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Converted Clock Tower: Ultimate Urban Loft with a View

11 Oct

[ By Steph in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ]

Converted Clocktower Penthouse 1

At the top of a former cardboard box factory built in 1915, within a clock tower overlooking Brooklyn and Manhattan, is one of New York City’s most remarkable residences. The pinnacle of the Clocktower Building is a three-story penthouse measuring over 6,800 feet, with four 14-foot glass clocks – one on every wall of the top floor.

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The clocks offer massive, unparalleled views of the city in all directions. Additional windows provide a look at the Manhattan Bridge to the Statue of Liberty from a soaking tub. Or, simply go on the sky roof cabana and enjoy it in the open air.

Converted Clocktower Penthouse 4

Converted Clocktower Penthouse 5

Transformed from its industrial past, the penthouse features a ceiling that extends from 16 to 50 feet in height, as well as a glass-enclosed, three-story elevator running up the center of the space. It entered the market in 2009 for $ 25 million – the most expensive apartment on record in Brooklyn by far – and has now been lowered to $ 18 million.

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For a while, as it went unsold, the clock tower penthouse was put up for rent for a mere $ 50,000 per month. It’s also been offered up for various special events while it sits on the market, including a dinner for Esquire Magazine.

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Converted Clock Tower: Ultimate Urban Loft with a View

09 Oct

[ By Steph in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ]

Converted Clocktower Penthouse 1

At the top of a former cardboard box factory built in 1915, within a clock tower overlooking Brooklyn and Manhattan, is one of New York City’s most remarkable residences. The pinnacle of the Clocktower Building is a three-story penthouse measuring over 6,800 feet, with four 14-foot glass clocks – one on every wall of the top floor.

Converted Clocktower Penthouse 2

Converted CLocktower Penthouse 3

The clocks offer massive, unparalleled views of the city in all directions. Additional windows provide a look at the Manhattan Bridge to the Statue of Liberty from a soaking tub. Or, simply go on the sky roof cabana and enjoy it in the open air.

Converted Clocktower Penthouse 4

Converted Clocktower Penthouse 5

Transformed from its industrial past, the penthouse features a ceiling that extends from 16 to 50 feet in height, as well as a glass-enclosed, three-story elevator running up the center of the space. It entered the market in 2009 for $ 25 million – the most expensive apartment on record in Brooklyn by far – and has now been lowered to $ 18 million.

Converted Clocktower Penthouse 6

Converted Clocktower Penthouse 7

For a while, as it went unsold, the clock tower penthouse was put up for rent for a mere $ 50,000 per month. It’s also been offered up for various special events while it sits on the market, including a dinner for Esquire Magazine.

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Word Worship: Church Converted to Awe-Inspiring Bookstore

24 Sep

[ By Steph in Architecture & Offices & Commercial. ]

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This stunning 15th-century Dominican church is dedicated to much more than just one book – it contains thousands of them, in fact, stacked row upon row in a modern three-story addition. Located in The Netherlands, ‘Waanders In de Broeren‘ opened to the public in July, offering a large selection of tomes as well as an assortment of retail goods.

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The new converted church bookstore is highly reminiscent of Selexyz Dominicanen, a similar concept in Maastricht, Holland with a multi-level black volume sitting lightly within the church’s arches and vaulted ceilings. Where that structure was darker and more dramatic, this one is light and bright, complementing the original colors of the church.

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The three additional floors  were placed in the side wing of the church, between the original pillars. The central axis was left open so visitors can still appreciate the grand scale of the building, with views of the organ  and a modern stained glass window.

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A central staircase routes customers through the merchandise display area a half-level at a time, ending right under the renovated church arches. Inspiration for the furniture was taken from Dom Hans van deer Laan, a Dutch architect who was also a monk. The addition is not secured in any way to the original architecture, so it can be easily removed without damage

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Rein-Vend: 7 Converted, New & Reverse Vending Machines

29 Jan

[ By WebUrbanist in Technology & Vintage & Retro. ]

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Things have come a long way since the world’s first vending machine – a 2000-year-old device that dispensed holy water when a coin was slipped into a slot. Some now-vintage models dispense art or books – other new machines can cook food, recognize your face, respond to touch, and allow you to trade in your old gadgets and gizmos for new devices or even cold hard cash.

Art-O-Mat: Art in Cigarette Pack-Sized Packages

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The Art-o-Mat is a pioneer in the realm of vending-machine reuse – a series of retired cigarette dispensers have been converted to vend art. With over 90 recycled machines around the United States, they have sold work from 100s of global artists.

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The key to submitting your own micro-masterpiece? Making whatever you do – be it sculpture, craft, photography or painting – fit into a cig-sized box. People not near a machine can also order a carton of ten works to be shipped anywhere in the world.

Biblio-Mat: Skip the Sidewalk Discount Shelf

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Switching gears, but not styles or machines: here is a lovely vintage machine that vends printed-word art (best known as books). From its creator, Craig Small: “The Biblio-Mat is a random book dispenser built … for The Monkey’s Paw, an idiosyncratic antiquarian bookshop in Toronto.”

As to its operation: “When a customer puts coins into it, the Biblio-Mat dramatically whirrs and vibrates as the machine is set in motion. The ring of an old telephone bell enhances the thrill when the customer’s mystery book is delivered with a satisfying clunk into the receptacle below.”

Swap-O-Matic: Exchange Instead of Buying or Selling

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Some vending machines are not about the money at all, like the Swap-O-Matic – a set of one-stop non-shops for trading what you have for something else you want. Added items are turned into credits, which, in turn, can be converted into other objects – reduce, reuse, recycle, swap!

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Car Ferry Converted into Hulking San Francisco Houseboat

18 Oct

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It truly is a hulk of a thing to make into a live/work space, but there is an industrial loft-like quality that renders this decommissioned Icelandic car carrier appealingly open yet cozy at the same time.

Its owners, occupants and redesigers Olle Lundberg and Mary Breuer (architects and fabricators by trade of ) looked into everything from tugboats to ships before finding this offbeat beauty and deciding to call it home.

It ‘only’ cost a few hundred thousand to buy, but multiple times that to make fully habitable as an abode and office. Among other expenses, they had to hire the crew to take it on a seven-week trip from Iceland, through the Panama Canal to dock in Mission Bay.

Their secondary residence, much like their primary, is weird and wonderful as well – an oddly-shaped cabin that combines a small original rural structure with their own custom additions and populated with leftover furniture commissioned but then not purchased by clients.

The pool, for instance, is a massive wooden water tank rescued from a farm property, patched up with wood from a local winery, then added to the exterior and filled with liquid (which initially smelt of red wine when swimming). Images via New York Times photographer Peter DaSilva.

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Fujifilm Finepix REAL 3D W1 tested Movie converted to anaglyph 20091001

22 Jul

Movie taken by Fujifilm Finepix REAL 3D W1. Converted to color anaglyph by Stereo Movie Maker.

BEST VIEWED IN HD. And of course with red/blue 3D glasses. Metroid Prime screens in anaglyph 3D. Made with the Dolphin emulator and iZ3D drivers. The video compression gives some of these images a ghosting effect. You can view and download the original uncompressed images at www.flickr.com
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