Uberhauses (pardon my lack of umlaut)
Categories: circumnavigation, buildings-and-cities
Tags: southeastlondon, signs, southeastlondon
Date: 20 November 2007 15:11:09
Three or four of my microprojects coalesce in one photo!
Click on this photo to see a bigger version and read the words on the sign:
Not only a grotesque or silly signboard (the list is rapidly growing), not only an insight into the rebuilding of the bits of London tourist guides don't go to, but also an absurd new word. Result!
What on earth is an "Uberhaus"? And why? Well, I know what it is, its a largish flat with an upstairs garden, (which might be on the roof, or on a big balcony, or on the roof of a next-door building such as a car-park). But why? But why do the estate agents think that peopel willing to part with half a million or more squids in order to live on a reclaimed gasworks with a view of the A13 flyover will be attracted by fake German?
At least I got in first. Google has 8 hits for the word - six of them are estate agents, one is an article in the Daily Telegraph and first on the list is my photo linked above, which was only posted on Flicker last night.