in beachfront cottage, vinyl facing in
overlapping shell patterns You're gonna get it looking like shells
lined up in straight lines and stamped into aluminum siding. The problem
is fabrication, and it ain;t gonna come out like Bradbury & Bradbury
wallpaper.
in new york, cast stone units with rich
textures and colors It's called split-face concrete block. Looks
like jails.
instead of 1950's apartment houses with
white glazed brick, all sorts of colors: chrome yellow; deep red rising to hot
pink at the top; mottled grey like a stormy sea surface in north atlantic;
zig-zag diaper pattern (a la doges palace) Take a look at the building
at the NE corner of 42/8th (or maybe 43). Funny colors, weird angles,
odd-shaped windows. Looks like shit. But not boring, at least for
the first minute or so. Then it just gives you
agitta.
bolt on titanium facing rendered in log-size
components Lincoln logs for the masses? Or the
tycoons?