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Obviously, we love it when an architect has an imagination. Terry Brown, a pretty famous architect, had a great big imagination – not just for the homes he designed for others, but for the home he made for himself. It’s called The Mushroom House (though some people call it The Tree House) and it’s located [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Monday, December 19, 2011 at 5:05 pm
Filed under All Houses, Off the ground · Tagged architecture, Cincinnati, found art, Fulbright Fellowship, mushroom house, Terry Brown, Terry Brown Architectural Firm, tree house
photo by by Dizzy Atmosphere Smith Tower was built in 1914, and named after the guy from Smith Corona - you know, typewriters and guns? His name was Lyman Cornelius Smith and he set out to build the tallest building in Seattle. That sort of went out the window when they built the Space Needle, [...]
Dar Al-Hajar is open to the public now as a sort of museum, though the Yemen travel website says that its “only jewel is the building itself.”
Posted by Strange Houses on Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 12:01 pm
Filed under All Houses, Strange Mansions · Tagged ala allah, architecture, art, beautiful place, castles, cool, dar al hajar, mansions, museum, palaces, rock, rock drawings, stream, travel website, yemen travel
by Lynn. Bart Prince is no ordinary architect. He “builds from the inside out”, creating homes that feel good to the homeowner, and feel good to the land they are on. He uses organic styles and interesting lot arrangement to make the most of the natural light and resources offered by a particular lot. He [...]
The Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo is the world’s first capsule-centered piece of architecture built for actual use. This is probably not a new concept to you, but I think it’s rare that when you can actually see the room for yourself. To me, it looks like a room aboard a spaceship. Just imagine, instead [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 10:00 pm
Filed under All Houses, Apartments · Tagged airplane, architect, architecture, capsule, capsule hotel, Design, home, house, japan, nakagin capsule tower, Pods, shanghai, spaceship, strange, tokyo, tower, unique, weird, world wetlands
This majestic piece of real estate near Lexington, Kentucky was originally built to be a single-family home. Construction began in 1969 by one Rex Martin and his wife Caroline Bogaert Martin. They had traveled a bit in Europe and were stunned by the architecture, so they decided to try to recreate it on some prime [...]
Posted by Elizabeth on Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Filed under All Houses, castles · Tagged Acre, architect, architecture, art, Bathroom, bogaert, castle home, castle post, castlepost, dining hall, driveway area, fountain courtyard, garden, grand ballroom, home, home construction, house, lexington castle, lexington kentucky, martin castle, massive renovations, medieval times, million dollars, museum, post castle, price tag, prime acreage, renovations, rex martin, setback, single family, tennis court, tourist attraction, turret, turrets
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
Filed under All Houses, Celebrity Homes, Off the ground · Tagged 3 years, A James Speyer, Acre, architect, architecture, art, Bathroom, baths, cameron, carnegie tech, cool, David Haid, Design, dining room, ferris bueller, Floor plan, highland park, home, house, matthew broderick, movie house, nice view, open floor plan, pylons, renovations, speyer, square feet, stunner, title character, wooded land
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
Filed under All Houses, Shaped like something else · Tagged architect, architects, architecture, art, art gallery of ontario, art studios, artistic, british architect, british architects, Bruce Kuwabara, building houses, Canada, canadian consulting, cbc canada, city skyline, colorful version, Design, english architect, Environment, frank gehry, green, house, houses, isadore sharp, kuwabara, launch pad, lime, museum, national ballet school, ontario college of art, ontario college of art and design, Ontario Society of Artists, photo, roofline, Star Wars, stream, striking design, Toronto, toronto architects, trees, unique
What are the things that you can’t do in a city? You can’t raise livestock (at least, not very easily), you can’t live on an acre or more of land (unless you’re way loaded), and you can’t really grow food. At least not a lot of it – enough to feed an entire population. What [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 7:08 am
Filed under All Houses, Green Houses, Islands, Off the ground · Tagged air purifiers, architect, architecture, architectures, belgian architect, callebaut, compost, dragonfly, Environment, environmental responsibility, fertilizer, fresh food, fruit vegetables, herds, hormones, houses, liquid waste, New York, Population, process improvement, product quality, related articles, research efforts, research laboratories, sustainable building, wind and sun, wind power