We..Are..The..Borg!
Lower your shields and surrender your Deposits!
We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own! Your culture will adapt to service us!
Resistance..Is..Futile!
Arriving at first light, I chanced upon ‘TuscanyVillas’ on one of those rare moments when its Shields were down!
[From the 'Tuscany Villas' website: "...a collection of 84 exclusive condo units on the edge of Okanagan lake. The location means unobstructed views of the specatcular [sic] landscape.” … “Construction of this West Kelowna landmark is underway. Register today to become a Tuscany Villas insider.” … “Now is a great time to buy; with all indicators showing an end to the recent pricing and sales reductions, this is the perfect time to buy into your future home or investment property.” – ed.]
‘Nemesis’ doesn’t know whether those concrete columns and embellishments are structural – or merely ‘decorative’ – but it did remind him of the Revelstoke Dam’s Hydro-Power-Generation Hardware…
Why ‘Tuscan’?.. Holy Moley! Hey! Way up there at the top… Are those miniature Etruscan Arches? Was our Developer a student of Architectural History, or did he just spontaneously decide to Embellish? … or perhaps his inspiration flowed from a stay at the Vegas ‘Venetian’?
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Postscript: On retiring, a mere stones throw away from ‘TuscanyVillas’, we note something even more disturbing than the Borg Presence… this lonely, incomplete (or possibly abandoned) private home. ‘Fortress at Monte Cassino’?…
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Photos and commentary for the ‘BlastRadius’ series by ‘Nemesis’.
[Images Ⓒ2011 ‘Nemesis’ – All Rights Reserved]
I am a relator you will be sold, my spiffy suit, shiny shoes, and shiny BMW can not be resisted. Resistance is futile you will buy a house now, we will add your house distinctiveness to our sold list. Our signs are powerful, our dash cams are technologically superior to your organic brains! You will be bought and sold, it is a good time to buy resistance is futile.
Buying RE in BC is very similar to joining a cult.
What a wall? Was that supposed to be a greenery hidden wall, hence the dirt?
There is something about abandonment that makes architecture’s true incongruities scream out.
How Quiet is it?
It’s so quiet – the Agent called and said that Open House had drawn no interest and so can we try again in “a few weeks”?
This on a Suite that is listed in a building that already has 11 vacant units.
Two more are listed.
Not one person has shown for any of these million buck properties.
Vancouver – killer views and amenities.
So – what’s next?
*Addenda*
That total is 13 vacant suite; sorry for terrible syntax.
I always enjoy your photos. Nice work.
You really bring out the butt ugly in those “hydro project” columns.
But I kind of like the floorplans, esoecially #19, and they have decent square footage. In the LM there are 2 bed +dens that are less than 1,000 sf. Why do they have to make them in such odd shapes, though? If you’ve ever lived in a building with those weird angles to the interior walls you’ll know what a pain it is to arrange your furniture. Maybe I’ll retire there when I downsize. I hear it’s what all the retirees are doing these days…
ThankYou, ACP! (and does that mean AutomaticColtPistol?)…
More. Much more coming soon.
As for ‘butt ugly’ – the Tuscany’s architectural flourishes which I compared to certain features of the Revelstoke Dam’s main switching gear actually resemble a ‘component’ called the, “Sodium HexaFlouride Plasma GuidePath” (I just wanted to sneak that in, my IllustriousEditor left it on the CuttingRoomFloor; VREAA’s such a stickler for concision!)…
More seriously, time/space constraints re: the Tuscany piece precluded a summary of the eminently juicy & continuing ‘soap opera’ in which its developer is embroiled (or should that be BBQ’d!?)… The following links tell all – & are arguably the best investigative journalism/reportage ‘Nem’ has yet seen from the regional BC ‘yellow-sheets’ [kudos! to Cam Fortens - KamploopsDailyNews Staffer].
Part One:
http://tinyurl.com/3gzfv3g
Part Two:
http://tinyurl.com/42oln9j
and here’s Part Three:
http://tinyurl.com/3dehvrt
how did i miss all this??
as i scrolled up i saw the borg cube and nearly spat out my coffee – thanks
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