Glasgow is meaty, hearty, deep, vibrant. It’s a kick-ass city.
Edinburgh is more refined, elegant, serene. What a duo of cities! 42 miles apart.
Admittedly these conclusions are from a traveller, just jump-the-gun, off-the-top impressions. But I just love these 2 cities.
Looks like a brewery. Also, wall appears to be glass blocks. Unique design, must be nice inside.
This is exactly the kind of building I’d be looking for if I wanted to live in a city (or town) these days. I’d first check to see that the foundation was solid, and there were no rotting floors to deal with. (The roof looks pretty good, and the eaves do not seem to be sagging, which usually indicates the foundation is not disintegrating.) It would be exciting to fix a place like this up.
“Sometimes small is just too small, even in a city grappling with out-of-control real estate prices and a shortage of affordable rentals.
A couple of years ago, Ches Lam created a tiny, 250-square-foot house in his east side backyard as a guest cottage for visitors, but the Vancouver carpenter didn’t consider city bylaws when he converted his former workshop/garage into a living space.
Now it has to go.
Lam says his neighbours love the little cottage and have even rented it for their own guests, but someone has made a complaint and city inspectors have given him notice to get rid of the place.
‘It’s kind of heartbreaking, said Lam, 39, who has listed the cottage for sale on Craigslist.
‘People love it, except for the one neighbour. I really don’t want to sell it, but the city wants me to take it out.’…”
From Anonymous
This is a on short dead-end at the northern end of California Street at Lincoln Park golf course.
Doggie Diners were hot dog/hamburger stands in San Francisco in the ’50s, known for their 7′ high revolving fiberglass heads of a perky dachshund. Someone has apparently salvaged and repainted these three.
Melinda Koustousov shot this photo of them, mounted on a flatbed truck in the Mission district last weekend.
I really like this. The curved roofs, the corrugated siding (never needs paint), the nifty balconies, the alternating symmetries…
Kudos to the good architects, of whom there are unfortunately few these days.
Photo by Sean Hellfritsch
Snark snark: this place is vastly overpriced ($35 general entrance fee for one day), not very well designed, and compliments the weirdness and architectural absurdity of the De Young Museum across the way from it. Sorry, it just pisses me off. The old academy and museum were just fine and in harmony with the bandstand with its pollarded trees outside.
