Strange Building
This must be the strangest building I have seen in Jordan. It is so thin from one side (only fits one room on that side) and then it grows to support two or three rooms on the other side. It is close to the University of Jordan, near the ex-circle of Al Manhal. I guess this is what happens when you want to milk the piece of land you own, and economize on building materials.
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April 3rd, 2008 at 1:58 am
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April 3rd, 2008 at 2:19 am
I am not a civil engineer, but I wouldn’t say that this is “economical”!! Maybe someone with specialty can be more informative on this subject…
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:40 am
We have buildings like that in Libya as well, but its usually not for economic reasons its usually because the owner couldn’t buy any of the surrounding pieces of land to expand it, as the original owners wouldn’t sell; so he just builds it up anyway knowing its in an active district and is bound to make money even if it’s small.
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:55 am
it looks like a failed immitation of the Flatrion Building in New York. not sure if yr familiar with it, here’s a link: http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GRP/GRP024.htm
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:29 am
Oh yeah. I even took a picture of it.
But I don’t think they had THAT in mind, Ammar.
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:31 am
You have a wedge of a land, you make a wedge shaped building.
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:44 am
hey
i saw it before , but u know something the other side is much thick like a triangle base ad this is the top
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:50 am
yeah well maybe the owner is super thin! :D
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:47 pm
U know I live near that building and I have to admit I never looked at it as a strange one perhaps kind of familiarity by seeing it every day! But yea you are totally right Tol, I believe the owner didn’t even bother to try to buy the land-spaces next to that land, he just established the building hoping this will gain him money, without additional cost on him.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:48 pm
There’s a building near 6th Circle that borders the street that is only about 3.5 meters deep. It’s just hard to notice because it has a long facade.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:17 pm
I was going to say maybe it’s like the flatiron building in Toronto
http://www3.telus.net/eddyelmer/Arch/flatto.htm
But Ammar beat me to it :D . It just might be the land he bought was shaped like that, I wish if you took a picture from the front so we could see how it expands from the back because the way the picture is taking it looks like the whole building is that thin and it’s about to topple down like a badly built Lego building hahahaha
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:50 pm
I see that building almost everyday on my way back from college, I wonder “why?” every time I see it.
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:25 pm
I have seen this building so many times and every time I have the same comment to say : this building is scary ! its base is triangular and the side is really really thin !!
LOL!
Great minds think alike people !! :P
April 5th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
May be it is the same land some uncle bought for his nephew and charged an arm and a leg in 1985, the nephew had no time to come as he was working his butt out in the Gulf so he trusted the uncle who bought a large lit ,divided between himslf and his children and the nephew, needless to say that the nephew got this slice of a land and needless to say they don’t talk ever since.