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Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The Cost of Stonemasonry in the US

The increasing cost of labor that now you can't hire people to spend hours on every square foot of the outside of a building. The Isa Genu temple in Japan which is this temple complex that they've been like torn down and rebuilt every 20 years so it's using 1300 year old construction techniques. A glass curtain wall is actually really expensive to build on a building because it lets in so much light and it gets so hot, says PSK.

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