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Posted by Warm Worm on February 9, 2008, 8:44 pm
There's a building that I'm in love with. It's not perfect, but it has
character, and an uncommon beauty, whimsy and delight all its own, and I
see much of my own character in it as well-- although I'm unsure if its
architects would agree.
When I pass by the building, sometimes its lights will turn on, lighting
up my face. But when I try the door, it's locked, or doesn't open
easily, or opens, but sometimes there's a chain-lock on the inside.
Sometimes the lights won't come on at all when I pass by, while at other
times, they will, and the door will open, but remain open, allowing in a
chilly draft or a bit of rain after I've entered.
If the door does close, sometimes I'll discover that there's no hot
water, or a ceiling tile will fall.
There's the timer on the door-lock, too, that, when it starts, I'm faced
with the prospect of either being trapped inside with no heat, running
water or in the dark, or again outside-- as has always been the case.
To my further dismay, the building seems to allow in questionable
tenants or visitors that, at least in one particular case, apparently
committed vandalism.
Unfortunately, AFAIK, it's a very rare building, with perhaps only a
handful of its kind in the area, and one of the rare few of a character
that especially seems to fit me. Not only that, but its knowledgeable
experts-- its architects, builders, renovators and design-experts-- have
all but vanished, and the town seems to have little value for that kind
of building as far as I can see.
So for the time being, I don't know what to do.
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Posted by Michael Bulatovich on February 10, 2008, 9:03 am
> There's a building that I'm in love with. It's not perfect, but it has
> character, and an uncommon beauty, whimsy and delight all its own, and I
> see much of my own character in it as well-- although I'm unsure if its
> architects would agree.
Picture? (Building, not you.)
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Posted by RicodJour on February 10, 2008, 12:22 pm
>
> > There's a building that I'm in love with. It's not perfect, but it has
> > character, and an uncommon beauty, whimsy and delight all its own, and I
> > see much of my own character in it as well-- although I'm unsure if its
> > architects would agree.
>
> Picture? (Building, not you.)
If you'd requested the picture from Ken about a building he liked,
without the admonition, you'd get one of him standing in front of the
building naked...and waving...in the breeze. =:O
There's a building I've always liked that faces the LIRR tracks. I
always enjoyed seeing the Art Deco edifice plunked down in the midst
of trash (literally and figuratively). It stood there abandoned for
years. Then someone - sorry - something bought it. Apparently an
Asian church had a need for a lot of space and the desire to desecrate
good design. I no longer commute and had not seen the building in a
while, when I saw it a couple of months ago I was dumbfounded. The
church added a horrendous, huge addition. It looks like two buildings
sailed together in a fog.
R
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Posted by Warm Worm on February 10, 2008, 3:04 pm
RicodJour wrote:
> The church added a horrendous, huge addition. It looks like two buildings
> sailed together in a fog.
Many marriages end in divorce because of that.
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Posted by Warm Worm on February 10, 2008, 2:55 pm
Michael Bulatovich wrote:
>> There's a building that I'm in love with. It's not perfect, but it has
>> character, and an uncommon beauty, whimsy and delight all its own, and I
>> see much of my own character in it as well-- although I'm unsure if its
>> architects would agree.
>
> Picture? (Building, not you.)
>
Ironically, the building is a metaphor for a woman. I almost kept that
indication in the subject header, but decided to remove it and see if
anyone might have noticed anything odd about my description of it, or
offered something that might have had actual application back to the
subject of the metaphor.
By doing that, it also remained on topic; architecture as metaphor.
Anyway, I decided to give up on "the building", seeing as I think it
would take too much time and effort to deal with. As a result, I'm a
little bummed out today. :/
But I'm still open to advice, especially now that you know.
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