Thu 3 Aug 2006
Shocking!
Posted by Marlow Harris under Architecture, Real Estate
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Canadian photographer Robin Collyer began documenting houses that aren’t houses at all – they’re architecturally-disguised electrical substations, complete with windows, blinds, and bourgeois landscaping.
“During the 1950s and 1960s,” Collyer explains in a recent issue of Cabinet Magazine, “the Hydro-Electric public utilities in the metropolitan region of Toronto built structures known as ‘Bungalow-Style Substations.’ These stations, which have transforming and switching functions, were constructed in a manner that mimics the style and character of the different neighborhoods.”
From Geoff Manaugh’s BLDGBLOG
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In San Diego, that “home” would go for close to $1 million.