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• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  High-rises? No. Multi story buildings some going up to six or seven floors? Yes. Plenty of them survived up until around the high medieval period but we’re starting to come down by the Renaissance, though there are some examples in Revenna Italy. It’s been about 1500 years since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and about 500 years since the Eastern Roman Empire, regardless of how well built that’s a long time for any tall structures, a good example is the Lighthouse of Alexandria which while a bit older was rendered ruined around the same period and subsequently scavenged from to construct something newer, much like it’s Roman counterparts.

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  • AniZaeger@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And meanwhile, name structures of similar scale built with modern engineering would probably be gone long in a fraction of the time.

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    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Most of them did collapse and fail or were otherwise scavenged for materials and lowered a few floors. So it’s not like these were all lasting for some massively absurd timescales on average, what we have are the well built ones. We probably do have plenty of structures that will be around in a thousand years with proper maintenance, it’s just that most large scale building of comparable sizes are only about 200 years old at most, which is roughly comparable to when the larger Roman building in Gaul and Britain started to get a bit rough according to chroniclers.

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    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Once you find the exact material and labor required to meet specifications, spending more to exceed them is simply wasteful.

      If you want modern engineering to build something that will last 2000 years with minimal maintaince, it’ll be expensive and kinda shitty to live in.

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