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[zen]

Houses on Riverview and Grandview drives
in Asheville which are still going up.



Here's the view from the back during early spring when you can see how the house edges are not even touching the ground.



A local sign nearby


Map to this location in Asheville

[CapeFearRiver10]

I love those Anti-Growth signs they are very harilious. I wonder do these beotchs who put signs up like that ever think about the people from the past that didn't want their ass to move to Asheville. Have you guys seen what they are doing to the stop signs in downtown. Now the FBI is studying this now I can't wait when these guys are busted.... HAHAHAHAHAHA

[otis-t]

CapeFearRiver10, on Jul 16 2007, 12:28 AM, said:

I love those Anti-Growth signs they are very harilious. I wonder do these beotchs who put signs up like that ever think about the people from the past that didn't want their ass to move to Asheville. Have you guys seen what they are doing to the stop signs in downtown. Now the FBI is studying this now I can't wait when these guys are busted.... HAHAHAHAHAHA

I say more power to the sign-makers. It's not the average individual or family moving to Asheville that designs and builds this stuff. Aside from a handful of small-time local developers, it's out-of-region and out-of-state developers and investors who are driving our building boom and driving up real estate prices. Protest is healthy. Inflated real estate and eroded landscapes are not.

[hauntedheadnc]

Here's a link to a thread I did, using Asheville to illustrate Edward Gorey's The Gashlycrumb Tinies, or, as I like to think of it:  The Ashelycrumb Tinies.

http://forum.skyscra...ad.php?t=134881

[zen]

Where they will be building more houses on stilts - note the BB&T building in the background.  



photo on Flickr

[rooster8]

If you've got to do that to build a house, it probably shouldn't be done.  Heaven forbid there's ever a earthquake in that area.

[sfmartin]

It seems like you wouldn't be able to get a permit for that - perhaps the "West Asheville Homeowners Alliance" could direct their abundant energies into pushing for code revisions like slope restrictions.

[Neo]

I can't imagine that would be structurally 'sound' but I'm not an architectural engineer.  I'm sure they wouldn't be able to build it if it wasn't to code, but it would certainly be an eerie feeling to live in a house built in that situation.

[orulz]

There are actually quite a few houses built like that on Town Mountain on Sunset, Macon, etc; they just don't stand out that much because the trees have had 50-80 years to fill in around them. Nothing unsafe at all. Steel is extremely strong, and the materials used to build homes (wood, drywall, etc) are pretty light.

[burt]

In your second pic, jr7777, the structure on the left looks like the stage house of a theatre.  Is it a theatre, and if so, what is its name and is it still used for theatricals or movies?

Great pictures of Asheville by you and others on this board.  Thanks.

jr7777, on Jan 25 2006, 01:57 AM, said:

Here's some photos I got a few days ago, on the top level of the Civic Center garage.

[orulz]

burt, on Aug 26 2007, 01:48 PM, said:

In your second pic, jr7777, the structure on the left looks like the stage house of a theatre.  Is it a theatre, and if so, what is its name and is it still used for theatricals or movies?

Great pictures of Asheville by you and others on this board.  Thanks.

That's the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium. It's still used for theatrical productions, the symphony, and large act musicians who don't want to perform in the arena.

The Thomas Wolfe is in pretty poor condition from lack of maintenance, and the staging house is too small and the facilities inadequate for many acts (broadway-style musicals, etc) so the city has been trying to figure out where and how to replace, renovate, or expand it for, oh, a decade or so.

[artworks1437]

From the top of the Kress Building




From Jackson Building


From the City Building

[hauntedheadnc]

Those are sweet!  How'd you get up into those buildings to take the pictures?

[artworks1437]

hauntedheadnc, on Oct 20 2007, 07:32 PM, said:

Those are sweet! How'd you get up into those buildings to take the pictures?

The one from the city building we simply talked to the elevator operator and asked if we would like to go to one of the upper floors to take some pictures, and we of course said yes.  For the one from the Jackson Building we walked in to the bottom floor and happened to get in the elevator with someone who worked for Alexander Raegan (Zona Lofts) and he said that we were welcome to get off on his floor and take pictures from there.  We then took the stairs up as far as we could in the tower and got all the way to there very top right inside where the bell tower is.  My father knows someone who works with the firm who is doing the conduminiums at the Kress building and she happened to be near downtown that day so she met us there and showed us one of the conduminium units and took us to the roof.  She even unlocked the ladder of the elevator tower so that we could climb to the top of it.

[zen]

Dysfunction Junction from the air

[archiham04]

...and the patton ave weave connection.  Were the traffic engineers drunk?