10 Weirdest Buildings

• NeverSayGoodBye

  27 Jun 13, 20:37

  These buildings defy conventional architecture and sometimes even gravity!

   

  

  Hanoi Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam

  The Hanoi Museum, designed by GMP Architekten of Germany, incorporates some common themes of museum construction with a new twist.

  It resembles an inverted pyramid with four levels of descending squares, the bottom level significantly smaller than even the first floor. This significantly smaller bottom level means that the surrounding gardens and water features almost appear to begin beneath the building leading visitors from the outside in. Confused yet? We are.

   

  

  China Olympics CCTV Tower

  We can't tell if the CCTV tower wants to be a skyscraper or a block, but it sure is one of Beijing's tallest building, standing at a spectacular 230 meters. The building is considered to be a structural challenge because of it's hollow center. The building attracted controversy when its design was unveiled 11 years ago, but it has given the city's landscape a more futuristic and urban feel.

   

  

  'Dancing House' in Prague, Czech Republic

  This modernist building was designed by architect Frank Gehry and Vlado Milunić. 99 concrete panels, each a different shape and dimension, support its 'dancing' façade. The Dancing House initially copped flak for standing out amongst the more Baroque or Art Nouveau-styled buildings in the area, but it is now seen as a work of art in Prague.

   

  

  The Longaberger in Newark, Ohio

  This basket building is owned by The Longaberger Company, a manufacturer of wood baskets and other lifestyle products. The company's corporate headquarters takes the shape of their best seller, the 'Medium Market Basket'. It stands seven stories tall, with its handles weighing almost 150 tons. The basket handles can be heated during cold weather to protect against ice damage.

   

  

   

  The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada

  This museum is one of North America's largest. The juxtaposition of its glass and aluminium frame was designed by architect Daniel Libeskind and added to the museum's existing heritage-listed building. Of course, any bold redesign is sure to attract a fair number of detractors, but that hasn't stopped more than a million people visiting the museum every year.

• NeverSayGoodBye

  27 Jun 13, 20:40

  

  Upside-down house in Terfens, Austria

  One sure way to pique people's curiosity is to completely flip a house upside-down, which is what Polish architects Irek Glowacki and Marek Rozhanski have done. The house serves as a tourist attraction in the western Austrian village of Terfens, where visitors can experience a head-spin - even the interiors are done the wrong way!

  

   

  Atomium in Brussels, Belgium

  The Atomium may not look out of place today, but it was groundbreaking back in 1958. The building, which is a replica of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times, was designed by engineer André Waterkeyn.

  Escalators and a lift allow access between the spheres. CNN may have named it Europe's most bizarre building, but we think it's pretty cool that such a building exists.

   

  

  Grand Lisboa casino in Macau, China

  The Grand Lisboa is as auspicious as one can get. The pineapple is associated with money luck and good fortune, so we guess it makes sense to build a casino in the shape of one (or at least try to)! The 58-floor hotel and casino was designed by Hong Kong architects Dennis Lau and Ng Chun Man, and stands at 261 meters

   

  

  Oscar Niemeyer's Museum in Brazil

  This structure looks great as a bigger-than-life art installation, but it is actually a visual arts, design and architecture museum. It has also been nicknamed the 'Museum of the Eye', as the annex resembles an all-seeing beady, black eye. We're sure Big Brother would like this museum very much.

   

  

  Cubic houses in Rotterdam, Holland

  The Kubuswoningen, or cube houses, was designed by architect Piet Blom and based on the concept of 'living as an urban roof'. We're not sure what that means, but the cubes are tilted at a 45 degree angle and set upon a hexagonal column. Furthermore, each house is meant to represent a tree, and together in a cluster, resemble a forest. It basically looks like a very abstract tree in Blom's imagination. We'll take the conventional tree house, thanks!

• FireIce

  27 Jun 13, 21:47

  why no have MBS

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  28 Jun 13, 08:56

  MBS is not a building... It is a ship that is suppose launch off during the next big flood

• charlize

  1 Jul 13, 21:33

  Supreme Court also launching off.

   

  But during alien invasion.

• GHoST_18

  1 Jul 13, 21:39

  no.

  supreme court is the spaceship the aliens came in.

  

• FireIce

  1 Jul 13, 21:43

  who are they kidnapping? 

• GHoST_18

  1 Jul 13, 21:50

  kai kai and jia jia, together with the other animals in the zoo.

  why do you think they build noah's ark at marina.

  

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  2 Jul 13, 09:41

  Originally posted by GHoST_18:

  kai kai and jia jia, together with the other animals in the zoo.

  why do you think they build noah's ark at marina.

  

  
  !!!

   

   

  Now it all makes sense

• FireIce

  2 Jul 13, 13:30

  then shd build at mandai mah

  how u expect the animals to travel?

  take taxi?

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  2 Jul 13, 13:41

  alien technology alien thinking...

   

  we wont understand their non-conventional methology...

• GHoST_18

  2 Jul 13, 23:16

  MBS?
  
  Mandai Bay Sands?

  like tat bo sheng li leh.

  tat place so ulu.

  

• FireIce

  2 Jul 13, 23:33

  as long as got casino. no matter how ulu oso ppl will go.

• charlize

  4 Jul 13, 21:06

  really?