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ballsack: 6th May 2005 - 02:38 GMT

that's kind of beautiful, but really a shame

am i naive to think that architecture can give hope and/or change someone's life for the better?

elaine: 6th May 2005 - 05:58 GMT

some of my favourite domiciles have been slums at the time of living, but i am of that ilk, and maybe i have grown out of it too. when my beautiful faded - grandeur georgian flat in liverpool (UK) was done up i was knife twistingly in the gut jealous of the current residents, but i am glad, really, it wasn't bulldozed for instance. any georgian building here beats the crap out of anything else in my humble opinion, and i think you lot have the same feeling for your brownstones.
i have lived in more than one version of the genre - in edinburgh they are well maintained and have features such as windows that unhook from their moorings inwards for ease of cleaning. the huguenot houses in london's east end were so badly built they had no mathematically good corners, so a lot of them survived nearby bombing where other buildings didn't for their brittleness of construction.
the main thing i love is a high ceiling. i need it for all my chackras

Chris Erb: 27th Apr 2006 - 23:57 GMT

I hope these get the loving they deserve. I also hope at least some of them are made into low income housing as I hear it is almost impossible to live in NYC unless you're making pretty damn good money.

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