Following on from a much earlier discussion about Muf's wall in Barking, I have come across some more examples of walls that, while blind (or almost blind) in respect of opes, can make generous contributions to the particular sense of the street.
The London-based designer and artist Gitta Gschwendtner built a 50 m long wall filled with 1000 bird houses to surround a new apartment complex in Cardiff, an idea that is reminiscent of the accidental function of the middle wall of our site at the moment.
In the Can Framis museum in Barcelona, BAAS architects restored two preexisting factory buildings while creating a new one to link them, coinciding with the site of another former warehouse which forms a courtyard in between, paved with stones recovered from the former factory.
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