Isn’t it great how creativity kicks in when times running out. Take for example this incredible and beautiful installation by artists Dan Havel and Dean Ruck a few months before this house was to be demolished…. I’m guessing they saw any opportunity to do something freaking crazy cool to a space that was going to be destroyed and turned this old house into a trippy wooden warp zone! More pics after the jump.(including whats at the end of the tunnel)
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A few pics via Kevin Omara
CLICK on above image for MUCH larger image!!!!
That is amazing. It reminds me of the final moments of the house in the movie ‘Poltergeist’.
for sure, it’s trippy!
Very cool, what do the neighbors think?
Wow! Nice 🙂
Cool! It’s really amazing! When a hole in a great building, for example a skyscraper?:-p
the neighbors must be freaking
It’s awesome i hope the people don’t use it as an garbage garbage can 🙂
Wow! Our minds really does create reality! It that case, spirits must be fiction; science fiction.
And, God! Well, our minds created “Him.” Because, there can’t be a “Father” and “Son” without a Mother.
Oh, I love these photos, my mind is racing with ideas!
Thanks Dan. Thanks Dean for sharing such wonderful creativity!
Did anyone get splinters?
Nobody should demolish this great installation!!!!
That is so amazingly creative.
Very refreshing.
I always wondered what would happen if somebody managed to divide by zero…
YAY! There’s art in Houston! And, now, the world knows.
esta de pocasupinchimadre!
Esta de supiinchisisiisimadre chingon¡
Creatively creepy.
wow! where is this place? it is freaking creative, my mind cannot stop spinning, well done.
Una muy buena idea para desarrollarse
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Wow, props to the artists, the open minded house owner and neighbors. Life is grand
More than amazing!
High Fiveee. So niceeee.
nad ass.
FUCK TUNEL HOUSE!
fucking brilliant…
Imagine walkin down the street trippin and finding this house. wow!
cheers from Mexico for the tunnel house
I used to live right next to that! I was on campus at the college down there when I was dancing at the Houston Ballet Academy. I walked past it, and was like, oh. That’s niffty.
Then, two years later, no more dance, a probably unhealthy obsession with street art, and BAM! Here it is!
esta bieeen conmadreee!
Geeee, this is just amazing. But, I mean, how much time and effort did this take ???
Muy buena idea!
good project!
I agree with “c a” – This is like Gordon Matta-Clark — but INVERTED!!! haha – Thanks for the photos!
This is wild, one of the most creative public pieces of art I have seen in a long time. Brilliant. I’m very impressed. Thank you for sharing it.
1 word WOW!!!!!!!!!
I never follow links on that smarmy, pretentious Wooster site, but glad I did this time!!! Shit’s hella dope! I thought it was painted from the thumbnail.
wicked!!!
Hello,
A very interesting new version of “Arte pobera”.
Congratulations!
Next, a tunnel to china.
and it’s air conditioned!
TEMPORARILY PERFECT!!!!!
I LOVE IT!!!
procrastination = creation!
…destruction = creation?
everything in this place ,whats real with whats concieved ,who we are to reason ,what it is that I cannot see ,living in exsentence why is reality touch taste and smell living with our sencenses whose to say our sense is real
I guessing these guys are fans of one of my favorite childhood movies “Time Bandits” This looks like you could step through it and kill a minotaur with Sean Connery any time you wanted. I wish there were more creative structures like this that made me feel like I could walk through dimensions and space like this one. nice work.
So cool. With all the asinine stuff going on in the world, its’ nice to see someone having fun being human.
The neighbors were already accustomed to “interesting” things happening next door. The house was occupied by the Art League of Houston and had been used for exhibit space and art classes for over 30 years by then.
Besides, the place would be demolished soon anyway. The house was on a main thoroughfare and Houston has no zoning.
Why do you morons say “after the jump” when you have it all on one page? Learn what stuff means before you start writing it.
Ted…cause your on the “jump” page. The main page only has the top images and text..
Now thats what I call a hole in the wall house! LoL Still cool though.
that is sooooooooo amazing!!!!!!! i
Who’s the moron now Ted?
MUito bom !!!
a donde va el tunel?
Es impactante, la primera foto sale un hombre bastante desarrollado y finaliza y/o remata con una chica de diez.
me pone feliz. Abrazos latinos
Mujer Gallina
What a great idea! Turning an eyesore into a wonderful peice of real-life, in your face art. Awesome 😉
Won’t be ong before Rosie Odonnell blames this on President Bush.
That house was a pretty cool place. I took some pictures inside the tunnel with my friends about 2 years ago so I’m pretty sure the place has been demolished by now. It was a nice addition to the Houston art community while it lasted. It would’ve been great to keep it around a bit longer, but in a town where historic houses are demolished all the time to make room for cardboard townhomes that sell for $300,000+, good luck with that.
Why do you have to bring God into this? This has nothing to do with religion. By the way, Rosie Odonnell has already bitched about it. Nice use of architecture and creativity.
Montrose, Houston…!! I used to live three blocks from here… and remember the house going up…
This makes me wet.
will I ever be as bored as the owner of this thing?
this is amazing, I love it
How wonderful to see old structures turned into art space. We should see more Art like this.
this is super, wonderful idea!!!
I like, I like. how much?
I’d like to cram my whole cock into that hole and fuck the house hard!!
damn who put acid in my frosted flakes?
Some context, please: Where is/was this, and when was it constructed?
Suit…if you did a bit of clicking and reading, you’d realize this was done a few yrs ago in houston TX.
Creepy sh!t
I dreamed this few time ago!!!
i like that type of big hole.
Looks FUN!
I like it. Where is it, I’d like to visit and try it out. Send me directions and location.
reaaaaaaaaaaally creative!!! i love it! 🙂
cheers!!! breaking the neighborhood bored line
like a perspective visual game implosive black hole
regards!!
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Our house looks like that all the time, what’s the big deal?
I live in Austin, but periodically visit Houston museums every few months. I didn’t know this was up, but drove by it and nearly had an accident trying to pull over somewhere to take pictures. Some fun projects pop up on Montrose… The local Houston art scene does have some redeeming qualities after all! =D
Reminds me of “Monster House”
that is a trip
all too creative
wow i love it i want to walk through it 🙁 i want a go
Stumble is a wonder break in my life. Its design, art , brain work candy for my mind.
Ken
cool! so cool!i
cool!so cool! i
there is a amazingly creative
This is grand. 🙂 It is the very nature of the artistic mindset to take what normally presents itself as a problem to be removed or resolved somehow and to view it instead as an opportunity. All of life’s beauty comes from this way of thinking.
As for the Below quote from the above poster. Please don’t use the accomplishments of more creative minds than your own to justify your erroneous beliefs about reality? please.
“Wow! Our minds really does create reality! It that case, spirits must be fiction; science fiction.
And, God! Well, our minds created “Him.†Because, there can’t be a “Father†and “Son†without a Mother.
Oh, I love these photos, my mind is racing with ideas!
Thanks Dan. Thanks Dean for sharing such wonderful creativity! “
What is the point of destroying it? Really cool Any splinters?
niceeee
fiquei impressionado….
fantastico!
That is so great!! Who would have thought of that? I bet it took a lot of work to finish it! Super bad ass!
thats what my old house looked like untill it collapsed….now i live in a box
dude. i want one of those!
Es algo muy creativo y desde otro punto ………. esta con madre !
Just so everyone knows, this installation was taken down almost a year ago. It was cool while it lasted.
coolest shit ever….I love it!
holy nailgun!
Can someone tell my where the bathroom is at?
Way cool!
Woohaaaa! Vette shit ouwe! Zwaar wapperdiewapsieflap en master! Moeilijk gaaf witte wel! I SURE DO LOVE TUNNELS!
It is just halucinogenic
Not seen this before looks dangerous but that’s probably part of the fun. In the uk
they would ban it on safety grounds!
Oh! So that’s where that mini-black hole I was tracking went!
How am i gonna find my stash now ??! huh!?
that is freaking awesome. they should make more of them
people this is cool
WOW!! We cannot believe how cool this house is! We decided to check out your site because we read a story about Frank Lloyd Wright and we learned about his life by reading his biography. We learned he was an architect! We think it would be awesome to visit that house and a slip and slide down and slip through it! We think you should build more of these!
March 12, 2008
Wow! Cool house! Is the house still going to be torn down, or are they going to let it stand as either art or an obvious playground?
WoW!amazing and yea..it is trippy enough!
yeah man. shit. this is amazing
how could anyone demolish this! they should build a museum around it.
Great Work — were they tripping!!! lots of splinters.
This looks like something out of Poltergeist, but even cooler since no movie magic was used.
Q cojon es eso?¿ O.O
esta muy bueno, la percepcion es como de traspaso a otra dimension , la idea esta genial ojala aca en chile se hagan intervenciones asi. felicitaciones
great post, that house looks cool to visit but never to live. it really does look like something out of the movie poltergeist =)
Very cool. The things people come up with.
too cool
This is really cool. Another example of the fun things that can be done in the architecture world, even if it is just for fun.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to you from the Spanish architectural magazine* /PASAJES DE ARQUITECTURA Y CRITICA* /(Passages of Architecture and Critique).
/PASAJES/ is the only architectural magazine distributed on a monthly basis in Spain. It is also currently the bestselling architectural magazine in Spain. /PASAJES/ is not only widely distributed in Spain, but also in Portugal and Latin America. A normal issue consists of 48 full-colour pages of 269×354 mm size (a bit smaller than A3), and has several sections: News, Building Analysis, Interviews, Brief Essays, Trips, Exhibitions and Books.
We are planning the next Pasajes, which is number *109*, and it is going to be a special issue about dwelling and the experimental innovation in the domestic space.
I am writing to express /Pasajes’/ interest in publishing *
Dan Havel and Dean Ruck’s TUNNEL HOUSE
we donn’t know how to contact the artist, so we would like to ask you if you could give us his mail for contact him
Thank you for your time and I´ll be looking forward to receive your reply soon.
Kind regards,
Luis Rodriguez
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SO AWESOME!!!!!
awesome
Looks like what happened to the mortgage market in 2008…
What is the point of destroying it? Really cool Any splinters?
Does someone live here or is it just a tourist attraction??
that reminds me of the time that flanders’s house on the simpsons was demolished by a hurricane, only to get rebuilt by the city folk in a terrible fashion
The “Tunnel House” is very cool and original. I love it! Thanks for the post. 🙂
Looks like a really bad accident!!!
Very cool!! it is Awsome
i cant bealive its so coollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll,,and bye the way awsem house
splinter heaven! 😛
it is great and unique Tunnel House. i think it has taken many months to construct it.
Crazy idea
Very nice idea! And the way people get sucked in looks great 🙂