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I saw those images. All of them. The whole thing made me think of that horror movie. It was a Vincent Price movie no great surprise there. Once the guests were all inside, the house sealed up. Doors and windows were sealed with steel shutters, so no one could get in or out. Then people started dying. The house itself-- or rather, the ghosts of former inhabitants who had a bone to pick with the guests-- was killing everybody-- including the host and hostess.

This house that Jax has shown gives me the creeps big time. I can envision a situation where being sealed up in that house could be as deadly as any outside invader.

Mjm, the house mimics the cycles of nature, as a flower that opens by morning and closes by night. For that, it uses technology. So, a parable about the return to nature. Poetic...

An architect is/should be an artist, his work triggering emotions and raising consciousness.
By your words, this one seems to be a really good one.

The house acts as a carnivorous plant, people being the insects.
People being insects?? where did the architect got such strange idea?

Or is it possible that you just don't like concrete and glass as building materials for idyllic American houses?

Concrete and glass are not the problems. It's the way they are used that gives this particular house such a ghastly appearance. This house looks positively evil especially when it's sealed up. Those concrete "shutters" look to be a least a foot thick, maybe a bit more. What in God's Name is the owner so afraid of that he has to live in something like that??? Sealed up, I see a big, black cube unbroken by anything that suggests anything good is here. Inside the house, I can't imagine feeling good even with all the best furniture and wall coverings known to man once the place is sealed like that.

Even in the photos where the house is "open" there is such an element of fear about the place that the best recommendation I could make is to call the movers at once-- we're getting out of here.

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An architect who can't build to suit clients is incompetent.

Soooo utilitarian...
And what would be a client that doesn't suits his architect?

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An architect who only builds to accommodate an ideology is, even if that ideology is popular, an idiot!

Do you listen that, Frank Lloyd Wright?

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Even in the photos where the house is "open" there is such an element of fear about the place that the best recommendation I could make is to call the movers at once-- we're getting out of here.

Like what D&D always made me feel back when I was alive?

More interior design in Hong Kong, Extreme transformer home in Hong Kong: Gary Chang's 24 rooms
[VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB2-2j9e4co[/VIDEO]

Amazing!

The series early on (in the above first episode) mentions your point about non-standard components. It uses the late 20th century Dancing House (above) here in Prague as an example of a building that is hard to clean, and hard to maintain as every component is custom-made. I like it because it fits in beautifully with the existing architecture in Prague (right), but it makes it no less expensive to maintain.

Dump concluded.

• Egotism. Some of the My Opera threads are effectively link lists


• Relevance. This thread is one of the My Opera clones, and a resonably recent one. Plenty left there to comment on.


• Experiment. The above posts are (manually) copied/quoted from My Opera, makes it possible to compare presentation and syntax. This thread used more of the My Opera capabilities than most.

• Egotism. Some of the My Opera threads are effectively link lists


• Relevance. This thread is one of the My Opera clones, and a resonably recent one. Plenty left there to comment on.


• Experiment. The above posts are (manually) copied/quoted from My Opera, makes it possible to compare presentation and syntax. This thread used more of the My Opera capabilities than most.

 
• Experiment. The above posts are (manually) copied/quoted from My Opera, makes it possible to compare presentation and syntax. This thread used more of the My Opera capabilities than most.

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The collections of pictograms/smileys don't fully match.

Conversion should be fairly straightforward. As it turns out here are some styles for images on My Opera:

A semi-coherent set of equivalents is a desired feature in my book.

There is a post-millennial style that I dub North European because I've seen it most often there, the South Europeans have mostly been busy with austerity. The buildings are large, boxy, have large balconies, and angular with irregular details and exposed material. They are typically in reclaimed industrial or seafaring areas.  In part newer environmental and accessibility building codes have an impact on the design. Interestingly many of these projects look better up close than from a distance. Pictures from Oslo,  Malmö, Hamburg, Prague.

NOA is an easily mountable sustainable living space, adaptable to a variety of landscapes and environments. The advantage is that one can always add a module to extend the housing step by step, with each module, ones „saves“ a wall.

It is an invention by Jaanus Orgusaar, an Estonian designer-inventor. He built the first one for his own family, and plans to add two more modules. One module is 25 sq metres.

The small house was brought to life from the need for a practical, sustainable and economical living space which would be easily mountable compiled from identical elements. The base element is a specific rhombus. The base for the structure is the rhombic dodecahedron.

The rhombic dodecahedron can be used to tessellate three-dimensional space. It can be stacked to fill a space much like hexagons fill a plane. Some minerals such as garnet form a rhombic dodecahedral crystal habit. Honeybees use the geometry of rhombic dodecahedra to form honeycomb from a tessellation of cells each of which is a hexagonal prism capped with half a rhombic dodecahedron. The rhombic dodecahedron also appears in the unit cells of diamond and diamondoids.
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Many official buildings in America are fine  and outstanding in the traditional sector.