A realtor sent me an email advertising this $714,000 condominium in Sherman Oaks. I never saw anything so sad and ridiculously expensive. The exterior looks like public housing. The empty rooms reek of despair. They are lonely and lifeless. There is no color, no books, no molding, no ornament, no joy. A computer screen is propped up on a TV tray in the corner of a room without art, photos, plants, flowers, shelving or anything to show that humans live, laugh or make love here. In the living room, cheap curtains cover the glass like a flimsy skirt on a fat whore. If architecture is “frozen music” than this condo is like a frozen dinner in the coroner’s office.
Here in Van Nuys 
Aaaagh! That building is freaking hideous! That structure is the reason I got into the development industry – to fight to prevent things like that from being built.
Crap like that is such a waste of valuable real estate. It looks like it was given windows only to meet fire codes. That stucco is evidence of the worst sort of penny pinching. This is like a big middle finger to fellow human beings.
My old neighborhood in Venice got overrun by crap like this in the 1990’s. Huge, ugly, cheap, stucco boxes. Bleagh. So sad.
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Saw your comment over on Hollywood Thoughts and came over to see you…You are sooooo right. This apartmemt is deeply deeply depressing…Even looking out the windows is depressing–you loook a another building, ‘Up Close & Personal’ or, the roof of yet another building….So, nothing to look at inside or outseide! Outrageous prices these days. How can anyone afford any of this?
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What I find depressing is when people choose to live in neighboorhoods with home owner councils that only allow you to paint your house an approved color (usually white). Even if I don’t like my neighbors taste, I would rather live in a jumbled colorful world. White walls are such a lack of imagination.
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