The Accidental Room (2018)

(99percentinvisible.org)

44 points | by blewboarwastake 2 days ago

4 comments

  • gwbas1c 2 days ago
    "Secret Mall Apartment" is a documentary on Netflix that includes a lot of the videos that Townsend took during the whole project. (There's a few stills in the article.)

    It's quite interesting to watch, because Townsend himself is quite the character. There's a scene where he's having an argument with his (now ex) wife that shows that Townsend has extremely different priorities than the typical person. (And why his first marriage failed, too.)

  • linksnapzz 2 days ago
    (2018) Also, the old picture shown on the page wasn't the State Prison on Smith Hill (where the mall is now); it's the Adult Correctional Institution in Cranston-the octagonal stone building from 1878 is still used as a maximum-security prison.
  • gzread 2 days ago
    These days you'd be caught by the surveillance network on the first day.
    • hyperhello 1 day ago
      But there wouldn’t be a new mall, either.
  • kjshsh123 1 day ago
    We need more mixed use development like this