What a fun house.

What a fun house.

Spongebob Squarepants would be very happy to live in these bright walls, but elderly residents of the German town of Brunswick were not so excited.



The fact is that the builders decided to erect it in the inner city - a magnet.


Many were already angered by the idea of ​​the house, not to mention the fact that it took.


Yet 15 years later, Happy Rizzi House became part of the urban landscape, and many people would not want to be pulled down.


As well as the Cathedral of St. Paul's in London, Happy Rizzi House at first hated and then gradually got used to him, and then completely fell in love.


The original idea of ​​building a house Rizzihaus came during a conversation between the artist James Rizzi and gallery owner Olaf Eshke.


The drawings were made for several months, then get a building permit. Architect Konrad Kloster joined the project, and then to implement it took two years.


Rizzi, American pop artist, who died in December 2011, were particularly known for its 3D graphics. Perhaps it is his largest project.


American readers of a certain age may remember him on the cover of the first album of the "Club of Tom Sawyer».


This chaos of colors, shapes and body parts - is maximalism, driven to extremism, pardon the tautology.


Rizzi, who was honored in Germany as a pop art idol, really brought a touch of an artistic project.


Not surprisingly, it is often referred to as "hybrid Picasso and Hana-Barbera" - the art and at the same time you can take seriously, and at the same time considered absurd.


At first, many criticized and disliked the house, believing it stridently-bright and frivolous.


Perhaps this house could not fit into the city, built in the 9th century, but fit well and, quite nice.


Now this house - a kind of border.


On one side - the modern building of the 21st century.


On the other side - a quiet historic district. For all its strangeness and lush pretentiousness Happy Rizzi House still raises a smile from residents and tourists.