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No.1 Not Sure I'd like to live is such an aquarium in full sight of the neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteNo.4 I like plane and that one is interesting and a good way to recycle old planes. Good for warm places but not sure for here when we have -30°C in winter.
The last one is a nice solution for homeless people but it has to be supervised.
We had here a man who designed a sleep pod for homeless but our Montreal mayor didn't buy some as it would need a kind of supervision because there were some bad experiences in other cities where those pods became unsane and people pissed or pooped in them. No soltutions are perfect ones.
The water tower in the first picture featured in a TV program (Grand Designs) a few years ago. The surrounding housing is a more recent development K.uk
ReplyDeleteI could live in #3. the Plane? How cool is that?
ReplyDeleteThe pods? Wish we'd be more helpful to the homeless here in the US.
JiEL - I kind of figured the pods would end up being abused.
ReplyDeleteK.uk - Thanks for that info.
Thank you K.uk for telling us what that tower's usage was in the first place. I first thought the campanile from a no longer existing church. Anyway I find the juxtaposition of Neo-roman and cold contemporary design not quite fitting, plus they could at least have accorded the color between the old and new bricks (I know, I can be a pain in the ass about details). We (or actually our children) will see how it all turns out in a couple of decades from now :-)
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand I love the plane up-cycling project, though I'd probably have chosen to build something else than a chalet upon it. And may be also I’d have found a way to preserve the wings? Cool anyway.
Laurent - I think the contrasts on the water tower are perfectly fine. It's all in the eye of the beholder, ya know. However, I agree the fuselage needed something better than the chalet.
ReplyDeleteA long time ago I read something online about a home that used the wings of a plane for the roof structure.
These are some neat buildings, but the best of the bunch is that tiny pod. How perfect. I hope it works.
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