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Yup. You're welcome any time.

― Ham Goodge, Thursday, 9 January 2003 13:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've lived there with another poster, Plunging Hen, since buying the property from Martin Short in the late eighties.

― Ham Goodge, Thursday, 9 January 2003 13:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think you'll find Karen's picture is of Berks.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 9 January 2003 14:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

aha, plunging hen of the famous "god googles everybody" thread?

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 9 January 2003 14:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes ... her. Although I believe Plunging borrowed the 'God googles everyone' line from Rogan Whitenails' poem, published in his new book: 'Failure Crawled up my Leg 2002'. More information about the artist Whitenails can be found at www.electromancer.com. His poem was read out at our recent wedding.

The Boom Op. Blues
(working temporarily as a background artist)

This is a tale of bits, made whole,
When bound in the mouths that tell it;
A tale of debris - the bones of a vole,
Scuffling inside a pellet
Deposited by an owl;
A tale of failure and detritus;
Of going from Tie Rack to Titus
In two days - so distant:
Playing a scrawny sales assistant,
Serving the actors who starred,
Then playing a Roman guard,
Behind a gladiator.
I should be a boom operator,
A dubbing mixer, sound recordist;

My life is the fading scent on my wrist -
A perfume bottle - the Tester;
And I am Electromancer’s jester.
My life is last-orders, the coded bell;
My life is the tale that no one will tell
(Its bits are far too bitty);
Pyrotechnical self-pity,
Panic attacks, the dole:
A tale of debris, the bones of a vole.
The infinite emoticon,
The omniscient soul -
And God googles everyone,
Except the scuffling vole;
Except, it seems, the scuffling vole.

― Ham Goodge, Thursday, 9 January 2003 14:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/cgi-bin/awimage?dir=2001/0905&article=culture_1-2.html&image=11534_image_9.jpg

The Eames House. I've never been.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 20 January 2003 04:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

oops, make that

http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2001/0905/images/11534_image_9.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 20 January 2003 04:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.gamblehouse.org/img/photos/front.jpg

The Gamble House by Greene & Greene, in Pasadena. I've been outside but not inside. But we've all been there - it was Doc Brown's house.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 20 January 2003 05:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hehe the sad thing is The SciLi is the tallest point in RI, but if you goto the top the view is quite nice, yeah ugly building. Provience is a really nice place, surprised to see a Imax in the mall...

― Wha?, Monday, 20 January 2003 16:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.fancyapint.com/thepubs/pubpics/pic231.jpg

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 20 January 2003 17:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.norfolkwindmills.com/images/house.jpg

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 20 January 2003 17:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/watts/pics/3towers.jpg

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 20 January 2003 17:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.citidex.com/pictures/museums/guggenheim/guggenheim.gif http://www.aidem-media.com/lava/gallery/museums/wright/guggenh/gug1.jpg

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 20 January 2003 17:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.skyscraper.org/tallest/Pics/t_chrysler2.jpg

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 20 January 2003 17:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.cyber-cinema.com/italian/AnimalHouse.jpg

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 20 January 2003 17:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/gallery/2001/02/03/barcelona-gaudi.jpg

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 20 January 2003 22:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

The house I grew up in was about 300 feet away from this grand old hotel. Pfizer bought it and tore it down when I was 8. They kept the tennis courts in the back, though. Still, my neighborhood was *so* dull after that.

http://www.groton.k12.ct.us/WWW/wsms/Groton/IMAGES/HOTE3.GIF

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 20 January 2003 22:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Parliament Building in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

http://www.parl-bldgs.gov.bc.ca/images/photo.gif

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 20 January 2003 22:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/mdmanual/01glance/images/i005489a.jpg

The James Brice House in my home town, Annapols.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 10:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

five months pass...

space needle

marine building

holy rosary

cnr station

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 23 June 2003 06:13 (twenty years ago) link

This is my favourite Gaudi building in Barcelona, la Predrera. The third pic is the chimneys on the roof. You can walk around the rooftop & the best thing about it, is the fact that there is no roof. You have to see it to truly appreciate it. It is complete genius.
http://www.neystadt.org/john/album/gaudi-house.jpg
http://www.archkidecture.org/images2002/structure_images/gaudi.gif
http://www.chimneys.com/calendar/images/shamas_chimney2.jpg

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 23 June 2003 08:23 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...

http://www.chipublib.org/images/HWLC.gif

The Harold Washington Public Library in Chicago. The pic here doesn't do it justice, obviously, but it does give a sense of the absolutlely Wagnerian drama it has about it.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 06:04 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.lehigh.edu/~inctbuh/htmlfiles/featured_buildings/big_imgs/citicorp3.jpg

― smoky topaz (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 06:15 (twenty years ago) link

Bradbury Building, downtown LA

http://www.structurae.de/photos/011976pv.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 06:17 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.photovault.com/Link/Cities/New/YorkCity/show.asp?tg=CNYVolume03/CNYV03P04_09

― smoky topaz (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 06:20 (twenty years ago) link

Bonaventure Hotel, LA

http://www.los.angeles.the-hotels.com/pictures/s/000000/000050A.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 06:20 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.panamair.org/History/building.htm

― smoky topaz (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 06:21 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.nycwebstore.com/images/products/stationary/nyc-scbt110wbox_lg.jpg

― smoky topaz (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 06:23 (twenty years ago) link

(never mind the notepaper)

― smoky topaz (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 06:24 (twenty years ago) link

the times square marriott marquis

― smoky topaz (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 06:30 (twenty years ago) link

Isn't the Pam-Am building generally considered something of a midtown eyesore?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 07:02 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/5/2002/06/151131.jpg

The RR Donnelly Building, which, pound for throbbing pound, is the single most phallic building I have ever seen.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 13:12 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2002/03/143034.jpg

Inside the AT&T Corporate Center, Chicago, which easily takes the award for "most overtly Art Deco thing built in 1989."

Let me say this about Chicago: if you love buildings and you have never been here, you don't really know how much you love buildings.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 13:19 (twenty years ago) link

OMG...Kenan, you're picking all of the worst buildings! :) The Astor Tower by Bertrand Goldberg is my underdog favorite, but there isn't a decent picture online. You should pick up a copy of the AIA Guide to Chicago if you want to scout out buildings.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 13:57 (twenty years ago) link

OMG...Kenan, you're picking all of the worst buildings! :)

You are terribly terribly wrong.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 14:45 (twenty years ago) link

You're right about Astor Tower, though. I took your advice and rode past it this afternoon. Big weird concrete stilts. I like.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 20:36 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.tristatedrilling.com/images/BU_2.jpg

http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/thumbs/197.jpg

Minneapolis also has some cool skyways (see also Replacements thread)
http://www.btr-architects.com/images/northstar_skyway-1.jpg

http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/pics/2449.jpg

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 21:19 (twenty years ago) link

Skyways are just a horrible idea, no matter how pretty you make them. Keep those pedestrians on the street level or it'll look like a ghost town.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 21:45 (twenty years ago) link

BCE Place here in Toronto is amazing to walk through at night.

http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/people/tsangc/album-winter00-bceplace.jpg

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 22:10 (twenty years ago) link

Castle Green in Pasadena.

http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~roy/pasadena/p35.jpg

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 06:21 (twenty years ago) link

http://web.library.emory.edu/subjects/humanities/visual/seagram.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 07:10 (twenty years ago) link

the fabulous Communist-era Hotel Praha in Prague..

http://www.htlpraha.cz/img/snaps/large/hotelback1.jpg

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 07:41 (twenty years ago) link

http://quapawgardenclub.org/images/PhotoContest/2001/BestInShow.jpg

http://www.lbln.org/images/IMG0055_small.jpg

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:58 (twenty years ago) link

Spencer's Seagram post inspired me to post my own

http://www.webcom.com/~trw/London/images/38343632.jpg

i wouldn't say it's a favourite of mine but it does stick in my mind, it's in Hammersmith, West London

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:31 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...

http://www.vatbuiltheritage.org.uk/steanor.jpg

steanor bottom toll house, todmorden, west yorkshire. havent been there, but i think maybe at christmas

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 30 November 2003 12:33 (twenty years ago) link

three months pass...

http://www.craiguk.co.uk/scotland/images/index/pineapple.jpg

― anthony, Monday, 15 March 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago) link

We went to the Pineapple House last year! You can't get it to it though, it's rented out as posh holiday accommodation by the National Trust. It is such an excellent, if slightly barmy, concept for a house though.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:30 (twenty years ago) link

...get IN to it...

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:30 (twenty years ago) link

I'm not sure that this truly is my favorite building.. But whenever someone asks me what my favorite building is, this is the first thing I think of:
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/mies/860_880_1.jpg
860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apts, Chicago, 1948

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

http://www.usc.edu/dept/geography/losangeles/lawalk/civic/dwp.jpg
This is the most beautiful building in Los Angeles, the DWP building, 1964

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 April 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago) link

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