Weird Houses

Go the the link and there is a link to go to for each one of the Houses. LINK: Youtube

8 of the Craziest Houses

Cruise ship meets land? This contemporary house can be found in Orinda, Californi. It’s called the “saxophone house” but should be relabeled, “saxophone of the seas.” LINK

TUMBLEWEED HOUSES

Presenting the current houses from TUMBLEWEED TINY HOUSES. LINK: Youtube

Haiti: Photos from the ground, by AIDG's Catherine Lainé

Catherine Lainé of the sustainable tech non-profit AIDG, who was featured in this Boing Boing Video interview on Friday, is in Haiti and has begun uploading photos of what she's witnessing there, as connectivity permits.



House are FLATTENED. Coming in to Port Au Prince, about 1 in 20 had collapsed, then 1 in 10. In Delmas 33 where we were earlier, it's 1:5. People are sleeping outside in makeshift settlements b/c either 1) their house was destroyed 2) their house had significant damage and is visibly unsafe or 3) they are not sure of their home's structural integrity and with all the aftershocks, they are taking no changes. Everyone has lost someone close to them or someone they knew... you can hear gunshots at night though. Daytime seems really safe.

She's uploading images to the AIDG Flickr stream. Unlike the Associated Press, hers are all licensed as Creative Commons images and may be freely re-blogged. Some images may not be properly tagged yet (her access to internet and electricity is sporadic in Haiti), but she's told us that is her intent. LINK: Boingboing, Via: Youtube

Spite Houses

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A spite house is a building constructed or modified to irritate neighbors or other parties with land stakes. Spite houses often serve as obstructions, blocking out light or access to neighboring buildings, or as flamboyant symbols of defiance. Because long-term occupation is at best a secondary consideration, spite houses frequently sport strange and impractical structures.

Boing Boing has an article about spite houses. LINK: The Presurfer

Houses On Wheels

“Mobility is something which is most talked about in today’s gadgetry world. Dwellings are no longer behind in the battle of mobility and offer a truly progressive living. Home on wheels hit the list when we talk about the mobility and portability. Here are some of the best moving houses.” LINK

100 Abandoned Houses

Abandoned houses photographed by Kevin Bauman. LINK

The Dust Houses

“Dust Houses: When Maria Adelaida Lopez moved to Philadelphia to do a Master’s degree in art school, she cleaned houses to support herself through the art school. This is her series of ‘Dust Houses’ that are doll houses & are covered over in vacuum cleaner lint. At present she is an artist & educator in Miami, no longer cleans houses for others.” w/ photos. LINK

Houses With Lawns On The Roof

Houses With Lawns On The Roof. LINK

Six Houses Guaranteed to Make Yours Look Puny

Fair Lane, Dearborn, Mich.



Fair Lane was the home of Henry and Clara Ford and was named for an area in Ireland where Henry’s grandfather was born.
Ford isn’t the only luminary to be involved with the house, though. Frank Lloyd Wright helped draw up the original design for the house before leaving for Europe. And Thomas Edison himself laid the cornerstone of the estate’s powerhouse. The top floor of the powerhouse was reserved for Ford’s Experimental Laboratory – the place he would go to tinker around with new ideas.
Despite Ford’s great wealth, the house really wasn’t considered that extravagant by the standards of the day, even though it did have an indoor poor and a bowling alley. That’s not to say that Fair Lane didn’t have it’s share of strange extravagances, though. As an avid bird watcher, Ford had a steam-heated birdbath installed to entice birds to make the estate their permanent dwelling as well.
Oh, and if Fair Lane sounds familiar, it should – the Fairlane Ford cars were named after the mansion. LINK