June 24, 2005

The tobacco warehouses.

The graffiti'd walls of the tobacco warehouses in Madison:

Walls.

Walls.

Inside: beautiful loft apartments, in the final stages of preparation. Presumably, a sandblaster will blow away this graffiti. I'm told the courtyard between the two buildings will contain, in addition to lovely landscaped greenery, a bocce court.

UPDATE: Here's Nina's photograph of the interior of the building, and click to her main page and scroll (today) to see the whole set of shots.

2 comments:

pst314 said...

Sandblasters were unable to completely remove the graffiti from this architectural treasure:

http://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/ShowBuilding/88.php

The vandals even defaced the bas-relief panels.

goesh said...

I sure don't want to be accused of having lascivious thoughts, but those lofts sound like a good place for a secret rendezvous. You did say they will have a bacchanal court. No wait, a bocce court. My mistake, sorry.

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