63岁的钱以佳与她的丈夫、69岁的托德·威廉姆斯都是建筑师,他们在纽约拥有两套公寓。在穿梭往来于他们那套顶层公寓和那套复式公寓的过程中,他们找到了平衡。钱以佳在下文道出了每套公寓在他们生活中所扮演的角色。
In 2001, Tod and I lived above Carnegie Hall. Most New Yorkers at the time didn't know there were residential studios in a tower on top of the building. Our rent was too good to be true, and soon we heard rumors that the hall was going to evict tenants to convert the studios into rehearsal space. The buzz motivated us to buy a safety apartment─just in case.
2001年,我和托德住在卡内基音乐厅(Carnegie Hall)的楼上。那时候大多数纽约人还不知道那栋楼顶上的塔楼还有供居住的一室公寓。我们的房租非常划算,简直让人难以置信,很快我们就听到传言说卡内基音乐厅要把住户都赶出去,把那些公寓改造为排练厅。这些传闻促使我们产生了买一套备用公寓以防万一的想法。
Our architectural practice was taking off, and we wanted to live on top of a building─for the sunlight and view. We looked at penthouses and fell in love with an awful one on Central Park South─just blocks from our office. The building's owner had mounted it on the roof in the '60s, and the interior was a wreck─shag carpeting and gold-veined smoked mirror tiles on the walls and ceiling. But being able to see the park from the 22nd floor and the silence won us over.
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