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Originally Posted by Chronamut
in all fairness, those skinny dormers ARE in keeping with hamilton's look - look at the buildings they restored on james st near the tivoli, and they existed in other places like that, skinny like that too.
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Have to agree. While these do look like plant-on dormers with no actual function, there *are* dormers this narrow on Hamilton buildings.
I believe the dormers you mention on James N @ Wilson really were this narrow, before being replaced with wider ones that are more practical for the current usage.
The extreme narrowness of these (seemingly) fake Barton Street dormers, and the former ones on JSN, might be a function of the spacing of the rafters (as wide as can be without altering the framing) and the need for natural light being the only requirement for their inclusion.
It really does seem the look here is to mimic the adaptive reuse of an older building. I can't decide if the square-top windows (in arched brick openings!) are just the usual cost-control based compromise or if that mismatch is intended to further the impression that the street facing building is much older than it is.
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