suite sewer

"Each suite of the Park Hotel offers at minimal capacity maximum possible comfort for recreation and relaxation."
These ingenious little rooms are available for rent, and at whatever you can afford. The use of these concrete tubes into temporary housing shelters is inspiring to me, simple and effective. I'd like one in my back yard to hide in once in a while (great place for reading OSHA safety manuals). Of course these are used by campers, hikers (and vagrants?) passing thru for an evening or two. I do enjoy the use of already manufactured and readily available forms as living spaces. Close in the ends, put a door on the thing and roll it into place!

park hotel link

zoomorphic architecture - 'Lucy' the elephant

I went here as a kid, I'd live in it!. I have some plan drawings of the interior around here somewhere, interesting, I'll post them here when I find them.

Lucy the Elephant is a six-story elephant-shaped architectural folly constructed of wood and tin sheeting in 1882 by James V. Lafferty in Margate City, New Jersey, two miles (3.2 km) south of Atlantic City, in an effort to sell real estate and attract tourism.

The idea of an animal-shaped building was innovative, and in 1882 the U.S. Patent Office granted Lafferty a patent giving him the exclusive right to make, use or sell animal-shaped buildings for seventeen years. Lucy is the oldest example of zoomorphic architecture, and the largest elephant in the world. more...
...what would happen if we crossed 'Stoorn' the moose with 'Lucy' the elephant? (answer)