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[PIC] Craziest residential building ever?

flickr.com — This building is waaay crazy. Cantilevered madness! It's a good thing the Netherlands has some excellent engineers.

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  • stuartcow, on 10/11/2007, -30/+14i know! window units... what were they thinking!?!?
    • Flipsen, on 10/11/2007, -7/+41Which crazy digger decided it was a good idea to digg my neighbours building?! (I literally live a block away from there, wtf)
      • kefs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+51well.. wtf are you doing.. go get some better pics and up em.. lazy *****.. heh ;).
  • ThinkBox, on 10/11/2007, -2/+292I think some engineer took their love of Tetris way too far...
    • Amablue, on 10/11/2007, -3/+46Be careful not to line up the rooms or your floor might disappear!
    • Ytse, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21Actually, the picture caught the building mid-Transformation...
    • spudnic, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16Reminds me more of Jenga
    • MatchStick, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10I think some engineer took their love of WEED way too far...

      (it is Amsterdam after all)
      • neosplasher, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3hell yeah, you would have to be high to understand the blueprints for sure
      • blaze4metal, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I think they should have turned the blueprints 90 degrees CW.
    • KlayBorg, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3OMG I have been there, in fact I stayed with a few friends in one of the apartments in the sticking out bits.
  • wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -31/+26Nah, I'd say the MC Escher apartment is the craziest: http://maps.google.com/?q=&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=19&ll=38.86488,-77.0641&spn=0.001211,0.001666&t=k

    Source: http://www.joegrossberg.com/archives/002818.html
    • oscarsonthepond, on 10/11/2007, -6/+4Why would anyone digg this comment down?
    • mojibake, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17because engineering feats > photo glitches
      • wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Because I was super serious and stuff.
    • wicketr, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I just like the 24 lanes of highway just to the North. Is that really the best way to do that?
  • vroom101, on 10/11/2007, -3/+40Full effect:
    http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=112863016&size=o
    • veracon, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5For the full effect, I suppose you should go to a coffee shop first.
  • unangst, on 10/11/2007, -10/+1These walls are made out of Styrofoam?!
  • jhsiao, on 10/11/2007, -14/+0I'd pay to see one of the rooms drop onto the guy on the bike
    • the0arctic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3And that's why you've been barred from becoming a structural engineer in every state but Texas.
  • laterallateral, on 10/11/2007, -2/+370Meh. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/Habitat_panorama.jpg
    • logicalnoise, on 10/11/2007, -15/+7How did YOU find my secret fortress!?
      • logicalnoise, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5you can digg me down if you wish but you'll never escape the labyrinth!
    • laterallateral, on 10/11/2007, -19/+3I tripped on it when I was out looking for a good place to poo.
      • twirk8888, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1amazing. a comment that gets 348 diggs and a reply with -16 from the same person.
    • ygrof, on 10/11/2007, -1/+42I feel that I would get confused as all hell trying to navigate that building.
      • Ndiggnation, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18Just the place I want to come back to at 5 in the morning, drunk and barely able to put my keys into the lock...much less find my apartment.
    • MISDIREK7ED, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18Great pic of that apartment building.. Can anyone link to the pics of the hallways and ramps inside? I would look for it, but I forgot where that place is. Architects gone wild!
      • laterallateral, on 10/11/2007, -0/+27It's called "Habitat '67" it's situated in the old port of MontrĂ©al
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67
        Wiki knows best.
        • reconbot, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1It's actually not habitat 67, it's a freestanding building and not part of that complex, but I dugg you up because I had never heard of habitat 67, and well it's freaking amazing!
    • zaybertamer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12That is the coolest building I have ever seen. Thank you for the picture, so I could learn about Habitat 67 =)
    • Cyber_Akuma, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Damn, not even Google Maps would be able to help me not get lost in there.
    • TheRingmaster, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Seen it in person and it is just as crazy IRL if not more so, had no idea what it was when i first saw it from a distance.
    • UnderWurlde, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Even crazier is that behind the Habitat building, people are doing river surfing (Montreal)!!! Look at the MasterCard website (in french, sorry!) canapasdeprix.ca and click on anything that says SURF and you'll see what I mean!
    • SR388, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2It looks like it's Metroplex transforming..

      I got Transformers on the brain..
    • praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1There are actually some apartments around here that look similar, albeit on a smaller scale.
    • vicpro, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67
    • Jushooter, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3It's located here, in Montreal :)
    • danwallace, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3That gives new meaning to the term housing complex.
    • neosplasher, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=45%C2%B030%E2%80%B200%E2%80%B3N+73%C2%B032%E2%80%B231%E2%80%B3W+&ie=UTF8&ll=45.499801,-73.543178&spn=0.002579,0.005021&t=k&z=18&iwloc=addr&om=1
      looks cool from space :)
  • 69sofine, on 10/11/2007, -15/+8Looks like a filing cabinet. Don't they know that they can print to PDF?
  • YvesKlein, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11craaaaazzzzeeeeeyyyyyy!!!!
  • FrankGoodman, on 10/11/2007, -8/+2Who care about the building, its got orange AC units!
  • Eryin, on 10/11/2007, -2/+34Knowing Amsterdam, if i lived there i'd probably trip out everytime i saw my own bedroom.
  • weekapaug81, on 10/11/2007, -13/+2buried for no snorg girls on page.
  • Light11, on 10/11/2007, -0/+73no jumpin on the bed :O
  • beatryder, on 10/11/2007, -20/+1woot! 69th digg!
  • EXreaction, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10How the hell can it support that without falling over?
    • vidar808, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Within it is all steel framing. There are probably heavy duty steel cross braces.
    • constantskeptic, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2magic (duh)
  • Judicata, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Its only kinda weird - except the lack of visible support on the units that are protruding would freak me out.
  • everfresh59, on 10/11/2007, -13/+5LMAO! http://www.uberreview.com/2006/02/man-goes-bankrupt-building-starship-voyager-home.htm
  • ygrof, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I wonder if the floors creak when you step into one of the protruding units...
  • johnIRL, on 10/11/2007, -7/+1This close anyone else's browser every time or just luck old me?
    (Feckin IE...dam work Internet)
  • victoryroadrage, on 10/11/2007, -1/+62Did anyone else think of a Super Mario Bros. level when you saw that?
    • AZTriGuy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2I was just about to post that same thing, beat me by 3 minutes...
  • swgc5, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6Cantilevered madness? This is Amsterdam!!!!
  • OfF3nSiV3, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1i wouldn't jump inside the house
  • nesibus, on 10/11/2007, -10/+7"Greg M. Pro User says:
    How do ppl come up with things like that?
    ...forth digg comment"

    ...fourth.
  • knowltonj, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1They built it this way because they were only allowed to take up so much room on the ground, and there were height restrictions, and the client wanted a certain number of rooms, so they decided the only way to acomplish all of it was to build out sideways.
  • GeekSwag, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3Great, now how exactly am I supposed to drive my upstairs neighbors crazy? Hmm?
  • knute5, on 10/11/2007, -0/+93"No fatties"
  • DenTPuzz, on 10/11/2007, -11/+2Another reason why modern architects should be shot with a blunderpus loaded with their own *****...
  • kvanscha, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20my favorite example of insane dutch houses is the kubus woningen in rotterdam. http://flickr.com/photos/sultan/283563444/
  • lemac, on 10/11/2007, -9/+1Just because you can design/build something does not mean you should build it.
    • Twisty, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1It always means you should build it damn you!
  • luke16, on 10/11/2007, -9/+2i got first comment ^_^
  • harmonyx, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1If you need more space, get creative. Check out the Ontario College of Art expansion in Toronto. http://flickr.com/photos/martynp/375961046/
    • laterallateral, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1dug down for being in Toronto.
      I kid, I kid. that's an awesome building.
      What is it, a Texaco?
  • NailToTheX, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Looks kinda neet i guess - Although i'm not terribly impressed with the architectural appeal & finishes. Not extreemly hard to design by any means, just not a typical cookie cutter design.
  • crapmatic, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Unfortunately, when the toilet overflows everyone at the bus stop finds out about it the hard way.
  • Dignan666, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Almost anything can be built if you have enough cash to spend on it. Most likely the cantilevers are entire floor height trusses. Basically a very deep beam that you can walk through attached to a vertical frame that is heavily weighted in the ground. Its not that difficult to do. Expensive? Yes. But the design and construction is pretty simple actually (compared to some other real feats of architecture and engineering.)
  • Venerence, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4The edge of that extended room would be *perfect* for my brick collection.
  • Homerr, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Cool, I was wondering where the building on the box art and splash screen for Autocad 2008 were.
  • swordedge, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4I guess some second floor people "don't" need to worry about the people downstairs.
    • Whaines, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Sounds like my upstairs neighbors...
  • SmokenMirror, on 10/11/2007, -9/+23 words about Amsterdam "pot is legal"
    • Ndiggnation, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4No *****? I thought that was a well kept secret.
  • drafhk, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2It's just....why?
  • Cyber_Akuma, on 10/11/2007, -0/+31Jenga!
  • JrGhoull, on 10/11/2007, -8/+355th digg comment funk you very much!!
    • Syntaxis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Crap.. beat me to it.. oh well, 1st reply TO the 55th digg comment in THIS PARTICULAR topic! Yes. You may touch me.
  • shortarabguy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3I bet the rent in the apartments which stick out must be like half of the rent of the conventionally placed ones
  • leksdraven, on 10/11/2007, -4/+5That's the ugliest thing I've ever seen.
  • Otto, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9More pictures: http://www.brianrose.com/mvrdv/mvrdv.htm

    However, it would be a lot cooler if it wasn't so god-awful ugly. I mean, that's possibly the ugliest building I've ever seen. I'd not live there no matter how neat the design is, not when it's just fugly like that.
    • LadyKofNYC, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I'd rather live IN it than across the street from it.
  • beetjebrak, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17This is what's about 2 miles away from my home. The rent on one of these babies is pretty low even.

    http://gallery.zoom.nl/public_images/6393/468/28vTka.jpg
    • bloominoctober, on 10/11/2007, -4/+0I know why rent on these is so low...

      The first thought I had when I saw them was "FORE!!!"
  • dpw45, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4If I lived in one of these, the first thing I would want would be a couple of windows in the floor! Would be cool, and just think of people walking underneath in summer! :D
  • shadowspawn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1there's angled support trusses that hold the hanging weight from the top. Not new, but still damn cool.
  • judbeasley, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7What's with these flickr users saying when they commented on this at digg? Am I missing something here?
    • Syntaxis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7If you flickr and diggr you are totally web 2.0 beta and.. uh..

      Hell if I know.
    • constantskeptic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1web 3.0 baby
  • jmchez, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12Any good engineer can design a cantilevered structure. It takes an artist like Santiago Calatrava to design a cantilevered structure that looks more like a sculpture than an ugly stack of bricks.

    http://images.google.com/images?um=1&tab=wi&client=firefox-a&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=calatrava
    • constantskeptic, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2amazing link thanks, you are quite right
  • mochaman, on 10/11/2007, -10/+4Google Map of this building or it doesn't exist.
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