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Here's a photo-essay from True Slant by P.J. Tobia on the houses that opium poppies built in Afghanistan. Here's a related video feature in Monocle magazine. Here's a related AFP item about poppy palaces and widespread corruption in Karzai's Afghanistan, and here's an item about the neologism in ... More.
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Oooo, thanks for narcotecture: now I have a fun word to use when I go to Miami!
The monocle video shouldn't be missed. Many of those new houses are won't survive the next earthquake, so the blight should pass. Pity that so much was razed away in order to build them, though
This house in the pic is like Miami Vice help Kubla Khan decorate Xanadu, with some input from Shreve, Lamb and Harmon.
I suspect the balconies are for your bodyguards. Nothing says "class" more than a guy with an assault rife.
They look like diners on Long Island.
#5: I LOVE those kind of diners. Flashy and tasteless as a cheap Vegas casino. I went to one a couple of years back that had an under-the-sea theme. There were portholes in the walls with LCD screens in them showing fish-tank style screen saves. And blown glass lamps over the tables that looked like jellyfish.
Nice. The 'Needs More Railings' house is actually quite elegant.
And I love the look of those rough reed mats sticking out amongst all the wedding cake plaster.
It's funny that throughout the third world, houses like these built from questionable income streams share many ostentatious qualities.
In America, the wealthy want McMansions and land to surround them.
In the third world, multiple stories seem to be de rigeur.
Could you imagine striking it rich by siphoning off a tiny bit of international reparations funds or drug trafficking, and building a house for the family? Fuck TWO STORIES. THREE STORIES are for blue collar workers. WE MUST HAVE A 9-STORY HOUSE WITH BALCONIES AND DECKS ON EVERY FLOOR!
See: Shenzen, Shanhai, Saigon, Bangkok, Bangalore, Bombay, Karachi, Kabul, etc., etc., etc.
"Narcotecture"?
That's narc-deco!!
I have this lovely mental image of poppies building houses. And it's even rememberance day!
This is great! But "narcotecture"? Wha? It's Narchitecture!!! And C-monster.net has been documenting it for... like... ever, mkay.
http://c-monster.net/blog1/category/narchitecture/
Hm, in medical terms the 'o' is used for joining, so narc-o-tecture seems more correct, 'narc' revering to numbing drugs, 'o' joining the terms, and 'tecture' a form of tech, from 'tektōn', meaning builder or craftsman. So, a building related to numbing drugs.