hexual@lemmy.world to pics@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoNewcastle-upon-Tyne gives me steampunk vibes [OC]lemmy.worldimagemessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up1298arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1297arrow-down1imageNewcastle-upon-Tyne gives me steampunk vibes [OC]lemmy.worldhexual@lemmy.world to pics@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square18linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·4 days agoYeah, here in Kansas City we have some exceedingly neat older buildings (my favorite being our Union Station) but nothing like this. I miss when humanity just built big, beautiful structures for the sake of having big, beautiful structures and not everything was cheap and optimized.
minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 days agoIt was more that they didn’t understand how to optimise, so to keep it from falling apart they built bigger.
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Yeah, here in Kansas City we have some exceedingly neat older buildings (my favorite being our Union Station) but nothing like this.
I miss when humanity just built big, beautiful structures for the sake of having big, beautiful structures and not everything was cheap and optimized.
It was more that they didn’t understand how to optimise, so to keep it from falling apart they built bigger.
Also free labour