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Chalet Rejects

For my Chalet series on my personal website I heavily edited down the number of photos I'm showing. These are Chalets that for whatever reason, didn't make the final cut.

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I really like this chalet, it's so perfect and I love how the shrub in front perfectly covers the doorway. This house is in Lanus. This photo didn't make it because it's not urban enough. I will eventually have to make a series of Chalets in the conurbano, but until then...

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With the purple column and mirrored windows this house in Flores was too kitschy even for me.

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I have a bunch of Chalet's shot from the corner, which is a different look. I was in Haedo in the late afternoon and the light here was gorgeous.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love the Ochava/Chalet hybrid- if one is good, both are better- its two, two, two architectural novelties in one.
Have you seen this website?
Not as skilled of a photographer as you, of course, but quite interesting nonetheless...
http://ochavasandba.blogspot.com/

Also, the purple one reminds me of what C Monster calls "Narchitecture"- the extravagant, Scarface inspired school of architecture in Central and South America. Being half Peruvian and half Cuban, she has an eye for it.
Her blog is a great art accumulator site, but not without personal touches.

ries
She has a lot of great pics of some of her favorites, here-
http://c-monster.net/blog1/tag/narchitecture/

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