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]

shock! I was entertaining thoughts of some giant fuck-off cable. Mind you, if the internet police* came to catch you, they could only climb up that spindly-looking ladder one at a time, so you'd have plenty of time to hide the evidence. Or stand on their fingers.

*I don't know if these exist.

[amiame.livejournal.com]

Then Momus would be like an Ewok king.

[polocrunch.livejournal.com]

But with all the advantages of being in downtown New York right at his feet. See, this is so workable.

Window

[(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

[amiame.livejournal.com]

Why yes, whenever he tired of living in splendid isolation and fuzzy harmony with the small water tower creatures, he could swing into a art gallery/museum whenever he wanted, cause some very post-post-post modern rumpus in the cool art world, and then retire to his haven in the clouds (perhaps leaving some symbol behind, like an 'M' slashed into the wall, Zorro-style).

I hope Momus does live in a water tower now. I'll be terribly disappointed if none of this actually happens.

[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!

[(Anonymous)]

But, Momisss, there are no windows!

[bengt.livejournal.com]

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

[queersolitude.livejournal.com]

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

[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

[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.

[nina-blomquist.livejournal.com]

..artist studios.

[alphacomp.livejournal.com]

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

[bengt.livejournal.com]

my professor lied to me. or else I didn't understand what he said in German...both are possible...

[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

[nina-blomquist.livejournal.com]

maybe they can live there as well, the artists. they do have windows in there, apparently the formerly water-holding part is not in use.