@sindreaarhusnarvestad: We’ve been rendering buildings at birth. Every new render freezes architecture at its cleanest moment, then asks the real building to spend the rest of its life drifting away from that image. Piranesi drew ruins. Soane commissioned his Bank of England as a future ruin before the building had even aged. Ruskin saw the marks of time as part of architecture’s beauty. Maybe we should start drawing the moss earlier. A building deserves to be imagined as something that will live.
I agree but the new buildings are so ugly the aging photos make them look better
2026-07-23 15:07:31
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Sindre Aarhus Narvestad :
Patina should be a design parameter. Robust materials like brass, copper, oak and natural stone weather with grace when you detail them so water and time do the finishing work. A building that ages with beauty was designed to.
I’ve been building a small tool that lets you visualise how your design will age: https://patinated.ai
2026-07-24 05:18:37
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Eric :
"Ruin ready" is a dog whistle.
2026-07-25 20:49:52
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𝓡𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓺𝓾𝓲𝓪 :
Architecture is long dead. Nobody has a feeling for light and proportions anymore, it's just hastily cobbled together blocks.
2026-07-24 20:31:20
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vio1024 :
we need more philosophers 😁
2026-07-26 08:41:04
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Alxc :
Everything needs maintenance. Can't design a building that doesn't age.
2026-07-23 22:26:06
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pstavs :
CORRECT !! - Say it louder for the people at the back !
2026-07-26 08:19:25
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lindsayanna.jones :
I’m so tired of seeing new buildings esp housing estates and blocks of flats designed like this where I live. We’re close to the sea and have damp Scottish weather. It takes 2 years tops for the materials to look rough and unkempt but not in a way that looks well lived in and more like abandoned by a canal full of shopping trolleys
2026-07-26 21:53:57
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Opossum :
People need housing not art.
2026-07-25 00:02:05
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seeyuhmrk 🇰🇿 :
great post, educational
2026-07-26 21:05:11
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IIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIlll :
There’s a similar problem in Ireland. Every single render of a new building manages to forget to include the utility boxes we seem to need. The renders are outdated on day 1
2026-07-24 08:17:55
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casualcuriosity_ :
It drives me mad seeing a year old bleach white building with tears of rust. Surely they can do simulations now, knowing that it will look awful as soon as they drive off in the van
2026-07-24 10:45:18
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Smith :
Engineers are killing architecture
2026-07-26 08:48:57
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delftbrew :
architecture is killing architecture...architecture used to have a vibe, now it's just beige.
2026-07-24 07:02:57
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Amele Mimar :
Such great information, followed
2026-07-25 08:17:54
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kephi :
Archeological evidence from a few decades after the end of Roman rule in Britain shows a transition from urban, stone houses, to timber, thatch, and less permanent structures. I wonder if future archeologists will find the same conclusion when looking back at our time
2026-07-25 07:28:14
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HouseOfEleni :
I just had this conversation with my husband about all of the “modern” boxes popping up throughout Greece. They are beautiful only because they are pristine but the minute one flat owner decides they don’t want to paint or maintain…
2026-07-24 18:41:52
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Bawling_for_toupee :
Absolutely agree with this. If I were a client, I would want to see a render of it in 10 years on a grey, rainy day.
2026-07-23 20:08:28
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irl enki :
God I love worn brutalist architecture
2026-07-25 22:20:53
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mmmmmmmmmhmmmmmmmm. :
or people who live there can take care of the house so it looks good always
2026-07-25 12:00:44
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aleksandarribar0 :
thats why you render it that way. to sell it. in other news, water is wet
2026-07-25 08:17:30
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Jonas Holm :
it is intended buildings aren't allowed to grow old
they have joined the planned obsolescence
2026-07-24 22:07:56
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Z :
Most homes nowadays are not built to last anyway
2026-07-26 00:32:56
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Travis_of_America :
Isn’t it cheap material choices and the drive down of quality, it’s all so obviously crap.
2026-07-24 13:39:37
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