20.1.08

Happy New Year

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A belated HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you !

It has been very quiet around here lately, my apologies ! I was soo busy and exhausted in december, and january started on a rough way.

I've been to Hamburg, Germany over the holidays, and took some nice architectural pictures.
Hamburg is my hometown, and since a long time i wanted to document the various entry doors in the neighbourhoods i used to live ( Eppendorf, Harvestehude, Eimsbüttel ) and those neighbourhoods which weren't too much damaged during the war. So this time, i mainly took pictures of doors in the neighbourhood of St Pauli near the harbour. After a little research work on my side, i'll post them here.

Above, you see beautiful old mailboxes, which i found in the entrance of an old, transformed soap-factury building in Hamburg-Winterhude. I love the simple design, and the workmanship which is paying a lot of attention to details.

Also coming up soon, is a report of one of my very favourite architects, Hadi Teherani.

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25.2.07

Smallest house of Amsterdam


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Originally uploaded by 36metres-carres.

During our weekend to Amsterdam we did a tour on boat through the "Grachten". Passing by this "Gracht", the tour-guide told us that this small red house was the narrowest house in Amsterdam, only 1.60 meters large !

Surfing a bit on the web for more information, it seems that it is a cheat and that it is actually much wider behind the front. According to the guide, somebody actually lives inside. I would love to see the interior, as it can't be that big anyway. Must be quite a challenge to furnidge a space like this.

( Hi inhabitant of this house, if, by chance, you should stumble upon this entry, please contact me ;) )

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