This picture has been floating around the internet for some time and I haven’t found any attribution info. It has been called a “redneck” root cellar and a bomb shelter. With a little more natural light you could call it a subterranean home. Or, you could grow marijuana. (The sheriff was impressed.)
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The same youtube video was sent to me by 4 different people over the past couple of days, so I’d say it’s gone “viral” in our little world of small spaces. This is architect Gary Chang’s 330 sq. ft. apartment. Gary creates an upscale solution to the problem of very dense housing in Hong Kong by configuring 24 distinct rooms using futuristic movable walls. He was featured in the NY Times over a year ago. Now to see it in motion — it’s like a rubiks cube of an apartment.
Images via AFP
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This acorn-shaped treehouse was featured in the NY Times magazine of winter 2008 (photo by Dina Pugh). It was built by Jay Nelson on museum director Lawrence Rinder’s 40 acres near Ukiah, CA. Nelson, a young San Francisco bay area artist, is described by Rinder as straddling a line “between urbane and rural, between avant-garde and retrograde, between the dissolution of the boundaries between art and life and the careful management of both.” Yep, that’s all in the article. Here’s what’s not: a video of the treehouse being installed.
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The General Store just opened up in San Francisco with this little greenhouse in the back yard, built by area artist Jesse Schlesinger. I snagged this photo from Lloyd’s Blog. Lloyd stumbled upon it one day after stopping in a coffee shop next door: “I fall in love with a building now and then, and this was one of those. Proportion, placement, used materials, it all comes together.” Amen brotha.
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Mining relics… this is an old engine house in Cornwell. Photographed by Thenenan T. Kig. Via BldgBlog.
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It still feels like we’re camping in this house, but we are making progress:
Previous updates on the house project.
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