In Los Angeles I see alot of residences on top of commercial buildings. I would love to live on one
How cool is this!?
by coffee_black 14 Replies latest jw friends
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respectful_observer
That looks like it's near the newish FP3 condos. Summer and Congress Street have some great new restaurants and bars down there now too! DRINK is always fun, and all those new places on the water next to the World Trade Center are great.
Have you ever seen the huge roofdeck lawn and garden on the low-rise section of One Fed? My office used to look down onto it, but it was a real shame because I never once saw a single person on it.
There's another office tower in your pic of the Financial District that has a great rooftop Asian garden, but alas I cannot disclose where for fear of giving myself away.... ;-) (I'm already convinced I must know some of you since you're so familiar with Boston.)
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coffee_black
The actual address of this building is the corner of A St and Melcher. I was on the top floor of 311 Summer St. I've been to most of the restaurants near the World Trade Center...speaking of which, I'll be there next month for Build Boston. I've seen some of the roof top gardens in Boston... some are pretty impressive. I've never seen a roof top house though.... Seems like a novel idea.
Coffee
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ziddina
That's a "container" garden, if my bleary eyes are serving me well...
Which is probably just fine - probably wouldn't be an issue for the building inspector.
Now, if there was an above-ground swimming pool with a minature pagoda on a green wall-to-wall lawn, then I think someone might notice when the water rains down on the tenants below or the roots grow through their ceiling...
(Which has always been MY fantasy, by the way - minus the leaks and stray roots...)
Oh, and with a waterfall or stream flowing into the above-ground swimming pool, with a bridge over the stream and stepping stones leading to the bridge...
Zid
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coffee_black
Mystery solved.
I talked to one of the architects in the building upon which the house sits. He explained that the building is all condos, and someone purchased the unit on the top floor, and built the house above. The building is zoned half commercial half residential, and the house was fully permitted. It was sold about 5 years ago to a British couple for $!,000,000.00. It is 3000 sf.
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