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The Hundertwasserhaus (of Hundertwasserhaus) has become a cultural landmark not just in Vienna where it is located, but for the entire country of Austria. This is despite the property only being built in the early 1980’s. The building was the brainchild of academic architects, Professor Joseph Krawina and Peter Pelikan who conceived a property made [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Sunday, December 25, 2011 at 6:02 pm
Filed under All Houses, Celebrity Homes · Tagged 1980's architecture, Apartments, architect, architects, Austrian homes, Hundertwasser, Hundertwasserhaus, landmark, living materials, masterpiece, trees, trees in a house, weird
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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How do you make an ancient structure modern and livable? Katsuhiro Miyamoto and Associates figured it out with the Hankai House in Akashi City. The original structure has many old pieces – roof parts and walls that date back to anywhere between 90 and 300 years ago. The original structure was a wooden gate house [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 7:49 am
Filed under All Houses, Shaped like something else · Tagged ancient structure, architect, architects, art, Construction and Maintenance, convenience, Design, Earthquake, earthquake resistant, end result, flavors, Floor plan, floor plans, Hankai House, japan, layouts, miyamoto, outer walls, photo, related articles, textures, wooden gate
The Swedish are so cool. Seriously. I think Sweden is an awesome place. Now they’ve created a hotel that is unlike any other – the rooms are mirrored cubes that sit high up in the trees. The mirrors make the cubes practically invisible from the outside, so that the natural setting is not disturbed by [...]
Posted by Elizabeth on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at 8:37 am
Filed under All Houses, Green Houses, Off the ground · Tagged architect, architects, arctic circle, art, birds, boreal forest, circle, cool, cubes, flora and fauna, forests, golden eagles, harmony with nature, house, natural beauties, Nature, nest tree, Recreation, reflections, Sweden, Taiga, tree house, Treehotel, trees, unique homes, unique houses, unique log cabins, weird, weird houses, window strikes, windows and skylights, work of art