Water towers (dried out, but not necessarily furnished) are the place for me

[imomus]

Screw skyscrapers, condominiums, industrial lofts, apartments with wrought iron fire escapes, projects, basements, even converted department stores with twisting art deco staircases: I want to live in a water tower. Water towers are the only place for me.

Comments

[lucaskrech.livejournal.com]

Yay! I love all the water towers in New York. It could be a good name for a record label too.

[amiame.livejournal.com]

they remind me of lighthouses for some reason. but how would you update your livejournal? Can you get broadband in a water tower?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Sure to be lots of hackable wifi up there, no?

[polocrunch.livejournal.com]

You could build rickety rope bridges between them and populate them with small furry animals. Seriously, do that, it would be way cool.

[amiame.livejournal.com]

Then Momus would be like an Ewok king.

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[(Anonymous)]

Rachel Whiteread's translucent cast resin water tower, a sculpture installed at the corner of West Broadway and Grand Street between 1998 and 2000 at the behest of the Public Art Fund, would've been perfect for an exhibitionist such as your good self. I think it's on the roof of MoMA now, which could be handy too.

-M.

http://www.leftwhereitfell.blogspot.com

[tassellrealm.livejournal.com]

I want to live in a water tower

What. Like Catweazle?

http://www.catweazlefanclub.co.uk/index.asp

[madge-pastiche.livejournal.com]

Wait, is that like Catcoon (http://www.catcoon.com/)?

I totally want to live in a water tower:I've been trying to convince my boy to go live in one with me for years. ( I wanted to live in a water tower before it was HIP to want to live in a water tower...)

You should check out the houses in the goofy house post (http://madge-pastiche.livejournal.com/45087.html#cutid1) I wrote this week. There are a few nice treehouse architects that get pretty close to water tower-dom.

[robotar.livejournal.com]

In the city nearest my hometown, Charlottesville, Virginia, there was an abandoned water tower. Apparently kids used to go there sometimes to have sex, but then this semi-insane homeless fellow moved into it for several years. I think I'm mixing up the details, but some kids later tried to move into it again and when the homeless fellow returned he stabbed them to death.

Cheerio!

[tassellrealm.livejournal.com]

It was probably Catweazle.

[sevenseastories.livejournal.com]

screw square houses!

[tassellrealm.livejournal.com]

That was Rudolph Steiner's thing though, wasn't it?

"There are no right-angles in nature"...

http://home.earthlink.net/~johnrpenner/Articles/GoetheanumPics.html

[bengt.livejournal.com]

There's a "furnished" water tower in Prenzlauer Berg, isn't there? I think there's apartments in there or something..

[nina-blomquist.livejournal.com]

..artist studios.

[queersolitude.livejournal.com]

Wacko, Wacko and Dot live in the Warner Bros. water tower in Burbank, CA.

[wingedwhale.livejournal.com]

Glad somebody mentioned them.

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

Sounds enough good to use as a rocket. Because in the end nothing beats other planets. Well, a water tower on another planet would do.

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

is a brooklyn water tower satisfactory or would you prefer one in manhattan?
you could be a bit like Abe's Box Man, or Murakami's protagonist at the bottom of the well. Both are highly romantic in my eyes.....
would be fantastic to actually make a cool architectural project out of such a place.

[alphacomp.livejournal.com]

I'd much rather live in a Le Courbusier-esque, furnished shipping container (http://www.containerarchitecture.co.nz/), myself.

[bricology.livejournal.com]

Look--up in the sky! It's a non-nomadic, space-age yurt!

[tassellrealm.livejournal.com]

I'd like to live in an observatory...

http://www.aip.org/history/newsletter/fall2002/images/15991_d_o_mills_observatory-large.jpg

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

I love observatories, but the blessed things are incredibly cold!

I'd like to live in a greenhouse shaped like a turtle, full of every plant imaginable. Or an aquarium.

[(Anonymous)]

These things scare me, ever since I saw the movie The War when I was just a lil kid

[sparkligbeatnic.livejournal.com]

Momus, the unreliable realtor?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

That's tautology, with realtors, the "unreliable" is assumed.

[buckminster.livejournal.com]

i'm surprised nobody's mentioned the Animaniacs

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

look up.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Jobriath dying in a rooftop pyramid on the Chelsea Hotel comes to mind.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

...or perhaps The Baron in the Trees. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0156106809/002-8135321-8283225?v=glance&n=283155)

[lillianleitzel.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love water towers. I work in the west 30s and every window looks out on a whole landscape of them, like this weird otherworld on top of the normal one. I heard it described as an "African village in the sky" but I always thought of China. Anyway, one day, the summer before last, we were all sitting working and we heard what sounded like a giant waterfall, like being in the middle of a forest, and we all stood up and went to the window. One of the water towers had broken and was just gushing out water, just massive streams on either side, the water all gleaming in the sun, crashing against the rooftop, and it was like we were all transported. Really gorgeous and strange. I wanna move in one, too!

[insomnia.livejournal.com]

It would certainly be an interesting place to record and perform... and the applause would radiate wildly!

Yours for only 3 million...

[(Anonymous)]

http://home.earthlink.net/~seaquest/h_castle.html (scroll down to the bottom of the page).

-Magistrate.

Let's all rush to the video store...

[(Anonymous)]

"ROOFTOPS" is "Dirty Dancing" meets "West Side Story." Oddly enough, it's directed by veteran Oscar-winning filmmaker Robert Wise, who also gave us "West Side Story," among others. But it is so pedestrian you'd never know it.

"Rooftops" stars Jason Gedrick ("Iron Eagle") as an orphan living in a water tower on a Manhattan rooftop. A few other street kids also live on other rooftops, and they are determined to get rid of the bad elements, which here include a drug-dealer and his goons.

One night, while performing a ritualistic "combat dance," which is a sparring match between rivals that combines dancing, aerobics, kung fu and boxing techniques, he meets and falls in love with Troy Beyer.

Beyer, it is soon revealed, also happens to be the drug dealer's cousin.

The biggest problem with "Rooftops" is that it can't decide whether to be a light dance fantasy or a heavy-handed thriller. There are plot holes galore and many illogical twists — and the major plot devices are by-the-numbers predictable all the way.

-Magistrater

[bricology.livejournal.com]

Back in the mid-'80s, when I was had a warehouse loft in Emeryville, there was another loft building nearby. If you followed a circular stairway up to the roof, you entered an old water tower that had been converted into a clothing store. It was called "Kimono My House", and they sold, well, vintage kimono. Cheesy name, but a great space and concept.

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

yes i believe there is also a water tower loft.....some of my friends who recently fled back to new york almost lived in it....somewhere on the Oakland-Berkeley border.

[(Anonymous)]

Huzzah! For once I completely agree with you unconditionally and so will point you in the direction of http://www.lot-ek.com/ as I believe you would get along with them very well indeed ( being as they make comfortable residences out of aircraft fuselages and concrete mixer drums)

[(Anonymous)]

I guess this one is not as much fun?

http://www.hotel-im-wasserturm.de/

The water towers shown on your pictures always remind me of "Dark Water", so no water tower apartment for me, thank you.