150 Strange Buildings of the World
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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 (Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada)
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50. The Bank of Asia a.k.a Robot Building (Bangkok, Thailand)
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51. Office center “1000″ a.k.a. Banknote (Kaunas, Lithuania)
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| Architects: Rimas Adomaitis, Raimundas Babrauskas, Darius Siaurodinas, Virgilijus Jocys. Dates: 2005-2008. |
Despite what you might think this amazing building is not a temporal installation. The image of the LTL 1000 banknote is brought onto this building using special enamel paint. Money theme well represents various businesses located in this spectacular building. It’s an office center located in the second biggest city in Lithuania.By the way, banknote dates back to 1925. However it’s not used nowadays. |
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52. Kerala House Boats (Alappuzha, Alleppey, Kerala, India)
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53. Olympic Stadium (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
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54. Blur Building (Yverdon-les-Bainz, Switzerland)
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| Architects: Diller Scofidio + Renfro Dates: 2002 |
Seven years passed from expo 2002 but this building is still one of my favorites. It’s probably the mist that makes it so unusual and amazing at the same time. So called ‘blur pavilion’ with self generated mist was meant to give an impression that the building is floating above the water without any structural support. And indeed it looks just like that. |
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55. Tenerife Concert Hall (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain)
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56. The Never Was Haul (Berkeley, California, USA)
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57. The Puerta de Europa towers a.k.a Gate of Europe a.k.a Torres KIO (Madrid, Spain)
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| Architects: Philip Johnson and John BurgeeDates: 1996 | Torres KIO are two twin office buildings in Madrid. Each building is 115 m tall with an inclination of 15º. These twin towers are the world’s first leaning high-rise buildings. |
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58. UFO house (New Zealand)
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59. Gas Natural headquarters (Barcelona, Spain)
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60. Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles, California, USA)
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| Architects:Frank GehryDates: 1987 – 2003 | Walt Disney Concert Hall is designed to be one of the most acoustically sophisticated concert halls in the world providing an unparalleled musical experience. The project was launched in 1987 and completed in 2003.You can read more about this amazing building on wiki and Los Angeles Philharmonic homepage. |
Image credits: Phillip Ritz
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January 18th, 2009 at 5:06 am
#30 is not the usual like of that building. The house on the top should be part of an exhibition. It’s the Museum of contemporary art in Viena.
January 19th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
This house in Berkeley, California is also strange.
January 20th, 2009 at 1:10 am
Your article looks very similar to our post series at villageofjoy.com – and I thought steeling articles is against google adsense terms and conditions… Please remove it, or leave only ~20 buildings with a LINK to our website in a visible place. Otherwise we might report to google adsense, and see what do they think.
January 24th, 2009 at 2:20 am
this page is very good. I enjoyed watching it.
thank you
February 16th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
A house on stilts?! It just goes to show, you can’t be too careful.
February 19th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Huh, they left out the new Denver Art Museum, designed to look like a piece of crumpled paper:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/12/07/magazine/10big.600.jpg
April 28th, 2009 at 8:33 am
The one in Vienna looks crazy!!!
July 7th, 2009 at 4:18 am
Such an amazing collection,very very good to see.
July 10th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
I found your blog by chance . but i have to say that it’s great blog very useful information and very interesting subjects just greetings and good luck
i’m not going i will be always checking for updates.by the way Graz is a very lovely city I enjoyed it so much.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:59 pm
really amazing buildings and awesome architect.