big happy hippy house

[mattbell]

Here's a good reason to visit Europe.  This thing has a grass roof and 1000 windows, no two of which are the same.  I'm sure the roof is not open to tourists. 

In any case, the architect reminds me of a modern-day Gaudi.

His name is Friedensreich Hundertwasser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedensreich_Hundertwasser

Comments

[lightling.livejournal.com]

Wowee! That is awesome.. and yes, it does remind me of Gaudi too!

[frogpyjamas.livejournal.com]

Here's a good reason to visit Europe.

Sounds good to me. It's your turn to buy plane tickets, right?

[frogpyjamas.livejournal.com]

P.S. Let's do the Sound of Music tour while we're there. I didn't get to go last time.

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

Your icon is scaring me. You need to make it stop. Please?

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing a couple of his buildings when I was in Vienna for a weekend in 2000 - I didn't realize he was either still alive then or had just died! I thought he had died mid-century, and was a contemporary of Gaudi, until this post of yours.

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping that with computer-assisted fabrication, this sort of thing will become cheaper to design and build because large numbers of custom, unique components can be easily handled. So we could see more of this kind of thing. I noticed that Stanford's Bio-X building courtyard employs this sort of smooth curvature.