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Originally Posted by edale
I don't mind painted brick at all. Cincinnati has tons of painted brick, and I think it adds a lot of much needed color to the city, especially in the gray of winter. Seeing how Chicago has a much worse and longer winter than Cincy, I feel like a little color would be a welcome addition there.
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Well, I think that's a different thing. As with D.C., colorful painted brick has long been part of the character and identity of the city.
In Chicago, the character is unpainted brick, usually of very high quality as Steely points out. And the black and white color scheme is of the ubiquitous trendy silliness found all over major metros these days.
So I agree it's an asinine trend. I currently go back and forth between Albuquerque and Atlanta, and the painted-white brick trend is all over Atlanta, wherever there is brick to be found. And many of the older wood-siding craftsman homes in ATL have been painted black and white when flipped despite the fact these homes were basically built with muted colors in mind.
Fortunately for Albuquerque there isn't really much brick. And even if there was, nobody would paint it based on any stupid trend. Only the more global metros do that shit. People in ABQ either have too much sense, or too little money. Probably the latter