http://www.prague30.com/photo_gallery/photo_gallery_8341ab3f54906e43d1d1364796ee39e0.jpg
Dancing House (Fred and Ginger)Vlado Milunić/Frank GehryPrague, 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 HouseDang Viet NgaDalat, 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 HouseHamburg, 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, Poland2003
― 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 HotelSanjhih, 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.jpgRotterdam
― Maria :D, Sunday, 30 November 2008 14:26 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.archidose.org/Blog/HD30b.jpgRotterdam
― Maria :D, Sunday, 30 November 2008 14:29 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.thecityreview.com/arcnowg.jpgNara 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.jpghttp://www.futurehi.net/images/palaisbulles02.jpg
Palais de Bulles (the summer villa of Pierre Cardin)Antti LovagPort-la-Galère, France, early 70s
― derelict, Monday, 1 December 2008 00:25 (seventeen years ago)
the sunglasses rack in the back is pretty weird toohttp://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 ApartmentsSeattle, Washington, USAFremont neighborhoodcorner 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.jpghttp://www.whokilledbambi.co.uk/public/2007/10/van2.jpghttp://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 Heckerhttp://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 Partnershiphttp://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.jpgAdam 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 househttp://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 ishttp://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)
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 !!!
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, torontohttp://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 torontohttp://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.jpgAs 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)
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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)
More in Melbourne:
http://i34.tinypic.com/30vk58h.jpg
http://www.lostateminor.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/klein_bottle_house.jpg
― Brunswicki and Footescray (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 22:54 (seventeen years ago)
also this wtf thing:
http://photos.igougo.com/images/p369568-Melbourne-Federation_square.jpg
http://www.chi-athenaeum.org/intarch/2006/ph/8.jpg
― Brunswicki and Footescray (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)
Ugh, LAB. The principal lectured here last year - smart guy but every project looks like a less-resolved version of that one, and there was a kind of yechhy element to his enthusiasm for work in Dubai. "It's great, there's no rules there! Back home, everything has to go through committees..." Oh, that darn democratic government!
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 23:51 (seventeen years ago)
All these Melbourne buildings look far better in pictures than when you have to go past them on a train twice a day.
― milling through the grinder, grinding through the mill (S-), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 00:46 (seventeen years ago)
holy shit, this thread.
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 02:00 (seventeen years ago)
It's awesome.
― monkey bonkers (╓abies), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 02:28 (seventeen years ago)
Fed Square. Ugh.
― Live from the Witch Trials (SeekAltRoute), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 04:18 (seventeen years ago)
lol @ the guy's head seemingly stuck onto the bottom right of Mirador Del Rio
― roxymuzak, Friday, 5 December 2008 22:19 (seventeen years ago)
Zelda's pic upthread (& few of the other cliff-side dwellings) reminds me of this:
http://soledadrecords.com/images/air10000hzlegend7wj.jpg
― The Most Photographed Barn on the Internet (Pillbox), Friday, 5 December 2008 22:25 (seventeen years ago)
Some good ones here (a few have been posted already):http://www.hyd-masti.com/2009/01/50-strange-buildings-of-world.html
― chap, Thursday, 15 January 2009 12:54 (seventeen years ago)
This one is a refugee from a fairytale or a Miyazaki film:
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_3JLy947TKiI/SWmq_gTtJFI/AAAAAAAA2d0/CTHg1NN_rR8/s800/200235image018.jpg
― ledge, Thursday, 15 January 2009 13:06 (seventeen years ago)
The Evoluon, Holland. I visited it when it was a museum in the 80s. Someone told me it had been knocked down since - lies!
http://www.dse.nl/~evoluon/k02a-briefkaart.jpg
― ledge, Thursday, 15 January 2009 13:10 (seventeen years ago)
oooooOOOOOOOOooooo
http://www.dse.nl/~evoluon/k01a-briefkaart.jpg
http://slog.thestranger.com/files/2007/11/16_tbilisi.jpg
old national tax hq or something, tblisi
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Thursday, 15 January 2009 13:25 (seventeen years ago)
Mysterious floating 'farmhouse' in the Ukraine:
http://microscopiq.com/images/ukraine-floating.jpg
― ledge, Thursday, 15 January 2009 13:47 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.new-territories.com/L1010873.jpg
― The Unbelievably Insensitive Baroness Vadera (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 14:28 (seventeen years ago)
More pics of that one here...
― The Unbelievably Insensitive Baroness Vadera (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 14:29 (seventeen years ago)
oops, I meant herehttp://www.new-territories.com/lostinparis.htm
truly bizarre buildings on fire
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/2/10/1234258813021/The-Mandarin-Oriental-hot-001.jpg
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 15:40 (seventeen years ago)
Wow, that looks like the cover of an SF novel.
― chap, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 16:03 (seventeen years ago)
where's the giant tv showing chinese lady's face
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 16:12 (seventeen years ago)
more Toronto weirdness:
http://www.ists11.org/ocad_h436.jpg
http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/photos/2006/03/ocad_art-supplies_low-angle.jpg
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 16:40 (seventeen years ago)
that looks like peckham library
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peckham_Library
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:57 (seventeen years ago)
"The library was designed by Will Alsop"
that'll be why then...
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:59 (seventeen years ago)
The Peckham one's interiors suggests he's been taking notes from Mecanoo:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3098/2887253243_69af11639a.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3253/2989591637_e49ec04cc4.jpg
Good people to borrow from, though!
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:13 (seventeen years ago)
(this is the bit of the Alsop I'm comparing to:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Peckham_library_pod_underside2.jpg/800px-Peckham_library_pod_underside2.jpg)
o sure just land yr space ship here above our VULNERABLE CHILDREN
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:58 (seventeen years ago)
MARS NEEDS DVDS
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 19:01 (seventeen years ago)
Dr. Casino, I thought you said "Good people to burrow from, though!" at first.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 19:01 (seventeen years ago)
I'll be going to that Toronto weird building on Thursday.
― mehlt, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 19:06 (seventeen years ago)
Pleasant Plains, that too!
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 19:23 (seventeen years ago)
The Church of Hallgrimur, Reykjavik
http://img1.liveinternet.ru/images/attach/c/0/35/359/35359670_1_ak.JPG
― OK Abacus (chap), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 16:06 (sixteen years ago)
^dope
http://blog.juergenspecht.com/media/2009/11/pl-tower.jpg
PL Peace Tower, Tondabayashi, Japan
― jabba hands, Friday, 6 November 2009 09:15 (sixteen years ago)