Makes me think, other kinds of lists would be interesting too, there's an opportunity there. "top 20 garish displays of opulence" is boring & inapplicable to daily life.
Any list of unusual houses is incomplete without Robert Bruno's steel house. It's actual architecture/sculpture, not just a novelty based on the way it looks.
If you are able to stand through the (subjectively) most obnoxious host in the history of TV shows, then you might like http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7804132/ this.
> "Liu made himself a 1.5-meter-wide, 2-meter-high, "portable room" weighing about 60 kg (132 lb), to carry with him as he walked an average of 20 km everyday."
I want to see a picture of this guy because I imagine he's quite fit. That's one hell of a daily routine.
There's this one really cool bunker like house in Sweeden or one of the Nordic countries that has blast shutters that come down at night. It looks like a black cube.
I've been looking for more details about it. I saw it on cracked first.
Agreed I’m always amazed by DIY houses or just extremely DIY modified houses. It seems to be an area where people who don’t consider themselves creative can express creativity. Good stuff.
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If you like this you will probably love www.darkroastedblend.com which has lots of great collections of images and info.