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09 Aug 2010
And yes, I suspect Jay is on our team...
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04 Jun 2010
Remember that Dutch hotel we saw previously that looks like a bunch of houses piled on top of each other?
I wonder if it was inspired by this block of apartments designed by the Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill in the coastal town of Calpe. It was built in 1967-1968 and is based on a combination of cubes. Each unit consists of three blocks - the living area, bedroom, and services - built around a central vertical axis that houses the stairwell.
(via apuntestiojess)
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20 May 2010
This one! Hell, I still want to stay in it and I'm neither 12 nor a boy. The just finished hotel in the town of Zaandam has 160 rooms and is designed to look like a pile of traditional houses from the area stacked on top of each other.
More pics and info HERE.
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12 May 2010
Much an' all as I dislike organised religion, I will admit that religious fervour produces some great art and architecture. Here are fifty extraordinary churches.
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30 Apr 2010
Using a system of sliding walls and folding furniture, this Hong Kong apartment can transform into whatever room you need it to be. Twenty four combinations in all apparently.
(I think I posted about this apartment ages ago, but not this video)
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25 Apr 2010
This is supposed to be a list of The World's Ugliest Statues but of course I love most of them! See, context is everything, and most of these statues are in places where anything of interest, no matter how awful, is an added bonus in my book. I mean, sure, this thing Turkmenistan is like something from The Jetsons Go To Las Vegas (that's not a real movie. I made it up) but it's in Turkmenistan for Dolly's sake! What else are you going to look at?
And take this monstrosity in Mongolia. Lets leave aside the horrible pastiche base, and focus on the giant, Soviet-style Genghis Khan on his horse. Have you ever been to Mongolia? Well I have, and it is thousands and thousands of miles of unending magnificent nothingness - which is magnificent - but after a while your eyes start screaming for something to focus on, and although this statue hadn't been built when I as there, if it had and it had suddenly started to loom in the distance, my tiny gay heart would have leapt for joy as it grew bigger and bigger. "Stop this bloody train! Give me another fried egg and a bottle of yak's milk and lets climb to the top of this thing and see if we can see a tree! They're these big green things. They're kind of hard to describe, but you'll know one when you see one"
And this one in Senegal? Sure we could argue about whether it was the best use of $25 million in a country like Senegal, but apart from that, what's not to love? Seriously. A GIGANTIC hot babe, a GIGANTIC hot practically naked fella holding a baby (you know that just makes him hotter, Daddy) and all three of them emerging from a volcano? It's perfect. All statues should be this statue.
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26 Mar 2010
This TV tower in Prague was built in the 80's and the faceless babies were added in 2000, as a temporary art installation, but people liked them so much they were made permanent. You know something like this would never get planning permission in Dublin - the usual suspects would say it was ugly and would destroy the whole city and that it doesn't mean anything and even if it did somehow get built, people would spend ages making up completely unfunny colloquial names for it which they would then write as pithy hilarious suggestions to the Irish Times, and tell tourists that everybody calls it "the crane in the lane" or some-such even though absolutely nobody does...
Our loss.
(via Deputy-Dog. Thanks Al)
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06 Mar 2010
The new Daniel Liebeskind designed Grand Canal Theatre is nearing completion and is due to open later this month.
And nearby, the new Lansdowne Road stadium is at an advanced stage.
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22 Feb 2010
I want to live in this family house in Japan. In a town called Obama. (very zeitgeisty!)
The site, situated near the beach, posed climatic problems such as damage from the sea breeze, and the client wanted to combine parking spaces on the ground floor for clients of an adjoining clinic, with first floor living spaces.
More info and pictures of the (less exciting) interior HERE.
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11 Feb 2010
These Niall Sweeney graphics featuring Your's Truly are from 1995.
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