5 Thurloe Square (“The Thin House”), London, UK, 2024
All the pixels, bigger on the inside than outside, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54192985864
#photography
@mattblaze@federate.social Cf. the Cathedral Building in Oakland.
Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50), Cambo 1200 camera (shifted vertically -10mm).
London’s “Thin House” looks as if it belongs in a Potemkin village or as a background facade on a Hollywood studio lot, but it’s something of a Tardis, larger on the inside than it appears on the outside. Created to make way for the tracks of the Metropolitan Railway (now the District and Circle lines) behind it, its triangular footprint gives it the illusion of being little more than a shallow rectangle when viewed from the street.
@mattblaze@federate.social “must be short to be able to sleep here”?
@mattblaze@federate.social Wow, very interesting.
"Before you start to warm to it though, it’s got quite a hefty price tag. In 2016, one of the studio flats, which is two thirds of the size of an average new build, sold for an eye-watering £900,000.
With a price tag like that, for most people this property may actually be more fun to look at than actually live in."
@CStamp@mastodon.social location, location, location.
