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Strange or Most Amazing Building Designs of the World - harshita - 01-13-2015
Strange or Most Amazing Building Designs of the World
1. The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland)
- Construction of the building started in in January 2003 and in December 2003 it was finished. House architecture is based on Jan Marcin Szancer (famous Polish artist and child books illustrator) and Per Dahlberg (Swedish painter living in Sopot) pictures and paintings.Image via: brocha2. Forest Spiral – Hundertwasser Building (Darmstadt, Germany)The Hundertwasser house “Waldspirale” (”Forest Spiral”) was built in Darmstadt between 1998 and 2000. Friedensreich Hundertwasser, the famous Austrian architect and painter, is widely renowned for his revolutionary, colourful architectural designs which incorporate irregular, organic forms, e.g. onion-shaped domes.The structure with 105 apartments wraps around a landscaped courtyard with a running stream. Up in the turret at the southeast corner, there is a restaurant, including a cocktail bar.3. The Torre Galatea Figueras (Spain)
2. Forest Spiral – Hundertwasser Building (Darmstadt, Germany)
The Hundertwasser house “Waldspirale” (”Forest Spiral”) was built in Darmstadt between 1998 and 2000. Friedensreich Hundertwasser, the famous Austrian architect and painter, is widely renowned for his revolutionary, colourful architectural designs which incorporate irregular, organic forms, e.g. onion-shaped domes.
The structure with 105 apartments wraps around a landscaped courtyard with a running stream. Up in the turret at the southeast corner, there is a restaurant, including a cocktail bar.
3. The Torre Galatea Figueras (Spain)
4. Ferdinand Cheval Palace or Ideal Palace (France)
Ferdinand Cheval was a French postman who spent thirty-three years of his life building Le Palais idéal (the "Ideal Palace") in Hauterives. The Palace is regarded as an extraordinary example of naïve art architecture. for Thirty-three years, Cheval picked up stones during his daily mail round and carried them home to build the Palais idéal. He spent the first twenty years building the outer walls. At first, he carried the stones in his pockets, then switched to a basket. Eventually, he used a wheelbarrow. He often worked at night, by the light of an oil lamp.
5. The Basket Building (Ohio, United States)
The Longaberger Basket Company building in Newark, Ohio might just be a strangest office building in the world. The 180,000-square-foot building, a replica of the company’s famous market basket, cost $30 million and took two years to complete. Many experts tried to persuade Dave Longaberger to alter his plans, but he wanted an exact replica of the real thing.
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RE: 50 Strange or Most Amazing Buildings of the World - harshita - 01-13-2015
Chapel in the Rock (Arizona, United States)
Dancing Building or Nationale-Nederlanden building , Prague, Czech Republic
It was designed by the architect Vlado Milunić in cooperation with architect Frank Gehry on a vacant riverfront plot
The style is known as deconstructivist architecture due to its unusual shape. The very non-traditional design was controversial at the time because the house stands out among the Baroque, Gothic and Art Nouveau buildings for which Prague is famous.
Calakmul building ,La Lavadora, The Washing Mashine (Mexico, Mexico
Kettle House (Texas, United States)
Manchester Civil Justice Centre (Manchester, UK)
Nakagin Capsule Tower (Tokyo, Japan)
Mind House (Barcelona, Spain)
Stone House (Guimarães, Portugal)
Shoe House (Pennsylvania, United States)
Weird House in Alps
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RE: 50 Strange or Most Amazing Buildings of the World - harshita - 01-13-2015
The Ufo House (Sanjhih, Taiwan)
The Hole House (Texas, United States)
Ryugyong Hotel (Pyongyang, North Korea)
The National Library (Minsk, Belarus)
Grand Lisboa (Macao)
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RE: 50 Strange or Most Amazing Buildings of the World - harshita - 01-13-2015
Wooden Gagster House (Archangelsk, Russia)
Air Force Academy Chapel (Colorado, United States)
Solar Furnace (Odeillo, France)
Dome House (Florida, United States)
Beijing National Stadium (Beijing, China)
Fashion Show Mall (Las Vegas, United States)
Luxor Hotel & Casino (Las Vegas, United States)
Zenith Europe (Strasbourg, France)
Civic Center (Santa Monica)
Mammy’s Cupboard (Natchez, MS, United States)
RE: 50 Strange or Most Amazing Buildings of the World - harshita - 01-13-2015
Pickle Barrel House (Grand Marais, Michigan, United States)
The Egg (Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York, United States)
Gherkin Building (London, UK)
Nord LB building (Hannover, Germany)
Lloyd’s building (London, UK)
“Druzhba Holiday Center Hall (Yalta, Ukraine)
Fuji television building (Tokyo, Japan)
UCSD Geisel Library (San Diego, California, United States)
Ripley’s Building (Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada)
The Bank of Asia Robot Building (Bangkok, Thailand)
RE: 50 Strange or Most Amazing Buildings of the World - harshita - 01-13-2015
Cubic Houses, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Cubic houses in Rotterdam and Helmond, Netherlands were designed by Piet Blom. They are cubes, situated in different angles over hexagon formed pylons, so they resemble trees, and altogether – make a forest! There are 38 small cubes, and they all are attached one to another, this is a genius idea, which was perfectly completed!
Le Palais Bulles Cannes, France
Tenerife Concert Hall Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
The Conch Shell House Isla Mujeres, Mexico
Earth House Lostorf, Switzerland
Eden project United Kingdom
Ferdinand Cheval Palace Ideal Palace, France
Steam World Museum, Gramado, Brazil
RE: 50 Strange or Most Amazing Buildings of the World - harshita - 01-13-2015
National Centre for the Performing Arts, China
The National Centre for the Performing Arts, NCPA shortly, unlike the newest buildings in China took almost 6 years to be built – it was started in 2001 with the project of Paul Andreu and it was finished in 2007. But all the time it had been built was worth, considering the result – the building resembles an enormous egg, lying in an artificial lake, it is all made of titanium and glass and looks really amazing!
Cybertecture Egg Mumbai, India
Grand Lisboa, Macao
Bullring Birmingham UK
BWM Welt, Munich, Germany
Experience Music Project, Seattle, USA
Mumbai University ASK Foundation Convention Center
The Sage, Gateshead, England
The Universum science museum Bremen, Germany
Office center “1000″ a.k.a. Banknote Kaunas, Lithuania
RE: Strange or Most Amazing Building Designs of the World - harshita - 01-13-2015
Shaped Building, Huainan, China
Great Mosque of Djenné Djenne, Mali, Africa
Elephant Building North Bangkok Business District
Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
La Tête au Carré, Nice, France
RE: Strange or Most Amazing Building Designs of the World - DivyaA - 06-06-2015
Really amazing....and great list. Thank you for sharing. Missed some of the pictures because my browser not loaded the last few images and i don't no why...
anyway thanks for making thispost. It was wonderful.
RE: Strange or Most Amazing Building Designs of the World - FDArchitects - 10-17-2018
Kansas City Public Library (Missouri, United States)
This project, located in the heart of Kansas City, represents one of the pioneer projects behind the revitalization of downtown.
The people of Kansas City were asked to help pick highly influential books that represent Kansas City. Those titles were included as ‘bookbindings’ in the innovative design of the parking garage exterior, to inspire people to utilize the downtown Central Library.
Wonderworks (Pigeon Forge, TN, United States)
Habitat 67 (Montreal, Canada)
Expo 67, one of the world’s largest universal expositions was held in Montreal. Housing was one of the main themes of Expo 67. The cube is the base, the mean and the finality of Habitat 67. In its material sense, the cube is a symbol of stability. As for its mystic meaning, the cube is symbol of wisdom, truth, moral perfection, at the origin itself of our civilization . 354 cubes of a magnificent grey-beige build up one on the other to form 146 residences nestled between sky and earth, between city and river, between greenery and light.
Cubic Houses (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
The original idea of these cubic houses came about in the 1970s. Piet Blom has developed a couple of these cubic houses that were built in Helmond.
The city of Rotterdam asked him to design housing on top of a pedestrian bridge and he decided to use the cubic houses idea. The concept behind these houses is that he tries to create a forest by each cube representing an abstract tree; therefore the whole village becomes a forest.
Hang Nga Guesthouse or Crazy House ,Vietnam
The house is owned by the daughter of the ex-president of Vietnam, who studied architecture in Moscow.
It does not comply with any convention about house building, has unexpected twists and turns, roofs and rooms. It looks like a fairy tale castle, it has enormous “animals” like a giraffe and a spider, no window is rectangular or round, and it can be visited like a museum.You have to register as member and login to see above images [img] attached in the forum post