-Stephen
There are skinny houses. And then there is Jakub Szczesny's Keret House, which could make Calista Flockhart look like a fatty. At its most generous, the proposed place, in Warsaw, Poland, will clock in at 4 feet wide. At its narrowest, it'll be just 28 inches wide -- thinner than the average doorway. And we complain about our sardine can in New York...
The house (officially an "art installation," because it doesn't meet Polish building code) is slated to fill a crack between a pair of buildings in Warsaw's Wola district. When construction's finished in December, it'll be the thinnest house in Warsaw and possibly the whole world. We did a quick Google search and couldn't find anything leaner.
Szczesny designed the house to be a work space and home for Israeli writer Etgar Keret. It'll also be a "studio for invited guests -- young creators and intellectualists from all over the world." If, that is, they're willing to drop half their body weight to fit inside.
Kidding, kidding. In all seriousness, though, the house is a pretty remarkable feat of architecture. If everything goes according to plan, Szczesny will manage to squeeze in designated rooms for sleeping, eating, and working. The place will have off-grid plumbing inspired by boat sewage technology and electricity lifted from a neighbor. To save space, the entry stairs will fold up at the press of a button and become part of the first floor.
Aesthetically, the Keret House isn't gonna win any beauty contests. It's been compared to everything from a pregnancy test to a sanitary napkin. (Our vote is for "pregnancy test.") Our biggest concern, though, is that it's hardly got any windows. How's it going to "produce creative work conditions," as ArchDaily reports, and "become a significant platform for world intellectual exchange," if it feels like a sensory deprivation chamber? Won't Keret go insane? But maybe that's the point. It's not like he'd be the first artist to benefit from going crazy.
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Welcome to our second blog entry. The article that I selected talks about the fastet growing Southern cities. Two of the eight cities are located in North Carolina. Raleigh is just two hours away from us in Jacksonville and boasts "the largest research park in the U.S." and was ranked by the Miliken Institute No. 7 due to its "creating and sustaining economic growth." Fourtune 500 companies such as Cisco and IBM certainly add to the luster.
The third ranked city on the list is Charlotte. Charlotte is 4.5 hours from Jacksonville but boasts a financial center second only to New York! Bank of America and Wells Fargo/Wachovia have their headquarters in this picturesque city which was an important financial center as early as 1799 in our nations history.
The point of this edition is twofold; real estate is local in nature. Everywhere you go, each market has its own pulse. You have to find a trusted guide to help you find that pulse, tap it, and benefit from it. Secondly, a great deal of what we see and hear is "death, gloom, and doom." Not just in real estate but in life. This article substantiates that not only are good things happening in North Carolina, but in other Southern States as well.
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