In software development, if you can’t fix it, call it a feature.

I could work with that pipe, it wouldn't bother me so much.

Too bad about lack of ducting. That seems crazy for gas stoves. What were they thinking?! Ductless range hoods work ok-- at least they're better than nothing. But they're only kind of ok for smells and oil, not for making the air quality safer.

I think i'd frame it in unless the rest of the space was loft like industrial chic

I'd just tell visitors that it's a stripper pole.

I was thinking the pipe would inspire me to take up pole dancing.

I’d have gone with induction.

Paint some trompe l’oil palm leaves on the ceiling and hang bananas from the pole. Kidding. Sort of.

I'd have to have a 31 story escape ladder hidden under my bed to live there and/or a parachute. ⛺ What? No balcony! 🤣 Could that trophy be any bigger!

That pole can be addressed. I like the set of long oars in the corner with the fishing pole.

Nice bonsai and that tea kettle is an art collectible—- brain skipping on the designer. Anyone?

Michael Graves for Alessi (1985).

I OWN THAT teakettle. A Christmas gift from my brother. I'm still not moving into a 31 story apartment.

Oh how much I loved that Michael Graves line! it was the first time I learned Target sold designer stuff.

Not sure that you can switch to electric because I am not sure the complex can handle 220 for the individual units.

I lived in a building where the ranges had to be gas and if you had the rare dryer it had to run on normal 120 or be gas.

Perhaps they have one of those downdraft hoods that descends out of sight when not in use?

Like one of these:

https://zephyronline.com/product/lift-downdraft-ventilation/

This is the original configuration for these units with the $99 recirculating range hood in place.

Gas pipe in the wall next to the range.

In NYC and maybe Philadelphia, the kitchen must have either a window or an exhaust vent. The vent does not need to be over the stove, just in the room. The new building code requires a metal hood or microwave recirculating fan. The hood is only to prevent fire, not to remove carbon monoxide. Also, very few people in NYC use an electric stove though that will change as environmental laws go into effect. I know about these codes because I am near the end of a complete kitchen re-do that included moving the gas stove from one side of the room to the other. I live in an old factory building converted to loft condos.

i have a friend who converted an small firestation into

their home they left the fire pole right in the living room, it just sort of blends in . its an adorable house in a very exclusive area.

It's nice enough but I don't get why the pipe isn't painted or polished.

I guess for a large building like this, the pipe would be structurally pretty beefy? Because someone is going to climb it at an open house and that shut-off T looks vulnerable.

Fabric designer John Robshaw left a number of pipes exposed in the removal of a wall in his apartment.

I think the gas line was left exactly as found in the highrise above intentionally--no attempt to apologize for it, improve its appearance or cover it. I think I agree, If you start doing too much to it you might as well put a wall back at the end of the island.

But these pipes are painted! :)

Either way, I don't mind.

Pal, that's a real gas line? How is that legal?

I am not aware there is anything that says gas or plumbing pipes need to be enclosed.