There is (at least one) example of this in Cambridge, UK. King's College built a new building in the 50's that has some windows that overhang the wall into neighboring Queens' College.
When Queens' built a new (one of the very earliest) brutalist building a few years later, it juts out over the same wall back into King's, blocking the views from the Master's lodge.
And painting the street crossings outside russian embassies with rainbow colours seems to be a common protest thing now, but I'm sure years ago there was one European country that did that officially.
I don't really see how the second one is a "spite house". He loved his house and its location, and in return for giving it up, he demanded they move the house to a location that was almost as good and pay him for his inconvenience.
I'm sure he was quite happy with the deal in the end, and there's no need for anger on either side.
I would actually like to see some investigations of important 'spite' technical architectures. Not sure if some decisions about SOAP weren't done spitefully.
Even more than architectures, there seems to be a tiny little bit of spite in everything IT related from programming language design (C++) to end-user facing software (Windows Update).
> a tiny little bit of spite in everything IT related from programming language design
A mere hour after your comment, a link to the dynamically-typed Gravity language ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17373545 ) appeared on HN. The syntax appears to be based on Apache Groovy's (and its syntactic clones Dart and Swift), and as for the name, well, "Gravity is groovy" ?!
An old spite building could be the Rocca Paolina in Perugia, Italy, it was ordered by Pope Paul III and it has been built atop the Baglioni family's houses after they revolted against the Pope.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 39.1 ms ] threadWhen Queens' built a new (one of the very earliest) brutalist building a few years later, it juts out over the same wall back into King's, blocking the views from the Master's lodge.
https://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSA00948 "In 1986 the city renamed St George's Place, the location of the South African consulate, as Nelson Mandela Place in his honour. "
And painting the street crossings outside russian embassies with rainbow colours seems to be a common protest thing now, but I'm sure years ago there was one European country that did that officially.
Supposedly the architect of the building on which they appear fell out with the Vicar of the adjacent St Peter's Church.
http://hidden-london.com/the-guide/cornhill-devils/
I'm sure he was quite happy with the deal in the end, and there's no need for anger on either side.
A mere hour after your comment, a link to the dynamically-typed Gravity language ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17373545 ) appeared on HN. The syntax appears to be based on Apache Groovy's (and its syntactic clones Dart and Swift), and as for the name, well, "Gravity is groovy" ?!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_Roc_Miami_Beach_Hotel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocca_Paolina