Salvage! “Crunch and dump” demolition has to be made illegal, everywhere.

Modernity requires a skilled hand.
Post modern buildings are even more fun, with columns of fakery pasted everywhere.
Modern buildings all around display a dizzying array of gratuitous planes offset for no particular reason, with practiced hands producing delight here and there.

…poly gutters that got suspended yearly, as some concrete connection sprung a new leak.
The stairs leading down to the covered square between the library and the student building, and the light lattice like timber cover were also beautiful, defining public space that was wonderful year around…

The Simon Fraser University campus, original buildings by Arthur Erickson, are a mix of absolutely wonderful - Academic Quad - and horridly depressing - the Library - though it’s use of board lumber as form work gives the details a sculptural feel.
And they leaked. We used to joke about temporary …

single stair mass timber passivhaus prefab straw panel social housing. 👀