Posted in Folly-esque on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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The Baobab Hotel, Huilo Huilo, Chile
Hotels in tree houses are not a new concept. But the latest addition to the genre certainly takes the form to new heights.
Parque Huilo Huilo is a sprawling private nature reserve, midway between Neltume and Puerto Fuy, on the east side of Volcán Choshuenco (Choshuenco Volcano) in [...]
Posted in Folly-esque, tagged architecture, chapel, church, Folly, Temple on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Monks in Thailand have built a temple complex from over 1 million recycled beer bottles. Above is the temple and a detail from the roof.
Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew, also known as Wat Lan Kuad or ‘the Temple of a Million Bottles’, is in Sisaket province near the Cambodian border, 400 miles from [...]
Posted in Build Your Own, Folly-esque, tagged public art on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The young London based artist Oliver Bishop-Young has had the brilliant idea of creating mini landscapes in that most prosaic of urban artefacts, the builder’s skip. Seen here is one of his most popular and successful designs, a park in a skip, featuring a park bench and a tree.
Other of Olly’s designs have included a [...]
Posted in Folly-esque, tagged cottage ornee, Dutch, octagonal on June 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Dutch House, Rayleigh, Essex
The thatched octagonal Dutch Cottage in Rayleigh, Essex, is thought to have been built in 1621 by immigrant settlers who helped drain the land. Since 2005 it has stood empty after pensioners Ann and Derek Jolly upped sticks and left after 20 “happy years”.
Despite resembling a doll’s house, the octagonal seventeenth [...]
Posted in Build Your Own, Folly-esque, tagged mountain, shed on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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This shed, perched precariously on a ridge on Whistler Mountain, in British Columbia in Canada recently caught our eye. More information has been hard to find. If anyone knows anything about who built it and how it got there, indeed why it has been put there, please let us know.
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Posted in Folly-esque, tagged concrete tree, restaurant on March 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Okinawa Tree House restaurant (Photo credit: Flickr)
Purely decorative follies do not spring up like trees, so here is a functional folly which has done just that – the Okinawa treehouse which is poised in a banyan tree (or maybe it is a gajumaru tree). Whatever. The tree is in fact concrete.
Back in the late nineteenth [...]
Posted in Folly-esque, tagged public art, statue on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is a shortage of follies to report here at present so I thought we might look at some folly-esque public art. Follies are not to everyone’s taste - so what could be more of an acquired taste than a Marmite statue?
Following on the success of last year’s Guinness flavoured Marmite, the company brought out [...]
Posted in Build Your Own, Folly-esque, Modern Folly, tagged shed, Tower on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Shed-tower-folly by Jayne Tarasun, 2007
What better way to start 2008 than with a new folly design by a new folly builder, the self styled folly-smith, Jayne Tarasun of Cornwall?
Artist Jayne has brought the concept of the folly tower into the 21st century, reviving this unique and celebrated slice of British eccentricity and fusing it with [...]
Posted in Folly-esque, Retro folly, tagged arbour, cave, garden, seat, stumpery, trees on December 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Stumpery – a driftwood cave by Phil Game
Follies echo the zeitgeist of their time. In the 18th century follies were the playthings of rich men and often built to flaunt their wealth and education in a showy display of conspicuous consumption. Shell grottoes are a good example of this, costing thousands and taking years [...]
Posted in Folly-esque, Modern Folly, Retro folly, Uncategorized, tagged architecture, artwork, Folly, public art on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Often today it seems the line between follies and works of art in public places, is increasingly blurred. With fewer opportunities to build permanent follies, in urban environments, artists and architects are constructing temporary sculptures and fanciful buildings which reference the past and the future to stir our imagination.
One such artist is the Auckland based [...]
