Oh, you mean the famous "cantilevered restaurant of Kenosha", Ascension? I always like eating there - seeing the traffic pass by twenty feet below, through the glass floor, is a unique dining experience. My wife can't stand it, though - says it gives her vertigo. I see devfrag has the "old man's arch-house" too - right below the "IC" of Kenoshan District. Yeah, the guild had enough votes to force connection of Rum Alley to the main road there, but nobody, and I mean NOBODY wanted to try to make old Colonel Havfreth actually tear down his house. Instead, they "rented" his downstairs hallway and parlor - now the thing looks like some kind of inhabited victory arch. I guess it was a victory of sorts, for the Colonel. He still gets fifty marks a year for the "inconvenience" of a road through his house.

There's a few more of these architectural oddities - the easternmost Brightmont road has another cantilevered building. Just west of the central square there's another - "the tilted house". It's actually an old inn that predates the building of Kenoshan District - that's why it seems askew from the grid. Nothing special was done to it - the third floor just juts out over the first two anyway. And what's up with the city's center being called a "square" anyway - it's the most oval square I've ever seen -- but that's what the Glyrathians call it, so who am I to object?

Same kind of architecture on that gray building on the road separating Bayston and Kenoshan - just a cantilever. The point of interest there is the owner rents the walls of that "hanging corner" as a billboard of sorts. Some merchant or other always has a lurid advertisement pasted there. Last month I believe it was Golatistein's Bar & Girl. Grill. Sorry - Bar and Grill - the advert just makes one think....

Of course one could always boringly "fix" the buildings-in-the-street "problem".... or one could story-tell around the problem :-). If the shadows that the Street Of Unbeveled Buildings have weren't so jarringly different from the plain bevels elsewhere, I'd be tempted to spin some yarn about how those look at ground level - crazy architecture with dead-flat awning-type roofs sticking up a good thirty feet above the building's actual tile roofs -- something about the religious practices of the Nyeznorian immigrants living there -- you really wouldn't want to know the details. OR you could just re-render that cul-de-sac's houses <shrug>.

Nice map, especially for a first post - repped!

-- jbgibson
Not the King of Rationalization, but at least the Earl Of Alternate Explanations :-)