Jack Sprat, after the divorce…
Helenita Queiroz Grave Minho designed and built her own house in Madre de Deus, Brazil… the constraints were pretty tight: a narrow lot– really narrow. So she built a house that is 1m wide at the front, gradually tapering to 2m at the back. At 10m high, it has three floors, 2 living rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, and 3 bedrooms:
Read about it, and see more here (toward the bottom of the entry) and here.
As we consider self-storage lockers, we might recall that on this date in in 1501 that Michaelangelo began work on “David,” one of his two greatest sculptures (with “Pieta”) and a landmark of the Renaissance. It was completed and unveiled almost exactly three years later.
