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charles, this apartment building reminds me of a morgue, with several body-drawers left open for new arrivals.

Posted by josef | February 7, 2007 2:28 PM
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It looks like air conditioners mounted upon giant air conditioners. The old folks feel comforted looking at the machinery that keeps them alive.

Posted by him | February 7, 2007 2:29 PM
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My grandmother is in her nineties and I consider her to be very spirited. Not all retired people are just waiting around for death.

Posted by Baxter | February 7, 2007 2:30 PM
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Significance of this? Doesn't seem to be any. But, "buildings that point not to this world but the underworld in which they already have a foot in." What's with that, eh? 'In which they already have a foot in.' Indeed.

Posted by hmm | February 7, 2007 2:39 PM
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Oh, Charles, really. Is there no place in your carefully-categorized world for such a basic architectural/ artistic idea as *contrast*?

The youthful architecture and the old inhabitants play off of each other, bringing attention to both. A youthful building bursting with young people is ultimately just as boring, homogenous, and forgetful as a bland box full of old bones.

Posted by SeattleExile | February 7, 2007 2:49 PM
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how strange looking. I think a younger crowd may not want to live there only because if they aren't in the "outward" apartments, their view will be blocked by the parts protruding from the building.

In somewhat related news, I found it interesting last weekend when I visited a cemetery in Everett and saw backed up to it was not only a trailer park..but also new apartments/condos. What a lovely view they must have, overlooking all those gravesites

blech. I hope rent is CHEAP!

Posted by Faux Show | February 7, 2007 2:51 PM
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I can't wait for Charles to grow old. How bottomless can self-hate get? I hope we find out someday.

Posted by Matthew | February 7, 2007 2:55 PM
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Right, because all old people do is sit around and wait to die.

Posted by Sweeney Agonistes | February 7, 2007 3:01 PM
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Charles, you have some bizarrely stereotyped ideas about what "old" people are like. The apartments most likely house those 55 and older. If you think most people in their late 50s are sitting around in rockers knitting, you are sadly misinformed.

Most of the people who live on my block are well over 70 years old. The couple across the street are in their 70s, and they ski, hike, jog, golf, and travel extensively. They're probably considerably more fit than you are.

The whole tone of the article is just ... dumb.

Posted by Geni | February 7, 2007 3:16 PM
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wow, I know it can be hard to 'get' sarcasmn and irony but people, you need to wake up...

unless, charles means this, then he IS just being a jerk...

oh, and i like this building...it's so much more interesting than all these dull-ass, cheezy, metal barns being put up...

Posted by michael strangeways | February 7, 2007 3:18 PM
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Charles you are a bore as usual. Go listen to some Jamie Woon you dork.

Posted by ............ | February 7, 2007 3:23 PM
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1. It's social (subsidized housing).
2. It's for people 55 and over, hardly crawling toward the grave.

3. Have you seen it person, Charles, cuz I'm kind of sick of you leafing through architecture magazines and going on and on about the pictures.

Posted by FinishTag | February 7, 2007 3:30 PM
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Faux Show @6:

I used to live across the street from a cemetery. I rather liked it; lots of greenery and, of course, very quiet.

Posted by cdc | February 7, 2007 3:47 PM
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I'd rather have a view of a graveyard than a trailer park. Trailer parks are too depressing.

Posted by keshmeshi | February 7, 2007 4:30 PM
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Right…
Old people should live in mausoleums
Black people should live in grass huts
Yellow people should live in pagodas
Brown people should live in tee pees
…everyone knows that.

Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me | February 7, 2007 4:49 PM
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I think Charles is allowed to write about buildings to provide unintended comedy.

Posted by David Sucher | February 7, 2007 5:42 PM
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charles makes pronouncements about other people should live.

I say charles is an asshole who should shut the fuck up.

Posted by chris | February 7, 2007 6:13 PM
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What!

Posted by Gary | February 7, 2007 6:55 PM
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Charles, you need to see someone there - Dan??? - about your tri - weekly blow job needs.....sounds crass....well dear, you sound very frustrated and sexually repressed.

A better sex life will change your view about living a bit longer.....and the rewards of same.

Great building, shits and more shits of a commentary from all bound up Charlie.

Which might be a second problem....on top of the first.

Posted by celisea | February 7, 2007 9:54 PM
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WTF? Would you want to live in "grim structures" and "buildings that point not to this world of positive things but to the underworld of negative, annihilating forces" when you're a geriatric?

Read as hyperbole, the description is actually pretty funny. Otherwise it's just bizarre.

Posted by David | February 7, 2007 10:52 PM
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"what the authorities should do" ???
So we should have a police state and get them to kick the old people out put them in a dingy environment and glorify youth (which we do way to much off)

Why do you keep coming up with such fascist comments

Posted by Brian | February 8, 2007 9:09 AM
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Happy Birthday Charles!

Posted by Morgan | February 8, 2007 12:34 PM
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How can anyone read a sentence like "Old people must live in grim structures" and not laugh out loud? I guess I could be way off but the more I read Mr. Mudede, the more I just think he is a very deadpan comic, and part of the shtick is the outraged comments. And I for one love it.

Posted by Dikki Anjensen | February 9, 2007 3:47 PM
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ageist.

Posted by Jamey | February 10, 2007 1:18 PM

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