Architecture

But I also love the way that buildings are — they’re these huge structures that we have accepted as the places we go in to get what we need, or to sleep, or to work, or whatever. They’re also these huge towering structures. I think of them as if they’re creatures; they’re other kinds of beings. Sometimes we don’t even touch them. I’m interested in... See more

The flat layout of the building made for constant chance encounters in the hallways. Vertical buildings create rigid boundaries, since floors and stairs are harder barriers, so the horizontal footprint caused people to run into dozens of others throughout a typical day. From the air, it looked like an oblique letter E (with a little extra E), and... See more

Broken Angel House Cobble Hill, Brooklyn illegally modified and expanded by eccentric artists and self-taught architects Arthur and Cynthia Wood, condemned after a fire in 2009, and torn down to make way for luxury condos in 2014 https://t.co/hdxwOTEQrW