In New York there’s no room for backyards, but if your pockets are mad fat you can trick out a rooftop. Jwilly’s awesome - yet somewhat creepy - Flickr set Rich People Rooftop NYC showcases the cramped spaces that only multi-millionaires can afford.
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Just a little bit sad when some dude is sleeping against the side of the same building. At least our big, rich-people backyards are usually kept hidden far enough away from the impoverished so as not to draw extra attention to the income-gap/amoral human excess/whatever.
I guess we’re not quite as cramped here in Vancouver, cause some of a few of the rooftops here in Yaletown definitely rival/exceed these…
I personally think this is brilliant, being a young architect, and will be the future of Architecture, although LeCorbusier patented it in his 5 architectural points. With cities pressuring architects to move towards sustainable alternates, this is an affective strategy. In the homes I designs I work on I am already required to run our storm water through an oil/water seperator. This affectively works as an oil/water seperator and has aestheic appeal and function. Shouldn’t they be everywhere?