Got a cliff? If you do, the architects from [a href="vny!://www.neatorama.com/index.php"]Durbach Block[/a] will design you a home worthy of the view. These shots are from the Holman House in Dover Heights, NSW, Australia. The view from the inside is incredible, to say the least, and the one from the deck ain't so bad either:
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Yum!!
I have a house on the side of a hill, doesn't quite count as a cliff, but when I stand in the solarium off of my bedroom on the third floor, I get vertigo.
Wow ! Architecturally, I find that place amazingly beautiful. As a HOME, I find it sterile and without warmth. Although I suppose I could put on a sweater to enjoy THAT view.
P.C. wrote:
Wow ! Architecturally, I find that place amazingly beautiful. As a HOME, I find it sterile and without warmth.
Yeah, it's not exactly cozy is it? The living room (or whatever that is in the middle picture) looks like the lobby of an insurance company.
The sort of place I'd perhaps rather look AT than FROM.
I'd totally live in that house. However, it would look a lot different with the furniture I'd stuff it with. It's got potential.
When do I move in?
It is very elegant, but when I look at a house on a cliff, I start thinking about erosion and landslides. As beautiful as it is, I would never consider living there.
Don't forget earthquakes.
If it's not hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis or floods, it'll be something else. So? Just imagine getting up to that view every morning! Settling down with a good book by the window during a storm, dining under the stars on that deck. I'd die happy.
Beautiful.........................on a nice day. The odd days when you get nasty weather..... I can think of lightning strikes and powerful waves beating on your front door.
No hurricanes. Sydney doesn't get them.
Now that is a house to kill for. But I must admit the view would get old after a while or I'd just sit in the house and stare for ages knowing my add self. Had a hotel balconey hotel room on the top floor directly overlooking the Gulf of Mexico and I did exactly that, stare for ages. But it is fun to watch the big storms come in.
yea nice view. It almost makes up for the fact that the house is on a cliff. what is this guy thinking. What if there was an earthquake a hurricane or landslide.
Well atleast its not like some of those houses I've seen on tv in malibu where they are on the beach and water could if it got high enough go into the house.
some guy wrote:
the house is on a cliff. what is this guy thinking. What if there was an earthquake a hurricane or landslide.
You sound like my friends when I first went skydiving. "What happens if your chute doesn't open?" they asked.
What did I say?
How would you like your last moments on earth to go? Watching helplessly as some idiot careens towards you out of control on the freeway—or enjoying a beautiful view, knowing it's the last thing you'll see?
If I lived in a house like that, I'd go down happy.
the interior view would be more pleasing if the glass wall is concave instead of curving inwards...however for architects the money shot for his portfolio is the exterior elevation
P.C. wrote:
Wow ! Architecturally, I find that place amazingly beautiful. As a HOME, I find it sterile and without warmth. Although I suppose I could put on a sweater to enjoy THAT view.[/DIV]
I like empty modernistic homes that feel empty for some reason. For example when I moved into my new house I decided not to have any furniture except the bed. This was because my old room was the size of a walk- in closet and I wanted the new room to feel big. (In fact the new house has a walk in closet that is bigger than my old room.)
49er wrote:
the interior view would be more pleasing if the glass wall is concave instead of curving inwards...
I thought "concave" did mean curving inwards. Do you mean "convex"?
Maybe the architect had engineering reasons for the direction of the curve.
Like, maybe seismic, geologic or meteorologic reasons. So the house has less of a chance of falling off the cliff in an earthquake, a storm or through erosion . . . (//forums/richedit/smileys/Teasing/13.gif)
Like I said, when do I move in?
Well i don't have anything against the house i just wouldn't want to live there. I am not paranioid i just don't like heights to begin with and there's something creepy about the house.
Dissident wrote:
I thought "concave" [SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic"]did[/SPAN] mean curving inwards. Do you mean "convex"?
yes I meant convex.......thanks
Actually if you like the feeling of danger you could probably sleep on the roof of a hirise. You would get the same effect.
49er wrote:
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[/em] [em]I thought "concave" did mean curving inwards. Do you mean "convex"?
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yes I meant convex.......thanks
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Yeah, I thought so paisan. So, what't the current "living wage" in SF? Still under $10/hour? Even before the dotcom boom you had to make at least $15/hour to rent a cockroack-infested hole in deeper Tenderloin . . .
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I think its around $9-$10..........residential rents are just as high
Can't see you making $1800 for a studio on that wage--even with two incomes.
Do you agree with all the Lefties who say that the city would have been Paradise under Gonzales? Or is it a lost cause for non-professionals and artists?
Dissident wrote:
Do you agree with all the Lefties who say that the city would have been Paradise under Gonzales? Or is it a lost cause for non-professionals and artists?
Don't pay much attention to SF politics............Live and work in the East Bay........only crosses the Bay Bridge about a dozen times a year.
I still have friends who live in the Rockridge/MacArthur area. Any one of them could sell their bungalows and probably buy that place on the cliff. Whereas if I sold my place in Vancouver, it wouldn't even be a down payment on a 1-bedroom condo in the Sunset.
Who wants to go in with me on that house on the cliff in Australia?
Australia has bugs that would give me nightmares, not to mention the snakes and sharks... And CROC's!!
I'll stay here.
I'd move in there in a heartbeat. I'd warm the place up with some good thick carpet and nice furniture, and I'd and throw parties that would require UN Peacekeepers to break up.
As far as the home's stability, I'd consider it an honor to be killed sliding down the mountainside in something that nice. Woo hoo!