Wow. It reminds me of 'The Bean" in Chicago.

Whoever answers the door at that house needs to be wearing this:

Very cool!

How do they keep that clean?

Fascinating. I look forward to seeing your pictures, Pipdog.

Gyr_falcon, that was my first thought, too--I wonder how many brush fires they start every year?

I don't know the answer to that, writersblock. The Silverado Canyon fire in 2014 was the one that first came to mind. As the article at the link states, "Firefighters say anything that reflects light can act like a mirror, amplifying the sun's power in the wrong direction." A mirror house just seems very dangerous, especially with that type of nearby foliage.

A mirror house just seems very dangerous, especially with that type of nearby foliage.

Agreed. Actually, in my previous post I meant just that particular house with mirrors all round and brush so close on all sides. I can't believe they aren't out stamping out fires a couple of times a month in the driest/hottest times of year.

Wasn't it someplace on GW that someone recently posted the damage from a fire that was started inside a house just by the light passing through a crystal door knob?

It's all cool and chameleon and all, but, what the why!? I wonder how many birds have been killed flying into it!

FIre danger is a very real and very serious problem out here in the Southwest. Although very creative, that alone makes me not a fan of it.

I have no doubts at all that birds fly into it on a daily basis. Poor birds!

And, if they have any neighbors that can actually see their house, the glare off it from the sun must be painful. When our neighbors behind us (2 acres away) built their house, they had a bright, shiny, silvery tin roof put on it. It took four long years for it to dull enough where it wasn't painfully bright took at during the day. I pity any close neighbors.

While very creative, I don't care for it because of the potential problems I see.

It's actually not a permanent home, it's a temporary art installation that is part of a visual art exhibition in the Palm Springs/Coachella Valley area called "Desert X." The house will be dismantled at the end of April.

I too am sad for the birds, though. I can't imagine how many of them get confused by this mirrored house. We had quite a few bird fatalities at our house due to our wall of glass, and I shudder to think how many we will find now that we've enlarged the expanse of glass - we added another 10+ feet. Does anyone have any clever ideas on how to stop birds from crashing into the glass?

Pipdog, it depend some on why they are hitting the glass, and the species of birds (hummingbirds, sparrows, doves) can hit them for different reasons. Sometimes it happens more often at certain times of the year, due to the angle of the sun and the resulting reflections. Or it could be something really odd, such as one reason I discovered late last year.

Our kitchen window all of a sudden began showing feather powder outlines for mourning doves in almost the same center window location, several times per week. I could not figure out why they would be hitting the same location so frequently. And I never found any dead doves. Then one day I witnessed our local Cooper's hawk's crafty new hunting technique; and witnessed repeat performances since. The hawk will swoop in from the opposite side, while the doves are feeding at a ground saucer 25' away from the house. The startled doves would fly away from the hawk, towards the house, and smack into the window. The hawk would grab the dove upon impact, from the ground if stunned, or gain just enough advantage to often catch it as it would divert flight after hitting the window. Once, both the dove and hawk smacked into the office window instead, while I was seated just on the other side. Boy, was that loud! (The hawk was only a little dazed after that round; the dove became a meal.) I moved the feeder saucer under a shrub in an effort to curtail that little trick, but sometimes the doves still get taken by surprise while just walking around the yard.

That said, some people have taken to putting vertical stripes (roughly 3-4" apart) on their windows. I've heard of paint (the temp kind people use to write on their cars), cling strips, or even lines made by bars of soap. Moving feeders farther away, or changing their heights, using bare tree branches stuck in pots in front of the windows, etc. can help. But most techniques will obstructs the views out.

I have cling on spider webs on all my north facing windows. I used to get bird strikes a dozen times a year. I haven't had a single one since I put these on the window a few years ago. Apparently spider webs have the center line down the center and birds see it very clearly and instinctively avoid it. I get them at my local True Value Hardware so they must be easy to find.

Hawk silhouette on windows also work to prevent birds from banging into windows.