"What if I should fall right through the center of the earth...oh, and come out on the other side where people walk upside-down?" - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.
You wouldn't think the world would have so many upside down houses, but it does. People have built them for all kinds of reasons, from starting up a tourist attraction to commenting on the absurdity of politics.
- Upside Down House in Usedom, Germany: Designers Klausdiusz Golos and Sebastian Mikiciuk have a very nonchalant approach to this tourist exhibit, saying, "We didn't do it for a reason. We just wanted to do something different."
- Upside Down House at the Old School House Museum in Lee Vining, California: Part of an outdoor exhibit at a roadside museum in California, this tiny shed gets top billing as the "legendary upside-down house!"
- Wonderworks in Orlando, Florida: They bill themselves as "Central Florida’s only upside down attraction — an amusement park for the mind, featuring over 100 interactive exhibits."
- Upside Down House in Poland: Daniel Czapiewski, an entreprenuer in Poland, built this house to comment on the insanity of contemporary politics (and bring in tourists as well).
- Casa de Cabeca para Baixo in Rio: Don't know too much about this upside-down house, except that it's located in Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro, and the Flickr member who took the photo says "They are reforming it. It's a Showroom from a house-construction shop."
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The first one is how I'd always pictured Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's house, only not as bright...
Those are a lot of fun! It would kind of be hard to live in though, as everyone would want to see it all the time. ;) Fun though.
there's also an upside down "White House" in Wisconsin Dells...
I've seen the #2 house, in Lee Vining, CA, just east of the amazing Tioga Pass into Yosemite NP. It's really more like an upside down shed than a house, but it's to the Mono Cone, home of the best burgers around. And it's certainly a conversation piece for the folks sitting outside to eat their burgers.
It was many years ago, so maybe they've improved, but number 3, Wonderworks in Orlando, was seriously one of the worst museums I've ever been to. Overpriced and boring and dumb. My family still sort of bitterly jokes about it.
would be fun as child's playhouse in a backyard.
@Procris - ha! that is the first thing I thought of, too! Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle. I always liked how they described her house as looking like a dog rolled over on his back with his paws in the air.
All of what taste and money can do.....
... and not in a good way.
http://www.dellstopsecret.com/index.htm
This is the Dells one. I went in it years ago when it was brand new, and it started out as all of the rooms being literal upside down rooms of the whitehouse, one of which contained a robotic Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinksy hanging from a desk on the ceiling. Then all of the rooms were magically right-side up and we were hunting aliens. And there was one of those spinning tunnels.
Waste of interesting architecture?
you forgot this topsy greenhouse:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/eestiema/upsidedowngardenhouse.jpg
I thought this was really ridiculous until I read the Lewis Carroll quote... :)