On Friday, May 22, 2015 at 1:19:55 AM UTC-5, Electric Comet wrote:
saw an interesting store needed no wood for the structure nor steel beams
the structure was made from ship steel plates


i like the idea of fire and forget buildings
no roofing repairs and no painting
not sure about tornadoes or hurricanes but it won't burn down

What about windows? How did they add windows into this steel plate? Windows on ships are non-existent in the hull I think.

A brick house with steel sheeting/panels for the roof would be very close to your "fire and forget building". And it would have the advantage of not looking odd anywhere.