JB sent me the pictures from StrangeCosmos that we were unable to find. Here they are along with the comments that were posted with them.
Sorry it took me a bit to get them posted - they were in an unknown format and had to be converted to jpeg so took a bit. Glenn
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(https://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d184/glennkangiser/jbs%20%20strange%20houses/rockhs.jpg)
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(https://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d184/glennkangiser/jbs%20%20strange%20houses/treehs.jpg)
(https://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d184/glennkangiser/jbs%20%20strange%20houses/twistchimney.jpg)
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I've seen the one with the onion dome (and onion dome silhouette) before somewhere. Others are all new to me.
I might copy the cat house for my guys!
And yep, they were worth looking at.
It's a snowed-in Saturday. a little more snow to come (only around a half-inch so far, but the temperature has dropped steadily since morning, so I've declared it right evil outside.)
The "Ugly" one is the Simpsons house...doh! 20 and windy as all get up here today.
Started out about midnight well above freezing. Now in the high teens, no clouds the last time I was out with the dogs (hang on Major, until I finish this, then we'll go out).
I usually turn the heat off at night. Think I'll just turn it down tonight.
(I haven't watched TV in years. Never seen the Simpsons unless it was walking by the TV display in a store. But that one really did look like it came out of some computer program--e.g., 3DHA)
The pic with the tag "what a view" is one of the Meteora monasteries in Greece. The word Meteora means literally 'hovering in the air'
During the 11th Century the area was settled by monks who lived in caves in the rocks. During the age of Turkish occupation, and as brigandry and lawlessness increased, they climbed higher and higher up the rock face until they were living on the inaccessible peaks. Here they were able to build by bringing material and people up with ladders and baskets. This was also how the monasteries were reached until the nineteen twenties. Now there are roads, pathways and steps to the top. There are still examples of these baskets, which are used for bringing up provisions.
Back in the days when these baskets were the only way to get to the monasteries a nervous pilgrim asked his monk host if they ever replace the rope. "Of course we do" he replied."Whenever it breaks". I'll bet that set his mind at rest.
http://www.great-adventures.com/destinations/greece/meteora.html
Thanks for the history lesson, Jonesy. That kind of thing always interests me. That and people who live in rocks and caves. :)
The Simpsons-- guess I don't watch enough tv to recognize it.
Snowed here about an inch yesterday and my cousin said it's -4 at his place in central Oregon-- not for me. :-/
Courtesy of Mrs Goanna jonesy, mate. She went for a look, I got to stay home and keep the wolf from the door. She has photos of the other side of that one. :-?
No rain, no snow, just wind blown dust and dirt and more blazing heat.
That must have been quite a trip --- I can just see her now hanging off the side of a rock cliff on a broken rope ladder with one arm, throwing rocks at the pillaging war parties below with the other.
Mrs. Goanna Jonesy--- Superhero. Almost makes me want to invite Batgirl over here. :)
Some.......... err... interesting places there. The one on the cliff edge looks like a photochop to me.
The one on the cliff titled "Boy this should would not be my house" looks an awful lot like the view of Yosemite Valley from Glacier Point. Must be high-level employee housing in the pic.......
Here is another link to strange buildings - includes a few of the above.
http://knuttz.net/hosted_pages/Unnusual-Buildings-20070214
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Russian high rise apartments get a face lift.
How do you make a city look nice?
Maybe try a paint job.
(http://sturman.ometro.net/journ/lj/2006/rzhd/rzhd_162.jpg)
http://sturman.livejournal.com/271320.html
The little house on the cliff overhang might be a photoshop, but I've seen pictures of the outhouse for a fire lookout tower somewhere up in Washington that looked like it was in at least as precarious a location as that. The hole was over open air (hope nobody was ever at the bottom of the cliff when the outhouse was being used!).
Thanks, Jonesy, for the info on the monastery. It looks neat, but I don't think I'd want to go up there! On the other hand, I like the tree house one!
Kathleen
A strange house right in close to home. This is in Albuquerque, NM, across the river a ways from me.
link and photo
http://www.dukecityfix.com/index.php?itemid=702
http://www.bartprince.com/
Interesting. Bart Prince has to be an architect for ones who don't have to ask how much it's going to cost. :)
More strange houses and buildings
http://www.waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=f97fd5f8-1036-417a-967f-f9ea9caf02de
One of my favorites (picture below), even though it's been turned into a roadside tourist attraction
http://www.theholeintherock.com/
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Not to be confused with "Hole In The Rock" 4-wheel drive trail (Utah) Any Mormons out there will know what this is...
http://www.nps.gov/archive/glca/hitr.htm
I could live in a place like that. :)
I thought you'd like it! It is a very cool place. One of the few "roadside attractions" I've paid $ to see.
Here's another strange home...(https://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e44/kathykrn/whouse07.jpg)
Gangster who built the world's tallest log cabin (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/07/whouse07.xml)
Some of the posted photos were of Gaudi's work I think. Anyway here is some more ... worth going to Barcelona for:
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http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Sagrada_Familia.html
Another one close to home, like about 2 miles. I've been meaning to post this for a long time. Today I made a special effort to take some shots. It's at least 15 years old and when I first saw it was all alone in the slightly rolling desert. Now they have lots of neighbors and that cut down on some of the views. Cloudy day for here, works well for photos without the harsh shadows. :)
View to the southeast
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View to the west-north-west
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View to the north
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Closer in, in sections, looking to north, garage is at the left end, but not really visible from this viewpoint. The mid section has four huge roof sections that are placed to shade the wide expanses of glass from the overhead summer sun, but allow the lower winter sun to strike the glass.
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Don, are you sure that's not a concrete plant? :-?
Ground's not torn up enough for a concrete plant.
Sure doesn't look like a house, though.
I wonder how it works inside.
The shingled one is the Gazundheit institute I believe. It was on the back cover of Fine Homebuilding years ago. Some kooky guy on this forum has and underground house, check this out.
http://countryplans.com/underground.html
The worst part is that he is turning his wife and kid into weirdos too. ;D
Yeah - but the guy and kid are impersonators. Only the wife is real.
Friends were over and took photo's - I stole one --that is the kid before he got in the mud - they had fun.
Now -- who's strange? Moi? :-/
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You're on a tear today Don. heh
I just couldn't resist commenting after seeing the pics of Antonio Gaudi's La Sagrada Familia.
The Alan Parsons Project put out an album 20 years ago called Gaudi. The theme of the album is the "unfinished-ness" of the Sagrada Familia. Some say that the time table for finishing the structure as envisioned by Gaudi runs for centuries. Some say it will never be finished.
Reading between the lines of the lyrics, especially for the song entitled "La Sagrada Familia," it's really about the mystery of human life and existence, the starts and stops along the way in our personal growth and development, and the illusion of ever really "finishing" our lives, no matter how long we might live.
As we build our cabins and homes ourselves here, are they ever really finally finished?
Whoa, this is a building forum, not a philosophical discussion. Although, whether we know it or not, we all have a personal philosophy about life.
Yada yada yada.
Hal
I live by the old Chinese proverb, Hal.
The man who finishes his house dies.
I'll live forever.. [waiting]
Great quote, Glenn. I'll have to keep that one in my conscious mind as I move forward on this.
Hal