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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