While walking down an alleyway in Kansas City, this creative planting method caught our eye. We love creative gardening ideas, although we aren't sure what this massive metal contraption was once used for (although we are almost certain that one of you might!). Do you know what it's original function was? Let us know after the jump!
This building doesn't have the ability to use their roof for gardening or any space around the building. So this tenant is using what they have and making the most of things.
Do you know what the large metal piece on the side of the building was once used for? Let us know below.
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Comments (8)
Last I checked altering a fire escape was prohibited in NYC, so this wouldn't work around here.
Can't really tell how big it is, but might make an interesting hot tub. Not on a fire escape though.
it looks like some kind of industrial funnel-like they would use in making beer or bread or candy or something-since is all green, I am thinking copper-so maybe a small brewery's hop-holder? Just a guess anyways. I think that I would worry about it coming loose and plunking somebody on the head-when I was in art school in philly, a TV went out a window and almost hit a cop.....(random free-association)
It doesn't look like it IS altering the fire escape, to judge by the one a floor down. And it just might be fastened onto the building really well. I prefer the Pollyanna outlook when something's as terrific looking as this. If I saw this while wandering Kansas City alleys, I'd have to seek out the perps and ask them about it, I like it so. . . .
My guess is a roof to a cupola or something wild like that, although that doesn't explain the tub bit of it. Sweet. Oh, how I adore old Midwestern buildings...
Once would assume that the funnel was left over from the building's previous incarnation. There may have been an opening right above it, or a pipe from higher up, to allow whatever product they manufacured or disposed to be funneled into a vessel or a vehicle waiting below. Unless you know what went on in that building before it was converted to apartments there is no way of knowing what it was used for.
I agree with Green - probably a funnel for whatever the building's previous industrial tennant manufactured.
When that thing falls it'll kill somebody.