http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/world/americas/01venezuela.html?_r=1 Your 5 story walkup doesn't look so bad now... Architects still call the 45-story skyscraper the Tower of David, after David Brillembourg, the brash financier who built it in the 1990s. The helicopter landing pad on its roof remains intact, a reminder of the airborne limousines that were once supposed to drop bankers off for... [more]
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/world/americas/01venezuela.html?_r=1
Your 5 story walkup doesn't look so bad now...
Architects still call the 45-story skyscraper the Tower of David, after David Brillembourg, the brash financier who built it in the 1990s. The helicopter landing pad on its roof remains intact, a reminder of the airborne limousines that were once supposed to drop bankers off for work.
The office tower, one of Latin America’s tallest skyscrapers, was meant to be an emblem of Venezuela’s entrepreneurial mettle. But that era is gone. Now, with more than 2,500 squatters making it their home, the building symbolizes something else entirely in this city’s center.
The squatters live in the uncompleted high-rise, which lacks several basic amenities like an elevator. The smell of untreated sewage permeates the corridors. Children scale unlit stairways guided by the glow of cellphones. Some recent arrivals sleep in tents and hammocks.
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Response by MidtownerEast
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But Steve F will tell you that the Tower of David will appreciate in value, so get in while you can!
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Response by julia
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if that 45 story walk-up was in Manhattan an apartment on the 45th floor would sell for $1 million.
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Response by falcogold1
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julia,
45 story walk up dictates some heavey daily 'stair master' skills.
So it would be listed as a penthouse apartment with an in building gym (included, at no extra charge, is a special training device that makes you exersize daily...without fail)
special training devise = no elevator
if you go to costco, when you get home it's weight traing at the same time
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Response by falcogold1
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weight training
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Response by bhh
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anyone ever read J.G. Ballard's "High Rise"? He is most famous for the book Crash which was made into a film in '96 by David Cronenberg starring Holly Hunter and James Spader. Not the '04 film with Sandra Bullock. Anyway, "High Rise" was his first book and remarkably, eerily similar to this story. Startling in fact and a great read for NYers.
But Steve F will tell you that the Tower of David will appreciate in value, so get in while you can!
if that 45 story walk-up was in Manhattan an apartment on the 45th floor would sell for $1 million.
julia,
45 story walk up dictates some heavey daily 'stair master' skills.
So it would be listed as a penthouse apartment with an in building gym (included, at no extra charge, is a special training device that makes you exersize daily...without fail)
special training devise = no elevator
if you go to costco, when you get home it's weight traing at the same time
weight training
anyone ever read J.G. Ballard's "High Rise"? He is most famous for the book Crash which was made into a film in '96 by David Cronenberg starring Holly Hunter and James Spader. Not the '04 film with Sandra Bullock. Anyway, "High Rise" was his first book and remarkably, eerily similar to this story. Startling in fact and a great read for NYers.