It’s been a while, dearlings. You can blame a trip to Montreal with some of my favorite people in the world, which was beyond lovely, except that on the journey home I contracted Tim Horton’s Revenge and lost a week to fever and despair.  REGARDLESS, I have emerged from the flu and I would like to share the following because they are rad.

First is from my Montreal trip:

This is Habitat 67, a modern housing complex on a skinny peninsula in Montreal with 354 cold concrete cubes stacked on top of each other such that people might live within them.

We didn’t actually see any people, but there are definitely signs of life:

If Escher had been an architect I imagine his building would like a bit like this place.

and THEN, just the other day, on Core77, I saw the following house-tree, which reminded me of the above:

Artist Wannes Goetschalckx from the Dutcherlands: “Nest (Home Part 2)“.