When designing a building, the most important factor is the intended use of the building rather than its outward appearance. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Essay topics:

When designing a building, the most important factor is the intended use of the building rather than its outward appearance. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

It is often argued that the function of a building is more important than its exterior aesthetics. I agree with this view, though I think that external appearance should not be neglected.
Regarding the external appearance, there are several benefits associated with having appealing buildings. It is true that human nature generally tends to beauty. Therefore, designing an attractive construction such as a school, university or company headquarters means that more students and employees will be passionate about having positions in such charming buildings. This can help businesspersons who run these organisations financially. Similarly, fancy restaurants and luxurious hotels pay significant attention to decoration and exterior aesthetics to attract more people to pay large sums of money. In short, it is clear that outward appearance plays an indisputable role especially in generating profits for entrepreneurs.
Nonetheless, I would argue that the function of a building should be the top priority. If a building fails to meet the basic function that it was made for, I doubt that its decoration can compensate. For instance, if a breathtaking hotel with up-to-date ornaments does not have elevators or the guest rooms are not spacious or lack windows, there will most likely not be as many guests as intended. Another point is that the importance of infrastructure of any building far outweighs its external appearance. A prime example here is what happened in Chile a few years ago when some attractive buildings collapsed due to a minor earthquake. If these buildings were constructed to be durable and functional rather than delicate but appealing, many souls might have been saved.
In conclusion, despite the importance of the outward appearance of buildings in attracting more people and making more money, I believe that functionality is more important both commercially and in the long run.

Votes
Average: 8.4 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, nonetheless, regarding, similarly, so, therefore, for instance, i think, in conclusion, in short, such as, it is true

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 41.998997996 69% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.3376753507 180% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1618.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 298.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.42953020134 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.18536810657 2.80592935109 114% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.607382550336 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 500.4 506.74238477 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.4386621509 49.4020404114 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.866666667 106.682146367 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8666666667 20.7667163134 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.4 7.06120827912 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.178440550838 0.244688304435 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.057194004681 0.084324248473 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0517504890413 0.0667982634062 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.10987510914 0.151304729494 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0497627935431 0.056905535591 87% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.21 12.4159519038 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.92 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 78.4519038076 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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