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Buildings That Look Like Other Things...

By Ray Hu - April 12, 2013

in Architecture

Well, the title sort of gives it away, but I recently came across this wacky edifice that's made web rounds at least a couple times since it surfaced a few years ago. According to Building.am, the Piano Violin House was built in the Anhui District of Huainan City, China, back in 2007.This romantic house was designed by the students of the architectural design faculty of Hefey University of Technology with the designers of the company Huainan Fangkai Decoration Project Co.... a breadboard model inside [the] house displays various city plans and development prospects in an effort to draw interest into the recently developed area.

The pair of instruments reportedly comes in at 50:1 scale to their playable counterparts, but this fact strikes me as patently false: at relative scale, the stringed instrument is more likely to be modeled after a cello than a violin, and even then it comes in at what looks like upwards of 50% too big.

Of course, the 'keys' are also completely out of proportion as well.

While some speculate about how the glass instruments would sound and others muse on its felicitousness as a music venue, I think its distinctive characteristics ought to serve a purpose. An articulated roof might be a bit farfetched, but the headstock of the cello/violin could definitely serve as a radio tower. And I certainly hope there's some kind of interactive keyboard flooring in the lobby, whether it's like the stairs at science museums in Boston and St. Paul, or a carpet fit for Tom Hanks.

Via Earth Pics / Archello

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Rob

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This is incredibly awful
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Ryan

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This is obviously a Chinese transformer waiting for the great war.
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bob

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this does look like it has potential as a military weapon as well- like the strings can shoot lasers and the resonance chamber is actually a cavity magnetron for a microwave weapopn. The sounding board in the piano can generate earthquakes perhaps.
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