Narrow house opening as art work in Warsaw
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Workers adjusted a gate in front of one of the world's narrowest houses, in Warsaw, Poland today. The two-level "Keret's House" is no wider than 48.03 inches and was fitted into tiny space puzzlingly left between a pre-war house and a modern apartment block of the 1960s in downtown Warsaw. It is named after Etgar Keret, an Israeli writer of Polish roots who will be the first inhabitant of this artistic project of aluminum and polycarbonate.
Workers adjusted a gate in front of one of the world's narrowest houses, in Warsaw, Poland today. The two-level "Keret's House" is no wider than 48.03 inches and was fitted into tiny space puzzlingly left between a pre-war house and a modern apartment block of the 1960s in downtown Warsaw. It is named after Etgar Keret, an Israeli writer of Polish roots who will be the first inhabitant of this artistic project of aluminum and polycarbonate.
WARSAW, Poland » The new house is only four-feet wide, but it comes with a bathroom, a kitchen and a bedroom, and its first tenant will move in this weekend.
Architect Jakub Szczesny designed the two-story aluminum and plastic house three years ago and it’s been built in a narrow space between a pre-war house and a modern apartment block in downtown Warsaw.
The Foundation of Polish Modern Art helped him fund it.
At a news conference today, they said the first tenant will move in Saturday: Etgar Keret, an Israeli writer whose ancestors died in Poland during the Holocaust.
But other tenants will follow in a building considered an art work.
