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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
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
Meet Klara Marosszeky. She has been working for 10 years to create viable building material out of…hemp. That wall she’s leaning against? Yep. Made out of hemp. Hemp and lime, pressed into a form. The substance hardens and ta da! You’ve got hempcrete. The advantages of this method are numerous. The building material is resistant [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 12:24 am
Filed under All Houses, Green Houses · Tagged 10 years, Acre, american farmers, art, building material, carbon footprint, concrete, e book, Earthquake, Environment, green, hardware store, hemp house, hempcrete, house, houses, industrial hemp, ins and outs, lime, local option, mixture, mold, paragraph, paul benhaim, related articles, rodents, sticky wicket
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
We don’t usually delve into celebrity news and scoops, but when I saw the specs on Perry Farrell’s Venice, CA home that went up for sale several months ago, I know I just had to write it up here. The home sold on May 25, so unfortunately you can’t count on me for the latest [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Monday, June 21, 2010 at 7:30 am
Filed under All Houses, Celebrity Homes, Shaped like something else · Tagged art, cactus garden, california bungalow, Environment, garden, home, house, Janes Addiction, lollapalooza, perry farrell, rock, rock musician, rooftop deck, sliding glass, solar heat, southern california weather, venice ca
Yet another post inspired by the fact that someone in my household is addicted to educational television! A recent episode of a show on the Discovery Channel showed a crew put together a Huf Haus in only 5 days. That’s start to finish (framing, windows, caulking, etc) not including wiring or plumbing. That is pretty [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 8:25 am
Filed under All Houses, Comes in A Box, Green Houses · Tagged architect, educational television, Environment, Germany, Greenhouse gas, huf haus, huf house, huf houses, huff, solar energy, windows and skylights