Passionate about living in a 500-year-old Old City home, a beautiful 1920’s Tudor in LA, a quaint cottage in England once owned by a lord?
NOTHING NEW HERE When Bobov 45 purchased “The Swan” pub in Stamford Hill and planned to rebuild it the public outcry was enormous — plus it was close to a protected building zone. In the end Bobov agreed to keep the original façade intact. Homeowners in London encounter similar sentiments: “They don’t want the Stamford Hill of 2030 to be much different from the Stamford Hill of 1970. They will fight every change tooth and nail.” Pictured here the Belz nursery and cheder.
“May I venture to guess that right now you are reading these very words while sitting in your air-conditioned home sipping on a cold lemonade perhaps and not giving a second thought to the sweltering temperatures outside?
Not so in my home. As I type these words the thermometer gauge on my window is creeping steadily higher as the temperature outside spikes. Fans whir in the rooms and the option of a cool shower is never far at hand. For while most inhabitants of modern countries take the installation of an air conditioner for granted some of us live in places where these things are ruled by the strictest of regulations.
This is the case in my humble abode in Vienna Austria where we live on a historic street in which air conditioners are not allowed. In fact no object can protrude from any building façade anywhere in Vienna without the strict consent of the government.
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