{"id":2007,"date":"2011-11-11T19:09:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T19:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steampunkopera.wordpress.com\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2011-11-11T19:09:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T19:09:55","slug":"retro-future-bubble-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/retro-future-bubble-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Future Bubble House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we here are interested in all things retro future, not just steampunk (because i could, if i wanted, i&#8217;m not saying i will, i&#8217;m just saying i could write a trilogy of operas: after The Steampunk Opera wuold be The Dieselpunk Opera and The Atompunk Opera. utterly different in structure and music genre, the through line all would share is the city of New Albion.\u00a0It&#8217;s banging around my head although i ignore it utterly and tell it to go away because i need to make The Steampunk Opera into a smash success first and foremost, and there is a long road ahead for simply that. So nevermind. Let&#8217;s look at cool architecture.)<\/p>\n<p>Architecture! Right. So, i introduce you now to Antti Lovag, a Hungarian\/Russian\/Jewish\/Finnish architect who in the 1960s invented an Atompunk wet dream: The Bubble House.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.boimcapcus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/House-bubbles-in-France-from-Antti-Lovag2.jpg?resize=600%2C390\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is where i want to live. You may all pitch in a buy it for me. In return you may visit and i will get you drunk.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dctc.mnscu.edu\/assets\/pics\/summer-09\/summer09_bubble_house.jpg?resize=540%2C405\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bubble houses.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twistedsifter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/palais-bulles-palace-of-bubbles-pierre-cardin-house-antti-lovag-cannes-25.jpg?resize=640%2C486\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"486\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Antti Lovag, born in 1925 grew up following his travelling father, then entered the finnish army and ended up as a war prisonner of the russian at the age of 19.<\/p>\n<p>He then became a student of the Institut of Urbanism in Paris school of Architecture before working in France and travelling around the world. Finally he built his first bubble house in the 60\u2032s, after taking part in several inhabitat associations.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/urbanites.rsr.ch\/invites\/files\/2008\/07\/l1000106.JPG?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/steampunkopera.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/img_5560.png?w=300&#038;resize=640%2C428\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i63.servimg.com\/u\/f63\/14\/73\/82\/96\/flint110.jpg?resize=500%2C332\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But of course, his best known work is the astonishing Le Maison Bulles<em>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Antti Lovag bubble house Le Maison Bulle\" src=\"http:\/\/steampunkopera.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/4879282.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Antti Lovag bubble house Le Maison Bulle\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freakymartin.com\/nitro\/fishki02\/47db35e5be527domik_003.jpg?resize=640%2C424\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Antti Lovag bubble house Le Maison Bulle\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.beautifullife.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/13\/04.jpg?resize=600%2C464\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"464\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Antti Lovag bubble house Le Maison Bulle\" src=\"http:\/\/steampunkopera.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/antti_lovag3.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=640%2C487\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"487\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Antti Lovag bubble house Le Maison Bulle\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twistedsifter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/palais-bulles-palace-of-bubbles-pierre-cardin-house-antti-lovag-cannes-29.jpg?resize=640%2C424\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Antti Lovag bubble house Le Maison Bulle\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twistedsifter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/palais-bulles-palace-of-bubbles-pierre-cardin-house-antti-lovag-cannes-30.jpg?resize=640%2C432\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jaw dropping Utterly. Interestingly, despite his acclaim, his list of clients is not large. This is because his building philosophyincludes the motto:\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t know what it\u2019s going to be like, I don\u2019t know when it\u2019s going to be finished, and I don\u2019t know how much it\u2019s going to cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Antti Lovag bubble house Le Maison Bulle\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.designer-daily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/bubble-house-cool.jpg?resize=450%2C473\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"473\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Antti Lovag bubble house Le Maison Bulle\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twistedsifter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/palais-bulles-palace-of-bubbles-pierre-cardin-house-antti-lovag-cannes-7.jpg?resize=640%2C424\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twistedsifter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/palais-bulles-palace-of-bubbles-pierre-cardin-house-antti-lovag-cannes-27.jpg?resize=640%2C775\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"775\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Antti Lovag bubble house Le Maison Bulle\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.beautifullife.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/13\/10.jpg?resize=600%2C456\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Antti Lovag bubble house Le Maison Bulle\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twistedsifter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/palais-bulles-palace-of-bubbles-pierre-cardin-house-antti-lovag-cannes-12.jpg?resize=640%2C424\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Case in point: this majestic creation. Le Palias Bulles, just outside of Cannes was begun in 1970. A wealthy French industrialist sank 7 million into it, and still it was not completed. Finally, in 2005 it was bought by Pierre Cardin, the fashion designer, and completed.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Antti Lovag bubble house Le Maison Bulle\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.beautifullife.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/13\/23.jpg?resize=450%2C298\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Antti Lovag bubble house Le Maison Bulle\" src=\"http:\/\/steampunkopera.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/antti_lovag5.jpg?w=233&#038;resize=498%2C640\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Antti Lovag bubble house Le Maison Bulle\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twistedsifter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/palais-bulles-palace-of-bubbles-pierre-cardin-house-antti-lovag-cannes-18.jpg?resize=640%2C424\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Antti Lovag bubble house Le Maison Bulle\" src=\"http:\/\/steampunkopera.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/6645273.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the Atompunkish retro future things EVER. That was Le Maison Bulle by Antti Lovag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we here are interested in all things retro future, not just steampunk (because i could, if i wanted, i&#8217;m not saying i will, i&#8217;m just saying i could write a trilogy of operas: after The Steampunk Opera wuold be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,36],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-architecture","tag-atompunk","clearfix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}