Julia apartment tower
(the Romeo tower is adjacent, here to the right)
Zuffenhausen-Rot, on the outskirts of Stuttgart
designed by Hans Scharoun, 1954-1959
(screen grab from Google Maps)
My Avery indexing included a review of Hans Scharoun and the development of small apartment floor plans: the residential high-rises, Romeo and Julia, 1954-1959 by Markus Peter and Ulrike Tillmann (Park Books and Akademie der Künste Berlin, 2020). I was not familiar with these buildings. There was a conflict on another record about the buildings so I borrowed the Peter/Tillmann book on interlibrary loan. The book has nearly twenty pages on "Polygonal apparatus." Either in that section or somewhere else as I read about the project, someone compared the building plan to a lace collar.
These days, when someone says lace collar, one almost certainly thinks of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
official Supreme Court portrait, 2016
(from Wikipedia)
And a few short months later, I meet the Cat and Dog Houses, aka Houses of Cards, built for two sisters in Torrazza Piemonte, not too far from Turin in northern Italy.
designed by Elastico Farm
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