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Donuted buildings will forever remind me of the Ponte Tower building. (1) https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/the-south-african-building-
by xattt 3y ago
Donuted buildings will forever remind me of the Ponte Tower building.
(1) https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/the-south-african-building-that-came-to-symbolize-the-apocalypse/517056/ https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/th...
- metadat 3y agoThe South African Building That Came to Symbolize the Apocalypse https://archive.today/qfZ91 https://archive.today/qfZ91
- kibwen 3y agoWell, we're calling them "donut holes", but they're actually rectangles. :P
- readthenotes1 3y agoDon't be such a square!
- AlbertCory 3y agoIn Hong Kong, pre-handover, I stayed in a windowless hotel room.
- alisonatwork 3y agoThose still exist in Hong Kong today. And many other places in the world, for that matter. Even apartments without windows aren't that uncommon. In subdivided floors they're cheaper than the street facing ones, but some people prefer them anyway because there is less noise from the road.
- okaram 3y agoI love to sleep in darkness. Stayed at an Airbnb with a windowless bedroom. Best sleep I ever had.
- pxmpxm 3y agoSecond, would pay extra for that
- AlbertCory 3y agoHave you guys tried blackout curtains?
- midasuni 3y agoI stayed in one in london last year. It was great until noisy people came back at 2am
- AlbertCory 3y ago2 great sleep killers: light and noise. "Windowless" only fixes one.