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In 1979, Michael Kahn and Leda Livant moved to a rural three-acre plot of land in Cornville, Arizona. Allowed to stay on the property rent-free, Kahn and Livant started building what would become Eliphante immediately, living in an 8′ x 10′ wooden shack that Michael had thrown up to keep them safe during the winter. [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Monday, November 2, 2009 at 10:30 am
Filed under All Houses, Shaped like something else, Strange Mansions · Tagged Arizona, art, artistic, canoe, cornville arizona, dementia, Eliphante, Eliphante LTD, found art, found items, Hippodome, home, house, houses in Arizona, Kahn, Livant, michael kahn, no bathroom, only accessible by water, plot of land, running water, stream, toilet, tragedy romance, unique, winter palace
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 Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 11:28 am
Filed under All Houses, Off the ground, 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
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 whole [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Monday, January 5, 2009 at 8:27 am
Filed under All Houses, Shaped like something else · Tagged art, art league, art photo, cool, Douglas, home, house, houston tx, unique, vortex