Another one for Mel (Antidote to Burnout). This house is being re-constructed on my alleyway. It is one of those corner houses. I remember what it looked like before and the change is amazing. Nice architecture but I guess I should leave the comments up to the real professional house lookers such as Mel.
(This house used to be an outside coffee shop)
(I love the design)
(Corner house, they had to give more space to the new paved alleyway than their neighbors)
Yup! It’s a nice house. Ordinarily I snear at the historicist designs (the ones with the fake classical columns or spanish colonial balcony railings) since I am definitely a modernist. However, I do hold a secret leaning sometimes to the picturesque. The bronze-like medallion above the doorway is a nice design touch. Even though this is an historicist design, it is not formulaic like most of them — there are some touches of inventiveness.
I am always interested in knowing how non-architects like yourself view architecture. I am particularly interested in how Vietnamese home-owners make the decisions they make about styles of architecture.
— Mel