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I just found this one and I thought it deserved a mention. Swan House in Newcastle.

Micah, it's a real housing estate. The picture was taken from a developers website, whom I can only assume wanted to change the sky (badly imo) to make the houses look more attractive

Here's a few that I can immediately think of: 1) Northampton Bus Station, UK 2) I kind of like it because of it's role in (the original 1969) Get Carter, but I'm sure a lot of people will hate it. Plus with this shot, you get the equally 'glorious' Indoor Market in front. The Gateshead carpark: 3) Westgate House in Newcastle. Look at the surrounding style of architecture and they slap this up..: 4) Probably the worst of the lot. Found everywhere in the UK in identikit form. The Wimpey/Barratt house. Homogenised boxes with plasterboard walls, plastic windows and absolutely no character. From Aberstwyth to Aberdeen, this mishmash of quasi-individualist features (you can have a red roof or a black one basically) not only turns the development to a hotchpotch wart on the landscape, development of such houses (I refrain from calling them, as developers insist on doing, homes) all over the country; that new house you buy is exactly the same as how many others in the country? 10? 50? 500? What does that say about the owner? Also, with the houses being crammed together so tight - basically a path wide enough for a wheelie-bin between the houses, and a sandpit sized garden, privacy is minimal. All houses take a period of time to 'bed in' to the environment, but one feels by the time these have; it'll be time to knock them down and start all over again. But hey, this keeps the homebuilders in business right? This first one is entitled swallowsnest and the second is called berry hill. Two things I can guarantee you won't see in the developments.

What if lots are constructed in a different way aking? You obviously weren't here at the start of simtropolis/sc4. Things on the modding/lot creating front were decidedly primitave and what may now seem as fairly standard mods were seen as major breakthroughs with a bunch of dedicated folk scratching their brains over the coding of the game - and everyone else being eternally grateful.