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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 Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 4:00 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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