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Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Fri Mar 28, 2014 12:50 am
by starfox64
This is a product shot, but I'd fuck with a closet organization system like this so hard.
Herringbone floor too.
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Fri Mar 28, 2014 1:23 am
by starfox64
agreed. i'd also like closet doors.
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Wed Apr 23, 2014 8:39 pm
by exprof
GOAT home: Corbusier's Villa Savoye.
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Thu Jun 19, 2014 7:17 pm
by sagc
My place in Kingston, which I moved into in April - I'll have better pictures once I'm back in the fall and hang up some prints that I've got. I've only actually lived there for about a week, but I like it a lot - it doesn't overpower the furniture nearly so much as my last place, which was as student-y as it got, and felt like it was going to blow over in the next strong wind as an added bonus.
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Fri Jun 20, 2014 7:16 am
by Syeknom
Looks very orderly and upscale for Jamaica
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Fri Jun 20, 2014 3:09 pm
by sagc
Rep/Syeknom: Kingston, Ontario, which I probably ought to have specified.
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Fri Aug 22, 2014 11:03 am
by starfox64
anyone have any hudsons bay blankets? are they worth the money?
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Fri Aug 22, 2014 1:33 pm
by bels
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Fri Aug 29, 2014 7:44 am
by bels
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Fri Aug 29, 2014 8:06 am
by stappard_
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Fri Aug 29, 2014 8:13 am
by bels
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Fri Aug 29, 2014 8:20 am
by stappard_
I'm a huge apologist for brutalism but its fair to say they went too far with those things. judge dredd stuff
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Fri Aug 29, 2014 9:17 am
by CMYK
On a more philosophical note, any thoughts on the Corbusier quote "A house is a machine for living in" ?
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Fri Aug 29, 2014 9:22 am
by bels
Reminds me of the Gibson quote:
"Cathedrals are like machines to finding the soul"
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Fri Aug 29, 2014 10:37 am
by smiles
le Corbusier always seems so absolute and totalitarian. His city plans were inhumane.
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Fri Aug 29, 2014 10:44 am
by bels
On the topic, I'd love to read abut Urban Planning. Anyone got any recommendations? Why cities are what they are, how they come about, etc?
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Fri Aug 29, 2014 10:51 am
by stappard_
A collection of scans from a Frank Lloyd Wright book for you guys
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Fri Aug 29, 2014 12:09 pm
by wiggly--woo
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Fri Aug 29, 2014 12:57 pm
by CMYK
A question. If cities are very purposefully "designed" or engineered, even if it is meant to produce "vibrant and alive" neighborhoods, isn't that still taking away some degree of agency from those who will be living there? Kind of a "this is pretty and you will like it" determinism.
I have a (undeniably idealistic) vision in which the "ugliness" of modernism and brutalism presents the populace with a unified front to "rebel" against and make their own. That's why I find myself drawn to chipped concrete, shitty graffiti tags, and ledges waxed from skateboarders. Humanity finds a way. Has any thought/work/study been done on this type of thinking (perhaps not to the extreme degree mentioned above)? To me all the beautifully designed towns just seem creepy, insular, and cultish.
(full disclosure, all of my knowledge on this subject was learned from wikipedia pages, so pardon me if this is a dumb question)
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Fri Aug 29, 2014 1:22 pm
by hooplah
--i second 's recommendation of jane jacobs - the death and life of great american cities. great read, very ineresting
also, a country of cities by vishaan chakrabarti is interesting so far. haven't finished it yet, but it is pretty america-centric so i dunno if you're interested in that.
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Fri Aug 29, 2014 2:59 pm
by wiggly--woo
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Fri Aug 29, 2014 3:41 pm
by exprof
Idk if anyone's posted Habitat 67, it's really cool.
more interior after spoiler
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:11 pm
by ramseames
there's this building downtown i've been by a few times and always thought was neat/someone's really pimp house. Googled it today cuz i remembered to take note of the address. Turns out its actually a 6 unit strata condo building, and was built in 1981. crazy ahead of its time, would have guessed it was less than 5 years old.
shitty pics taken from some real estate site:
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 11:33 pm
by ramseames
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Thu Sep 04, 2014 6:20 am
by bels
I know houses are more desirable and "better" but I can't shake the feeling that flat are just cooler and cool people live in flats and only dorks have houses.
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Thu Sep 04, 2014 6:33 am
by Bobbin.Threadbare
What about houseboats?
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Thu Sep 04, 2014 6:58 am
by bels
It seems like some cool people should live in houseboats. However I met a poet once who lived in a houseboat but they weren't that good. As a result my opinion on houseboats is causing a significant amount of cognitive dissonance right now.
Depreciating asset though innit?
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Thu Sep 04, 2014 7:29 am
by Bobbin.Threadbare
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Thu Sep 04, 2014 8:29 pm
by smiles
When I was like 12 we took at houseboat down the canal du midi for about five weeks or so. It was great fun. Everyday we would stop in a tiny random town and get delicious cheese and bread. Very relaxing to fall asleep on water too.
Re: homes, houses, and abodes
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Fri Sep 05, 2014 10:49 pm
by ramseames
man furniture shopping is so shitty.
it should not take 10 min to find an SA that's willing to talk to me. when i say i want to order something, they should know how long it'll take for it to come in, not a rough estimate about when the warehouse might have it/when they might ship it. and that estimate should not change by a week (in their e-inventory system) literally within the span of our 10 min conversation.
in other news i finally fucking found a desk that's not ugly looking/made of woodchips and imitation metal/outside my price range. hope it shows up before the end of the month