Casa di Broccoli

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Broccoli house via Laughing Squid.

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A home on the playa

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thanks waldemar horwat: burning man 2004

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Better homes and gardens

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Huffpo and SFGate.com have been running photos of million-dollar homes as they come up for sale. The intention is evidently to inspire awe amongst us low-rent dwellers at the privileged lifestyles of the rich, whom we continue to subsidize with our tax dollars.

What impresses me most is that 1) the wealthy seem to have little or no taste concerning interior decoration, the norm being something like a Hilton hotel room; and 2) their homes are filled with enormous amounts of unused space, so that vacancy signifies luxury. So I decided to post my own series of desirable real estate, based mainly on price and my own concepts of imaginative design.

thanks flickr user: momentcaptured.

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Architecture as ice-cream

How marvelous it must be to come home each night to the Hundertwasser Haus in Magdeburg, designed by the Austrian artist Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser, (1928-2000).

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Photos: Wiki Commons "Friedensreich Hundertwasser"

Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna

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Going green in Norway

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Tarzan's Tree House

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Home

I think this is one of the hobbit-house Tolkien illustrations by Hildebrandt.

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Thomas Cole: The Hunter's Return

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Julia Morgan's Hearst Castle Drawing

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Julia Morgan's drawing of a proposed castle for William Randolph Hearst, in a collaboration with Bernard Maybeck.

From the Bernard Maybeck Collection, Online Archive of California.

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Little House on the Prairie

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                                 -- by Jacek Yerka

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Salzburg Castle, Austria, by Jean LeClerc, 1799.

Photographer and location unknown.

From the galleries of Jacek Yerka.

Adobe, by Will Sparks