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Drivers in the Montrose neighborhood of Houston TX had a surprise in store with the Inversion Tunnel House, a temporary artwork project which turned two homes scheduled for demolition into a warped work of art with a an apparent vortex through the property! Art League artists, Havel and Ruck, converted the dwellings into an apparent [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 10:48 pm
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The Ontario College of Art and Design is Canada’s “university of the imagination” and it’s not hard to see why – the building itself defies the imagination – stacked atop colorful pixie-stick like pillars this lego-like structure seems to teeter above the roofline (it looks like a colorful version of those walking things in Star [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Saturday, October 30, 2010 at 12:43 am
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We posted a pic of this before, but here you have a guest post on the Toilet House! What happens when you combine an architect, activism, and a latrine? Don’t be alarmed. Your eyes aren’t deceiving you; that is a toilet-shaped house and it’s real. Sim Jae-Duck, an architect from Seoul, Korea, is the mastermind [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 8:00 am
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