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«There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture, your buildings will not last, since people will never feel at home in them.» - Sir Roger Scruton.

Vicar’s Close, built over 600 years ago in Wells England, is the oldest residential street with original buildings intact in Europe. Labor was limited, dangerous and expensive, and materials had to be locally sourced and were finite. And still, we built gorgeous structures such as this.