Hemeroscopium House by Ensamble Studio

It took a week to put it up, and two years to calculate it. All the pieces are prefabricated and the entire structure is laid out like a 7 piece mikado stick game. 7 enormous girders that cut through space, magically held by the counterweight of a 1000 ton granite rock. One of the girders is turned in order to hold a swimming pool.
If you were to describe it like this, no one would believe you. It sounds more like the beginning of a Berlusconi joke. And yet, Ensamble Studio not only designed it, but also constructed it, proving that architecture is not a glossy magazine scale model but a gesture that is made of weights and strains. Of full and empty spaces. Of black and white. Of columns and girders. Of balance. And above all that architecture is not an act of method nor a craft of patience, it is an acrobatic thought. Fantastic and brave.