This amazing looking house, built around a garage for a classic Porsche is in Adelaide.
For more about the house follow this link: Starship
It was designed by Architect Damian Campagnaro
A little bit over the top don’t you think?
I found this photo on the Prodigal Places facebook page
Yes this is an interesting house that looks like a dog.
I would like to see it, but I wouldn’t walk under it!
This is not just a house that looks like a ship…..Its actually part of a ship that has been lifted onto a cliff overlooking a lake.
The ship was called the Benson Ford, owned by the Ford Motor company, it was used to transport iron ore and coal through the Great Lakes to the Ford factory in Detroit.
After 50 years service the ship was scrapped but this section of the bow was installed in South Bass Island.
To find out more about this house see the shiponthebay website where you will find more photographs.
Sometimes when you are driving round a housing estate you see a Ghost House.
The house that was under construction and then for some reason everything stopped.
Three, five, sometimes even ten or more years later its still half built.
I used to walk past this house every day, that had been at lock up for more than 3 years.
An estate where my daughter lived had two ghost houses that must have been half finished for at least eight years.
They are houses that silently ask questions:
A question from me – Have you bought and finished off a Ghost House?
A triangular building supported by a tripod like arrangement 2m above a park…..Weird or what?
This is the Emerald Street Community Centre in Essendon.
Originally erected in 1963 as an infant welfare centre it was designed by Garnet Price, the Shire Engineer and Building Surveyor to the old Shire of Keilor.
Located in a public reserve, it is a building specially designed to provide adjustable foundations on unsuitable land.
The three corner tripods each incorporate a screw jack so that the building can be re-leveled if one of the foundations settles.
To find out more have a look at the Victorian Heritage Database
I recently saw this photo on the Home Design Library
It’s a reminder that tall retaining walls are a serious matter with significant loads.
Also its a warning that materials like timber might seem OK initially but over time can deteriorate.
Would you like to live in a house that looks like a computer printer?
Another photo from the Ugly Belgian Houses Website.
Worried about ‘Global Warming’?
Here is a solution.
I saw these attractive house boats in Vancouver Harbour back in 2017.
Would you like either of these toilet seats in your house?
They are examples of the work of the late Barney Smith who specialised in this art.
Here is a photo of Barney outside his Toilet Seat Art Museum in San Antonio Texas.
