Showing posts with label house. Show all posts
Showing posts with label house. Show all posts

The House in the Island of Elliðaey



If there ever is an ultimate holiday getaway location, it has to be the island of Elliðaey near Vestmannaeyjar, a small archipelago off the south coast of Iceland, and the enchanting little house on it.

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Elliðaey is the third largest island in Iceland having an area of 0.45 square km in area. It is believed to have formed in an eruption about 5-6 thousand years. The island is accessible via a rope on its lower east side and by a boat from the mainland. There are a few lonesome cattle to keep you company on the island and thousands of sea birds that use it for a nesting site.

Not much information is available about the island or the house. The only source of reliable information seems to be an Icelandic website that is very poorly translated by Google:

The Crooked House of Himley

The Crooked House, so called because of its lean, is a curious little attraction and a local watering hole located close to the village of Himley, which is about 4 miles west of Dudley, in South Staffordshire, England. One end of the house is four feet shorter than the other. The lost height went into Himley’s sinking ground, a side effect of decades of coal and iron ore mining in the area.

When the house was built in 1765, originally as a farmhouse, it stood erect as any normal building would. But as mining progressed, the land became unstable causing sections of the ground to collapse. Many buildings sank into the ground or moved, but the Crooked House moved more than the others.

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Photo credit: Chris Baker/Flickr
Amazing Summer House on a Greek Island

Amazing Summer House on a Greek Island

Located on the Greek island of Paros, the Maison Kamari is a jewel of architecture studio Re-act Architects. Imagined like a summer modern shelter, this holiday house re-imagines the Cycladic architecture. Inspired by the cubic shape, architects Natasha Deliyianni and Yiorgos Spiridonos brought a minimalist touch, in the heart of this wild and free nature with a view on the Aegean Sea.