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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was pretty successful when it came out in 1986. Since then, the movie has become a classic. Even though Matthew Broderick’s title character was, well, the star, his movie house wasn’t exactly memorable. Sure, that thing he rigged up to make it look like he was in bed asleep was pretty [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Monday, January 17, 2011 at 5:42 am
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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
Filed under All Houses, Shaped like something else, Strange Mansions · Tagged activism, architect, art, Bathroom, births, BP, Dana Bashor, Drinking water, fog, garden, general assembly, glimpse, guestrooms, house, House (TV series), latrine, masterpiece, Nature, night visitors, organizing committee, pun, Seoul, seoul korea, sim, Singing, summer olympic games, suwon, tall, toilet, world cup