Top 10 strange but interesting buildings in the world.

No one can deny the fact that human architecture is awesome. There are some architects who have the capability to turn the strangest of ideas into reality. In this list we will see some of the masterpieces of architecture that will make you go WOW!

NUMBER 1. Stone House, Portugal

Have you seen the cartoon series, Flintstones? If not, go check on Google images for their house appearance. After that see this house and compare the resemblance. Its local name is Casa do Penedo, meaning The House of Rock. Constructed between two rocks and having four rocks as its foundation, Stone House is a great tourist attraction. Its construction started in 1972 and ended in 1974. But this masterpiece worth the time consumed. It is a great place to have a bit stone age experience!!

NUMBER 2. The Dynamic Tower, Dubai, UAE

What will you do, if the building in which you are sitting starts moving. Then you are in the dynamic tower. Designed by David Fisher; each floor of this 80-floor building rotate by 6 meters every minute. It takes a total of 90 minutes to rotate 360 degree. If you are in this tower then every morning you will a different sunrise. Along with this building have 79 wind turbines to generate power for this building.

NUMBER 3. The Crooked House, Poland

What about a house that has no straight lines and looks like it is molting! That’s exactly what crooked house is. It is designed by Szotyńscy and Zaleski who was inspired by fairy tales illustrations and drawings of Jan Marcin Szancer and Per Dahlberg to create this masterpiece. It is a part of Rezydent shopping centre in Sopot, Poland. This building is a famous tourist attraction in Poland. It has became the most photographed building in Poland due to its unique impression.

NUMBER 4. Wonderworks, TN, USA

What about a building that is upside down. Wonderworks is such a building. It was built to give an impression that someone picked it up and again placed it upside down. It is basically an entertainment centre and museum whose slogan is “Let Your Imagination Run Wild” and with their architectural ideas they are also proving their slogan right.

 NUMBER 5. Habitat 67, Montreal, Canada

There are only two words for this building that is unique and awesome. It resembles to a unique arrangement of cubes that children play with. When you will see this building you will get amazed to know that it is perfectly safe and stable. Architect Moshe Safdie created it as the main attraction for the Expo 67.

NUMBER 6. Cubic Houses, Rotterdam, Netherlands

This is the most famous building in the list. It was designed by Piet Blom. He tilted the cubes of the houses at 45 degree and placed them upon a hexagonal-shaped pylop. Each house in his creation represents a tree and all houses altogether, a forest.

NUMBER 7. The Basket Building, Ohio, USA

Isn’t it will be cool that each and every thing of us represents our passion, our work? That is what the Longaberger Company did. Longaberger Company is an American distributor and manufacturer of handcrafted maple wood basket and other lifestyle products. In respect of their work, they themselves designed the interior and exterior of their headquarter that look like a basket. Now their headquarter has became a great tourist attraction.

NUMBER 8. The Piano House, Anhui, China

For this building we can say creativity at its peak, for sure. It was built in 2007 to display the plans for the future development of that area. This building has a companion violin made up of glass. The locals of the area dubbed this place as “the most romantic building in China”.

NUMBER 9. Kansas City Public Library, Missouri, United States

This is an innovative idea. Its purpose is to motivate the people to use more and more public libraries. Even this building is built with the help of people. The people of Kansas City were asked to pick books that describe this city. Those book titles were added to this design. It was designed by Brian M. Finn.

NUMBER 10. Lotus Temple, Delhi, India

You can guess the shape of this magnificent building by its name. It is beautifully designed in the shape of a lotus. This temple has won numerous awards for architecture. This temple is composed of 27-free standing marble-clad “petals” arranged in cluster of three to form nine sides. A 2001 CNN report referred to it as the most visited building in the world.

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