Until recently, nearly all residential development in Chicago took a faux vintage approach, imitating to some degree, earlier architectural periods. That has changed. While there is still plenty of historic and vintage-looking design entering the market, the city is awash in a wave of new buildings with modern architecture.
The choice between vintage and modern might seem simply an aesthetic one – and for the most part, it probably is. However, home inspector Tom Corbett points to one advantage of many modern designs that might not occur to the typical homeowner: contemporary architecture, with its lack of ornament and frequent emphasis on exposing structural elements, can make a home inspector’s job – and homeowners’ later repairs and maintenance – much easier.
Read more in Corbett’s column on inspecting modern buildings in New Homes Magazine.