myrmepropagandist

@futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy

WHY did mid-century architects HATE bathrooms so much and make them the size of closets?

This place I'm looking at has two and they are both tiny.

This is a palatial of NYC apartment by all other standards. The dining area, the kitchen with a skylight... then you go in the bathrooms and one […]

The New York Sun

@newyorksun.bsky.social

New York City’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will be leaving his modest rent-stabilized apartment in Astoria, Queens, for the palatial Gracie Mansion in Manhattan

Lindsay Powell FRHistS

@lindsaypowell.bsky.social

"“Agrippa’s baths were so different in scale, facilities, and decoration” from existing urban baths, the small and dark 'balnea', that a whole new word began being used to describe the new palatial bathing complex: 'therma'."
#AncientBluesky
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