The Balancing Barn by MVRDV

While spending the weekend in sunny Suffolk, I bypassed the Balancing Barn, a cantileved holiday home that balances atop the gentle green landscape by 15 metres. Conceived by Living Architecture, Alain de Botton's enterprise of holiday homes with big architectural name tags, the barn was designed by Rotterdam-based architect MVRDV. Clad in shiny, reflective panels, the one-storey building hovers magically and triumphantly, complete with a swing underneath it's exposed belly. Credit should go to the architect for playfully updating the dowdy holiday rental and brightening up wet weekends spent in the British countryside. 

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