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http://www.prague30.com/photo_gallery/photo_gallery_8341ab3f54906e43d1d1364796ee39e0.jpg

Dancing House (Fred and Ginger)
Vlado Milunić/Frank Gehry
Prague, 1996

― being rich would be the best (roxymuzak), Monday, 24 November 2008 08:17 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.andrewlmoore.com/images/photography/Crazy%20House-Dalat.jpg

Crazy House
Dang Viet Nga
Dalat, Vietnam, 1990

― being rich would be the best (roxymuzak), Monday, 24 November 2008 08:27 (seventeen years ago)

Well, this didn't take off. Haw.

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 30 November 2008 06:03 (seventeen years ago)

i tried and failed to find a building as bizarre as the 2nd one

― WHALE WARS (jabba hands), Sunday, 30 November 2008 06:06 (seventeen years ago)

more please!

http://oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles/a173_astra.jpg

Astra House
Hamburg, Germany

― Super Cub, Sunday, 30 November 2008 06:08 (seventeen years ago)

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_GQ1aGQnUSsI/R4ps0sXZ3sI/AAAAAAAAAb8/IPErFyvN8jQ/DSC_0014-A.jpg

Krzywy Domek (Crooked House)
Sopot, Poland
2003

― Super Cub, Sunday, 30 November 2008 06:14 (seventeen years ago)

Ha! I almost posted that.

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 30 November 2008 06:18 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/75/167815028_1b125a84b7.jpg

Abandoned UFO Hotel
Sanjhih, Taiwan

― fajita seas, Sunday, 30 November 2008 06:18 (seventeen years ago)

http://bp3.blogger.com/_NpINLHeo8rM/R2uvgYk1VFI/AAAAAAAALaw/M6FQ749-qsw/s1600-h/6.jpg

Somewhere in Japan

― Super Cub, Sunday, 30 November 2008 06:23 (seventeen years ago)

Try again

http://cker.name/galerie/example/japan-house.jpg

― Super Cub, Sunday, 30 November 2008 06:24 (seventeen years ago)

Fajita seas: Thanks for posting that. Amazing.

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 30 November 2008 06:24 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.fotothing.com/photos/dc4/dc43573b97cd668466a6e1b515383b77.jpg
Rotterdam

― Maria :D, Sunday, 30 November 2008 14:26 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.archidose.org/Blog/HD30b.jpg
Rotterdam

― Maria :D, Sunday, 30 November 2008 14:29 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.thecityreview.com/arcnowg.jpg
Nara Tower (Tokyo)

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 30 November 2008 14:37 (seventeen years ago)

The Urban Cactus is a great idea, IMO. Check out this view of it (on the right):

http://craphound.com/images/cactushousing.jpg

So many expansive spaces.

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 30 November 2008 21:23 (seventeen years ago)

That's lovely - you can feel like you're in nature in a mini-skyscraper.

― u s steel, Sunday, 30 November 2008 21:35 (seventeen years ago)

http://juanau.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/palais-bulles.jpg http://www.futurehi.net/images/palaisbulles02.jpg

Palais de Bulles (the summer villa of Pierre Cardin)
Antti Lovag
Port-la-Galère, France, early 70s

― derelict, Monday, 1 December 2008 00:25 (seventeen years ago)

the sunglasses rack in the back is pretty weird too
http://www.fotothing.com/photos/dc4/dc43573b97cd668466a6e1b515383b77.jpg

― negotiable, Monday, 1 December 2008 01:07 (seventeen years ago)

Gotta love the Cube Houses!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3203/2854392849_3be2dd62ae.jpg

According to an explanatory placard outside the Cube project, "Living in a cube requires quite a bit of imagination and adaptability by the residents. They must thrive on creativity since standard furniture simply will not fit."

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 1 December 2008 02:34 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3070/2855252080_26dfafa78b_b.jpg

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 1 December 2008 02:35 (seventeen years ago)

Gives me vertigo

― Super Cub, Monday, 1 December 2008 02:36 (seventeen years ago)

http://unusual-architecture.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/houseattackvienaaustriamain.jpg

House Attack, Vienna, Austria

― Number None, Monday, 1 December 2008 03:19 (seventeen years ago)

Things like that make me uncomfortable.

― roxymuzak, Monday, 1 December 2008 03:19 (seventeen years ago)

That's a one-off installation, right? I've seen the MOMAK without the flying house...

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 1 December 2008 03:22 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.jims-pages.com/foison/images/flintstones.jpg

Popularly known as the "Flintstones House" (William Nicholson, 1976, Hillsborough, CA). Recently painted orange.

― Paul in Santa Cruz, Monday, 1 December 2008 06:50 (seventeen years ago)

I lived in Rotterdam when I was much younger and used to LOVE going under the cube houses - the fact that they span a street is just as interesting as their shape!

and, Speedy J lives in one! Or at least he did.

― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Monday, 1 December 2008 07:11 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/71/181183918_1dfd5833b6_o.jpg

The Epicenter Apartments
Seattle, Washington, USA
Fremont neighborhood
corner of Fremont Ave. North and 34th St.

I live just across the bridge from this.

It's not as bizarre as the above, but it's the closest bizarre building I can think of

― HI, YOUR BAND! (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 1 December 2008 07:24 (seventeen years ago)

I call it the Tim Burton apartments. I bet Danny Elfman music streaming into the ceiling comes free with the rentals.

― HI, YOUR BAND! (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 1 December 2008 07:25 (seventeen years ago)

I heard a rumor that the Cube Houses were being acquired by the Stayokay hostel chain - here's hoping! Who wouldn't want to stay in a rotated cube overnight?

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 1 December 2008 07:46 (seventeen years ago)

I went to the flea market by there once. it sucked.

― miss precious perfect (musically), Monday, 1 December 2008 07:51 (seventeen years ago)

the trick is to go there for the food and not the fleas (although the market doesn't have Veraci there for the season, so never mind)

― HI, YOUR BAND! (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 1 December 2008 08:48 (seventeen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Niter%C3%B3i_bay_and_contemporary_musem.jpg

― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 1 December 2008 09:08 (seventeen years ago)

thunderbirds set?

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Monday, 1 December 2008 09:12 (seventeen years ago)

I've actually been there, it's a modern art museum in Rio. But yeah, Thunderbirds modernism: it was designed by Niemeyer

― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 1 December 2008 09:16 (seventeen years ago)

Joep van Lieshout to thread...
http://www.installationart.net/Images/avlBarRectum05serving.jpg
http://www.whokilledbambi.co.uk/public/2007/10/van2.jpg
http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/vanlieshout/unit.jpg

― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 1 December 2008 11:26 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.kmm.nl/images/upload/Image/onderzoek/sannekestigter_400.JPG

― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 1 December 2008 11:27 (seventeen years ago)

Zvi Hecker
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/SpiralHouseRG1.jpg/250px-SpiralHouseRG1.jpg

― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 1 December 2008 11:31 (seventeen years ago)

There's a house in Australia that has a prjection of the house that was on the site before that house, if you get my drift, it's quite beautiful and bizarre but I can't remember who built it or where I saw it.

― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 1 December 2008 11:35 (seventeen years ago)

Ushida Findlay Partnership
http://www.archilab.org/public/2000/catalog/ushida/find01g.jpg

― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 1 December 2008 11:47 (seventeen years ago)

I don't know if thus is bizarre enough...
http://house.nicedream.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/bunnylane1.jpg
Adam Kalkin

― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 1 December 2008 11:49 (seventeen years ago)

You can see it here with some of his other stuff.

― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 1 December 2008 11:51 (seventeen years ago)

If you want a true James Bond villian lair then you have to visit Mirador Del Rio on Lanzarote. Built into the top of a cliff with awesome views it's one of the most amazing places I've been, and you can get a coffee while you're there.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/MiradorDelRio-Graciosa.jpg

― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 1 December 2008 11:54 (seventeen years ago)

I can't find a good view of the interior but this gives you some idea.
http://www.jorgetutor.com/spain/canarias/lanzarote/miradordelrio/miradordelrio2.jpg

― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 1 December 2008 11:56 (seventeen years ago)

curzio malaparte's house
http://www.architectenwerk.nl/architectenpraktijk02/images/malaparte1.jpg

― czn (cozwn), Monday, 1 December 2008 12:03 (seventeen years ago)

Watts Towers aren't as visually striking as some of these, but pretty cool for the fact that they were built by a construction worker in his free time. And that they're made of junk.

http://www.godblessamericana.com/images/slide-of-the-week/large/2006/watts-towers-los-angeles-1959.jpg

― monkey bonkers (╓abies), Monday, 1 December 2008 12:54 (seventeen years ago)

they're also not buildings

― gabbneb, Monday, 1 December 2008 15:55 (seventeen years ago)

No idea where this is
http://www.illusionking.com/illusions/weird-building-optical-illusion.jpg

― slag move (onimo), Monday, 1 December 2008 16:19 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.damninteresting.net/content/odeillo_solar_furnace.jpg

Odeillo Solar Furnace, France

― slag move (onimo), Monday, 1 December 2008 16:23 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3212/2943184683_929776c313.jpg

Venice, California

― slag move (onimo), Monday, 1 December 2008 16:25 (seventeen years ago)

http://mapy.pomocnik.com/img/photos/krzywy_dom_front_1.jpg

Sopot, Poland

― slag move (onimo), Monday, 1 December 2008 16:28 (seventeen years ago)

yeah but the solar furnace is shaped like that *for a reason!*

― Tanganyika laughter epidemic (gbx), Monday, 1 December 2008 16:29 (seventeen years ago)

I know, but it's still bizarrely shaped, as buildings go. If I drove past it I would exclaim "Look at that building! Isn't it truly bizarre!"

― slag move (onimo), Monday, 1 December 2008 16:32 (seventeen years ago)

Bizarrely shaped for a reason is way better! I love when dull performance requirements can be made to yield something awesome.

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 1 December 2008 16:42 (seventeen years ago)

they're also not buildings

― gabbneb, Monday, December 1, 2008 9:55 AM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Hahaha. Well yeah. But they're big and tall and man made and abnormally cool and I thought ILxrz could appreciate them in some tangentially related way because their buttholes aren't cemented shut.

― monkey bonkers (╓abies), Monday, 1 December 2008 16:45 (seventeen years ago)

dictionaries are not butthole cement

― Gino-Vanellyville (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 1 December 2008 16:56 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, i thought i'd just point out that everyone knows the watts towers and yr a troll/sock

― gabbneb, Monday, 1 December 2008 16:59 (seventeen years ago)

Jesus, dude, maybe not everybody knows them. This is supposed to be fun picture thread!

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 1 December 2008 17:11 (seventeen years ago)

At the very least the thread was not damaged by the inclusion of a non-building, and I would even say that it was made more delightful.

― another regrettable cheesesteak (Jesse), Monday, 1 December 2008 17:11 (seventeen years ago)

Except in that it caused brought up cemented buttholes.

― another regrettable cheesesteak (Jesse), Monday, 1 December 2008 17:12 (seventeen years ago)

http://blog.makezine.com/bizarre_taxidermy_003.jpg

― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 1 December 2008 17:13 (seventeen years ago)

http://media-cyber.law.harvard.edu/blogs/static/calebcrain/brokangeast.jpg http://media-cyber.law.harvard.edu/blogs/static/calebcrain/brokangsouth.jpg

broken angel, brooklyn ny

― ice cr?m, Monday, 1 December 2008 17:15 (seventeen years ago)

also: NOISE HOUSE !!!

― ice cr?m, Monday, 1 December 2008 17:15 (seventeen years ago)

i love the broken angel so very much

― slap bass: the ungentle art (stevie), Monday, 1 December 2008 18:52 (seventeen years ago)

the new lee-chin crystal, toronto
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2257/2144266465_08277478e2.jpg

― Rob Bolton, Monday, 1 December 2008 19:20 (seventeen years ago)

we also have some of those rotterdam-style cubes in toronto
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2419/1970109537_e4668e400f.jpg

― Rob Bolton, Monday, 1 December 2008 19:21 (seventeen years ago)

Huh - apparently the TO architect actually bought the rights to the design! See: http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=144078&archive=24,7,2004

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 1 December 2008 19:48 (seventeen years ago)

No idea where this is

The 'optical illusion' building is in Melbourne.

Here's a house in Albuquerque.

― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 1 December 2008 21:09 (seventeen years ago)

curzio malaparte's house

is this the house from "contempt"?

― negotiable, Monday, 1 December 2008 21:13 (seventeen years ago)

nm yes google confirms

― negotiable, Monday, 1 December 2008 21:15 (seventeen years ago)

I photographed this church, in the north of England, the mid 80s, it's since been knocked down (except the tower).
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/227/445009111_30f1fe3361.jpg

There's another church in Boise, Idaho that reminds me vaguely of it.

― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 1 December 2008 21:17 (seventeen years ago)

The Hat and Boots in Seattle.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/wa/WASEAhatboot2.jpg
As this was (at least it was once) a gas station, they definitely count as buildings.

― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 1 December 2008 21:25 (seventeen years ago)

From the Roadside America site - there's probably a few buildings on there for this thread.

― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 1 December 2008 21:27 (seventeen years ago)

Here's another photo of the Optical Illusion building at night.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1106/785064588_abf4a6140e.jpg

― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 1 December 2008 21:30 (seventeen years ago)

No idea where this is
http://www.illusionking.com/illusions/weird-building-optical-illusion.jpg

― slag move (onimo), Tuesday, December 2, 2008 3:19 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I worked on an infrastructure project to move a company into that building. Everybody hates it.

― Brunswicki and Footescray (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 22:41 (seventeen years ago)