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Comment by grvdrm

1 day ago

Is that brick or is it reinforced masonry?

Both. Older single story tends to be brick.

Newer multistory is typically cast in place with rebar reinforcement from what I can tell.

In the countryside, you might find more masonry block construction, but not in dense urban areas like Taipei and Taichung where the norm is to build up. Most "single family homes" are what we would consider very large condos in the US.