Hurt Me, Baby
This post is part of the series Bad Craziness, an extravaganza of architecture and design from the World Design Capital 2012, Helsinki. The opinions of certain architects may be ignored in the crafting of these posts.
Being married to an architect means staring at things like this:
This looks like an obscene torture device to me. What do you think it is, Dear Reader?
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Not a clue!! It does appear somewhat threatening, however, and on a par with this: http://www.shawndecker.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/standard/kiasma1_1.jpg
I’ve been properly impressed with the unique places you’ve chronicled thus far in your series, but this simply confuses…..
It shelters people from the sun while channeling the breeze to also cool them.
Good lord, I have no idea. But it has very pleasing lines. That’s the right answer, isn’t it? The pleasing lines? Who cares about utility. This is art baby.
Seeing as how there appears to be tiny little people inside, perhaps it’s the newest opera house, designed for those who truly believe they belong on American Idol, angled just so to direct the noise away from the audience. So really, a cone of silence?
Either way, definitely a torture device of some sort.
Very clever the way you angled the picture so you can’t quite see what the second figure on the stage? is.
I say a design for a concert hall or a new airline terminal building in Singapore.
Whatever it is, acoustics has something to do with it.
A concert hall prototype?
Abstract of a birth canal?
Absotively no idea, but, a guess. Perchance a wind sock of some sort, or generating/harnessing energy?
Like Ashley, I was thinking it had something to do with sound. Only I was thinking it’s an echo chamber. Go in there for some funky acoustics, lol.
Tis an angel with no face so as not to predispose a certain type…such as a Dr Who Angel.
Hahaha! Do you really want to know? I’m not sure if it’s appropriate to say…
I shudder to think.
I admit, all the things that immediately sprang to mind were obscene.
I’m guessing a model of an amphitheatre or music hall . . . with a dash of “overkill” tossed into the mix.
It the funnel through which people are dropped into Hell.
Good thought . . . especially since it’s in Hell~Sink~Ee.
Boo! That is a pun worthy of … well, me.
I see a dentist’s chair and shades of Marathon Man…I agree with scary!
Now that’s truly one of a kind! I pity you. I, too, live with an architect. Poor us!
Hugs,
Kathy
Could it be that the Finns have re discovered the ear trumpet, but made it bigger and less manageable.
I am thinking that perhaps it is a chair? Maybe my scale is off? Ha. JesterQueen is right…it has clean lines…looks lovely. What a nice piece of art.
A Victorian hippo’s corset.
Ha ha, Kate! That’s the best answer so far.
I’ve been looking at a lot of Steampunk. Looks like a device for an airship. Some kind of sail…