this post was submitted on 19 May 2024
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Terrible Estate Agent Photos

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Terrible photos listed by estate agents/realtors that are so bad they’re funny.

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[–] Emperor 84 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Here is the episode of The Restoration Man that documented the project - they go into the planning side of this in-depth because it's really a head-scratcher. The owner tried many times to get planning for more subtle alternations but they kept getting knocked back because it has to be distinctive enough that it's clear what is the old building and what are the new additions. What you see is the result of that messy process.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's dumb as fuck, literally even if it was brick you'd be able to tell from the weathering of the original stone. NIMBYs are fucking idiots.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 months ago

if it's so important that we must be able to tell when it was built, just fucking carve the date into each brick lmao

[–] Damage@feddit.it 14 points 5 months ago

Feels like the owner had enemies in the local administration

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I'm going to go with the idea they didn't want anyone living in the tower in the first place. So they decided to refuse anything until it was too obvious to deny.