Suggest a Building
If you happen to run into a strange looking building – suggest it here by leaving a comment bellow.
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peter b lewis building in cleveland, ohio
While traveling in Nice, France, I stumbled upon this “block head” building. I’m unsure of its original name.
The Milwaukee Art Museum, Calatrava wing.
The Theodore Giesel (Dr. Seuss) library at UCSD. >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Geisel_library.jpg
The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House
Dancing House – Prague, Czech Republic – I have pics.
The Bavinger House by Bruce Goff
The Bullring in Birmingham UK, think it may be the selfridges building its amazing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/file:Birmingham_selfridges_building.jpg
The Denver Art Museum
http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2006/1003/20061003_065609_FD04_artext.jpg
Although I emailed this to them, just thought I would share with you guys! The Flintstone house in Burlingame, California.
Temple of the Community of Christ
Independence, MO
Banpo Bridge Seoul, South Korea
Songdo Convensia
Scotty’s Castle: Death Valley, CA
buildings in Nova Scotia
kelsey monument ass
CCTV building in Beijing,China
House on the Rock in Spring Green, Wisconsin
Museu do Olho, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Weisman Art Museum- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
How about the Niki de Saint Phalle Tarot Garden, in Italy ?
http://www.nikidesaintphalle.com
How about the building of the Royal Danish Library, ‘The Black Diamond’?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Diamond_%28library%29
O Ghery buildings /Duesseldorf (Germany) media habour
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8062570@N03/4579479318/
Great House of Steel. http://www.robertbruno.com/
“crazy house” , Dalat vietnam !!!!
Basilica, Higuey, DomRep
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2375/2318120477_132e198d28_b.jpg
I found an amusing article about strange buildings today at – http://www.charringtonoak.co.uk/Top10-WorldsWeirdestBuildings.html
It’s worth taking a look at!
Turning Torso Malmö, Sweden
Magical wardrobe, building of Baj Pomorski Theater in Toru?, Poland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baj_Pomorski_Theater
http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plik:Rainbow_over_Baj_Pomorski.jpg&filetimestamp=20080830164337
I’d like to suggest the house and sculpture park of Bruno Weber in Dietikon.
Here the kink to his Website:
http://www.bruno-weber.ch
and a link to an english article:
http://www.bruno-weber.ch/1_bruno_weber/2_in_der_presse/raw_vision_44.htm
and here a link to a photograph of the house on Wikipedia:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:BrunoWeber01.JPG
the whole place is wacky and magical at the same time
…and the Hundertwasser-House in Vienna:
http://www.hundertwasserhaus.com/
…and the Goetheanum in Dornach (CH)
http://www.goetheanum.org/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goetheanum_Dornach.jpg
Denmark ‘s funny building:
Tietgenkollegiet at Copenhagen
Performers’ house at Silkaborg
Twist o’ The Mist in Niagara Falls, NY. It is shaped like an ice cream cone!
http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/ddfc207a-edcb-4648-9d30-f054e5a87887.jpg
Hamilton Island Yacht Club. It’s shaped like a yacht.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3517/3852352928_d3848ba27c_b.jpg
Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada
The Egg in Albany, NY
The Art Gallery of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada.
http://www.nakitavalerio.com/art-gallery-of-alberta-gran.jpg
is one example.
Turning Torso in Malmö, Sweden.
I can think of two really extraordinary buidlings in Stuttgart, Germany: The Museums of Porsche and Mercedes Benz have recently been built and are really innovative.
Casa Bola, São Paulo-SP-Brasil
http://rseefo.com.br/?tag=casa-bola
Office building “aan de Stegge” in Dutch city Goor, inspired by Hundertwasser: http://zoom.nl/foto/664470/architectuur/hundertwasser-in-goor.html
… and Dutch museum of Human Body: http://www.holland.com/uk/system/Images/tr_VDE_museum-corpus_oegstgeest_buitenaanzicht_560x350_tcm503-138673.jpg
SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City
Missing the Cesar Manrique Buildings on Lanzarote ( Canary Islands)
They are built based on lava bubbles
http://www.lanzaroteguidebook.com/article/fundacion-cesar-manrique
.. and the opera in Oslo ( Norway)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Opera_House
Looks like an ice block – you can walk on the roof . The building won several awards
Arcosanti, Cordes Junction, AZ, USA
arco
New York City Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(http://maps.google.com.br/?ie=UTF8&ll=-22.99978,-43.359861&spn=0.004326,0.010568&z=17&layer=c&cbll=-22.99978,-43.360117&panoid=ZxD1FvlfvQdvCR1LNQoaFw&cbp=12,339.01,,1,-12.95)
Cidade da Música (Music City), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, still under construction
(http://maps.google.com.br/?ie=UTF8&ll=-23.000165,-43.367522&spn=0.004365,0.010568&z=17&layer=c&cbll=-23.000158,-43.367274&panoid=VTbxKqokY5QBEpjrq5HOCA&cbp=12,45.81,,0,-4.59)
Ontario College of Art and Design