Fairytale Architecture

In case you missed it a few days ago The Design Observer Group posted a series of renderings by architects developing designs for various Fairytale structures.  It's a fun link.

The first is a house that should look like a chicken and thus is on impossibly high 'legs.'

The second installment is my favorite -- a drawing of Rapunzel's tower, complete with performance specifications like "Thorn Bushes Will Be Large Enough to Prevent Climbing by Infatuated Princes."

Finally, a very modern interpretation of Jack's Beanstalk House.

A fun exercise, I'd love to see more design studios have levity in their projects by incorporating something like this.  And those of us who have taken design studio courses know that, with an absence of budget or client, many of our studio projects already have a fairytale quality as it is!