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All new and clearly designed interventions are tailor-made for this 17th-century house, so it fits completely within the existing environment, but also raises the house to a higher level and is ready for the next generation. The courtyards also help to determine a spatial continuity between the ground floor and the upper floor, where the living quarters are arranged. The staircase that can be accessed from the entrance courtyard leads to the upper floor and unfolds adjacent to the entrance courtyard, leading to the discovery of the canal view. At this point, the living room projects and expands to the outside through a terrace that brings air and light inside.
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Business owners and the city teamed up and proposed filling in the canals, which also suffered from poor circulation and ensuing pollution, converting them to streets and paying for it by levying a special assessment on residential holdings. Homeowners fought back and litigation lasted for four years. In the end, the California Supreme Court sided with Venice, which had by then consolidated with the city of LA. LA went ahead with the plan and the canals became paved roads (now known as Market, Main, San Juan, Grand and Windward) and the lagoon became a traffic circle by the end of 1929.
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The building recedes, resulting in an introverted facade that is organized around a new open space created by the volume subtraction. The project by Studio Farris thus determines an unexpected spatial layout consisting of an entrance courtyard on the ground floor, which acts as a filter between the street and the house, matched by a small garden at the back of the house. For such a small boutique property, the hotel has a nice set of extra property features. There's a swanky bar and lounge, which serves drinks and light fare, and room service is available into the evening. A nice continental breakfast (croissants, cheese, yogurt, fresh juice) is included in the room rate and cooked-to-order options are available for an extra fee, but unfortunately there's no full restaurant serving lunch or dinner. Along the canals in Amsterdam are also double wide houses, especially along the Herengracht.
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Once in the Panoche system, according to the allegations, the purloined water was sold to farmers or sent back to the canal in exchange for credits. To account for the bounty, Falaschi had employees classify the stolen water as reclaimed runoff from area farms, according to the indictment. In April 2022, seven years after Walsh went to his bosses with his suspicions, a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment accusing Falaschi of orchestrating a decades-long theft of government water and lying about his income on his taxes. In 2016 alone, according to the indictment, Falaschi took in nearly $900,000 in salary and unreported income. By 2016, the water district was crawling with investigators.
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“Trust them. They are the real deal.”—David Tanis, cookbook author, and columnist for The New York Times
The sea itself made way for these houses, and without them, much of Amsterdam itself wouldn’t exist. When you know that, the past can’t help but bleed into your breakfast. At the Pulitzer Amsterdam, a maze-like collection of 25 connected homes and the largest canal house hotel in the city, references to old history prevail everywhere under the thick sheen of high-end comfort. The frequently changing color of the walls and carpets is a winking indication every time you cross the threshold from one original canal house to the next, and the rooms revel in the glamorous history of the Golden Age. The hotel imagines some of its previous tenants in the Extraordinary Suites — rooms that take their decor from characters like the Book Collector, whose room contains so many books that some form a kind of arching doorway.
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The Great Room and terrace offer stylish lounge spaces, while a chic bar serves up drinks and light fare. The hotel offers a free breakfast and room service into the evening. Travelers on the market for an upscale boutique in the neighborhood may want to compare rates with The Toren nearby. If one also bought the lots behind those houses and built a carriage house and or warehouses, it was sometimes referred to as a "city palace". As trading and transport patterns changed, the warehouses lost their original function. After World War II many have been turned into living accommodations.
Zavala was grateful for the job, which eventually paid more than $150,000 a year and included perks such as free housing and a new truck. Grateful enough, he later testified in state court, that when he learned the public agency he worked for was stealing water from the federal government he kept his mouth shut. So we decided to break out and make something completely different for lunch and dinner. Melissa’s husband Hugh has a wonderful family recipe for Chinese dumplings. When word is out that he is filling and folding I make sure that I am close by with my bowl and chopsticks.
The wooden headboards reference the distinct gables of the canal houses. They were simultaneously warehouses for all kinds of inventory. A merchant with a canal house “could sail from China or Japan to Amsterdam and enter his front parlor and the bosom of his family almost without touching solid ground,” writes one city historian, Russell Shorto. By 1940, the deteriorated sidewalks were closed to the public. Thankfully a major ‘90s restoration project replaced them, deepened the canals, added a saltbush barrier and rebuilt the sides of the channels.
We spread some on slices of seeded toast and ate them with a crunchy salad dressed with a tart vinaigrette. A glass of rosé would have been nice, maybe with tomorrow’s lunch now that we have room in the fridge. By 1920, more visitors were arriving by car, parking was scarce, and the area had been constructed for walkers not wheels.
Narrow hallways feature marbled floors and gallery walls filled with eclectic artwork. Charming and intimate, this small hotel manages to provide lots of trendy common spaces for hanging out, including a swanky bar, a stylish Great Room with a fireplace, books and games, and a roomy garden terrace with lots of seating. The location is excellent for exploring Amsterdam, and the darkly romantic, open-layout rooms make this property a particular favorite among couples. To that end, rooms at the Hoxton span from attics under original beams to larger spaces with timber herringbone floors and nods to one of these old buildings’ use as the former mayor’s residence. None of this is to say the Hoxton, or any canal house hotel, feels at all worn. The giant, gleaming, modern lobby spans the width of the large front building and fills it with the public spaces the brand is known for, including a bright and buzzing restaurant filled with guests and locals alike.
You may have noticed these hooks on the side of Dutch houses during a stroll along the Amsterdam canals. Those of us who have lived in these houses know the struggle of finding furniture that is nice, cheap, and, most importantly — transportable. Sometimes, the only way an item of furniture is making it up the stairs is in pieces. Apart from its hazardous nature, the second issue that many people have with narrow and steep staircases is when they are trying to move furniture in or out of the building. From the extremely narrow structure to the death-defying staircases, why are these classic buildings so wonderfully weird?
The kitchen space on the ground floor is finished in white concrete, light walls, and a custom-designed oak kitchen and dining table. As you walk through, a green glass volume marks a hidden guest room that is fully equipped with an en-suite bathroom and access to the garden. The kitchen is visually connected to the study room above through a gray stained oak wall, which also forms a beautiful entrance to the rooms above.
It takes water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and delivers that water — over 117 concrete-lined miles — to vast stretches of farmland in Fresno and Merced counties. The canal transformed life in this region when it began operating in the 1950s. Not to mention the alleged theft of 130,000 acre feet of water — enough to supply a small city for several years. The fine dining area of the restaurant evokes the circa-1870 history of the Milford rail station. Dark woods meet tall windows that allow natural light to peek through.
The house is located along the canals near Amstelveld, originally constructed in 1675. Over the years the house had been fallen into almost a complete ruin, the renovation took more than 2 years and was executed in collaboration with a team of specialists. If one house in a row undergoes structural changes, the supporting poles shift, which causes some canal houses to lean against each other. Perhaps the most striking feature of the classical Amsterdam canal house is the strangely narrow facade (front of the building). It is a sort of “Japanese courtyard”, says Giuseppe Farris, recalling the work of Carlo Scarpa that he carefully investigated during his studies at IUAV University in Venice. The idea is that of a small secret garden, to be discovered beyond the gate that separates it from the road along the canal.
Allegations that Falaschi and other Panoche employees had embezzled public funds. In 1985, a judge ordered the government to stop shunting drainage water to Kesterson. The Westlands Water District eventually sued, asserting the Bureau of Reclamation had promised to provide drainage when it built the Central Valley Project.
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