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.




House 2

House 3

House 4

House 5

House 6

House 7

House 8

House 9

House 10

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

[youwanttoknow.livejournal.com]

Ah Mariah you're endless.

[tump.livejournal.com]

House of Yesterday's Tomorrow

[sakuraamplifier.livejournal.com]

Maybe a bit of a cliche, but:



I love the thought of living in a house full of time-saving appliances from a future that never happened.

the TWA terminal

[bklyndispatch.livejournal.com]

I thought about Koolhaas's Villa Dall'Ava but nevertheless already called that one. So, I'm going with the TWA terminal at JFK. Empty it out and give it to me.



sorry for the kind of shitty photo, I'm surprised how hard it is to find good pictures of this building.

[wertz.livejournal.com]

This (http://www.worth1000.com/entries/89000/89197INpm.jpg) would do nicely.

[armistice-day.livejournal.com]

a street (http://photos.slimyhorror.com/Venice/Venice%20052.jpg) where i'd happily live.

Please, not in kansas

[hateforblayne.livejournal.com]

http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/edtech/images/jpglbry/Scenes/Kansas/Country/shack.jpg

[ex-ebb439.livejournal.com]

A log cabin situated anywhere on Moosehead Lake, Maine. (http://www.mooseheadlake.org/) The lake has islands too, many of which have cabins built on them, but you can't live in them year round because the lake freezes over and there are white out conditions. I'd be happy perched on a mountain, or in the woods, so long as I can see the lake. I don't care about the winter weather either - I just want to be there.

[soisaysthis.livejournal.com]

andrea zittel (http://www.zittel.org)'s pocket property, floating off the coast of scandanavia!

Villa Savoye

[cubitt.livejournal.com]

Villa Savoye by LeCorbusier. (http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/Corbu.html)

You can find all the pictures of LeCorbusier's Villa Savoye at the link.

I particulary like the staircase and the roof garden.

[birdflew.livejournal.com]

I'd like to live in a lighthouse. I'm rather partial to this one:

[ex-chellovec979.livejournal.com]

Partially-decayed French Colonial Homescape in Sapa, Vietnam


Vietnamese River House


Favela Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro
(preferably in the green one)

-Matthew

[xv.livejournal.com]

(http://www.williammorganarchitects.com/)
Hilltop House, Brooksville, Florida
The Hilltop House, one of Morgan's greatest designs, epitomizes his intention to build with the earth, not on it, the essential attribute of his earth architecture. The site is a hill 2000 feet in diameter, rising 70 feet, located in central Florida, the top of which the clients chose as their favorite picnic spot before the house was built. First seen from a great distance, the house strikes one as being at once both natural and man-made, archaic and modern. The house draws the massive heaviness of the hill up into a pyramidal form, its corners oriented to the cardinal points, and its spaces framed by earth-retaining walls of geometric precision. The rooms of the house open in four directions, fronted by protected terraces cut into the ground, so that this most earth-bound of houses is paradoxically cross-ventilated by all four winds. The upper level of the house, named "the Observatory," is a single, central room, crowned by a pyramidal roof that brings the lines of the house and hill to its peak, and from which one is afforded uninterrupted views of the surrounding landscape. Inspired by prehistoric earth architecture, this house provides its occupants both modern spatial freedoms and an intensely spiritual connection to the earth.

[vinylboy20.livejournal.com]

I like Charles and Ray Eames' house in California.


Prefabricated parts, colorful outside panels, and of course, filled with Eames furniture.

I've also always liked the similarly colorful homes in Reykjavik, Iceland (http://world.std.com/~jegan/houses.jpeg).

Ki no Ie

[(Anonymous)]

A very nice pick! I'm also quite partial to the work of Atelier Bow Wow. I also quite like the new Muji house, "Ki no Ie (http://www.muji.net/infill/se/index.html)."



Now I just need to get some land in Kamakura or near Takao Mountain, get a Muji house...

- Jean Snow

[pinkfoils.livejournal.com]

Well, my typical first answer would be the Eames House. I like why it was made [as well as the other case study houses] and I really wish this sort of architecture that isn't overly designed existed in the new housing structures being built in Los Angeles, rather than all the faux "Italian" apartment complexes that are taking over the last neighborhood I lived in.



But, I do like to imagine that it would be fun to live in this house in Mexico City:





The interiors (http://www.interiordesign.net/index.asp?articleID=CA306192&layout=preview) look cave-like...there are all sorts of nooks and rounded surfaces.

*Please note I'd like all of my dream homes to propel themselves through the air on my command, and relocate themselves to all the cities in the world that I have never been to. The mobile home of the future, ahhh.

dream house

[(Anonymous)]

"in 1966, niki (http://www.nikidesaintphalle.com/) builds together with jean tinguely & per olof ultvedt a huge nana for the moderna museet in stockholm. this nana, called hon - en katedral (she - a cathedral), is build in 40 days & is 28 metres long, 9 metres wide & 6 metres high. she only existed three months & then was destroyed. Hon was a fertility goddess, despite her enormous proportion comfortably lying on her back, receiving generously thousands of visitors, which she absorbs, swallows & brings forth again. Hon confrontated the visitor with a distorted picture of female availability: the visitors could enter this gulliverwoman through her vagina. she contained a bar, a cinema, an aquarium, a planetarium & a couple of other things. critics said she is the biggest whore in the world, because she had 100,000 visitors in three months." - http://glocal.avmz.uni-siegen.de/niki/html/4.htm (http://glocal.avmz.uni-siegen.de/niki/html/4.htm).

"Art is anything you can get away with (http://www.gingkopress.com/_cata/ima2/medim-i1.htm)" - Marshall McLuhan.

Tim (http://www.travelersdiagram.com/)

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

How could I forget the home of my childhood dreams:



Overlooking the sea since 1882: Lucy, The last Elephantine colossus.

one of the many

[planetacid.livejournal.com]

http://www.aiany.org/designawards/2000/images/arch_winners/025.jpg

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