If you had a house that was going to be demolished, scrapped and completely replaced with something else - what would you do with it? Well, a couple of guys thought it would be neat to turn this place into the strangest thing the suburbs have ever seen, before the site would be turned into a new arts center.
Passers by are clearly awestruck by this amazing suburban art installation. The tunnel house gives an illusion of vertigo, a sense that it is being sucked in upon itself - a compelling visual effect.
The above shot shows both of the artists (left), who clearly have a sense of humor about the entire project. Amazingly enough, people can even interact with this piece, walking through the middle and coming out the other side!
The tunnel tapers through the center of house, becoming a crawlspace that ‘drains out the other side. A surreal experience to be sure, and probably the most typical house would could choose to turn into an amazing piece of suburban installation art! For more or for full-sized images, try searching Flickr with the tag ‘Tunnel House!’
11 Comments
July 14th, 2007 at 7:00 am
That is amazing. I can’t believe how that was created. Just amazing.
July 14th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Indeed, and all made out of material that was going to be scrapped with the demolition anyway!
July 17th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
If I were the new Arts Center or rather they were like me, that ‘House of Art’ would be the Arts Center conversation peice.
It is indeed a WoRK of ArT.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
This was an awesome installation. FYI, though, it was not in the suburbs. It was in Montrose, a hip, artsy part of town.
October 6th, 2007 at 4:13 am
He he. Project Tic-Toc goes suburbs… I wonder what Dr. Tony (Newman) and Doug (Phillips) have to say about that! :)
October 8th, 2007 at 7:53 am
Awesome house - so did they tear it down or did they see the irony in tearing down a work of art to build an art center…
October 24th, 2007 at 1:06 am
Robin: Leaving aside the obvious joke to be made about Houston, Wikipedia says this about Montrose:
“The area of what is Montrose today was originally envisioned as a planned community and streetcar suburb…”
Like all streetcar suburbs, it’s relatively old by US standards — 1911 — but it’s a suburb nonetheless.
November 14th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
These photos were originally taken by Kevin O’Mara and are still availible in his flickr account.
December 7th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
very clausterphobic but I guess that would beat living in a car or on street corner
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