Interesting Stuff
Photo of $53 million in cash confiscated in Mexico
All this money was stashed in a house in Mexico City, presumably a drug lord’s.
The house was guarded by seven people.
Vintage toy robot head gallery
Enjoy Lockwasher’s photo gallery of heads from his collection of vintage robot toys.
http://www.lockwasherdesign.com/
Something Different
Singapore is building this crazy housing block with four towers kind of hanging off the sides of another, central tower.
The 153 meter tall tower will be located at the intersection of Scotts Road and Cairnhill Road, in close proximity to Orchard Road,
Singapore’s famous shopping and lifestyle street. With 20,000m² of built floor area, the building will provide 68 high-end apartment units with panoramic views. The design strategically maneuvers within the
highly regulated building environment to maximize the full potential of the site: Four individual apartment towers are vertically offset from one another and suspended from a central core.
Gangster’s Cabin
This record-breaking, 13-storey log cabin was hand-built by a ruined Russian gangster as a summer place in Arkhangelsk. The towering fire-hazard is all that remains from his life of crime, and the city is threatening to tear it down on the basis that it threatens to take the
whole suburb with it if it goes up in smoke.
While in prison, he claims his rivals destroyed his equipment, stole his money and threw his five cars into the Dvina river - a similar fate to that which befell many of Russia’s rich in the chaotic years of the 1990s.
“When I went to prison I was a millionaire,” he said. “Now I’m penniless.” Sutyagin, 60, lives in four poorly heated rooms at the bottom of his wooden skyscraper with his 32-year-old wife Lena.
What is left of his fantasy is slowly decaying around him. Even so, it remains a remarkable architectural feat - especially given the fact that Sutyagin built much of it himself - that defies easy description.
A whimsical jumble of planking, from a distance it bears a resemblance to a Japanese pagoda, but draw closer and it seems more like a mix between a Brobdignagian tree house and the lair of a wicked fairytale character.
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/28/ruined_russian_gangs.html
