From the Knees of My Nose to the Belly of My Toes by Alex Chinneck licensed under the terms of CC BY-SA 4.0
This week’s crazy building is From the Knees of my Nose to the Belly of my Toes in Margate, England.
This 4-story house is as bizarre as the name itself. It had stood empty and decaying for 11 years before designer Alex Chinneck decided it would make an excellent art installation.
Chinneck removed the old facade and replaced it with a new one he carefully designed to look as if it had slipped right off of the house! It slumps so lazily off of the house that it’s reminiscent of Dali’s “melting clocks” painting, The Persistence of Memory.
One of the themes he explored with this piece was superficiality: what looks like ordinary brick frontage is peeled back to reveal the debris inside.
The installation may already be gone, however: it was scheduled to be torn down late last year to make room for new housing. It was cool while it lasted!
