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This photograph, taken with my iPad camera, and using no special effects, has not been edited in any way.

The camera was slightly tilted, and the trees grow leaning slightly toward the buildings. The walls of both buildings are perfectly vertical, and the red brick building in the background is completely ordinary. The white stucco building in the foreground, though, is an architect's whimsy, with a romboidal floor plan. The visible front corner is about four feet back from the sidewalk; the other front corner is about twenty feet back. The front windows are set thirty degrees diagonally to the ground, and use special tensioned blinds. (The two lines across the top of the building are shadows of wires on utility poles out of sight to the left, and are not part of the effect.) Also, the alley and sidewalk slope down a bit toward the left, so they appear to be almost level despite the camera tilt. I was inside the slanted-window building several years ago, when it was a social security office, which is how I know about the special tension-wire Venetian blinds. It's at 2795 7th Street in Berkeley, California, just south of Heinz Avenue.

Description
This photograph, taken with my iPad camera, and using no special effects, has not been edited in any way.

The camera was slightly tilted, and the trees grow leaning slightly toward the buildings. The walls of both buildings are perfectly vertical, and the red brick building in the background is completely ordinary. The white stucco building in the foreground, though, is an architect's whimsy, with a romboidal floor plan. The visible front corner is about four feet back from the sidewalk; the other front corner is about twenty feet back. The front windows are set thirty degrees diagonally to the ground, and use special tensioned blinds. (The two lines across the top of the building are shadows of wires on utility poles out of sight to the left, and are not part of the effect.) Also, the alley and sidewalk slope down a bit toward the left, so they appear to be almost level despite the camera tilt. I was inside the slanted-window building several years ago, when it was a social security office, which is how I know about the special tension-wire Venetian blinds. It's at 2795 7th Street in Berkeley, California, just south of Heinz Avenue.