People who live in glass houses…
50 Strange and (Sometimes) Strangely Beautiful Buildings. Some architects should be celebrated. Some should be tested for drugs. Either way, the creators of these buildings never bore us. In fact, avoiding boredom may just be what inspired them to begin with. Enjoy! (Or chuckle, whatever.)
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“A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
~Frank Lloyd Wright
“Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible buildings just to help us all appreciate the good stuff.”
~Audrey Niffenegger
“Hot-dog stands in the shape of hot dogs, ice-cream stands in the shape of ice-cream cones. There are obvious examples of virtual sameness trying, by dint of exhibitionism, to appear unique.”
~Jane Jacobs
“Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go.”
~Rebecca Solnit
“Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.”
~Aldous Huxley
“Nothing holds sadness quite as well as concrete.”
~Lynn Buckle
“Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall.
The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.”
~Louis Kahn
“A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.”
~Ezra Pound
I can’t help wondering if Audrey Niffenegger had in mind the recently-constructed presidential “library.”
I felt like I was across Holland
Looks like a hallucination to me; I sometimes feel crooked and a bit lopsided, so that crooked building would be a good place to live to remind me to keep on the straight path, LOL Wishing you a great weekend,
I only have one thought – WHAT were they thinking —- or drinking?
Some years ago, when I first saw the Tornado house (Daniel Czapiewski’s home), I was sure that only the exterior was slanted, but then I saw a picture of the interior and my mind was blown. Now, I have to say flat Stanley’s needs to drop a column of bricks on the side and grow much taller to date Nix Professional Building (hospital in San Antonio)… Have a great weekend Mitch.
Some of them are really strange, but other are very crazy and full of fantasy. It was interesting.
Wow, Can you imagine an entire city filled with these buildings? 😀