Gr00vy, baby!

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Somehow, it reminds me of the house that the Barbapappas lived in.

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me too omg, and or that house out on highway 92

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Clickety-click! Barba trick!

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Me too! I love the Barbapoppas.

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Here are some 360deg views: http://www.visiterlyon.com/actus/maisonbulle/

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Sorry, this looks to be a different house. Same architect and style, tho.

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Somehow, the word that comes to mind is "polyp".

::twitch::

Why so much pink? Ugh.

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I was just looking it at myself, thinking it looks like its covered in boils. I share your opinion that it is disturbing. *shudder*

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I think at least one of those green chairs is getting me hot.

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Those green chairs inescapably remind me of an extremely instructive post I saw in little_details today.

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I would want some James Bond hotties to go with the house.

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I'd take the James Bond hotties even without the house.

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Well obviously!

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and how are you ever going to fit that inside a hollowed out volcano?

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It reminds me of the Xanadu House concept, but much nicer. I'm wondering how they built up the frame - I'd guess it was a bunch of spherical inflated forms covered in ferroconcrete or shot concrete. Very cool.

One of the Lloyd Kahn _Shelter_ books has some extremely freaky ferroconcrete houses in it. They basically look like the set from an H.R. Pufnstuf nightmare.

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I was just about to say the same thing... When my family visited Orlando as a kid, we were fascinated by Xanadu... Not in the "Wow, that's awesome" sense but in the "I can't believe someone thought this was a good idea" sense.

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I just realized I wrote a lot more about this when the wikipedia article was on the front page a while ago: http://www.rumored.com/journal/html/20060105.html

I think their motives were sound, but the execution didn't stand the test of time. The idea of creating a monolithic structure with super-insulative material as both the covering and the frame was good; using a papier-mache looking foam with lots of CFCs wasn't great. Also the idea of home automation with a ton of computers is cool, but using a bank of Commodore-64s didn't work out in the long run.

It's also sad that a house that was built for the future was basically done in by mold and escalating property value...

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It comes with it's own submersible luxury yacht

For when Bond comes over;

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/u%27s%27-submarines/

And for just putzing around the harbor with the henchmen.

http://www.yankodesign.com/product_info.php?products_id=1071

There are also several dozen, blob-shaped _non_-cordless telephones (some are on-board the submersibles.)

Hmm... So many shows upcoming: The All-Canada Show, the ill-fated Spacestation 1966 show... but maybe the Bond show is a must for the next one (picture me in the Blofeld/Dr. Evil grey nehru jacket --with white cat, of course...

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Sure, it's beautiful, but have you ever tried shopping for furniture on Tattoine?

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Heh, was actually my desktop yesterday (better than pussyfoot!).

Barbapapas nostalgia! Did they have that toon in this heathen country?

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I only had the books, which my mom got at a garage sale. I didn't even know it was a cartoon! (I dumb)

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It's not YOUR fault!

Blame your heathen nation!

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As a matter of fact, Channel 2, KTVU, used to show that weird cartoon long, long ago --right about the time that my little sister was into really weird, little-sister cartoons.

I still have a ghost of a memory of the equally weird theme song playing in the background while I was getting ready for school.

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Barbapapa
Barbamama
Barbazoo
Barbalala
Barbalib
Barbabeau
Barbabelle
Barbabright
Barbabravo

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Where's the *ahem* playroom with the pit full of $100 bills?

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so i guess i'm the only one who sees this and expects some very stylishly clad garthim to come rattling through one of those doorways, huh? yeah, okay.

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...The inhabitants:


...and a cross section:

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I think that under different circumstance I would like it, but I'm still suffering from the eyesore that is EMP
here in Seattle. It kind of gives me flashbacks of that.

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me and my manslave would be happy to take up residence should you get your own crazy bubble house.

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Designed to be "hurricane proof" and hideous.

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On the references page it lists MTV among others. I don't recall Real World using that house. (I might've noticed.)

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