SU?
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http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/05/eco-house-sold-for-world-record-72m/
Wadda you reckon? done in SU?
nice house, though. Pity its so expensive.
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Looks like a Fred Bartels design.
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Just what I was thinking.
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@solo said:
Looks like a Fred Bartels design.
Actually, it looks like a warmed-over, NURBS-ified Bart Prince project, done with FormZ (don't know quite why I think that, but FZ models with NURBS have a certain look).
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Looks like fred needs to start getting his ideas out to a few firms, semes he could be making a tidy earning fom his ideas
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17 mill ?
That's ridiculous, definitely for a thing that can't be built physically as it is presented now...I am prety sure no architect was involved in this 'project'.
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Possibly, alhough the architect is genuine and there is a lot of this sort of tihng going on in the UK at the moment.
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Really?
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How does one get to the house with no pathway, no footpaths, not even a trail of disturbed vegetation around it? looks fake to me too.
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http://www.featherstone-associates.co.uk/
Medium Projects - Orchid House
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@unknownuser said:
Inhabitants and visitors to the property can be entertained by the glass-sided badger set installed in the garden...
@unknownuser said:
...lumber is then clad with timber shingles with a camouflage pattern burnt into them.
Glass-sided badger sets and burnt in camouflage patterns. That's what my designs have been missing! I'm off to the land of big fat unearned commissions!
Fred
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Real or fake, that's one ugly house! Looks like an Easter egg with lepracy.
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I can't imagine someone being so foolish to actually spend 17 mill on a fart like that.
That's why I think the 'news value' of this article is a hoax....maybe just to promote the lousy architect in a not so decent way?Experimenting is to be applauded...I love to do it myself, but actually building this thing? Come on..!
There are way better examples of ecological building...and with a high architectural value.
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Yeah, the more you look at it, it just doesn't look at all like a Fred Bartels design.
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definitely dear Fred. I love your utopic schemes 
.By the way,
Any one seen the resemblance?
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@kwistenbiebel said:
I can't imagine someone being so foolish to actually spend 17 mill on a fart like that.
They aren't. The price is £7.2million, someone else has converted that to $14m, and you've pulled the figure of $17m out of the air.
@unknownuser said:
That's why I think the 'news value' of this article is a hoax....maybe just to promote the lousy architect in a not so decent way?
There are 22 houses in the project. Will Alsop is another of the architects involved in designing a house.
@unknownuser said:
Experimenting is to be applauded...I love to do it myself, but actually building this thing? Come on..!
I'm neither for or against this design, but I think it could still look really good when built.
@unknownuser said:
There are way better examples of ecological building...and with a high architectural value.
This has none.It obviously has some architectural value, seeing as you were claiming earlier in this thread that it cannot even be built.
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Personally i dont think its that bad, ive certainly seen a lot worse.
Wether its worth the cash tohugh, thats another question. Really for anything like this (a small housing project) i dont think it can be justified, theres jsut nothing there thats actually physically worth the money, its all down to perceived value (kind of like art) and how much people are willign to pay for it (or not if it does turn out to be a hoax
)p.s. is it the whole housing development thats being sold? if so this seems pretty reasonable really (i'll take two.)
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Oops...I should be more careful when ventilating my personal opinion.
Sorry if it came out a bit harsh. I'll formulate a bit more nuanced next time not to sound that cruel...And yeah, I should get my figures correct.
Maybe I shouldn't decide upon just a rendering.
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@remus said:
Personally i dont think its that bad, ive certainly seen a lot worse.
Wether its worth the cash tohugh, thats another question. Really for anything like this (a small housing project) i dont think it can be justified, theres jsut nothing there thats actually physically worth the money, its all down to perceived value (kind of like art) and how much people are willign to pay for it (or not if it does turn out to be a hoax
)p.s. is it the whole housing development thats being sold? if so this seems pretty reasonable really (i'll take two.)
It's just this house.
$14m for this house can easily be justified if you're someone like Roman Abramovich. He's just spent over $100m on paintings. He's spent hundreds of millions on yachts and Chelsea Football Club, so $14m for a house like this wouldn't mean much.
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@unknownuser said:
Any one seen the resemblance?
The one is a silly cartoon creation meant to make folk laugh, and the other is my Mr. Krabby.
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