the roof thing

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My German friends were bemused with my fascination with all the tile (and even slate!) roofs is Germany. Want to know why? I have a photo taken from higher ground in the public park across the road from a fancy new expensive condominium development in a fancy expensive part of town by the river. Note that not only are these rooftops visible from the park across the road, but are visible from some of the units in the buildings themselves. This is not hidden away, but part of the view out the windows of the very building itself. An expensive view, no less. This is how we do it in America when we are spending plenty of money on a fancy place:

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60s-ish was a pretty remarkable period here to for ugly buildings. That horrific building right next to Milwaukee's 1890s German-inspired city hall comes to mind, or the police headquarters made of concrete and resembling something you clamp onto a computer CPU for cooling.

And yes, we did tend to seek out the pretty. That second photo is pretty bad. The first doesn't really look to me like a particularly striking example of ugly. No worse than medium ugly. I mean, it even looks like it has those spiffy German windows that open and everything.