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News & ArtsWednesday, November 16, 2011
Architecture The Homes of Columbia City: Ooh, Ooh, Ooh...
Posted by Charles Mudede on Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:22 AM
...What a little bamboo can do:
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of course overlooked in your last post by most of us is the fantastic photo quality you have going on. the sky is amazing here. the contrast nice and flat. post production? film? what's your deal?
as for the design, i think its all about the garage doors. well, and the apparent rooftop porch on the g.
as for the design, i think its all about the garage doors. well, and the apparent rooftop porch on the g.
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I still kind of wish they'd interact with the street in some way besides the big garage door. I guess the lots are too narrow to put the parking behind, and a porch in the front. Despite the big windows (which look up, not down) these are definitely houses for people who never ever look at the street.
They do seem somewhat related to Northwest Modern, though, which is nice. Rich people on Mercer Island used to build houses with windows like that, but now they build hideous Tuscan villas.
They do seem somewhat related to Northwest Modern, though, which is nice. Rich people on Mercer Island used to build houses with windows like that, but now they build hideous Tuscan villas.
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@6... Not necessarily only MI, Fnarf. There are many very good examples of Northwest Modern north of 85th in Seattle as well as Lakeridge in the southend, Magnolia, etc., etc. Areas in development during 1958 to approx. 1966 have the majority of this particularly Northwest
design. Happy to see elements from that period are
being reintroduced into new designs.
design. Happy to see elements from that period are
being reintroduced into new designs.
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@10, quite so. I mentioned Mercer Island only because it seems to be particularly plagued with rich people tearing down NW Modern and erecting awful, awful chateaux and villas ten times as large. Driving across the bridge towards the island, and around it on West and East Mercer Way, used to present the charming view of classic houses peeping through the trees; now it's all crap out of a Saudi prince's wet dream, landscaped so as to be visible from space.
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@10: but fnarf is right - MI is rife with new tuscan villas, or massive "craftsmans".
this is only "NW modern" because they painted it dark, took the windows up to the roof, and didn't use trim. and it looks like shit as a result - look at the tiny strips of siding between the windows. in NW modern that would have been a piece of cedar.
this is only "NW modern" because they painted it dark, took the windows up to the roof, and didn't use trim. and it looks like shit as a result - look at the tiny strips of siding between the windows. in NW modern that would have been a piece of cedar.
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@10 &13
Max, in fairness to Fnarf, I think he suggested it looked "related", and I was happy to see the incopration of design elements. Classic NW Modern design did not usually incorporate dark colors per se, however it did attempt to infuse the the color of the neighboring environment along with local materials..such as cedar.
Max, in fairness to Fnarf, I think he suggested it looked "related", and I was happy to see the incopration of design elements. Classic NW Modern design did not usually incorporate dark colors per se, however it did attempt to infuse the the color of the neighboring environment along with local materials..such as cedar.
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