To be honest, while my hometown has a various catalog of many architectural and original styles, each building or apartment or villa has their own colors, maybe mapping and size and height. None of them look similar. Yet, in some compounds in my country and in my hometown, they use the same colors and the same infrastructure and the same everything in each building they make inside the compound. All the buildings look identical to each other. And a funny thing that I have noticed that a huge change in architectural style has taken place from many years ago, like 25 years ago. At first my hometown was literally a desert where no buildings have been built or any villas for example and it was basically a remote place until they started building it and now it is it still has some empty spacey desert parts but mostly it’s full of buildings and apartments now. And I think people who dislike the traditional ways of buildings and apartments, for example, because many people don’t like the aesthetic of living in a village, because if they want the traditional way they can go to live in a rural lifestyle and in a rural place instead of living in a city with traditional buildings. They want to have the aesthetic of a city like with modern buildings instead of rural lifestyles.
Band 6+: Are there any architectural styles which are particularly common in your home town or city? What changes in architectural style have taken place in your country in the last 20 or 30 years? What do you think some people prefer modern buildings to more traditional ones?
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To be honest, while my hometown has a various catalog of many architectural and original styles, each building or apartment or villa has their own colors, maybe mapping and size and height. None of them look similar. Yet, in some compounds in my country and in my hometown, they use the same colors and the same infrastructure and the same everything in each building they make inside the compound. All the buildings look identical to each other. And a funny thing that I have noticed is that a huge change in architectural style has taken place from many years ago, like 25 years ago. At first my hometown was literally a desert where no buildings had been built or any villas for example, and it was basically a remote place until they started building it, and now it still has some empty spacey desert parts but mostly it's full of buildings and apartments now. And I think people who dislike the traditional ways of buildings and apartments, for example, because many people don't like the aesthetic of living in a village, because if they want the traditional way they can go to live in a rural lifestyle and in a rural place instead of living in a city with traditional buildings. They want to have the aesthetic of a city like with modern buildings instead of rural lifestyles.
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