The Salk tree house has a picket fence, ground-level fort with little cut-out doors and windows, and a rooftop porch complete with a ship's wheel, pirate's flag, hanging binoculars, a catapult for flinging tennis balls at the enemy, and "the world's fastest slide," as Oliver aptly described it.
The complex color schemes were painted over with all-purpose white, the intricate fretwork rotted away and the rooftop porches and picturesque towers came down, sometimes on their own.
They take breaks on a rooftop sun porch, where a surprising number of them smoke; their joke is that inhaling is good practice for holding your breath underwater.
Where sliding walls of glass, inset with latticed wood, open onto gardens, and rooftop sleeping porches merge seamlessly with nature, the Schindler House is a uniquely Californian achievement, relying as it does on a mild climate hospitable to the marriage of nature and the built environment.
Here is a porch and rooftop deck addition.
Built in 1928, the Moorish-influenced resincludesncludes a courtyard, a ballroom, a rooftop deck, enclosed sleeping porches, six bedrooms and 71/2 bathrooms in 8,900 square feet.
Unlike in the Northeast, where many illegal immigrants labor in night offices and basement kitchens, here they work in daylight in the open air, on rooftops and front porches.
Updated, 5 42 p.m. | The apartment of New York City's future, as the city imagines it, has all the amenities of modern life: wheelchair-accessible bathroom, a full kitchen, space for entertaining and access to a gym, communal lounge, front and back porches and a rooftop garden — all in 250 to 370 square feet.
The images on television showed a chair hooked on a treetop where the current had carried it, a bed washed two miles downstream, an entire house shoved off its foundation, its own front porch rearranged near its rooftop.
For the rest, he has heard the music sitting outside the Jones Beach Theater, the way Chicagoans watch the Cubs from porches and rooftops just beyond Wrigley Field.
Porches and rooftops, set aglow at night, seem to be speaking aloud to passers-by, making a hortatory point about something larger even than the good cheer of Christmas.
