The winner of the Best Public Project category at the FX International Interior Design Awards is this Bicycle Surveillance Hut :
In a category with some huge public projects, the Non-ument bicycle surveillance hut won the judges’ votes for its out-and-out wit. Designed as a security hut for a cycle park by the beach at Den Haag in the Netherlands, the hut fits into the landscape as a small but slightly bizarre object, a functional folly. Incorporating a WC, seating area and kitchen, the hut is designed to amuse and intrigue. On top of the building is a small model of a house, which every half an hour appears to catch fire with smoke billowing out. Thus, as well as fulfilling its functional duties, also acts as a piece of public art. The judges applauded the local city government for commissioning such a brave piece of architecture, the community for adopting it, and the designers for its humourous take on what could have been a utilitarian building.
Rather than the burning model home, why not have an execution pyre for bicycle thieves
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UPDATE: Regine has more info:
Following my call to get more information about the Bicycle Surveillance Hut, Ingeborg has kindly sent me several links.
The Hut has been designed by London-based studio FAT (Fashion Architecture Taste) for the Fiets & Stal event. Artists, designers and architects were invited by Stroom (a contemporary art institution in The Hague) to submit ideas for a guard house for a bicycle parking.
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Check also the other proposals by John Körmeling, Acconci Studio, Atelier van Lieshout and DUMoffice.
The address of the hut with pictures and a map.