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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2012 15:38:31 GMT
Paris abounds in architectural curiosities and among the ones that you can see in almost all parts of the city due to the rather anarchic angles of the streets and a little help from Baron Haussmann are the "thin slice" buildings ( immeubles à tranches fines). People wonder about them all the time: "How can you fit furniture into that room?" "Maybe it's a child's room?" "Where would you put a table?" and so on. These buildings tried to use every last bit of the piece of land on which they were built, sometimes to comic effect. Very often, at the innumberable intersections where streets come at all angles, there is room for one row of windows along the edge but not much else. Eat your heart out, Flatiron Building!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2012 15:46:41 GMT
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Post by htmb on Nov 13, 2012 16:25:17 GMT
Charming, and what a thoughtful idea for a thread!
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Post by mossie on Nov 13, 2012 16:39:22 GMT
I second that.
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Post by bjd on Nov 13, 2012 16:48:49 GMT
In some of the very narrow ones, with windows on three sides, one does wonder how they manage to furnish the place. At least they didn't have to inherit Grandma's old wardrobe.
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Post by nycgirl on Nov 13, 2012 18:07:39 GMT
Cool! Some of those buildings are so skinny they look unreal. I almost expect some movie grunt to wheel them away. You captured a nice variety of oddly-shaped buildings. Most of them are charming, but some of the modern ones are perfectly hideous. Do you even get really strong drafts around there? Maybe not, because of the lack of skyscrapers. Walking around downtown Manhattan, the wind can get pretty powerful. Apparently in the early 1900s, groups of men would loiter around the Flatiron, watching the wind blow up women's skirts.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2012 0:24:48 GMT
Such skinny buildings. I guess they were made that way to save space or to fit into a certain area? Not sure I'd feel safe living right at the top of one.
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Post by fumobici on Nov 14, 2012 5:26:40 GMT
This is wonderful.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2012 13:36:30 GMT
Fabulous idea for a thread and great pics!!! Some of the modern ones are less offensive to me than others. I think I probably object to the signage on the street level, CHANGE in particular is aesthetically just so wrong for that building early on in the thread IMHO. In some cases it can be ok but, with that building, the starkness of the block letters looks hideous. Thanks for this K!
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Post by tod2 on Nov 14, 2012 14:10:44 GMT
"The end of this building is just one residence - kitchen at the bottom, living room above and then 3 bedrooms."
Kerouac, I tried to read the street or place name on that building - looks like Pointe Trigano? I can only find 2 street names starting with Pointe. One is Pointe d'Ivry in the 13th and the other Pointe(Stier de la) Buzenval in the 20th.( I refer to Le petit Parisien) Help me please.
I think this is a great thread and one that can be added to infinitum!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2012 14:26:12 GMT
Yes, it is Pointe Trigano at rue de Cléry, right next to the Porte Saint Denis.
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Post by fumobici on Nov 14, 2012 16:10:09 GMT
I find the modern one on Avenue Corentin Cariou strangely compelling. Not particularly attractive but compelling nevertheless.
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Post by tod2 on Nov 14, 2012 16:54:48 GMT
Thank you Kerouac, So my eyesight has not deteriorated too much! Just can't understand why I never found it in Le petit Parisien.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2012 17:30:14 GMT
I find the modern one on Avenue Corentin Cariou strangely compelling. Not particularly attractive but compelling nevertheless. It is clearly the least ugly of the modern ones I photographed.
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Post by lola on Nov 15, 2012 5:17:09 GMT
Nice, K.
I'd put a shower stall in the very end of the Bains Douches apartment, I think. It makes sense to put balconies on those thin ends, too.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2012 19:46:05 GMT
Naturally, once you start a subject like this, it's hard to stop, so I kept my eyes open for other examples when I was in the 8th and 12th arrondissements today. I doubt that I will find any more thin slivers like the stars of this report, but there is absolutely no paucity of buildings that come to the "one window solution."
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2012 22:09:58 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2012 7:01:39 GMT
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Post by Don Cuevas on Dec 29, 2012 15:46:22 GMT
Brilliant and very well done! (My first visit to this thread.)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2012 16:36:20 GMT
Ha ha -- it took the culinary term "thin slice" to draw you in!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2013 10:47:47 GMT
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Post by lugg on Jan 12, 2013 10:27:24 GMT
What a great thread. Thanks K2 .Some of the buildings appear to be no more than a facade. How I would like to see inside some of the very thin ones. Any chance K2 ?
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Post by anshjain97 on Jan 12, 2013 11:39:25 GMT
As we drove in Paris from the Peripherique, I was indeed quite taken aback by how packed in everything is, the narrow lanes and such buildings. Great thread, Kerouac, thanks! The hotel I stayed in Zurich was similarly small- but rooms were quite spacious. hoteldutheatre.room-ez.com/ pretty thin facade.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2013 18:57:09 GMT
Sorry, Lugg, I have never been in any of these thin buildings yet. But it is sure to happen sooner or later. I live in a semi-thin building sticking into an intersection, but since I have two windows on the thin side, I don't think that my building qualifies.
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Post by lugg on Jan 14, 2013 7:26:53 GMT
.... I hope so and that you have your camera with you
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2013 21:13:34 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2013 21:37:48 GMT
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Post by Bruno on Apr 15, 2013 3:19:22 GMT
Dear Kerouac 2
I am interested in knowing the location of the third pic of your last post (Apr 1, 2013, 9:37pm) for one of my class. Do you remember where you took this shot?
many thanks for your reply! All the best Bruno
onurb2662(at)gmail(dot)com
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2013 5:38:49 GMT
That is 42 rue Joseph de Maistre in the 18th arrondissement.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2013 18:42:53 GMT
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