Stone House (Guimarães, Portugal)
The Crooked House (Sopot Poland)
Forest Spiral – Hundertwasser Building (Darmstadt, German)
The structure with 105 apartments wraps around a landscaped courtyard with a running stream. Up in the turret at the southeast corner, there is a restaurant, including a cocktail bar.
The Torre Galatea Figueras (Spain)
Ferdinand Cheval Palace a.k.a Ideal Palace (France)
The Basket Building (Ohio, United States)
Kansas City Public Library (Missouri, United States)
The people of Kansas City were asked to help pick highly influential books that represent Kansas City. Those titles were included as ‘bookbindings’ in the innovative design of the parking garage exterior, to inspire people to utilize the downtown Central Library.
Wonderworks (Pigeon Forge, TN, United States)
Habitat 67 (Montreal, Canada)
Expo 67, one of the world’s largest universal expositions was held in Montreal. Housing was one of the main themes of Expo 67.
The cube is the base, the mean and the finality of Habitat 67. In its material sense, the cube is a symbol of stability. As for its mystic meaning, the cube is symbol of wisdom, truth, moral perfection, at the origin itself of our civilization.
354 cubes of a magnificent grey-beige build up one on the other to form 146 residences nestled between sky and earth, between city and river, between greenery and light.
Cubic Houses (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
The city of Rotterdam asked him to design housing on top of a pedestrian bridge and he decided to use the cubic houses idea. The concept behind these houses is that he tries to create a forest by each cube representing an abstract tree; therefore the whole village becomes a forest.
Hang Nga Guesthouse a.k.a Crazy House (Vietnam)
The house is owned by the daughter of the ex-president of Vietnam, who studied architecture in Moscow.
It does not comply with any convention about house building, has unexpected twists and turns, roofs and rooms. It looks like a fairy tale castle, it has enormous “animals” like a giraffe and a spider, no window is rectangular or round, and it can be visited like a museum.
Chapel in the Rock (Arizona, United States)
Dancing Building (Prague, Czech Republic)
Calakmul building a.k.a La Lavadora a.k.a The Washing Mashine (Mexico City, Mexico)
Kettle House (Texas, United States)
Shah Faisal Masjid (Islamabad, Pakistan)
Manchester Civil Justice Centre (Manchester, UK)
Nakagin Capsule Tower (Tokyo, Japan)
Mind House (Barcelona, Spain)
Shoe House (Pennsylvania, United States)
Weird House in Alps
The Ufo House (Sanjhih, Taiwan)
The Hole House (Texas, United States)
Ryugyong Hotel (Pyongyang, North Korea)
The National Library (Minsk, Belarus)
Grand Lisboa (Macao)
Wall House (Groningen, Netherlands)
Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain)
Bahá’í House of Worship a.k.a Lotus Temple (Delhi, India)
Container City (London, UK)
Erwin Wurm: House Attack (Viena, Austria)
Wooden Gagster House (Archangelsk, Russia)
Kati Pahari (Karachi, Pakistan)
Space between two mountains. Way for traffic. House are on mountains. Orangi Town
Air Force Academy Chapel (Colorado, United States)
Solar Furnace (Odeillo, France)
Dome House (Florida, United States)
Beijing National Stadium (Beijing, China)
Fashion Show Mall (Las Vegas, United States)
Luxor Hotel & Casino (Las Vegas, United States)
Zenith Europe (Strasbourg, France)
Civic Center (Santa Monica)
Mammy’s Cupboard (Natchez, MS, United States)
Pickle Barrel House (Grand Marais, Michigan, United States)
The Egg (Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York, United States)
Gherkin Building (London, UK)
Nord LB building (Hannover, Germany)
Lloyd’s building (London, UK)
Druzhba Holiday Center Hall (Yalta, Ukraine)
UCSD Geisel Library (San Diego, California, United States)
Ripley’s Building (Ontario, Canada)
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