The most photographed house in Berkeley California

FISH, HOUSE, or TOUGHEST ANIMAL IN THE WORLD?

This post took a completely unexpected turn!
I thought it was going to be about an unusual house,
but it turns out to be about one tough animal!

I am visiting relatives in Northern California.
I asked them what I could photograph for steemit and they sent me here.

They called it the "Fish House"

I had not read about it prior to going, so I assummed it was designed after a fish.

There were fins:

And bubbles:

But when I started to write this post , I searched the architect EUGENE TSSUI.
I found out that he built this house for his parents. They wanted the safest house in the world!
So he designed it after the most indestructible creature on our planet.
The TARDIGRADE.

The house was not a fish after all but an ugly little creature!
(picture taken from the internet)

An animal so resilient that it can go without water forr decades. They can survive the hottest and the coldest environments on earth. Some surviving the shock of boiling water and temperatures that near absolute zero. Some have lived after high levels of radiation. And some even survivied being blasted into space and returning to Earth!

In designing the house after the TARDIGRADE, Tissui gave his parents what they wanted. A house that could survive eathquake, flood, fire and pests.