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Smogr (www.smogr.com):
… delirious ride that architecture has been on for the last decade looks as if it’s finally coming to an end. And after a visit to the Chanel Pavilion that opened Monday in Central Park, you may think it hasn’t come soon enough. Interesting howFollyshave come back en vogue. Copyright © 2008 Randy Plemel. This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. If you're seeing this on a web page instead of in a feed reader, the website is violating copyright law. …

The Pompomist - Magazine (www.thepompomist.com):
… follyis called the Next Generation House, designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects. The concept is a house built with Jenga blocks overlooking the River Kuma in Kumakura, Japan. The cube is aproximately 13 …

Small Reflections (smallreflections.blogspot.com):
… Make Time for Small Reflections The prompt for Week 23 is FollyWikipediataught me something new today ... In architecture, buildings constructed strictly for decoration rather than 'shelter' are referred to as 'folly' (in the sense of fun or light-heartedness ... …

Tumblewords (firsttumblewords.blogspot.com):
… One Single Impression offers: Thanks to Edward S. Gault of Forest River Journal for this week's prompt of folly. I always thought of folly as a silliness or a temporary departure from rational thought butWikipediadefines it in a slightly different fashion and one which I found rather fun. ** eye-catcher not what it appears full folly ** odd building designed to deceive novelty ** architect's castle in wet sand …

Gulfstream – Beebo (beebo.org):
… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly“In architecture, a folly is a building constructed strictly as a decoration…” …

Gilding the Lily (sillysidilly.wordpress.com):
… folly, located on the Crimean shore in southern Ukraine, built between 1911-1912 ontop of 130 ft high Aurora Cliff. Designed by Russian architect Leonid Sherwood, the castle overlooks Ai-Todor cape of the Black Sea and is located near the remnants of the …

Happilykim's Weblog (happilykim.wordpress.com):
… . It is often counted among the German rivals of Versailles. While Sanssouci is in the more intimate Rococo style and is far smaller than its French Baroque counterpart, it too is notable for the numerous temples andfolliesin Sanssouci Park. The palace was designed by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff between 1745 and 1747 to fulfil Frederick’s need for a private residence where he could relax away from the pomp and ceremony of the …

Gilding the Lily (sillysidilly.wordpress.com):
… follyupon Vista Rock, the second highest natural elevation in Central Park, New York City, was used in exterior shots of Count von Count’s castle on Sesame Street. A gothic dwelling with stained glass windows, the castle …

Joensuudailyphoto (joensuudailyphoto.blogspot.com):
… mock-medieval castle …

Fortuna's Favor Rites (blogs.delphiforums.com):
… The story of the telectroscope is one that movies are made of. Think Indiana Jones, The Librarian, National Treasure, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, maybe even a little Lara Croft thrown in. We're talking the world of Follymeets Steam Punk here. According to the site telectroscope.net: "Some years ago an artist by the name of Paul St George happened upon a packet of dusty papers in a trunk in his grandmother’s attic. On further inspection he discovered that they …

*A la flor del berro (aaoiue.blogspot.com):
… , construido gracias a Luis II de Baviera en homenaje a Richard Wagner. Para mí es un ejemplo del hallazgo del plano perfecto. Tomado de lejos o más cerca no tiene nada que ver. Ese castillo está catalogado comofolly, que es tanto como decir que no tiene valor arquitectónico funcional alguno, que es un edificio construido con el único objeto de realzar un paisaje. El castillo de Luis II inspiró el de la Bella Durmiente y el de la Cenicienta …

Gordon P. Baty on Digital Experience (gordonpbaty.wordpress.com):
… P.S. For this topic I’ve created a new category - Folly - in thearchitectural sense    …

The Blackheath Bugle (blackheathbugle.wordpress.com):
… from Blackheath by train. 3 stops away from London takes you to Falconwood, where a fair amount of steep walking through forests eventually opens up to reveal this curious building. It is called Severndroog Castle, although it is really more of afollythan a castle. It was the subject of a BBC Restoration programme, although it never actually got restored. The walk from the station takes you down a bland A-road, then down a forest path for a few minutes. …

"minutiae" by Nathan Abels (nathanabels.blogspot.com):
… Fake ruins, which can also be known as"follies" are buildings or parts of buildings that are constructed as ornamentation. The thought of building a structure purposefully in a state of ruin is intriguing. By taking the function out of the architecture it becomes more closely aligned with sculpture …

"minutiae" by Nathan Abels (nathanabels.blogspot.com):
… "follies …

Uphilldowndale (uphilldowndale.wordpress.com):
… the undulating ground is the result of lime burning in the 17th and 18th century.) Well if it was fresh air I wanted there was plenty of it, it was wild; at the top of the folly I could barley stand, so it seemed wise not to linger, inside thefollywind was howling and whistling up the spiral staircase, not the brightest of days, but here’s the view looking down towards the town of Buxton The large blob of a building is the …

Potter's Blog (grpottersblog.blogspot.com):
… I was talking about follies last week, because I was making some. Afolly is typicallya building in a garden with no particular use, although not unuseful. I was using the term to describe some pots I was making that were extra fanciful, and if the owner wanted they could use them for flowers or a drink. Or nothing at all. …

alconway.com (alconway.com):
… Is it an ice-house or an outdoors cellar? Although they still don’t seem confident, It seems that this page has the answer. Allegedly, It’s the control room for the sprinkler system. I prefer the notion that it’s afollyand the romantic in me will hold that opinion until proven otherwise. …

ルイス - I'm a player in T.V games (ruisu.net):
… follysomething like this. …

http://romeda.org/blog (romeda.org):
… Folly: "In architecture, a folly is an extravagant, frivolous or fanciful building, designed more for artistic expression than for practicality." – via Tom Coates, by way of Tom Carden. We just released …