Flat Ironical Building
Encountered this building on a walk through a new part (to me) of the inner Melbourne suburb I moved into this year.
There is an interesting tussle between perspective and the natural convergence of the street curbs and the veranda gutters. The closer they are to the view point, the narrower their distance apart, yet the laws of perspective win and make it appear otherwise.
Neither the building nor its plot of land is triangular. All the nearby houses in the left hand street face about 45 degrees relative to the street itself, making their side fences actually parallel to the right hand street. That includes this building and its land, both being nearly rectangular in plan view, except for the very tip of the corner.
I got a young local artisan of passion and flare to build me a bookshelf for just part of my book collection, still significant, although now a ten times decimation of the original combined libraries of my wife and myself. I suppose that residue might end one day in a limbo like this before being consigned to the "everlasting bonfire"...
Flat Ironical Building
Encountered this building on a walk through a new part (to me) of the inner Melbourne suburb I moved into this year.
There is an interesting tussle between perspective and the natural convergence of the street curbs and the veranda gutters. The closer they are to the view point, the narrower their distance apart, yet the laws of perspective win and make it appear otherwise.
Neither the building nor its plot of land is triangular. All the nearby houses in the left hand street face about 45 degrees relative to the street itself, making their side fences actually parallel to the right hand street. That includes this building and its land, both being nearly rectangular in plan view, except for the very tip of the corner.
I got a young local artisan of passion and flare to build me a bookshelf for just part of my book collection, still significant, although now a ten times decimation of the original combined libraries of my wife and myself. I suppose that residue might end one day in a limbo like this before being consigned to the "everlasting bonfire"...