We could live in the Glass House, and still be often in a bad mood.
From Alain de Botton's The Architecture of Happiness
:Endowed with a power as unreliable as it often is inexpressible, architecture will always compete poorly with utilitarian demands for humanity's resources. How hard it is to make a case for tearing down and rebuilding a serviceable but mean street. How awkward to have to defend, in the face of more tangible needs, the benefits of realigning a crooked lamppost or replacing an ill-matched window frame. Beautiful architecture has none of the unambiguous advantages of a vaccine or a bowl of rice. Its construction will hence never be raised to a dominant political priority, for even if the whole of the man-made world could, through relentless effort and sacrifice, be modeled to rival St. Mark's Square, even if we could spend the rest of our lives in the Villa Rotunda or the Glass House, we would still be often in a bad mood.
