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News & ArtsTuesday, June 14, 2011
Architecture My House of the Week
Posted by Charles Mudede on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:30 AM
The red one...
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I am guessing you have never owned a house.
Because only someone with no experience of the reality of ownership would buy a flat roofed house in the Pacific Northwest.
Flat roofs leak.
Period, Full Stop.
And people who make the largest financial purchase in their lives based on looks and design fads deserve what they get.
Because only someone with no experience of the reality of ownership would buy a flat roofed house in the Pacific Northwest.
Flat roofs leak.
Period, Full Stop.
And people who make the largest financial purchase in their lives based on looks and design fads deserve what they get.
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It's beautiful.
And #2, how do you know the roof isn't angled at, say, 10 or 20 degrees? That's what it looks like from here. There's a huge middle ground between desert-flat roofs and ticky-tacky gabled ones.
And #2, how do you know the roof isn't angled at, say, 10 or 20 degrees? That's what it looks like from here. There's a huge middle ground between desert-flat roofs and ticky-tacky gabled ones.
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There's a house sided in that same kind of board, with the same thin aluminum separator bead, across the street from us. It didn't look sturdy enough to survive winters here, but it's been the better part of a decade and it still looks fine. It must be treated with something to keep mold off.
I can tell by looking at it, though, that I wouldn't like the peculiar window arrangement. Nothing at all on the one side? Just a few tiny, oddly-placed ones on the other? No thanks.
I can tell by looking at it, though, that I wouldn't like the peculiar window arrangement. Nothing at all on the one side? Just a few tiny, oddly-placed ones on the other? No thanks.
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http://www.dwell.com/articles/halving-it…
This house was featured in this article a couple of years ago.
This house was featured in this article a couple of years ago.
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@5: It's probably fiber cement board. It's ridiculously durable stuff for how flimsy it looks.
@4: Funny you should mention that. If you look up this location in google street view, there's a guy being arrested across the street from Parnell's on 23rd and Dearborn.
@4: Funny you should mention that. If you look up this location in google street view, there's a guy being arrested across the street from Parnell's on 23rd and Dearborn.
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@6, great catch - that house is wonderful, built by the owner, who's with Environmental Works. For some reason your link got truncated: here it is in full -
http://www.dwell.com/articles/halving-it…
And here's a nice bit from CHS blog last year on Environmental Works' 40th anniversary - their offices are upstairs at the old firehouse on 15th.
http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2010/0…
http://www.dwell.com/articles/halving-it…
And here's a nice bit from CHS blog last year on Environmental Works' 40th anniversary - their offices are upstairs at the old firehouse on 15th.
http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2010/0…
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(oops, he doesn't own it any more - he sold it for a HUGE profit, assuming the building cost he told Dwell was accurate. Congrats...)
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Love how Sloggers don't mind gentrification as long it's dine stylishly.
Like ever other rich white liberals I know in the CD, first thing they did was install an alarm system to keep the neighbors out!
Like ever other rich white liberals I know in the CD, first thing they did was install an alarm system to keep the neighbors out!
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what an ugly piece of crap at war with the neighborhood.
what an oppressive interoir devoid of windows and light. like living inside a condo or a cave.
the asymmetry is ugly; the sharpness of the side walls is bad feng shui; this is not a style that if reproduced with subtle variations leads to a great looking neighborhood; this is reminiscent of a cargo container and screams "homage a le rectangle!" and the egoism of an owner who loves to look different or modern or something.
Unlike classic styles or beautiful styles, no, we will not one day see 100,000 of these all over seattle or any city. it's a hostile block with no interaction to the outside; it looks like it tumbled out of a space ship; it does not have a porch or bay window or anything that relates to the site or neighborhood; ti could be a factory. yes there are some like this especially populating the pages of egotechture magazines but no, it's not good art, it's not good architecture and yes we can say so; it is crap. disposable crap that will be forgotten and lamented sooner than those 1980's rectangular apt. blds. in ballard with the raised stilts and blank ass hostile parking garages underneath; just pure crap.
what an oppressive interoir devoid of windows and light. like living inside a condo or a cave.
the asymmetry is ugly; the sharpness of the side walls is bad feng shui; this is not a style that if reproduced with subtle variations leads to a great looking neighborhood; this is reminiscent of a cargo container and screams "homage a le rectangle!" and the egoism of an owner who loves to look different or modern or something.
Unlike classic styles or beautiful styles, no, we will not one day see 100,000 of these all over seattle or any city. it's a hostile block with no interaction to the outside; it looks like it tumbled out of a space ship; it does not have a porch or bay window or anything that relates to the site or neighborhood; ti could be a factory. yes there are some like this especially populating the pages of egotechture magazines but no, it's not good art, it's not good architecture and yes we can say so; it is crap. disposable crap that will be forgotten and lamented sooner than those 1980's rectangular apt. blds. in ballard with the raised stilts and blank ass hostile parking garages underneath; just pure crap.
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@13 is right, it's horrible that some african american was able to sell to other than black people, and also make a profit on their property sale! and how dare they have an alarm system, they are supposed to let neighbors in without being asked. they should take their money and NOT buy in the CD because:
-when white people avoid the black neighborhoods that's racism and
-when white people don't avoid black neighborhoods that's evil gentrification.
-when white people avoid the black neighborhoods that's racism and
-when white people don't avoid black neighborhoods that's evil gentrification.
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HEY! That's my house! Well, not the red house in question, but the blue/green/seafoam? house directly to the right of it (we call it The Blue House but I fear that's not chromatically accurate). And, actually, you can't tell in this picture but our house (the blue one) is directly in front of the red house, not to the side of it. You're looking at the right-hand side of the houses, not the backs. You can see a window in the blue house--that's from my room, and it looks into our "backyard" and directly into the living room of the red house. it's such a weird setup and it makes my place feel super crowded--we have neighbors directly next to us on all 3 sides. i had no idea that red box was important architecturally. interesting.
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@13: maybe the problem isn't gentrification. Maybe the problem is that burglary really is an issue in the CD.
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@18, i was on my way to work! didn't know anyone was sneaking around taking pictures today, otherwise i would have prepared.
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Hey analemma,
Love your gable, in defiance of art-fart @3. I don't understand the hostility to them. I'm a big fan of Shinto shrines, but I'll take them almost anywhere.
Mansard roofs OTOH...hwarf!
Love your gable, in defiance of art-fart @3. I don't understand the hostility to them. I'm a big fan of Shinto shrines, but I'll take them almost anywhere.
Mansard roofs OTOH...hwarf!
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