From the Netherlands to Berlin there like barely any old houses because of ww2 I hate it the brick houses look ugly old houses looked so much better
amirismail3553 on
I thought Greece would be older
JohnnieTango on
What is it about the French that they do not seem to like newer buildings? Heck, even the French part of Belgium seems to favor older buildings…
PotatoStunad on
With the amount Europeans yap about how old their houses are, I would’ve thought all of Europe would be yellow and even older that’s 1909
modsaretoddlers on
I guess the touristy pictures really give a false impression. You never see anything under a couple centuries old in those. Of course, those are like %95 of the pictures you see and if you’ve never been to Europe, like myself, you’d think the whole place looks like that.
megalithicman on
My cousins in Central Norway still live in the same house that their ancestors built-in the 13th century
Duc_de_Bourgogne on
It tracks, my house in France in one of the yellow areas is from the 18th century. My parents house in the same town is 15th century. It helps to bring down the average.
Gingerbro73 on
Average building age in the European Union*
AnaphoricReference on
What does average mean here? Median? As in: Time frame when 50% of houses had been built?
JeremyMcSnailface on
Not sure how the numbers are derived. It says age but then lists year. And average would mean if a region’s building was 50% 40s, 50% 60s, average should mean the region would be colored as 50s. Which is either unintuitive or the map is not actually average but more like mode or mean.
AgeOfReasonEnds31120 on
Europe is newer than many people think. It’s not really destroying cities to build glass and concrete skyscrapers in the middle of these „old“ cities. They only looked like that for like 200 years at most. The Industrial Revolution made construction skyrocket and cities transform.
Medieval cities literally had little village buildings next to grand Roman architecture. It used to look much different.
Weekly-Monitor763 on
Something flawed about the title of this data. This appears to actually be about the average age of buildings treated to a decarbonising renovation or some similar sub category.
jbarrish on
A lot of the small villages in France were built in Medieval times, complete with fortfications surrounding them. Love the character of that place. The South where my family was from originally has tons of that too but is offset I imagine by newer construction due to the cities along the Riviera, tourism etc.
Nanako1857 on
Wars and ecology/economy reshaped the European landscape. France I love you!
Germany: si Jung und doch so Alt (so young, yet so old), quote from Rammstein – Deutschland.
Conor_J_Sweeney on
No UK is a travesty for this map.
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From the Netherlands to Berlin there like barely any old houses because of ww2 I hate it the brick houses look ugly old houses looked so much better
I thought Greece would be older
What is it about the French that they do not seem to like newer buildings? Heck, even the French part of Belgium seems to favor older buildings…
With the amount Europeans yap about how old their houses are, I would’ve thought all of Europe would be yellow and even older that’s 1909
I guess the touristy pictures really give a false impression. You never see anything under a couple centuries old in those. Of course, those are like %95 of the pictures you see and if you’ve never been to Europe, like myself, you’d think the whole place looks like that.
My cousins in Central Norway still live in the same house that their ancestors built-in the 13th century
It tracks, my house in France in one of the yellow areas is from the 18th century. My parents house in the same town is 15th century. It helps to bring down the average.
Average building age in the European Union*
What does average mean here? Median? As in: Time frame when 50% of houses had been built?
Not sure how the numbers are derived. It says age but then lists year. And average would mean if a region’s building was 50% 40s, 50% 60s, average should mean the region would be colored as 50s. Which is either unintuitive or the map is not actually average but more like mode or mean.
Europe is newer than many people think. It’s not really destroying cities to build glass and concrete skyscrapers in the middle of these „old“ cities. They only looked like that for like 200 years at most. The Industrial Revolution made construction skyrocket and cities transform.
Medieval cities literally had little village buildings next to grand Roman architecture. It used to look much different.
Something flawed about the title of this data. This appears to actually be about the average age of buildings treated to a decarbonising renovation or some similar sub category.
A lot of the small villages in France were built in Medieval times, complete with fortfications surrounding them. Love the character of that place. The South where my family was from originally has tons of that too but is offset I imagine by newer construction due to the cities along the Riviera, tourism etc.
Wars and ecology/economy reshaped the European landscape. France I love you!
Germany: si Jung und doch so Alt (so young, yet so old), quote from Rammstein – Deutschland.
No UK is a travesty for this map.