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The newly built residential complex As Oy Niittyportti 16 in Niittykumpu, Espoo, Finland.
Photographed on a snowy Winter day in 2025.

Then I held both of my hands to my chest in a gesture of warm sentimentality — but I totally forgot I was holding my camera!, which fell to the concrete and quit working. :(

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, were the Oceans Condominiums (built in 1975 according to city property records at propertysearch.virginiabeach.gov) at the northwest corner of Atlantic Avenue and 40th Street.

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, were the Oceans Condominiums (built in 1975 according to city property records at propertysearch.virginiabeach.gov) at the northeast corner of Pacific Avenue (U.S. Route 60) and 40th Street.

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Yea it was built in 2020-2021 and is identified in this 2021 news article as the "only beachfront high-rise apartment tower" in Virginia Beach. I dislike the building.

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, was "27 Atlantic" at the southeast corner of Atlantic Avenue and 27th Street, as viewed from a parking garage at the northeast corner of Pacific Avenue and 27th Street.

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These were eleven corner balconies for comfortable people, at the "Pacific South Condominiums," named in honor of the building's position near the south end of Pacific Avenue, not the South Pacific Ocean, which is on the other side of the world from here.

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, were the Pacific South Condominiums (built in 1973 according to city property records at propertysearch.virginiabeach.gov) at the northwest corner of Pacific Avenue (U.S. Route 60) and Winston Salem Avenue.

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"Hey Wayne!" we called out, and we waved at the elderly we imagined we could see.

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In downtown Wayne, Michigan, on April 7th, 2024, was Wayne Tower (built in 1975 according to City of Wayne property records at bsaonline.com) on Sims Street west of Wayne Road, as viewed from the north side of West Michigan Avenue (U.S. Route 12) east of Newberry Street.

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"A picture of a fourplex brings to life the quasquicentury just passed, in the form of our imagined memories of events in the lives of the fourplex's residents during that period," I bellowed as I took pictures from across the street. Then I waved at the faces that appeared in the windows.

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In Bloomington, Illinois, on August 10th, 2024, was a fourplex (built circa 1910, per my review of Bloomington city directories at ancestrylibrary.com) on the west side of North Lee Street, south of West Market Street.

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All the windows were framed in nonoperational shutters of gray: "Come home to heaven."

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In Normal, Illinois, on August 10th, 2024, were the Kensington Suites apartments (built in 2001) at the northeast corner of West Mulberry Street and North School Street.

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In downtown San Diego, California, on July 2nd, 2024, was the Parkloft San Diego (built in 2003) at the southeast corner of Island Avenue and 8th Avenue.

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Have you ever lived directly upstairs from a Supercuts or a Starbucks.

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In downtown San Diego, California, on July 2nd, 2024, was M2i, a condominium complex (built in 2005) at the southeast corner of Market Street and 10th Avenue.

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Here were the "Bridgepointe" condominiums, built in 1989 according to numerous real estate listings for units in the building (for example).

I would like to reside in one of the building's upper-level units overlooking the Congaree River, during a segment of one of my lives, for five years or fewer.

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In West Columbia, South Carolina, on January 2nd, 2024, "Bridgepointe Residential Condominium Community" as viewed from the north side of the Gervais Street bridge across the Congaree River on U.S. Route 378.

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Run over and kiss the nose of that 2006 Honda Odyssey, I'll take your picture.

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In downtown Newport News, Virginia, on October 9th, 2023, the Oceanside Tower, formerly named the Seaview Lofts, originally named the Newport Towers (built in 1972, a "contributing property" in the Newport News Downtown Historic District, 100009200 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the southwest corner of 28th Street and West Avenue.

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I was "Lost in Emotion by Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam" when I saw this.

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In downtown Newport News, Virginia, on October 9th, 2023, the River Park Tower (built in 1987) at the northwest corner of 26th Street and West Avenue.

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Here were 25 floors' worth of apartments, soaring 307 ft (97 m) into outer space.

Construction on the building was finished in either 1982 or 1983. We're going to have to learn to live with that uncertainty.

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In downtown Portsmouth, Virginia, on October 13th, 2023, the Harbor Tower Apartments (designed by Cossutta & Associates) as viewed from the southeast corner of Harbor Court and Bill Deal Street.

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June 27, 2023 - Buildings along Kontxa Pasealekua - Paseo de la Concha which is on the permitter of the Bay of Concha in San Sebastián, Spanish Basque Country.

All of us ought to be memorizing the buildings that were erected that decade. We remember this one for its "eyelashes balcony" at the top, and the shadow of a palm tree in the street out front.

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In Los Angeles, California, on April 24th, 2019, the Carlton Crest Condominiums (built in 2011) on the north side of Carlton Way between North Wilton Place and North Saint Andrews Place.

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The outer walls of its balconies are bathroom floors.

I tried to convince passersby that one of the parked cars is mine ("Help! I need to get my car out of there, it's trapped") but nobody was having it.

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In Los Angeles, California, on April 24th, 2019, an apartment building (built in 1956) on the east side of Winona Boulevard, south of Harold Way.

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The apartment building is from 1964. A man on a balcony watches me taking pictures. A Toyota Camry LE from model years 2002-2004 occurs. Never mind the triangular windows!

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In Los Angeles, California, on April 24th, 2019, 1653 N Kenmore Ave on the west side of North Kenmore Avenue, south of Hollywood Boulevard.

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