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 drawer and child books illustrator) and Per Dahlberg (Swedish painter living in Sopot) pictures and paintings.
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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.
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3. The Torre Galatea Figueras (Spain)
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4. Ferdinand Cheval Palace a.k.a Ideal Palace (France)
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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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6. 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.
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7. Wonderworks (Pigeon Forge, TN, United States)
8. 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.
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9. 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.
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10. Hang Nga Guesthouse a.k.a 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.
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11. Chapel in the Rock (Arizona, United States)
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12. Dancing Building (Prague, Czech Republic)
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13. Calakmul building a.k.a La Lavadora a.k.a The Washing Mashine (Mexico, Mexico)
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14.. Kettle House (Texas, United States)
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15. Manchester Civil Justice Centre (Manchester, UK)
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16. Nakagin Capsule Tower (Tokyo, Japan)
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17. Mind House (Barcelona, Spain)
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18. Stone House (Guimarães, Portugal)
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19. Shoe House (Pennsylvania, United States)
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20. Weird House in Alps
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21. The Ufo House (Sanjhih, Taiwan)
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22. The Hole House (Texas, United States)
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23. Ryugyong Hotel (Pyongyang, North Korea)
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24. The National Library (Minsk, Belarus)
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25. Grand Lisboa (Macao)
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26. Wall House (Groningen, Netherlands)
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27. Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain)
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28. Bahá’í House of Worship a.k.a Lotus Temple (Delhi, India)
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29. Container City (London, UK)
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30. Erwin Wurm: House Attack (Viena, Austria)
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31. Wooden Gagster House (Archangelsk, Russia)
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32. Air Force Academy Chapel (Colorado, United States)
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33. Solar Furnace (Odeillo, France)
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34. Dome House (Florida, United States)
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35.. Beijing National Stadium (Beijing, China)
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36. Fashion Show Mall (Las Vegas, United States)
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37. Luxor Hotel & Casino (Las Vegas, United States)
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38. Zenith Europe (Strasbourg, France)
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39. Civic Center (Santa Monica)
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40. Mammy’s Cupboard (Natchez, MS, United States)
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41. Pickle Barrel House (Grand Marais, Michigan, United States)
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42. The Egg (Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York, United States)
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43. Gherkin Building (London, UK)
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44. Nord LB building (Hannover, Germany)
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45. Lloyd’s building (London, UK)
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46. “Druzhba Holiday Center Hall (Yalta, Ukraine)
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47. Fuji television building (Tokyo, Japan)
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48. UCSD Geisel Library (San Diego, California, United States)
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49. Ripley’s Building (Ontario, Canada)
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50. The Bank of Asia a.k.a Robot Building (Bangkok, Thailand)
May 3rd, 2009 at 5:58 am
The website named”50 Amazing Buildings of the World”,has a very wonderful collection of buildings.What could I say more about this…..Really I am thankful of this website which gives opportunity to see such amazing buildings from all over the world in a single website…
May 4th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Y el servilletero de Monterrey?
El edificio del Tec de Monterrey
June 6th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Hi-I was looking for images of Hundertwasser, and found your site.
Do you mind if I link your site to my blog with art+culture? (and vice versa?)
Regards & Merci!
Penelope Walcott
June 20th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Hi,
Glad to do this,
and how are you.
I’m just wondering if you could make the Forest Spiral picture bigger.
Cheers
Mathew
July 3rd, 2009 at 3:50 pm
El servilletero de Monterrey, diseñado por Óscar Bulnes egresado de la UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE NUEVO LEON….
Les dejo foto del edificio…esta en Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gabojor/1466098598/
September 22nd, 2009 at 9:19 am
These are all so amazing!!
October 4th, 2009 at 10:16 am
really great
October 12th, 2009 at 2:29 am
look for another strang building at
http://www.foundshit.com/upside-down-pyramid-architecture/
I saw this building in real life. It’s amazing (it’s located in Bratislava)
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November 23rd, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Isn’t the Guggenheim just an ncredible looking building, it os definetely a must see its so much more impressive to see it infront of you.
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There is this 1 building in La touquet, France, that should be on this list. I stayed in a hotel over looking it, i dont no wat its called though, any1 know???!!!
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i thought that vienna had a double ‘n’, not just one…
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hehe I was in that crooked house and it’s like nothing there. I mean there is something but nothing that would interest a 7 year old like me… (I waz 7 when I waz there, I’m older now ) :-)
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