From the folks who brought the world the incredible Reversible Destiny Lofts (Architectural Body Research Foundation Arakawa + Gins) comes a new vision, the Hotel Reversible Destiny. The work of this team is pretty wacky, if you haven’t seen it the Reversible Destiny Lofts are a good place to start. Here’s a taste:

[Reversible Destiny Lofts]
This work is complicated and has the intent of being a, “Living space that in every way both prods and coaxes its residents to continue living for an indefinitely long period of time.” It’s an interesting theory for sure; you can read more about it here.
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Andreas Angelidakis is a very unusual architect / think tank. The best thing about Angelidakis, is the use of shapes. Nothing is ever a square box with regards to his designs, well, not a boring square box anyhow. From waves, to circles, to geometric oddities, there’s a dream-like structure for just about everyone at Angelidakis’ site.
Of course, as always, I do play favorites. I like the Polygon Housing design. A little stark for my normal taste, but I love the curve upwards and if built the light would be great with windows such as these.

Also, I’m pretty much mesmerized with …read more

Here at Offbeat we see square homes, circle homes, and home of many theme shapes but a common shape for homes of the past was the octagon. Back in the day it was unique but not really considered so offbeat. There are a handful of nicely preserved octagon homes out there and a few neat new octagon shaped homes as well.
Take a peak.