In the narrow and small houses of the UK and Australia, the corner pub was the living room where more than the immediate family could gather.
The apartment dwellers of Paris and other main European city enjoy sidewalk cafes, promenading in parks and walking the streets.
In the USA, bigger is better and the streets are unsafe. They have fortified the houses and introduced internal features like exercise rooms, media rooms, basketball courts, and panic rooms so they don’t have to brave the streets.
I realise I haven’t been to the movies in a while, thanks Netflix.
The American architect John Portman designed hotels in the 70s, and I went to a couple. The Bonaventure in Los Angeles and the Embarcadero centre in San Francisco. They had soaring atriums on a grand scale which were, in fact, controlled interior spaces. There were limited access points to get into these atriums which were monitored to keep out undesirables. Once inside you needed to promenade past cafes and restaurants from reception at one end to the glass lifts at the other end. A safe, tree-lined internal street.
The apartment dwellers of Paris and other main European city enjoy sidewalk cafes, promenading in parks and walking the streets.
The apartment dwellers of Paris and other main European city enjoy sidewalk cafes, promenading in parks and walking the streets.
In the USA, bigger is better and the streets are unsafe. They have fortified the houses and introduced internal features like exercise rooms, media rooms, basketball courts, and panic rooms so they don’t have to brave the streets.
I realise I haven’t been to the movies in a while, thanks Netflix.
The American architect John Portman designed hotels in the 70s, and I went to a couple. The Bonaventure in Los Angeles and the Embarcadero centre in San Francisco. They had soaring atriums on a grand scale which were, in fact, controlled interior spaces. There were limited access points to get into these atriums which were monitored to keep out undesirables. Once inside you needed to promenade past cafes and restaurants from reception at one end to the glass lifts at the other end. A safe, tree-lined internal street.
paul@leuschkekahn.co.nz
021 894 895
leuschkekahn.co.nz
