Enter MISC Av Contest: UNIQUE HOMES

[Owain Taggart]

The difficulty with this one was trying to find a house that someone actually lives in as opposed to something built as an attraction, so that's what took so long. Here's my entry.

It's actually quite an interesting house. There's an article about it here:
http://www.makingthishome.com/2009/07/20/a-house-in-an-airplane/

 

[Canadave]

^
Yeah...plenty of great images...

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=unique%20houses&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=683

The water tower house listed on page five of the results is a few minutes away from my house up Pacific Coast Highway. I drive by it all the time. I would love to live in that place.

Funny... when I was a kid, I always thought it would be very cool to turn a water tower into a house.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Someone actually living there as the photo was taken.

Cute.

 

[RJDiogenes]

^
Yeah...plenty of great images...

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&...=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=683

The water tower house listed on page five of the results is a few minutes away from my house up Pacific Coast Highway. I drive by it all the time. I would love to live in that place.

That's cool. And it reminded me of this. I think I originally saw it on the Weird US TV show.

 

[JiNX-01]

OK, here's our recap so far. More entries are welcome!
Poll will be going up Thursday evening US Eastern time.​

auntiehill​

Canadave​

captcalhoun​

Jetfire​

JiNX-01​

Locutus of Bored​

Nachtkommen​

Owain Taggart ​

RevdKathy​

RJDiogenes​

scotpens ​

 

[sojourner]

Is there a bigger copy of Locutus'? I really can't tell what it is.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Is there a bigger copy of Locutus'? I really can't tell what it is.

It's what the Chinese call a "nail house," basically one or more homeowners holding out against development which just keeps chugging right along around them. Here's the story behind the house in the picture:

A number of high-profile nail houses have received widespread attention in the Chinese press. In one famous case, one family among 280 others at the location of a six-story shopping mall under construction at the location of a former "snack street" in Chongqing refused for two years to vacate a home their family had inhabited for three generations. Developers cut their power and water, and excavated a 10-meter deep pit around their home. The owners broke into the construction site, reoccupied it, and flew a Chinese flag on top. Yang Wu, a local martial arts champion, used nunchakus to make a staircase to their house, and threatened to beat any authorities who attempted to evict him. His wife, a restaurateur named Wu Ping who had planned to open a restaurant in the home's ground floor, granted interviews and frequent press releases to generate publicity. The owners turned down an offer of 3.5 million yuan (US$453,000), but eventually settled with the developers in 2007.

 

[sojourner]

How do you use nunchakus to make a staircase? Beat the wood into submission?

 

[SPCTRE]

^ The guy's obviously a ninja. That's right. A Chinese ninja. Who builds staircases. MADE OUT OF NUNCHAKUS. He's just that awesome.

 

[JiNX-01]

Is there a bigger copy of Locutus'? I really can't tell what it is.

It might help to do a tighter crop on the original image and then resize?

 

[JiNX-01]

voting thread will be up in about an hour.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

How do you use nunchakus to make a staircase? Beat the wood into submission?

Nail both handgrips of a bunch of them into the rock and then climb up the ropes?

Is there a bigger copy of Locutus'? I really can't tell what it is.

It might help to do a tighter crop on the original image and then resize?

It's hard to focus in too tight or else you lose the fact that it's sitting in the middle of a giant pit. Maybe a different perspective will help.

Is this better?