Seems like they would be better for areas with earthquakes, hurricanes, and high wind while also being more durable in general.
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Because modern building techniques dont rely on tension destribuition in localised spots as instead tension forces are distributed throught the steel beams on the inside of the buildings.
Also has to do with regionalism, places where there was such architecture tend to show modern examples of old techniques, in example in Italy and Portugal romanic arches are more comon in the south and gothic arches in the north, in Ohio or Montreal neither are common
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