| photo by Don
Wong - Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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This house is an essay on the
vernacular, unstyled, American home. In this case two,
proportionally sized saltbox shapes are abstractly merged at a
corner. And this overlap provides a sculpturally logical main
entry door.

The "Mall of America
House" was/is a house commissioned by the now defunct, "Budget
Living Magazine". It's nominal purpose was to raise funds for
a breast cancer awareness campaign, sponsored by the Lauder
Foundation. The house was set up in an atrium of the mall, and
visitors were encouraged to make a donation towards a raffle to win the
house.
The house was fabricated as
modular units by a nearby fabricator in order to allow its installation
in a 14-day window of the mall calendar, and the subsequent movement to
the new owner's property.
The exact location and state of
this house is unknown.
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