Chinatown Theater and MoreTake a look at three of the most unusual houses in the country. First, in Chinatown in Los Angeles, a furniture importer transforms a dilapidated Chinese theater into an ultramodern showroom/house. Customers can walk around his house and buy his furniture. Next, in Angola, Ind., we meet Harry Martin, who paints vans and RVs for a living. He also painted his aluminum-siding house to look exactly like a log cabin. It's so realistic, you have to go up and touch it to believe it. Finally, in Tijuana, Mexico, architect Jorge Gracia built a very unique, very modern and very controversial house made up of two rectangles one covered in dark cedar siding and the other covered in translucent white polycarbonate panels that glow in the night. Then he connected them with glass bridges.
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architectural firm XTEN Architecture
Chinese Theater House Architects
Website: www.xtenarchitecture.com
furniture Ford-Brady
Website: www.fordbrady.com
airbrushing services Harry Did It!
c/o Harry Martin
Website: www.lizardco.com
architectural firm Gracia Studio
c/o Architect Jorge Gracia
Website: www.graciastudio.com