This! i don’t get why you buy a brick House with masonry lintels etc as an architectural feature I,e. quite a traditional style brick mansion, only to tear it to bits and put in glazing everywhere like it’s a London office block.
Our back door(s) open out in to the garden, but the house is 1950’s ish. Wouldn’t necessarily fly with current building regs, but I have no idea about those things tbh. On a square building I feel like the wind could rip the door off on a blustery day with the wind in the wrong direction.
With the school or an office building following on from the example someone else gave it does make sense for the door to open outwards as if crowds were trying to escape in an emergency if enough people reached the door at the same time there wouldn’t be the internal space to open it inwards with people building up behind it, and the crowd building up behind it could cause a crush/loss of life where the doors couldn’t open. It happened in a cinema in the uk once, lots of children lost their life (don’t know why I know this?) but I think those escape doors had also been blocked to prevent people sneaking via the doors in pre-centralised-alarm systems. Most fire exits on buildings like that open out I think?
Just editing to say chatting about this with the other half, hes also made the point its easier to break in to a house where the door opens outwards, you can get something between the frame and door for leverage, or if the hingers are on the outside just saw those off to gain access which makes sense and explains why it’s not common... but I am suddenly scared of him