Once again, the NYTimes has written an article just for me - Who Lives There - Making a Home in a Pyramid 462 Feet Above Seattle. This one is on the space and its inhabitants of a 2-story, 1700+ ft2 pyramid apartment atop the Smith Building in downtown Seattle.
The common living space - LR, DR, K - sits on the second floor of the apartment, while the nook-like bedrooms sit on the first floor. Built-in shelves and window seats house books and eclectic collectibles (like empty bottles of Moet & Chandon from the last party with U2) or a small child reading on cushions framed in a cathedral-like window. Smallish, triangular windows dot the sloping walls, letting in light, and each one frames a unique cityscape. Structural innards are exposed. A catwalk and narrow spiral staircase lead to the "Globe" - a glass enclosed observation room with a 365-degree view of the city from 40 stories high! Here's the slide show.
Quite quirky - and no thanks, I wouldn't live there - but fun to imagine nonetheless.
Really? You wouldn't want to live there? I think it would be cool! The cats would LOVE it. :-) Though it would be a bother if you got to your car and realised you'd left the keys on the bedside table...
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