New Construction Blues

An underwhelming but perfectly good building

I recently linked this piece in Washingtonian magazine, on two “perfect,” “revolutionary” houses—brand new and priced just under $2 million—that turned out to be shoddy junk.

It’s a sobering read, and while those houses were almost uniquely awful, new construction in general gets a lot of criticism for supposedly being of poor quality. Years ago as a kid…