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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
In Lincoln, Montana the Unabomber’s land is for sale. Ted Kaczynski owned a 1.4 acre piece of land in Montana and it is now for sale. There is no running water or electricity, but the property, which sat at the end of the private, muddy road about 300 yards from his closest neighbor, is listed [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 12:26 pm
Filed under All Houses, Celebrity Homes · Tagged barbed wire, chain link fence, home, house, lace, lincoln montana, mathematician, maximum security prison, maximum security prison in colorado, muddy road, newsuem, running water, tall, ted kaczynski, trees, unabomber
Ok, so maybe they’re not actual full size houses, but they’re still weird. In fact, from the looks of it, they’re probably part of some shorefront hotel. The main problem with these one-room huts for me is just that. If there are two rooms in those buildings, I don’t want to be in either one [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Filed under All Houses, Pods · Tagged beach, circle, home, house, houses, huts, location location location, ocean, ocean breeze, palm trees, Pods, sphere, strange, trees, unique, 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
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
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