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NYC's 'skinniest' house has fat price tag: $2.7M
AP via ExciteNews ^
| Aug 26, 2009
| staff reporter
Posted on 08/29/2009 11:55:47 PM PDT by Daffynition
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To: the invisib1e hand
Kinda turns you on your head!
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posted on
08/30/2009 5:15:18 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
To: nmh
This any better?
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posted on
08/30/2009 5:17:00 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
To: MaxMax
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posted on
08/30/2009 5:17:57 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
To: MaxMax
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posted on
08/30/2009 5:18:46 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
To: snarks_when_bored
HAHAHA! You win! HAHAHA! You win! HAHAHA!
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posted on
08/30/2009 5:20:37 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
To: MaxMax
These were from a plan in Montreal to construct affordable housing around the time of the World's fair. What's horrifying is that they actually became very trendy, and therefore very, very expensive.
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posted on
08/30/2009 5:21:06 AM PDT
by
dangus
(I am JimThompson)
To: ozark hilljilly
Use the Trompe loeil technique ...that'll help!
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posted on
08/30/2009 5:25:14 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
To: MaxMax
You see similarly-positioned trailers in West Virginia quite often. It makes me wonder how one lives in a home so precariously perched on a steep hillside.
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posted on
08/30/2009 5:27:14 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Big government more or less guarantees rule by creeps and misfits.)
To: Daffynition
Kinda turns you on your head! I would purely LOVE to see the insurance write-up on this house? Without a doubt it has got to be a classic. I wonder how it happened, hill mudslide is my best guess. Compliments to the builder for obvious great structural integrity.
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posted on
08/30/2009 5:28:47 AM PDT
by
SES1066
(Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
To: SES1066
Here's the history........
The Upside Down House is a project created by a Polish businessman and philanthropist named Daniel Czapiewski, and is located in Poland in the tiny village of Szymbark, and here are a few pics with this house. Rather than simply being a bizarre tourist attraction this house, managed to attract thousands of tourists. The house is also meant to be a profound statement about the Communist era and the state of the world. Czapiewskis company would normally take three weeks to construct a house, but this one took 114 days because the workers were disorientated by the strange angles of the walls. Many tourists who visit complain of mild seasickness and dizziness after just a few minutes of being in the structure.
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posted on
08/30/2009 5:39:17 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
To: dangus
These were from a plan in Montreal to construct affordable housing around the time of the World's fair. With all of those exposed surfaces, I am willing to bet that even with great insulation these buildings are a b**ch to keep comfortable (especially the ones at the top). Architects love new and avant-garde but there is a penalty to be paid when priorities change. High energy costs make homes like these and the Phillip Johnson 'Glass House' less attractive for the upkeep.
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posted on
08/30/2009 5:40:00 AM PDT
by
SES1066
(Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
To: SES1066
Well, that and the fact that Montreal67 is ugly as s**t... and all the stairs!
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posted on
08/30/2009 5:44:10 AM PDT
by
dangus
(I am JimThompson)
To: Daffynition
The Upside Down House is a project created by a Polish businessman and philanthropist named Daniel Czapiewski ... Thank you very much for the explanation, it does relieve my mind. I was really having problems in figuring out, even from just the pictures, the hows and whys. The whole thing was just too neat yet as an 'art project' it was apparently too big. WOW!
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posted on
08/30/2009 5:44:46 AM PDT
by
SES1066
(Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
To: SES1066
You’re quite welcome. It’s quite a statement re: Communism
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posted on
08/30/2009 5:48:29 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
08/30/2009 6:03:45 AM PDT
by
6SJ7
(atlasShruggedInd: ON)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
08/30/2009 6:18:07 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: 6SJ7
Ducky. Looks like the neighborhood might be in one of the mid-Atlantic states that have row-houses. At least it won't start leaning!
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posted on
08/30/2009 6:27:21 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
To: JoeProBono
To yurt or treehouse .........that is the question.
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posted on
08/30/2009 6:29:59 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
To: Daffynition
COMPROMISE
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posted on
08/30/2009 6:38:53 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
HAHAHA! That is soooooooooooooo wrong! HAHAHA!
You’d have to sleep standing up.
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posted on
08/30/2009 6:51:14 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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