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ARCHITECTURE & FUN

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I never laughed so hard in my life!

The best of the world's comedy, video, satire and articles all on the theme of architecture.

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BAD CEMENT LEADS TO ARRESTS

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66% STRENGTH CEMENT POURED AT GROUND ZERO, YANKEE STADIUM

Architects and Developers silent on issue of weak cement. 

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NORMAN FOSTER'S SPACEPORT BREAKS GROUND

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ARCHITECTURE FOR LEAVING THE PLANET

Norman Foster's design for the New Mexico SpacePort Authority's first terminal for spaceplanes and passengers. $200,000 a seat.

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DUBAI PARADISE FOR ARCHITECTS

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WHAT PRICE SUCCESS?

CONTROVERSY STALKS THE TOWERS BEING BUILT IN THE KINGDOM. WORLD FAMOUS ARCHITECTS CONSTRUCTING MASTERPIECES WITH ABUSED LABOR

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Architecture. Fun
.Two words one would not generally find in the same sentence. But that was then, this is now. Architecture & Fun are now united in a series of videos, stories, satire and comedy. Please have a little piece and then share it with your friends.

REDNECK REAL ESTATE SHOW.
Comedy look at backwoods properties and unsaleable homes.
  WHEN GOOD BUILDINGS GO BAD
   Keep out signs weren't enough 

FREE RUNNING
People use buildings in ways
architects never designed for.
Fly through the air with architecture as your landing points. This video is so amazing it has been viewed 12 million times. Great music. Architects should consider this video the next time they design something. Anything.
  ARCHITECTJOHN CLEESE
OF THE FIRM MONTY PYTHON
does his best to convince the developers to build a residential slaughterhouse while his competitor for the commission pitches a self igniting tower design. Classic Python. Cleese at his best.
  
   60 SECONDS OF PURE THRILLS
   Base Jump off Calatrava Building
Ace of aces Felix Baumgarten leaps from a helicopter to the top of Santiago Calatrava's Turning Torso in Malmo, Sweden and then onto the ground where he escapes by motorcycle and boat.
     WHY NOT A DUCK?
STONER ARCHITECTURE?!?
                New Genre emerges
Architect Robert A.M. Stern reportedly horrified
The ONION, America's leading purveyor of satire has captured the hearts of many with their topical and extremely slanted take on the news. Greeting us with a piece that architecture students, Amsterdam residents and Rastafarians the world over should appreciate, the ONION has created the fictional STONER ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST for our entertainment.
 
           WHAT'S MY LINE?
              FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S
              1956 TV APPEARANCE