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12/14/08
I dig small houses - do we really need mcmansions?
12/15/08
You're not thinking of the very famous Flatiron Building from Times Square, are you? Because that's a pretty freaking big wedge compared to the looks of these little things.
Anyways, none of these really compares to a house that got covered on the news once, which clocks in at a grand total of a whopping 86 square feet. The owner has a strict rule for herself, where in order for her to be allowed to bring a new object into her house, she has to get rid of an object that is currently held within the house. Oh, and there's no shower or bath, so she has to mooch off of friends and neighbors whenever she wants to do a better job than what a sponge is capable of.
12/14/08
12/14/08
12/14/08
1. The top center portion of the picture - where is the side of the red brick building?
2. In front of the red brick building - it was very considerate of the graffiti artists to stop spraying on the edge of the bare concrete and not touch the red brickwork at all...
12/15/08
The bit at the top where the brick just seems to stop in mid-air is one of the things I was looking at, but I was thinking more in terms of the line of green at the bottom of the concrete foundation than where the foundation meets the masonry (and for the next one, the fact that the sky looks completely fake where it meets the building in that shot, and how the red bricks are all aged and discolored, while the cinder blocks or whatever they are are immaculate).
However, seeing a different view of the first building (which has some, but not all, of the same grafitti on the foundation) does lend it a bit of credibility, and I'm thinking the dark tan setback on the skinny building is angled outwards, to a point just shy of the front edge of the red bricks, with a window that starts just above the little patch of roof over the second floor of the skinny bit.
Now, that still leaves me wanting to see the address number on that red brick building, so prove that the #7 sliver isn't just a mismatched entrance.
12/14/08
12/14/08
Did you ever consider that it might not be possible for a lot of buildings to be that skinny? No. Instead, we're bombarded with unrealistic floor plans in magazines like Architectural Digest. Skinny chic is undermining our buildings.