Continuing on with our year celebration here are my four favorite posts from Offbeat March 2008…

I double dare someone to build an entire house out of these… - I really like shaped and nicely designed bricks and other building materials. If you’ve got kooky building supplies, you might not even need a weird home design to pull off an offbeat home.

Classic Offbeat Homes: Favorite Posts of Spammers - I more like this post because someone emailed me later and had some ideas about why “Eating the Biscuit City” was so popular with spammers. Um, the ideas are not G or even PG rated, so I won’t be posting them, but let’s just say it sort of made my world more amusing.

Best Site of the Week for Touring - Faces in Places - This post wasn’t exactly about houses. However Faces in Places is so darn cool, that I just love this post. It makes me happy. I love surprised houses.

Freitag Flagship Store - I just think this structure is genius. Simple, yet really attractive and hip.

I’ve been cleaning out my bookmarks - I seriously have hundreds of Offbeat items that I’ve found, or that people have sent me. That’s cool and all, but I think it’s been slowing my blogging down here at Offbeat, because I can never find what I want.

So, I sat down today, and two hours later, I had nice clean bookmarks. Next task, blogroll upkeep, which believe me sounds scary. I’ve got some neat new bloggers and architects to add though, so it must be done.

Whoa, long story short, I found this while cleaning up my bookmarks, and you know, I have a sinking suspicion that someone sent me this structure. I usually mark items with names, but I didn’t this time, so if it was you (you know who you are) who sent me this I sincerely apologize in advance for not linking to you.

This is an ultra cool structure though. A tall building, on the heels of another tallish building, the now pronounced “fake” Best. Mansion. Ever.

This is the Freitag Flagship Store - from Spillmann Echsle Architects. I’ve never seen containers stacked like this, so this is a nice treat. I also think that this is the ideal store or club design. Very inviting; you know you want to go inside, good use of materials, great colors, and just plain hip.

I just love it. You know, sometimes I wonder how people can find such beauty in such unlikely materials and pieces. It’s cool we live in a world of people who manage; that makes me happy.

Need more?:

• Spillmann Echsle Architects have some amazing work to see at their site.
• See more pictures of the Flagship Store at Danda.

[Via Danda - home to many slick design ideas that you have to see.]