Weirdest Buildings In The World

buildings are usually boring rectangles and squares but sometimes people decide to really spice things up coming up are some of the weirdest structures ever built number 20 montreal biosphere the biosphere is an environmental museum designed by buckminster fuller for the 1967 world fair the giant ball looking part around the outside is a geodesic dome its triangular elements are structurally designed to distribute stress evenly throughout the entire thing which means it can withstand very heavy loads for its size it looks so futuristic that it was featured in the original battlestar galactica series number 19. chevy domic chevy domic polish for crooked little house is a very oddly shaped building in sopot poland built in 2004 chevy domic is about 43 000 square feet in size and is a part of the resident shopping center it was designed by satinsky and zaleski who cited fairy tale illustrations and drawings as their primary inspiration despite its strange warped almost impossible looking exterior inside you'll find normal shops restaurants as well as a radio station number 18. casa do pineda portuguese for stone house or house of the rock this building is a monument between solorico de basto and faf in northern portugal four large boulders serve as the foundation walls and ceiling of the house which as you've probably guessed is the source of its name it was originally used as a holiday getaway by the owners but has since become a local cultural museum there's no electricity because as you can imagine it would be a bit difficult to install number 17 lotus temple the lotus temple in delhi india is a baha'i house of worship it has become famous for its unique flower-like shape and is open to people of all religions the petals are free-standing and clad with marble it can fit 2500 people and in 2001 cnn deemed it the most visited building in the world reading non-scriptural texts playing musical instruments and fundraising are all banned inside of the temple number 16 atomium constructed for the 1958 world's fair this is a museum in brussels i guess when you make a building with the sole intention of it looking cool for the world's fair it doesn't have many other options in terms of practicality it's over 300 feet tall and forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal scaled up 165 billion times inside the tubes are stairs escalators and elevators that take visitors from ball to ball the highest one is a restaurant from which you can look out over all of brussels number 15. kansas city public library known by locos simply as the library district parking garage these giant books are part of the central library in kansas city built in 2004 the books are 25 feet by 9 ft and made of signboard mylar laid over concrete panels and aluminum the actual books included were suggested by citizens of kansas city and then picked by the kansas city public library board of trustees number 14 habitat 67 this building is a housing complex in montreal canada designed by israeli-canadian architect moshi softi it was built for the 1967 world's fair softie has said that the initial models of the project were built using lego bricks and subsequent iterations were also built with lego bricks this isn't too surprising since the whole thing really does look like something a kid would build with legos but unlike legos people really do live in this building number 13. nautilus house nautilus house located near mexico city is a shell-shaped house that's considered an example of bio architecture it was designed by javier senossian and inspired by frank lloyd wright a famous american architect who believed that buildings should be in harmony with the natural environment the house was named after the shells of the nautilus cephalopod and was built using ferro cement and a frame of steel enforced chicken wire this method allowed for the natural curves and the lack of load-bearing walls or columns number 12 house attack house attack was an architectural installation in vienna austria and yeah unfortunately i have to use the past tense here as house attack no longer exists it was created by artist erwin worm as a publicity stunt for the museum moderner kunst worm said of the project that house attack is a symbol for an everyday occurrence as well as small-mindedness it was intended to break the normal way of thinking about architecture and i think it clearly accomplished this number 11. cube houses the cube houses or kuba swaningan and dutch are a set of houses in rotterdam and hellman in the netherlands designed by pietblam the goal was to optimize the space inside by tilting a conventional house 45 degrees and resting it upon a hexagonal pylon the design is intended to represent a village within a city where each house is a tree and the houses are a forest all together number 10 eden project this is a popular attraction in cornwall england inside the two biomes are plants from a diverse range of climates and environments the domes are made of hundreds of inflated plastic cells supported by steel frames one simulates a rainforest environment and the other simulates a mediterranean environment outside is a botanical garden with some less exciting plants that are native to england it also contains a geothermal electricity plant number nine atlantis the palm dubai this somewhat awkwardly named luxury hotel in the united arab emirates was the first resort to ever be built on the island of palm jumeirah and is themed around the myth of atlantis there are 1539 rooms in the two towers and they're connected by the royal bridge suite which has an average rate of 23 thousand dollars a night number eight wonder works wonder works are a series of five educational and entertainment centers that focus on science exhibits around the united states the company slogan is let your imagination run wild which the designer of these buildings terry o nicholson clearly did wonder works buildings are commonly built to look as if they're upside down the reason for this and the wonderworks lore is that there was a whimsical professor whose top-secret research lab in the bermuda triangle got hit by a tornado it scattered his buildings all over the country hopefully they didn't crush anyone wizard of oz style number seven the longaberger company headquarters this seven-story 180 000 square foot building was originally the actual corporate headquarters for the longaberger company an american manufacturer and distributor of handcrafted maple wood baskets the handles weigh almost 150 tons and have to be heated during cold weather to avoid ice damage the original plan created by founder dave longaberger was for every single one of their office buildings to be shaped like a basket but this is the only one they actually made probably because they realized that it's way harder to make a building shaped like a giant basket the building has become a well-known landmark in ohio and an often cited example of novelty architecture number six the amazing flying house this real house located near sarzana italy can move up and down rotate 360 degrees and move along rails it was built by one person who lived in it with his wife for seven years apparently the goal of all this was so that he could move the house so that the sun would always be in the right place a less creative person probably would have just gone outside if they wanted to get more sun or something but then of course we wouldn't have this unique house number five the whole house the whole house unfortunately only existed for a few months in 2005 in texas was it the home of a tiny black hole or a portal to another dimension no two houses were slated for demolition and so sculptors dan havel and dean ruck turned it into the strange thing that it briefly was number 4. nidoroi contemporary art museum known by locals as mac this building is situated in the city of niteroi rio de janeiro brazil and has become one of the city's main landmarks since its completion in 1996. it was designed by oscar neymar and bruno contorini it's about 50 feet high and looks out over the beach a reflecting pool surrounds the base and is intended to resemble a flower what this whole building actually looks like is some super village secret lair and not a museum with a bunch of paintings number three the works of john pugh john pugh is an artist known for making normal buildings look weird with his mind-bending murals his work on the theater in the round looks like a giant ball smashing through a building trippier still his warp buildings looks like a dream or a mirage his academy in chicago shows the ancient world bursting into the present as does the siete punto uno in los gatos california number two reversible destiny lofts the dramatically named reversible destiny lofts are an apartment complex in tokyo consisting of nine residential units made mostly of cubes spheres and tubes each apartment has a circular kitchen at the center vertical poles to assist with moving within the space and ceiling hooks for lighting and storage the goal of the project was to challenge and stimulate the senses helen keller was a source of inspiration to the designers arukawa and jinns who dedicated the entire project to her citing her as an example of reversible destiny while the lofts were not intended to look exactly like a mcdonald's play place it's undeniable that they do number one hang nah guest house popularly and perhaps more accurately known simply as crazy house this building is a highly unconventional structure designed by vietnamese architect deng vietnam in dalot hangna is the chinese goddess of the moon and the overall design is intended to be fairy tale like in nature it resembles a tree and there are various sculptured elements that represent animals mushrooms and spider webs it's intended to look organic and the designer clearly didn't set out to make just another rectangle it's been compared to both the works of salvador dali and walt disney and it currently functions as a hotel maybe you found the spot of your next vacation destination or maybe you've just found out how lame your apartment really is let me know which building you'd most like to visit in the comments down below and if you enjoyed the video make sure to leave a like and subscribe clicking that bell icon to be notified next time we post a video thanks for watching you

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Published: Sun Jun 09 2019