents, economically poor people, lived in a house with real wood shutters, real muntin windows, a conservatory, etc. That was in a “mere” “railway workers’ settlement.” Why was it possible to realize all this in the simplest residential areas for everyone and we can’t afford either real wood shutters or real muntins in our building project?

Greatly phrased and so fitting! :D

Unfortunately not by me :D (plus one word)

What is still unclear to me is the following: Even my grandparents, economically poor people, lived in a house with real wood shutters, genuine muntin windows, conservatory, etc. That was in a "mere" "railway workers' settlement." Why was it possible to realize all this in the simplest residential areas for everyone, and why can we neither afford real wood shutters nor genuine muntins in our construction project?

I often ask myself this similar question too... especially with such beautiful buildings like old train stations, schools, apartment buildings, churches, waterworks, factories, bridges... I always wonder why nowadays everything is built so plain. I always hear... no one can afford that nowadays... How was it done in the past??

Even my grandparents, economically poor people, lived in a house

How did that work back then??

With stove heating, wood or coal, one power outlet in the room, thin simple walls, drafty single glazing and a stone hot water bottle in the bed under the duvet in the freezing cold bedroom.

With stove heating, wood or coal, a power outlet in the room, thin simple walls, drafty single glazing, and a stone hot water bottle in bed under the duvet in the freezing cold bedroom.

Without
home office, dressing room, children's bathroom, KNX, kitchen island, large format tiles, ... :)

Without Homeoffice, dressing room, children's bathroom, KNX ... :)

…a lot of personal effort, paid overtime, the village club, without garden and landscaping contractors…