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:

Comments

[lisande.livejournal.com]

Oh. I understand.

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

You obviously live in either an area that gets little/no snowfall, or those roofs had better be far stronger than they look!

[jaelle-n-gilla.livejournal.com]

I guess it's a general concept thing. Germans build for eternity. My grandfather built a garden hut. Really, just something to hold the lawn clippers and stuff. That was in the 50s. After his death they tried to take it down with hammers and rock drills. they finally succeeded with no less than a wrecker's ball. Go granddad!

In the US I've seen many houses made of wood constructions. Germany is full of stone masonry instead. Not that it's necessarily better. It's a lot more expensive for one thing.