Protesting Bad and Obstructive Builds...

This thread makes my brain hurt..

Oh, and well said

Where is the land for sale? I'm buyin'.

Lets buy it and put up lots of "Please don't put any more ugly boxes on this parcel" made out of ugly boxes!

yes you sound the type that will fit right in that Boxed Dream, try thinking outa the box, about boxes. Cause one box leads to another ya ya ya ! ( some song )

I think its time to call in the SHEEP MAN.........
Paging Schwan....... please come to the white desk phone....

Sorry to play the Sheep Card on ya kid, but its for your own good.

Happy New Year

-Waves

That reminds me of an XTC song that goes, "Don't let the loveless ones sell you a world wrapped in grey"

Is there something wrong with wanting something better than a landscape that is made up of headache inducing bright neon color or plain towers?

Is there something wrong with wanting something better than your neigbors doing builds that are 2 or more stories taller than yours right at your window?

Is there something wrong with wanting something better than grey boxes on the landscape?

I say no, but all of you are saying yes. That is why I'm going to Dreamland. Unless you have the money to buy the land for your house and all of the land around it, it is pointless to build a nice home on the mainland. No one respects what you build, they just look at their land and go "Ah, I can build a 3 story mall here and get L$xxx off of it" without ever thinking about the house that is next to where they are placing their back wall!

So, I'm going to Dreamland where I can have my house and zoning rules that will keep the landscape and viewable, not the anarchy on the mainland. I want a suburb, not the 80's version of Times Square.

Oh, one last thing, if someone does want to buy my land, it's at Samia (220,110).

--Jamie

This thread was in the wrong place to start with, no it has advertisements..

I agree here. I hope everyone has still the right to determine what is ugly and not. I see many houses (high ones and low ones) that are ugly in my opinion.... but I realize they may be not in the eyes of the one who created it.

Morwen.

<--- likes nice people and lives in pink and green houses and... including this "repurposed" shanty by Nikolai Weber

Do you think that supermarkets consider how ugly their buildings look, or the huge car-parks they need to put in not far from your door? Most people I know were happy with the local shop (which has been driven out of business) by the butt-ugly supermarket down the road, somehow they even got past the planning permission part, because neither they, nor apparently the local council considered the negative effects of building this big, profit hungry pile of crap supermarket down the road.

Having made my way through architecture school, I have to say many of the buildings in SL are pretty iffy. BUT. One of the things that really pissed me off during school was the sentiment that many (if not most) architects have, which is -- only those who have a good eye for beauty can build things that are good looking. Or put another way, "Anyone can build, but not just anyone can make architecture."

All that said, part of what makes SL cool is the fact that anyone CAN build part of the architecture of the game -- sure, it might not look good to me, but that doesn't stop it from being an integral part of what we all experience when we're in world. If you're hating what your neighbors are building, you have a couple of options (as have already been suggested) -- you can move to Dreamland, where it's gridded and there are zoning 'laws' [which actually makes for a kind of stepford wives feel to the place], or you can change your build to fit more with the context of what your neighbors are building, or you can protest by building something you consider ugly, just so your neighbors can see how much they've upset you. I'd say only one of these options shows true character.

I've done three builds now that have had to deal with large signs that everyone had been complaining about -- by the use of a few easy design tricks, you don't even notice the signs -- AND there are still beautiful views out into the SL landscape.

Last part of my two cents -- put up a tree buffer. If you've got a low-rise build, and all your neighbors have high-rises, the trees will block the view much more aesthetically than large protest signs.

-Rez

Well Jamie ..

You've discovered Dreamland. Award winning architectural wonders that exist and thrive because no clubs, no malls, no monstrosities and no structures on top of your property lines. The best part is that the land costs are about 50% of similar prime land on the mainland. So what are you waiting for?