Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Unusual buildings from around the world (41 pics)

“This is really a mad, mad world” – People are really fond of doing strange and even shocking things.Here you will see-buildings were designed by talented architects with a boundless and sometimes crazy fantasy, These are not homes but they are exhibition centers and offices,one that stood out not only nationally, but around the world. So lets take a view.

Unusual Buildings (1)

Dynamic Tower in Dubai. The skyscraper, whose every floor is moving on its own axis, independently of the others. The first building, which can change its shape. Still under construction.

Unusual Buildings (2)

Banpo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea.

Unusual Buildings (3)

Cucumber skyscraper in London.

Unusual Buildings (4)

Rear view.

Unusual Buildings (5)

Experience music project. Seattle, USA.

Unusual Buildings (6)

Villa Pierre Cardin (Palais Bulles) in Cannes.

Unusual Buildings (7)

Museum Ripley's Believe It or Not! near Niagara Falls in Canada.

Unusual Buildings (8)

National Theatre there.

Unusual Buildings (9)

he National Stadium in Beijing.

Unusual Buildings (10)

Casa Batlló of Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona.

Unusual Buildings (11)

Ideal Palace Hauterive, France. Built usual French postman Ferdinand Cheval enthusiast for 33 years (1879-1912).

Unusual Buildings (12)

Museum of Arts in Graz, Austria.

Unusual Buildings (13)

Denver Museum of Art.

Unusual Buildings (14)

Brazil's Cathedral - Roman Catholic cathedral in the capital of Brazil - Brasilia. Serves as the seat of the Archbishop of Brasilia.

Unusual Buildings (15)

Library Alexandrina. Alexandria, Egypt.

Unusual Buildings (16)

Casapueblo. Maldonado, Uruguay.

Unusual Buildings (17)

Casapueblo. Maldonado, Uruguay.

Unusual Buildings (18)

Cubic houses. Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Unusual Buildings (19)

The National Library in Minsk.

Unusual Buildings (20)

Restaurant "Mammy's Cupboard" (Mamochkin buffet) in Nanches, Mississippi.

Unusual Buildings (21)

Stone house in Guimaraes, Portugal.

Unusual Buildings (22)

Wooden skyscraper in Arkhangelsk. Demolished in 2009.

Unusual Buildings (23)

Lotus Temple. New Delhi, India

Unusual Buildings (24)

Olympic Stadium in Montreal.

Unusual Buildings (25)

An architectural masterpiece of Montreal, the biosphere is the only museum in North America dedicated to water.

Unusual Buildings (26)

The residential complex Habitat-67. Montreal, Canada.

Unusual Buildings (27)

Calakmul building - a building in a giant washing machine in Mexico.

Unusual Buildings (28)

Nautilus - an unusual house built in the style of Bioorganic suburb of Mexico City in 2006.

Unusual Buildings (29)

The residential complex called "Edificio Mirador" (literal translation: Lookout) in Madrid.

Unusual Buildings (30)

House-snail in Sofia.

Unusual Buildings (31)

Project "Eden" - a botanical garden in Cornwall, UK.

Unusual Buildings (32)

La Tete au Carre in Nice, France. Inside the building is unusual library.

Unusual Buildings (33)

Shopping center "Bull ring". Birmingham, UK.

Unusual Buildings (34)

Tenerife Concert Hall. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

Unusual Buildings (35)

Curved house in Polish city of Sopot.

Unusual Buildings (36)

Another upside down house in Szymbark, Poland.

Unusual Buildings (37)

WonderWorks - a building that is a theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

Unusual Buildings (38)

Our office Longaberger basket company ("Trash Longabergera") in Newark, Ohio.

Unusual Buildings (39)

Lutheran church in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Unusual Buildings (40)

Museum of Art in Milwaukee, USA.

Unusual Buildings (41)

Atomium in Brussels, Belgium. Was designed to open the world exhibition in 1958 by architect André Vaterkeynom as a symbol of the atomic age and the peaceful uses of atomic energy and was built under the guidance of the architects André and Michel Polak.

Unusual Buildings (42)

The public library in Kansas City, USA. This is where you can find the book The World of Tolkien - all of the great writer and his works .

Megha 03 Aug, 2011


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