Condos of the future, here in Seattle.

[elfs]

Seattle is such a skiffy town sometimes. There's a new condominium going up near where I work, and it's name is Carbon56. This led a friend of mine to say, "Man, that's one unstable atom. It might last all of a picosecond!"

Element 56 is, after all, Barium, a substance used in rat poison and diagnostic enemas. And carbon-- isn't carbon considered a bad thing these days? "Carbon footprints," "carbon emissions," why would anyone want to be associated with these things?

Carbon 56's web page is one huge flash app with really annoying background music that sounds like Barry White is about to come over.

Dr. Who?

Equally skiffy, but much cooler, is Site 17, a condominium complex along Western Avenue. The bottom floor is mostly parking and shops, and the grilles over the parking lot venting system are gorgeous abstract sculptures suggesting maps to fabulous places. I was walking past it when I noticed that the support columns all have these little placards on them with pithy quotes. At least, I thought they were pithy until I spotted this one. Dr. Who? They're quoting Dr. Who? I'm not even sure what the quote means, but by gods, they're quoting Dr. Who.

Comments

[genkitty.livejournal.com]

Carbon56 has the most screwed up nonsensical floorplans I've seen in a long time. Virginia and Mercer are studios... with two full baths. WTF? W T F? The other three are okay, but thise two... i yi yiiii!

The available plans for Site 17 aren't stellar layouts, but the two master bedroom&baths available to look at display a sense of balance I don't often see -- the second bedroom is not an inferior choice to the 'master', there's pros and cons to either room. Normally the secondary bedroom pales in comparison to the master, which is fine if you're say two adults and a kid, but sucks if you're two housemates.

Thanks for pointing these out :)

[genkitty.livejournal.com]

*Thank you* for making sense out of that configuration! :)

[solarbird]

The quote makes no sense because it's incomplete.

The full quote is, "A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting." (Fop, or third, Doctor.)

[(Anonymous)]

Definitely sounds like something John Pertwee might have said.