The Flickr 1961Apartmentbuilding Image Generatr

In evening sun in 2021, we see corrugated sheet metal in terracotta-colored paint, sectioned off by numerous "picture frames" in cardboard-colored paint, and a pattern of protruding "stair steps" without risers: A sixty-year-old building!

-----------------------

In West Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on April 30th, 2021, an apartment building at 5315 W National Ave (built in 1961) on the south side of West National Avenue (Wisconsin Highway 59) between South 53rd Street and South 54th Street.

-----------------------

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Milwaukee (county) (1002672)
• West Milwaukee (2122681)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• apartment houses (300005707)
• buff (color) (300263546)
• corrugated (300218595)
• evening (300343633)
• light brown (300127503)
• Mid-Century Modernist (300343610)
• oblique views (300015503)
• paint (coating) (300015029)
• planters (containers) (300237566)
• projecting (300010286)
• sheet metal (300223016)
• step pattern (300010229)
• terracotta (color) (300311186)
• two-story (300163703)
• white (color) (300129784)
• yellow brick (material) (300444206)

Wikidata items:
• 30 April 2021 (Q69306036)
• 1960s in architecture (Q11185676)
• 1961 in architecture (Q2812275)
• April 30 (Q2536)
• April 2021 (Q61313052)
• Milwaukee metropolitan area (Q1146039)
• Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI Combined Statistical Area (Q110495108)
• Treaty of Chicago (1833) (Q87256769)
• Wisconsin Highway 59 (Q841295)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Apartment houses—Wisconsin (sh2010001736)

According to the random everyday people who write Wikipedia, this kind of roof is known in the US as a "Dutch gable" roof, and in the UK as a "gablet roof." When I search Google Images for either of those terms I get pictures of roofs that look like this.

The Getty Research Institute's Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) contradicts that: It calls this a gable-on-hip roof, whereas "Dutch gables" are curved and gablets are usually not roof gables. When I search Google Images for "gable-on-hip roof" I also get pictures of roofs that look like this.

I am snooty so I have chosen to use the AAT term when I converse with my peers about these kinds of roofs.

-----------------------

In Huntington, West Virginia, on December 24th, 2018, the south side of a four-unit apartment building erected in 1961, at the northwest corner of West 5th Avenue and West 11th Street.

-----------------------

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Cabell (county) (2002257)
• Huntington (7013731)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• apartment houses (300005707)
• brick (clay material) (300010463)
• gable-on-hip roofs (300070122)
• sides (lateral object portions) (300010289)
• tan (color) (300266248)

Wikidata items:
• 24 December 2018 (Q45922087)
• 1960s architecture (Q7160120)
• Buildings and structures completed in 1961 (Q10090480)
• Christmas Eve (Q106010)
• December 24 (Q2705)
• December 2018 (Q31179612)
• Dutch roof (Q5515430)
• ornamental shrub (Q41705489)
• West Huntington (Q62309582)

I see where supposedly it's 63.4 metres high and 60.26 metres wide. I think it was literally stupid of the 1961 architects not to make it a perfect square, once it became clear that they were gonna get that close. Right?

-----------------------

In St. Paul, Minnesota, on February 27th, 2012, the building "740 River Drive" as viewed from Ford Parkway above Mississippi River Boulevard.

-----------------------

Library of Congress classification ideas:
NA7861 High-rise apartment buildings—United States—Pictorial works.
NA712.5.M63 Modern movement (Architecture)—United States—Pictorial works.
NA3070 Balconies—Pictorial works.
HE355 Streets—United States—Pictorial works.
E169.12 Nineteen sixties—Pictorial works.
F614.S4 Saint Paul (Minn.)—Pictorial works.