Google me a house

[imomus]

Sometimes I image google for my digital fantasy house. A house that I could happily live in, a place that expresses something about me and my aesthetic values. Here's the one I've chosen, Atelier Bow Wow's Kawanishi camping cottage in Niigata (plus some linked alternatives). Paste or link me the house that best expresses your aesthetic in the comments, please.




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I should add that if I were cutting and pasting I'd probably prefer to put all the rural houses (or the house on another planet) in the middle of a dense Asian city (and on Earth).

Comments

House!

[(Anonymous)]

Yes!

Kiesler’s endless house! Amazing though still unrealised.

http://www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk/images/KIESLER.jpg
http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb12/fachgebiete/cad/archfilm/kiesler/webbild2/endless1.jpg

Apparently conceptualised sometime in the 30’s and like
much of his other work it still seems so far ahead of it’s and
our time.

Best,

Spring Jacket

Re: House!

[never-the-less.livejournal.com]

come on though -- yes, kiesler's endless house is fun to talk about in terms of deleuzian smoothness etc., but is that really where you'd want to live?

[coin-op.livejournal.com]

       

[suemejack.livejournal.com]

Aww, that's the Carousel of Progress!

When I was in high school, my best friend and I worked at the Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida. He was stationed in Tomorrowland, and he worked the Carousel. One afternoon, he called me over and told me about how they had to cancel the show for the rest of the day. Apparently, in the middle of a showing, the audio-animatronic dog's head exploded, and it was shooting some sort of liquid everywhere, and the audience freaked out and ran for the doors.

[never-the-less.livejournal.com]

This is my favorite house at the moment/for the last four years(H&deM House in Leymen). I apologize for the small images. I enjoy the fact that it operates both semiotically, as the reification of the cartoon imge of a house, and materially. Additionally, I like its relationship to the landscape (i.e. none).

Second runner up would have to be Koolhaas's Villa Dall'Ava, which is a total tropic play on both Mies and Corb. And who doesn't want a rooftop swimming pool over looking Paris?

[jellything.livejournal.com]

well...I can't find a single picture that really sums it up, but bascially I yearn to live here (http://www.pbase.com/ysic/the_house_on_the_rock)

[dculver.livejournal.com]

I really lov ethe sventies style "modern" architecture. something like this:

There is actually a home around here that my pal Megan and I planb to tour one day (as soon as we figure out how to convince them to let us.) Similar architecture with matching furniture. They also have a blue piano with a transparent top. It's a great house, I wish it was a little more remote though.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

My city:


My home:


My summer cottage (with roof party):


W

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Another pick: http://www.bartramsgarden.org/see/house.html

[cutup.livejournal.com]

Gaudi seems a tad anti-Momus, but this is my ¨house i want to live in forever¨ that i´ll be sick of tomorrow:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~whua/spain9.jpg

And here are my google homes:
http://www.cs.usask.ca/home/das515/gingerarch/ginger_big.jpg
http://www.fototime.com/E743DC50A137D14/standard.jpg
http://www.arch.columbia.edu/DDL/cad/A4535/S96cad/ass2/domino.gif

[shiu.livejournal.com]

which part of niigata is it in?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I'm going to stick my neck out and say the Kawanishi camping cottage, Niigata, is in Kawanishi, Niigata (http://www.town.kawanishi.niigata.jp/).

not exactly bustling or asian, sorry.

[scythrop.livejournal.com]

I like symmetry, the James River, isolation, and steep roofs. And I hate what the current owners have done with the interior.

(http://www.jamesriverplantations.org/Westover.html)

Re: not exactly bustling or asian, sorry.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Oh my, yes.

I've always been partial to Monticello--I love how Jefferson's bed lies within a hole in the wall, with his library not a pace away. It's stately but surprisingly snug inside. I feel strangely at home there.

I've always wanted to take over one of the grand old halls on the Princeton campus.

W

[dzima.livejournal.com]

The Hara Museum (http://www.haramuseum.or.jp/generalTop.html) would be a nice choice...

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, there's something enchanted about that spot! The only thing is that it's in the middle of Kanagawa, and the only reason to go there is... the Hara Museum. If you lived there, Kanagawa would lose its only asset (though it would gain you, of course).

[freaking-bok.livejournal.com]

i like that dancing house in Prague
it express me aesthetic :)

[ricepaper.livejournal.com]

(monastic.)

http://apple3.cool.ne.jp/chubu/fukui/0303486.jpg

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sedgwick/Another%20View%20of%20the%20Monastery%20of%20Sevan.jpg

http://www.sacredelements.com/archives/ladakh/ladakh01.html

[saikoutron.livejournal.com]

That first one's Eiheiji, that is. No need to elaborate beyond the bracket word; really, give me the sound of gongs in the morning and the creaks of sandals on wooden corridors, I will be beaming ALL day.

[queenpasiphae.livejournal.com]

Here's a couple houses I'd be happy in (provided they had internet access, of course):

http://home.earthlink.net/~mistahrick/images/CaminoSantiago/stone_house.jpg (http://home.earthlink.net/~mistahrick/images/CaminoSantiago/stone_house.jpg)
http://www.travel-to-santorini.com/gallery_images/175.jpg (http://www.travel-to-santorini.com/gallery_images/175.jpg)
http://www.cyberiapc.com/gallery/albums/userpics/normal_jphouse.jpg (http://www.cyberiapc.com/gallery/albums/userpics/normal_jphouse.jpg)
http://www.home.no/arneb/reiser/vietnam/dalat_crazy_h.jpg (http://www.home.no/arneb/reiser/vietnam/dalat_crazy_h.jpg)

[kojapan.livejournal.com]

Shrink me down and stick me in Andrei Tarkovsky's miniature house.

[typographitext.livejournal.com]

[typographitext.livejournal.com]

treehouses

[sophiaalmaria.livejournal.com]

haven't got an image for my dream house...on the internet anyway.
i think i'd like a garden most, don't get to see green much you see.
but if anyone else attempted googlding 'dream houses', it's great what folks conjure up.
i'm sure the important thing is what latitude one would choose to build on or buy...especially for the garden.
the whole world has inspired house dreams and now i shall pirate someone elses fantasy.
i agree with this person about their dream house:

http://www.chamberlain.net.au/~ken/turkey/pictures/image24.jpg

just seems it would be a bit musty.
also, concider yourself invited by the city of cairo (or at least one of it's residents) for a visit anytime while you can still walk...tisn't a place for wheels, the streets and sidewalks are made of potholes.

[antecedent.livejournal.com]

[picturepack.livejournal.com]

semi-random google image, but

[fishwithissues.livejournal.com]

something by this guy

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.tdrinc.com/tsuihs.html

cheers,
neil

This is fun

[qscrisp.livejournal.com]

For some reason I have long been haunted by the idea of a simple stone cottage high on a clifftop. The interior will be cut smoothly from a single piece of rock. Below there will be a beach covered in large, round rocks. The house will be in some northern clime and so there will be seals basking on the beach. Five thousand steps will be cut into the cliff face, leading down to the beach. The house will be surrounded by nothing but grass and daisies, on which a cold wind grazes.

I can picture it very clearly. There is even a particular emotion attached to this house - I don't know why. And as to whether I would really be able to live there, with no company except wind, sea and seals, I don't know. But such is my daydream. I was unable to find such an image on the Internet. I did quite like these images though:

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

Cynthia and I toured the Glide House (http://www.glidehouse.com/) at an expo in Menlo Park this summer. With an optional outbuilding as a library, it'd work for us. And it has a deck/porch. All my perfect houses have those.

Tadao Ando's Azuma row house in Sumiyoshi, Osaka

[fufurasu.livejournal.com]

Check it here (http://www.geocities.com/arquique1/ando/andorw.html") and here (http://www.geocities.com/arquique1/ando/andorw.html).

[(Anonymous)]

what about this for a simply divine secret lair of evil?

www.silohome.com

Only drawbacks I can see are that you'd probably get hammered on the council tax, and it goes without saying that you'd need a large group of orange boilersuited minions for real authenticity.


Rob

Futuro from Finland (honourable mention)

[klasensjo.livejournal.com]

Re: Futuro from Finland (honourable mention)

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I still haven't seen the film Mika Taanila (http://www.arcspace.com/books/tomorrows_house/) made about the Futuro house. It comes with the book, apparently.

Alas, here's what British and American people tend to want to do with Matti Suuronen's house: