Every Generation Has Its "Improvements"

We will never know how horrified the medievals would be if they could see what later generations did to their defensive fortifications: piercing the high stone walls to add big regular windows, knocking down the moats and outer curtain walls and adding gardens and shrubbery, lifting up the whole manor and turning it to face the other way; but architecture is less violently offended by the country estate improvements of the Georgian and Regency eras than by this moc:



This looks like a castle-themed motel, or maybe a rather ill-advised apartment complex built in the seventies. Sure the windows are regular, but they are not of a size to imply opulence: they are the mean, stingy size of tight budgets and narrow margins. Architecture up until the modern era had been built to last: every building from quaint cottage to lordly manor was the work of generations, but today's architecture despite great advancements in materials and ingenuity is largely built to be disposable. Perhaps the Georgians had it right: