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News & ArtsFriday, July 22, 2011
Architecture House of the Week: Rve de la Chambre Rouge
Posted by Charles Mudede on Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:48 PM
This one is near 16th and Union...
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This is not a pleasing combination of International and Craftsman. What I can see of the house next door works better.
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I hope that the two sides out of view have more windows on them. That is a pitiful amount of daylighting right there. I feel claustrophobic in houses like that.
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MOTHERFUCKING WHITE CORNER BOARDS. will it never cease?
this is an abortion. the POS to the left (same plan?) is only marginally better by virtue of cladding and paint.
this is an abortion. the POS to the left (same plan?) is only marginally better by virtue of cladding and paint.
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I'm with @8. The white corner boards give it that "stuff was on sale at Home Depot" look. Also, not only are the windows few and small, they're irregular and random. Bear in mind that this is the FRONT of the house, the face on the street. Sweet landscaping, too.
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hey, lets take a bunch of rectangular shapes and stack them randomly on each other and call it a house!
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more ugly boring crap, the homage to the rectangle, the pseudo pretentious use of structural elements ("look at us! we don't do decorative or ornamental, we're so honest!") the arrogant conflict with the traditional style sin the neighborhood, at the end of the day it's ugly fucking crap.
it's as ugly as that ballard crap apartment house style made of big rectangles on stilts above ugly oil stained open parking lots.
about 10,000 years ago mankind figured out that the box wasn't the most beautfiful thing ever invented. boxes only work in adobe and mud hut types of places where they dno't have anything but, well basically, mud. once you have things that hold up weight to then build a box is simply ugly for the sake of being ugly, much like people who wear their stained ripped tee shirt to a party where every one else has put on nice clothes in an attempt to boost the happyness and beuaty quotient of others' experience by trying to look good. "Look at me, I reject bourgeious notions of beauty!" is one of the most lazy and ugly statements you can make -- this house is not even Early Motel. It's Early Box.
no one will want this crap in 60 years. few want it now. but people love to write about it and show pictures.
it's as ugly as that ballard crap apartment house style made of big rectangles on stilts above ugly oil stained open parking lots.
about 10,000 years ago mankind figured out that the box wasn't the most beautfiful thing ever invented. boxes only work in adobe and mud hut types of places where they dno't have anything but, well basically, mud. once you have things that hold up weight to then build a box is simply ugly for the sake of being ugly, much like people who wear their stained ripped tee shirt to a party where every one else has put on nice clothes in an attempt to boost the happyness and beuaty quotient of others' experience by trying to look good. "Look at me, I reject bourgeious notions of beauty!" is one of the most lazy and ugly statements you can make -- this house is not even Early Motel. It's Early Box.
no one will want this crap in 60 years. few want it now. but people love to write about it and show pictures.
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I like it. The landscaping looks like shit, but I like the house. I think that symmetry in architecture is overrated, and it looks like the back of the house hase open decks on every level, providing quite a bit of light from that side. I don't know much about Washington, so I can't speak to the foolishness of a flat roof. A peaked roof is intended to disipate heat and to cause snow to slide off rather than accumulate. Heat doesn't seem to be an issue for y'all currently, do you get much snow?
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