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1. The Tarot Garden - http://www.nikidesaintphalle.com/entrance.html
Multimedia sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle has created an incredibly amazing landscape of buildings and sculptures that represent the major arcana of the Tarot. Tons of photos on this website.
2. Celestopia Project - http://www.celestopea.com/
The Celestopea ProjectTM is the planned colonization of the earth's oceans through a series of self-sufficient, semi-autonomous, floating cities located in international waters and incorporating innovative new technologies, industries and social organization.
3. Earthship Global Website - http://www.earthship.org/
The major structural building component of the Earthship is recycled automobile tires filled with compacted earth to form a rammed earth brick encased in steel belted rubber.
4. Pasaquan - the artistic creation of Saint EOM - http://www.pasaquan.com
He was born Edward Owens Martin, the son of a Marion County share-cropper, arriving on the 4th of July, though his world would be neither red, white nor blue. He would die as the self-proclaimed St. EOM, The Wizard of Pasaquan, a visionary culture shown in a feverish dream and which he built on parched Georgia land that he once had farmed.
5. Cal Earth - http://www.calearth.org/
The California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture is at the cutting edge of Earth Art and Ceramic Architecture technologies today.
6. Roden Crater - http://www.rodencrater.org/
A volcanic crater near Flagstaff, Arizona is being converted into a giant art work by light and space artist James Turrell.
7. Eliphante - http://www.eliphante.org/
Eliphante is a whimsical and wild ongoing project of organic architecture and art installations on three acres of land near Sedona, Arizona.
8. Mr Sharkey's Home Page - http://www.mrsharkey.com/
The Net's largest compendium of information relating to House Buses and House Trucks.
9. Carhenge - http://www.carhenge.com/
Just north of Alliance Nebraska, along Highway 87, stands a replication of Stonehenge, England's ancient mystical alignment of stones that chart the sun and moon phases. Stonehenge stands alone on a plain in England. Carhenge, created from vintage American made automobiles, towers over the plains of Nebraska.
10. Lucy the Margate Elephant - http://www.childrensfurniture.net/lucy/
Lucy, The Margate Elephant, an architectural "folly" is a unique, important part of Americana dating to the Victorian Era, when craftsmen hand-fashioned ornate buildings which pleased and delighted our forebearers.
11. Palais Ideal - http://www.geocities.com/hauterives/
Over 33 years Ferdinand Cheval built a bizarre palace out of rocks and cement.
12. Las Pozas - http://www.junglegossip.com/
For the last 20 years of his life, aided by 40 full time laborers and craftmen, Edward James built one of the biggest and yet least known architectural monuments of the 20th century, dedicated to Surrealism and hidden in the jungles of Mexico.
13. Rainbow House of Vancouver, WA - http://www.rainbowhouse.artistictraveler.com
It's been on national television a time or two and is well-known to fans of folk architecture around the world. Now, Vancouver and Clark County, Washington are saying farewell to the Rainbow House, which has brought pleasure to residents and visitors alike.
14. Grotto of the Redemption - http://www.nw-cybermall.com/grotto.htm
The Grotto of the Redemption at West Bend, Iowa is the largest Grotto in the world. It represents the largest collection of minerals and petrification concentrated in any one spot - in the world. The Grotto has an estimated geological value over $4,308,000.
15. Gaudi Central - http://www.op.net/~jmeltzer/gaudi.html
Architect and designer, Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was at the forefront of the Art Nouveau movement in Spain. His work in Barcelona led to the creation of some of the city's most notable landmarks. Gaudí was a pioneer in his field using color, texture, and movement in ways never before imagined.
16. Meico's Alternative Architecture Home Page - http://burningart.com/meico/atlantis/
Here is the beginings of a central archive for architecture of the imagination: treehouses, domes, freeform buildings, and the fantastical designs of artists.
17. Weird Homes - http://www.yaletownentertainment.com/tv/
Weird Homes is a television series of one-half hour shows about some of America's most unusual and bizarre homes and the fascinating and inspiring people who built and live in them.
18. Needful Things - http://www.norwestdesigns.com/skshop/books/inthesky.html
The one site to find the out of print, First Edition of the beautifully done "Nightmares In The Sky" photography book done by Stephen King and f-stop Fitzgerald - Gargoyle Architecture.
19. Free Spirit Spheres - http://freespiritspheres.com
Alternative housing for adventurous people and elves and fairies. Suspended sphereical treehouses.Life 6 meters above the forest floor in the canopy.
20. Salvation Mountain - http://www.cardhouse.com/g/write/salv_mt.htm
Leonard Knight created salvation mountain in California
21. Treehouse Guide - http://www.btinternet.com/~fulton/treehous.htm
This web site is all about building treehouses, and the people around the world who build them.
22. Water Sculptures - http://www.aquaviz.com
In cultures worldwide water is a source of spiritual nourishment. The Water Sculptures emphasize the four basic elements of our existence air, fire, water, and earth in an artistic composition.
23. Extreme Homes - http://www.hgtv.com/HGTV/show/0,1102,BDRE_show_35,FF.html
This Home & Garden TV series showcases homes so unique they take design to the extreme edge, while introducing the people who build and live in these unusual structures. Tour the most unusual houses found on earth, from a renovated caboose, schoolhouse, bowling alley and gas station to a metal house, "mushroom" house and space-ship house.
24. Flying Concrete - http://www.geocities.com/flyingconcrete/
Concrete is a plastic medium and has incredible potential for creating fluid, sculptural forms. I will admit that some of the dullest structures around are made of concrete but dullness isn't a limitation inherent in the material. As the accompanying photographs demonstrate, the builder's imagination may be the greatest limitation of its use as a sculptural medium.
25. Antti Lovag - http://www.memoria.mc/antti/lovag.htm
Antti Lovag a créé une nouvelle science de l'habitat, en accord avec des données évidentes et ancestrales d'appropriation de l'espace par l'être humain, parfaitement adaptée à sa morphologie
26. Tsui Design and Research, Inc. - http://www.tdrinc.com/architecture.html
Evolutionary Architecture draws it's functionality, aesthetics, technology and craft from the wisdom and intelligence found in nature. It is an architecture which unifies organic, art nouveau, and ecological design as well as embraces advances in technology.
27. The Last of the Xanadus - http://www.roadsideamerica.com/set/xanadu.html
The Xanadus promoted an environmentally sensitive sci-fi lifestyle, offering a peek at Tomorrow's do-it-all domiciles. Xanadu championed a novel method of homebuilding -- wet polyurethane foam sprayed over gigantic balloons to form the frame of this low-cost, energy-efficient structure.
28. Hubbell and Hubbell - http://www.sandiegoart.com/JHubbell/
Drew and James Hubbell specialize in sustainable and organic architecture: including the building and design of chapels, parks, pavillions, residences and other places for the soul.
29. Architect Javier Senosiain - Organic Architecture - http://www.bioarquitectura.com
The idea of the organic habitat is put forward with the aim of creating spaces adapted to the human body, similar to the womb, to animals’ shelters, to the underground caves sculpted by the troglodytes, to the igloo…
30. Kunst Haus Wien - http://www.hundertwasser.com/english/mainindex.htm
A forum for important international museums exhibitions, a home for the work of Hundertwasser, a museum that makes you feel at home. A house not corresponding to the usual cliches and norms, an adventure of modern times, a journey into the land of creative architecture.
31. Oakley Interplanetary Headquarters - http://www.americahurrah.com/Oakley/Entry.htm
The Oakley Company, makers of unusual eyeware, has a building befitting their products. It is located in Foothill Ranch, Orange County, California.
32. Casa Furna, a symbiosis of phantastic architecture and ecology - http://www.casafurna.de
Sculpture to live in. A dome for your holidays in Portugal. Ferrocement and airspace - no poliurethane!! Ecology and livingspace in a natural reserve directly on the coast of the Algarve.
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