Wacky US Buildings
Log Cabin Mobile Home Australia--Alan Jennison from Hobart tourism, an Australian travel site, recently listed his 450 square-foot log home on eBay and the lucky winner, a fellow Australian, scored the property for a mere $12,000.
Log Cabin Mobile Home The home, designed to look just like a log of wood, stretches 42 feet long and is mobile -- resting on a truck bed with wheels and brakes. Interesting bit: it's not made out of a single tree trunk! Instead, it is constructed from curved marine ply covered with insulating foam and layered with fiberglass.
Log Cabin Mobile Home Jennison acquired the mobile home in 2007 from Forestry Tasmania who used the creation to promote tourism. The home has electrical hook ups, light fixtures and other essentials for living. Let's hope the new owner fixes up that interior! Learn more over at Inhabitat.com.
Spaceship Home
Guilford, Connecticut -- When architect Wilfred J.O. Armster designed his spaceship-shaped condominium in the 1980s, the town of Guilford was in an uproar. But its 13 condos were snapped up, and now it's a local landmark. Read more about it in the New York Times. It gives new meaning to the term "mothership."
The architect Wilfred J.O. Armster and his wife in front of the "spaceship." The steel building is raised on concrete legs for better views of the Long Island Sound. Its dome is covered in copper.
Loft-like condos in the building get lots of natural light. Like it here? According to the New York Times, a unit in the building is on sale for $639,000.
World's Largest Basket
Newark, Ohio -- This seven-story tribute to the gift basket is Longaberger Basket Company's corporate headquarters. The building is a replica of the company's Medium Market Basket -- only 160 times larger. It's illuminated at night, too.
Beer Can House
Houston, Texas -- For 18 years, John Milkovisch devoted his time to covering his home with flattened beer cans. He even added streamers made from can pull-tabs to the roof. Ripley's Believe It or Not estimates that the house incorporates more than 50,000 cans. How's that for recycling?
Chapel of the Holy Cross
Sedona, Arizona -- Completed in April 1956 by Marguerite Bruswig Staude, The Chapel of the Holy Cross rises out of a 1,000-foot red rock wall. Spiritual leaders and tourists alike flock to this unique religious destination.
Dome of a Home
Pensacola, Florida -- Designed to survive the worst of hurricanes, the Dome of a Home has a solid concrete construction with steel reinforcements. The shape of the house allows water to wash over it rather than knock it down. And it seems to work -- the dome home made it through 2004's Hurricane Ivan relatively unscathed while neighboring houses were washed away.
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