Can you reference who the designers of each house were, or at least cite a source so we could look it up? Most of these only have novelty value going for them, but there are a few winners in design. Some look Gaudi-inspired. The ones I liked were #6, #11, #15, #18, and #19, if I've counted correctly.
Great photos. I really wish there was some information about the location of each one. And why would anyone make a picture link to its own source? When I click on each picture and it loads the picture by itself in the browser, shouldn't it at least be bigger? Silly...
more wine bottle houses, built by some old family friends. In a total unknown town in manitoba, canada. http://www.treherne.ca/pages/glassbottlehouse.html
leo, I think 6 (the curvy one, correct?) is Frank Gehry (sp). Or at least that definitely looks like his type of design. If I remember correctly, he designs buildings and then morphs them to hell.
a lot of those arent actually houses. many are churches, office buildings and built as tourist attractions. better title would have been "The most interesting and amazing buildings from the world"
the building that appears to be falling apart and the upside down museum are both part of Ripley's Believe it or not in Orlando, not houses. You can even see the sign on the first one. They are still cool, but not houses.
This article needs to tell what each structure is. What is the one atop the mountain peak? In Switzerland? What is it? Does it have a name? This is VERY POOR creative journalism, irritating.
The upsidedown house is in Orlando but isn't Ripley's, it's a visual allusions museum called Wonderworks. And the cracked building, the Ripley's, isn't the one in Orlando. The one in Orlando is similar, but cracks less and looks like it's sinking halfway into the ground, with a good 30 degree tilt
The pink "roof" upside-down building isn't in Orlando. It's in Japan. The yellow letters are Japanese. The beverage machines in the back are Japanese. The red one is a coke machine.
Actually,#5 is not an art project. It is just down the street from me. It's at 39° 8'28.36"N 84°25'25.28"W in a rather upscale neighborhood (Hyde Park) of a conservative city (Cincinnati, OH). It caused quite a stink when the owner/architect started working on it. He began about 6-8 years ago, and the neighbors tried to get the construction stopped, calling it an isore. He recently put it on the market, http://www.sibcycline.com/viewlisting.asp?mls=1043414&b=CIN&p=RESI If you really want to get big-brothery http://64.56.97.146/realestate2/agency/hamilton/hamilton_tab_base2.asp?sid=BD31B3042500407CA50E0A263773090C
Actually,#5 is not an art project. It is just down the street from me. It's at 39° 8'28.36"N 84°25'25.28"W in a rather upscale neighborhood (Hyde Park) of a conservative city (Cincinnati, OH). It caused quite a stink when the owner/architect started working on it. He began about 6-8 years ago, and the neighbors tried to get the construction stopped, calling it an isore. He recently put it on the market, http://www.sibcycline.com/viewlisting.asp?mls=1043414&b=CIN&p=RESI If you really want to get big-brothery http://64.56.97.146/realestate2/agency/hamilton/hamilton_tab_base2.asp?sid=BD31B3042500407CA50E0A263773090C
It won't let me do a link. Check out Clingstone in Jamestown RI. Its a house built on a hunk of rock in Narragansett bay with no easy way to get to or from, boats only
"#16 looks like the 7 Greek Orthodox monasteries in Meteores in Greece. For more details "google" for "METEORA GREECE".
http://users.tri.sch.gr/elianos/meteora_2.jpg"
yup, it is one of the 7 monastaries! And a helicopter is not needed to get to it, there is actually a land bridge that connects it to the main cliffs, you just can't see it in the photo, and there are steps carved in to the cliff to get up to it. A very amazing place!
Here in FloriDUH the houses all look the same, because the state is run by cookie cutter minded developers. I wish more houses would reflect true creativity.
No.16 (the Greek monastery) looks just like the building used in one of the James Bond films (For your eyes only, 1981 - Agia Triada Monastery, Meteora, Greece) Is it the same one?
nº19 is "La Pedrera" in Passeig de Gràcia, Barcelona, designed by Gaudí, and it's actually also a museum, with a permanent exposition on Gaudí's work. If i'm not wrong, it is sometimes called casa Milá because of its owners, the Mila family.
#3 the shoe house looks like a place I knew as a kid in the 60's, it was in or near "Fantasyland" a kids park in south central PA, near Gettysburg I believe
The one that stands on top of some tall rock, is a monastery in Greece. The place is called Meteora and it has several monasteries exactly like this one.
I think that #22 is located in the foothills west of Denver, CO. I believe it's the one you can see up on the hillside, on the South side of I-70 before you get to Idaho Springs.
At May 24, 2007 6:16 PM, Anonymous said... The white dome shaped home is in Pensacola, FL. http://domeofahome.com
Actually, the 'dome home' is on Pensacola Beach, and is supposedly 'hurricane-proof' - the owner and a TV guy spent time there during Hurricane Ivan, Aug. 2004.
The house that looks like a shoe was designed by a shoe salesman back in the twenties or thirties as an advertisement to sell his shoes. He used to let honeymooners stay there. HGTV did a special on it recently on their show "Amazing Homes". A couple recently bought it and renovated it. It's actually four stories inside!
hi ya! im kayla and i just wanted to say that these houses r really cool. i live in one one of them!!!! i would really like to speak with leo if that is possiable. plz leave a comment here if i can speak to u
...in fact #6 is located in Sopot (Poland) and was inspired by drawings of the town's most beloved artist - Per Dahlberg. #4 stands right by the swamps of South Carolina, either Surfside or Murrels Inlet, down from Myrtle Beach... Couldn't believe my eyes, when I first saw this, haha!
House 7# is a water tower in Norfolk, UK. It was used to pump water around the area. I have a have a holiday home in Norfolk, so I've passed the tower before.
i can certainly appreciate the creativity involved.....but im really very worried about the mental state of some of the architects... some of the buildings r very disturbing!
Err #7 is a house with a Water Tank on top. It's in Thorpness, Suffolk, UK; not Norfolk. sorry to be picky. see http://norfolkcoast.co.uk/location_suffolk/vp_thorpeness.htm
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great houses, I wish more people would design houses to suit their personalities.
The top house that is in the shape of a muskie isn't a house, it is a museum. It's not far from Bemidji Minnesota.
Can you reference who the designers of each house were, or at least cite a source so we could look it up?
Most of these only have novelty value going for them, but there are a few winners in design. Some look Gaudi-inspired. The ones I liked were #6, #11, #15, #18, and #19, if I've counted correctly.
I think two of them are Gaudy
Dude, those are some seriously
fucked up houses!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great photos. I really wish there was some information about the location of each one. And why would anyone make a picture link to its own source? When I click on each picture and it loads the picture by itself in the browser, shouldn't it at least be bigger? Silly...
Crazy! I actually did the tile work on the house thats forth from the bottom. It's a hurricane proof house located in Pensacola Beach, FL.
Cool houses!
more wine bottle houses, built by some old family friends. In a total unknown town in manitoba, canada.
http://www.treherne.ca/pages/glassbottlehouse.html
leo, I think 6 (the curvy one, correct?) is Frank Gehry (sp). Or at least that definitely looks like his type of design. If I remember correctly, he designs buildings and then morphs them to hell.
not impressed. at all. those houses are stoopid.
The upside-down building and the cracked building are "Wonder Works" and "Ripley's Believe it or Not" in Orlando Florida.
a lot of those arent actually houses. many are churches, office buildings and built as tourist attractions. better title would have been "The most interesting and amazing buildings from the world"
The white dome shaped home is in Pensacola, FL. http://domeofahome.com
The Show House is in Hellam, PA (about 5 minutes from me actually :-))
http://www.shoehouse.us/
The UFO house is in Signal Mountain, TN
Odd house (picture 10) is located in Yellowknife, NWT, Canada. Designed by local architects.
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WOAH!
house #5 is close to my house!
Its in Cincinnati, OH
it was an art project by a bunch of college kids
None from the City of the Sun in Columbus New Mexico??
is #19 a Gaudi one in Barcelona, Spain?
Whoever lives in #16 must own a helicopter! :)
the building that appears to be falling apart and the upside down museum are both part of Ripley's Believe it or not in Orlando, not houses. You can even see the sign on the first one. They are still cool, but not houses.
This article needs to tell what each structure is. What is the one atop the mountain peak? In Switzerland? What is it? Does it have a name? This is VERY POOR creative journalism, irritating.
#16 looks like the 7 Greek Orthodox monasteries in Meteores in Greece. For more details "google" for "METEORA GREECE".
http://users.tri.sch.gr/elianos/meteora_2.jpg
#19 is the Casa Mila in Barcelona. It's really cool in person.
#10 is the Dunmore Pineapple, a folly in the grounds of Dunmore House near Falkirk in Scotland - I vaguely remember visiting it as a kid.
Wikipedia has some good info if you're interested, just search "Dunmore Pineapple" :)
The upsidedown house is in Orlando but isn't Ripley's, it's a visual allusions museum called Wonderworks. And the cracked building, the Ripley's, isn't the one in Orlando. The one in Orlando is similar, but cracks less and looks like it's sinking halfway into the ground, with a good 30 degree tilt
Those are pretty awesome. Where in the world was the on that was on top of a mountain?
maybe this should be called fugly houses of the world...
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The pink "roof" upside-down building isn't in Orlando. It's in Japan. The yellow letters are Japanese. The beverage machines in the back are Japanese. The red one is a coke machine.
Actually,#5 is not an art project. It is just down the street from me. It's at 39° 8'28.36"N 84°25'25.28"W in a rather upscale neighborhood (Hyde Park) of a conservative city (Cincinnati, OH). It caused quite a stink when the owner/architect started working on it. He began about 6-8 years ago, and the neighbors tried to get the construction stopped, calling it an isore. He recently put it on the market, http://www.sibcycline.com/viewlisting.asp?mls=1043414&b=CIN&p=RESI
If you really want to get big-brothery http://64.56.97.146/realestate2/agency/hamilton/hamilton_tab_base2.asp?sid=BD31B3042500407CA50E0A263773090C
Actually,#5 is not an art project. It is just down the street from me. It's at 39° 8'28.36"N 84°25'25.28"W in a rather upscale neighborhood (Hyde Park) of a conservative city (Cincinnati, OH). It caused quite a stink when the owner/architect started working on it. He began about 6-8 years ago, and the neighbors tried to get the construction stopped, calling it an isore. He recently put it on the market, http://www.sibcycline.com/viewlisting.asp?mls=1043414&b=CIN&p=RESI
If you really want to get big-brothery http://64.56.97.146/realestate2/agency/hamilton/hamilton_tab_base2.asp?sid=BD31B3042500407CA50E0A263773090C
I was just thinking "Damn, what if lady bugs could bite?"
the house that looks like its on a cliff in the middle of nowhere is actually a greek orthodox monastery in meteora greece
For another UFO style house take a look at http://www.privateproperty.co.za/search/details_new.asp?ref=D5995&suburb=517&franchiseid=15&listtype=1
It won't let me do a link. Check out Clingstone in Jamestown RI. Its a house built on a hunk of rock in Narragansett bay with no easy way to get to or from, boats only
"#16 looks like the 7 Greek Orthodox monasteries in Meteores in Greece. For more details "google" for "METEORA GREECE".
http://users.tri.sch.gr/elianos/meteora_2.jpg"
yup, it is one of the 7 monastaries! And a helicopter is not needed to get to it, there is actually a land bridge that connects it to the main cliffs, you just can't see it in the photo, and there are steps carved in to the cliff to get up to it. A very amazing place!
People are going to look back on the early 21st century and laugh heartily.
#6 is "Krzywy Dom" in Sopot, Poland.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=70223
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I think that #9 is in Milwaukee, or at least there is one very similar to it here.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=43.0756,-87.891194&spn=0.003354,0.00795&t=h&z=18&om=1
the one i am getting in Cyrus is much better lol
#6 is called "Lopsided cottage" and situated in Sopot, Poland
See
http://www.trojmiasto.pl/ob.phtml?id_ob=9688
love those houses. there is another one in china, old house on top of a hill with skyscrapers around it.
#4 looks like this guy's house: http://www.wboc.com/Global/story.asp?S=6413868
Here in FloriDUH the houses all look the same, because the state is run by cookie cutter minded developers. I wish more houses would reflect true creativity.
i drive by #4 on my way to work
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The second one is a glass-bottle chapel (tourist attraction) in Prince Edward Island, Canada
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No.16 (the Greek monastery) looks just like the building used in one of the James Bond films (For your eyes only, 1981 - Agia Triada Monastery, Meteora, Greece) Is it the same one?
nº19 is "La Pedrera" in Passeig de Gràcia, Barcelona, designed by Gaudí, and it's actually also a museum, with a permanent exposition on Gaudí's work. If i'm not wrong, it is sometimes called casa Milá because of its owners, the Mila family.
You just stole this from Jeff Munro!
He posted the same thing on April 18th. http://jeffreymunro.com/odd-and-bizarre-houses/
#3 the shoe house looks like a place I knew as a kid in the 60's, it was in or near "Fantasyland" a kids park in south central PA, near Gettysburg I believe
I've seen a few of these on HGTV's "What's With That House?"
Wow! Amazing stuff! Cool houses.
I love this post! The houses are very cool!! Amazing!
The one that stands on top of some tall rock, is a monastery in Greece. The place is called Meteora and it has several monasteries exactly like this one.
We live by the boat house. The man build it after the Teton Dam flood happened. Everyone says that it could float if it floods again.
I think that #22 is located in the foothills west of Denver, CO. I believe it's the one you can see up on the hillside, on the South side of I-70 before you get to Idaho Springs.
This proves what mexican weed will do to the American mind.....
At May 24, 2007 6:16 PM, Anonymous said...
The white dome shaped home is in Pensacola, FL. http://domeofahome.com
Actually, the 'dome home' is on Pensacola Beach, and is supposedly 'hurricane-proof' - the owner and a TV guy spent time there during Hurricane Ivan, Aug. 2004.
Amazing but odd at the same time. Just was wondering if they were really lived in...what were the Town or City Taxes Like?
The house that looks like a shoe was designed by a shoe salesman back in the twenties or thirties as an advertisement to sell his shoes. He used to let honeymooners stay there. HGTV did a special on it recently on their show "Amazing Homes". A couple recently bought it and renovated it. It's actually four stories inside!
hi ya! im kayla and i just wanted to say that these houses r really cool. i live in one one of them!!!! i would really like to speak with leo if that is possiable. plz leave a comment here if i can speak to u
it makes me wonder (((((((wow)))))))) !!!
i wish i could visit at leas one of these in my life!
that's the artist's work here!!!
...in fact #6 is located in Sopot (Poland) and was inspired by drawings of the town's most beloved artist - Per Dahlberg.
#4 stands right by the swamps of South Carolina, either Surfside or Murrels Inlet, down from Myrtle Beach... Couldn't believe my eyes, when I first saw this, haha!
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House 7# is a water tower in Norfolk, UK. It was used to pump water around the area. I have a have a holiday home in Norfolk, so I've passed the tower before.
i can certainly appreciate the creativity involved.....but im really very worried about the mental state of some of the architects... some of the buildings r very disturbing!
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the mushroom looking house which is fifth down is on Erie Rd in Cincinnati, Ohio
Err #7 is a house with a Water Tank on top. It's in Thorpness, Suffolk, UK; not Norfolk. sorry to be picky. see http://norfolkcoast.co.uk/location_suffolk/vp_thorpeness.htm
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