Tocky on 20/9/2023 at 03:52
Speaking of random, you can't get any more random than the day this brick layer had in Quartz Hill. I mean, it's not load bearing but WTF?
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https://i.imgur.com/WjUDjou.jpgmxleader on 20/9/2023 at 04:04
Drop acid. Lay bricks.
Qooper on 26/9/2023 at 11:54
This one's pretty cool. There's definitely more than meets the eye here, but at the end of the day the whole experience is kinda flat. I like it, don't get me wrong, but there just isn't the kind of depth I'd expect from a house, if you know what I mean?
heywood on 26/9/2023 at 15:09
The garden courtyard is what won me over, because I love urban green space, and because it successfully blends a few different styles. The materials and finishes used on the courtyard-facing sides of the building are in the Cape Cod or New England farmhouse style, the arrangement is like a Japanese garden, and the selection of plants and touches of bamboo give it a little tropical feel. The courtyard seems like a lovely little oasis, far removed from its urban San Francisco setting.
The main part of the house is cool, but it's built for entertaining more than family living. And it looks like it's been staged for sale by an interior designer who was more interested in showing off the pieces they picked than how you might live in the home.
Do you have any interesting examples from Estonia? I've seen a lot of tourist pics from old Tallinn, but that's about it.
mxleader on 10/10/2023 at 22:15
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Here's an example of one of our modern buildings. It was completed a couple of years ago and it serves as one of the study centres for our Academy of Security Sciences (basically a vocational university where they train civil servants like rescuers, police officers, customs and tax officials, prison guards, etc). It is made of cross-laminated timber and is the largest wooden building in the country that serves a public function.
It looks like they used the landscape to make the building more interesting and at the same time probably reduced the cost of construction by inverting the desired shape.
