November 17, 2017
To close out the week on “any house but my own” musings, while sitting in the cold since the front door has been gone all day to be repaired…. I’m turning to playful buildings which surely brighten anyone’s day.
The first was shown this year in Holland, a small hotel that can be reconfigured into any kind of shape, depending on site specifics or customer needs. (Done, by the way, by the same firm that designed the eye-shaped library in China.)
MVRDV presents a hotel you can reconfigure at Dutch Design Week
And here is the same building……
My own photographs depict a passage in Cambridge, MA that echoed the plasticky feel of the hotel – maybe future graffiti will appear on the walls in Eindhoven as well.
The second playful building can be found in the home town of LEGOs, Billund, Denmark. It is a building of legos, for legos, with legos or any combination thereof, made to get you back into play mode…..
And the third building is closer to home, in Seattle, a distinctively wacky structure that has been renamed 5 times by the latest count. I guess currently it is the Museum for Pop Culture….. it used to be the Experience Music Project.
Images above are from the web.
If you are anywhere in the vicinity you should go on November 25 – they will be celebrating Jimmy Hendrix’ 75th birthday, with rare documentary footage, oral histories, and films of some of his most memorable performances on their Sky Church and JBL theater screens. Several Hendrix artifacts will be on display, including the famous white Fender Stratocaster he played at Woodstock in 1969 and the beautiful kimono he wore at the Monterey Pop festival. (This per museum website…)
Here are my own takes on it, taken from the space needle.
Looks like difficult choices in deciding which ones of these to visit – I’ll probably end up in Holland, though, a quiet, colorful hotel room is an irresistible temptation this week.
