20 Weird Buildings

akita · 13-08-2010, 08:34 AM

1. The famous "Melting building" in Paris uses optical illusion techniques.

2. The Kunsthaus Graz is an art museum built in Austria.

3. Wonderworks at Pigeon Forge, US, is an upside down "amusement park for the mind".

4. A UFO shaped house at Pensacola, Florida, US.

5. Salvador Dali spent the last years of his life at the Torre Galatea in Figueras, Spain and it's now open to the public.

6. A shoe house in Pennsylvania.

7. The Hundertwasser building in Austria is a popular tourist attraction.

8. Quebec Olympic Stadium.

9. The Nationale-Nederlanden building in Prague is also known as the "Dancing building".

10. Selfridges Department Store at Birmingham, UK.

11. Kubuswoning (Cubic Houses) at the Netherlands.

12. The Basket Building in Newark, Ohio, US.

13. Casa Batllo was built in 1877 in Barcelona, Spain.

14. A stone house in Fafe, Portugal.

15.The Teapot dome gas station at Yakima Valley, Washington, US.

16. The Eden Project is a tourist attraction in the UK which features the world's largest greenhouse.

17. The Fuji television building in Tokyo.

18. Kansas City Library.

19. The UK's Container City.

20. The Gherkin building in London, UK.

Feel_Good_inc. · 13-08-2010, 08:51 AM

good list.

akita · 13-08-2010, 09:19 AM

^ Thanks. Yours are better though.

Feel_Good_inc. · 13-08-2010, 09:21 AM

I've had more practise, that's all. I started like this.

Buttons. · 13-08-2010, 10:21 AM

I want to live in Caso Batllo!

Leo Pard · 13-08-2010, 10:35 AM

I want to live in the gherkin.

Feel_Good_inc. · 13-08-2010, 10:42 AM

the gerkin is full of bankers you know? You'd have to live with them. think yu can stand that?

My brother won't let it drop. Every time he sees the Gerkin he say's "it's the buttplug" as if it's going to catch on. I'm the only one who's ever heard him say it and I'm not going to call it that.

Leo Pard · 13-08-2010, 10:49 AM

I'll murder them all in a gigantic bloody massacre. Then I'll turn the gherkin into a fort so the police can't get me.
Snorted.

Feel_Good_inc. · 13-08-2010, 10:52 AM

I think you might actually get some public support there.
dumb bankers and their stupid recession.

Leo Pard · 13-08-2010, 11:10 AM

Hahaha, very true. Can they not just make more money so there's no recession? Or would that be too sensible...

sdixon · 13-08-2010, 06:46 PM

I live about 3 hours away from the basket building, it is crazy looking up close.

all-hope.lost-forever · 14-08-2010, 01:42 AM

cool :)

GlitterTrashDoll · 14-08-2010, 02:01 AM

It makes me giggle that most of them are in the UK. :P

xbeckyx · 14-08-2010, 02:49 PM

Cool list.

The Hierophant · 14-08-2010, 02:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mystery of life

5. Salvador Dali spent the last years of his life at the Torre Galatea in Figueras, Spain and it's now open to the public.

9. The Nationale-Nederlanden building in Prague is also known as the "Dancing building".

13. Casa Batllo was built in 1877 in Barcelona, Spain.

Seen these three.
Infact, my hotel in Prague was just up the road from that building.
Because if you walked the road onto that corner you could then walk up the river to old town.
Which was beautiful.

crazykat · 14-08-2010, 02:58 PM

Cool buildings

Queen Crabbit · 16-08-2010, 12:10 AM

Did you make this list yourself? if not, you should credit where it's from.

squirrelspit · 16-08-2010, 12:25 AM

I want to go to the kansas city library

Kame · 16-08-2010, 12:52 AM

Haha, I was surprised to see Selfridges. It's not that weird when you live half an hour away from it :P

Ettie · 16-08-2010, 10:09 AM

Hahaha nice list. makes the bee hive here look very boring and normal!