Category Archives:Houses/Structures

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Mar. 19.

The Lullaby Factory: A Fantasy Landscape Creating Secret Music

By rebecca | Posted in Art & Design, Houses/Structures |

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From Studio Weave, responsible for the magical transformation of space between London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and a neighboring building:

Studio Weave has transformed an awkward exterior space landlocked by buildings into the Lullaby Factory – a secret world that cannot be seen except from inside the hospital and cannot be heard by the naked ear, only by tuning in to its radio frequency or from a few special listening pipes.

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We have designed a fantasy landscape reaching ten storeys in height and 32 metres in length, which can engage the imagination of everyone, from patients and parents to hospital staff, by providing an interesting and curious world to peer out onto. Aesthetically the Lullaby Factory is a mix of an exciting and romantic vision of industry, and the highly crafted beauty and complexity of musical instruments.

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Lullaby Factory, Great Ormond St. Hospital (via Neatorama)

(All images are from Studio Weave)

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Jan. 09.

Rainbow igloo

By rebecca | Posted in Art & Design, Houses/Structures |

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rainbow-colored-iglooDaniel (from New Zealand) visited his girlfriend in Edmonton, Canada. To keep him busy and not just twiddle his thumbs while there, his girlfriend’s parents tasked him to build something. What he did (with the parents’ help) was a spectacular rainbow-colored igloo! Global Edmonton has the full story. See more photos of this colorful igloo at imgur. (via Reddit; Colossal)

 

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Oct. 23.

This cemetery is merry

By rebecca | Posted in Houses/Structures |

This cemetery doesn’t greet you with sadness and darkness – it’s the Merry Cemetery (Romanian: Cimitirul Vesel) in the village of Săpânţa, Maramureş county, Romania. Its tombstones are colorfully painted depicting the life of the deceased. The epitaphs are original and poetic, most often funny and lighthearted. Unlike the prevalent cultural belief that treats death as indelibly solemn, the Merry Cemetery is linked to the local Dacian culture which views death as a moment of joy in anticipation for a better life. A local artist, Stan Ioan Pătraş, carved the first tombstone cross and epitaph in 1935. 

Here’s one funny epitaph (translated from Romanian [from Wikipedia]): 

Under this heavy cross
Lays my poor mother in-law
Three more days she would have lived
I would lay, and she would read (this cross).
You, who here are passing by
Not to wake her up please try
Cause’ if she comes back home
She’ll criticise me more.
But I’ll behave so well
That she’ll not return from hell.
Stay here, my dear mother in-law!

 

All photos are from A Dangerous Business 

via io9

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Sep. 26.

This floor’s made of DNA

By rebecca | Posted in Art & Design, Houses/Structures |

Really cool!

As one commenter exclaimed: “The building blocks of life are now the building blocks of buildings?!”

Well, let’s just hope the sequence doesn’t lead to a mutation that would destroy that building.

(from dlo_mtsport)

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Sep. 19.

Notre Dame Cathedral magnificently recreated in 298,000 matchsticks

By rebecca | Posted in Arts & Crafts, Houses/Structures, Sculpture |

… and 2,000 toothpicks by Patrick Acton, the Matchmaker. He spent a year and eight months in completing this intricate design. His mind-blowing matchstick marvels are exhibited at museums all over the world. This model is currently on display at Matchstick Marvels Tourist Center in Gladbrook, Iowa. Know more at the artist’s website and see his other impressive creations.

via My Modern Met

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Aug. 03.

A reason not to graduate early

By rebecca | Posted in Art & Design, Houses/Structures |

… is if you’re staying in one of the 360 rooms in this fantastic student dormitory in Copenhagen, Denmark. There is a big kitchen for every 12 rooms, laundry area, study and computer area, music rooms, a bike park, and a gym. All rooms have floor heating, toilet, and shower. This circular, seven-story structure designed by Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter has a massive inner courtyard where students congregate. This dorm is just AWESOME. 

See the rest of the beautiful pics at Twisted Sifter (via BuzzFeed)

Photos via Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter

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wimsical playhouse
May. 09.

Dripping letters, Magical playhouse

By rebecca | Posted in Art & Design, Arts & Crafts, Houses/Structures |

This wonderful artwork was created by Ron Ulicny, a Portland sculptor, who specializes in re-configuring ordinary objects to create new things.  See more of his designs at his website.

(via Colossal)

This magical playhouse was built by Arthur Millican, Jr., a former Disney artist whose tiny creations were mostly catered to fairies and gnomes. This storybook fairy house, however, was scaled up to accommodate humans and is now ready for play. I’d love to have this at my backyard!

(Lloyd’s Blog, via boingboing)