— By Zach Perkins |
This monstrosity was spotted on SocketSite.com, some SF real estate site that I've never heard of, but have become strangely captivated by over the last 14 minutes. This hideous pic begs several questions.
- Is it 'shopped? Horrendous reality or horrible hoax?
- Where the fuck is it?? Commenters on SocketSite have yet to conclusively determine it's location.
- Why? DEAR GOD, WHY???
Grab your pitchforks SF neighborhood organizations. This blockheaded piece of architecture is starting to put the term 'NIMBY' in a whole different light for me…
Comments (10)
If this is truly for real it is indeed HORRENDOUS! What were they thinking, obviously without a sound mind.
yeah, you’ll see crap like that in the richmond.
http://errorlevelanalysis.com/permalink/3db1d41/
interesting process, but your link doesn’t clearly state the results of the analysis. The colored borders at the top of the image suggest that it’s been manipulated, yes?
OK - these houses were BORN ugly, but this one is definitely competing with some of the abominations that many houses endured in the 70s; asbestos siding, stripped down aluminum windows, paved over fronts, etc.
It’s a hybrid of Victorian and Brutalist!
And it makes me want to puke.
the poorer neighborhoods of sf couldn’t afford to renovate dilapidating Victorians when I was growing up (until “Da Mayor”- you know, Willie, the people’s mayor- sold the city out to business interests and ran out the minorities- and oddly, usually and most significantly in black communities), so shitty boxes like this were often built instead. The Moe/Western Addition had been dotted with the victorian/bland apartment box/victorian for the entirety of my 35 native years until they started tearing things down and building cathedrals to gentrification for the Prius set.
(im ranting, I know. haven’t had my coffee yet)
Finances definitely at the root of why you’ll see terrible asbestos siding or permastone facades on Victorians.
As for King Willie, how was he supposed to get the money to gilt the rotunda of City Hall if not by squeezing all he could out of those heady dot-com times? :-)
maybe the mooninites live there.
This house is in the Inner Richmond. No it is not ‘shopped, it looks like a ‘70’s era addition back when there was no city planning approval process. It’s cousin is the horrid duplex with the faux rock facade with the entryway of orange tinted glass and crackle printed mirrors.