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  • Halfway House: Townhouse Duplex Split Straight Down the Middle

    [ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ]

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    It looks more like an optical illusion or photo edit than a real dwelling, but this hundred-year-old halved townhouse really stands (out) on the streets of Toronto.

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    54 1/2 St. Patrick was built in the early 1890s as part of a set of six homes with shared walls. Starting in the 1950s, owners of the neighboring units started to crumble under pressure from a developer, slowly selling their domiciles one at a time.

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    As a result, each of the other structures was torn down with surgical precision. When the occupant of the final house in the row refused to sell at any price, they cleaved off the other half of the building and the shared structural wall running down the middle was reinforced and covered in concrete.

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    The neighboring Village by the Grange opened in the mid-1970s. According to author and photographer Chris Bateman, “54 1/2 St. Patrick is currently vacant. No-one answered when I knocked at the door and the front room has been stripped to the floorboards. Perhaps it’s being spruced up, it would surely be worth it. The current assessment on file with the city lists the value at $ 648,000.”

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    Herringbone House: Tiny Tokyo Residence Split into 7 Levels

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    Doom & Bloom: 36,000 Flowers Adorn Condemned Detroit Duplex

    Bought at auction by a florist last year, this dilapidated multifamily home was destined to be demolished but given a last chance to blossom thanks to a team …
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  • Doom & Bloom: 36,000 Flowers Adorn Condemned Detroit Duplex

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    florist abandoned house project

    Bought at auction by a florist last year, this dilapidated multifamily home was destined to be demolished but given a last chance to blossom thanks to a team of florists and array of volunteers packing the place inside and out with a flowers.

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    Deserted houses in Detroit are famously sold for as little as a dollar by the city, giving florist  Lisa Waud (photos by Heather Saunders) an idea.

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    She purchased this place for just $ 250 at auction, then turned a trash-filled abandonment into a work of art as well as a fundraiser for a flower farm and design center on the site.

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    The Flower House was given over to contributing florists, each encouraged to turn a space, wall or ceiling into a blank canvas for their creations. The results are remarkable.

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    Following the project, “the house that held the exhibition will be responsibly deconstructed and its materials repurposed. the land will be converted into a flower farm and design center on their formerly neglected properties.”

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    2,300 Floating Flowers: Interactive Garden Makes Way as You Walk

    Responding to the movements of visitors passing through the space, this immersive work of installation art puts you in a private bubble in the midst of dense …
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    Giant Paper Flowers Bloom Inside Abbey Church in France

    Sculptor Peter Gentenaar fills a stunning, vaulted-ceiling Gothic cathedral in France with over 100 of his delicate paper flower sculptures.
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    Decay in Detroit: Feral House Photos by James Griffioen

    Photographer James Griffioen captures Detroit’s ‘Feral Houses’, abandoned homes that are overtaken by trees and ivy, enhancing their sense of decay.
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