I love architecture. Houses, office buildings, churches, museums–the beautiful and the bizarre. Just don’t bother me with the boring! What’s that? Haven’t finished your Christmas shopping yet? How about a nice new home or headquarters for your booming business? Here are some lovely prospects–many of them are for sale or for rent!
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Lomonosov Moscow State University (imagined expansion of existing building)
Turtle Cafe, Gobi Desert, Mongolia
Toilet House, Suwon, South Korea
Tianzi Hotel, Hebei Province, China
The Crooked-House, Sopot, Poland
The Gherkin, London, England
Shell House
Stained glass tower
Sun Pagoda, Guilin, Guangxi, China
Hobbit House, New Zealand (photo by Jamie Wipiiti)
Taranta Creations, Shanghai
Segovia Cathedral
The Fish Building, Iran
Caterpillar house?
Jeddah Tower, Saudi Arabia
Tilt-a-building
Piano House, Huainan Fangkai Decoration Project
Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Opus Tower, Dubai, UAE
Nord LB bank headquarters, Hannover, Germany
Niimi Tea Company, Japan
National Fisheries Board, Hyderabad, India
Longaberger Basket building–for sale
Kayaking to work
Kansas City Library
Hanging garden apartments
Fruit House
French Fry building
Floating House designed by Dymitr Malcew
Flintstone House, Hillsborough, California
Fallsview Casino, Ontario Canada
Wooden Gagster House, Archangelsk, Russia
ReykjavÃk Cathedral, Iceland
Dancing House, Prague, Czech Republic
Waterfall tower, Guiyang, China
Cubic Houses, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Crooked Little House, Indianapolis, Indiana
Dubya building
Crescent Moon Tower, Dubai (slated to be built)
Upside Down House, Szymbark, Poland
Apartment building
Casa Brutale, Aegean Sea
Underground home, Las Vegas (converted from a Cold War bomb shelter)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
House Attack, Vienna, Austria
Actual building in Paris, France
Aquarium elevator, Berlin, Germany
Tree stump house
Boeing 727 Tree House, Costa Rica
Abraj Kudai, Saudi Arabia – world’s largest hotel (currently under construction)
Atomium Museum, Brussels
Glass mass
Reblogged this on Blue Dragon Journal.
Wuthering heights:)
OMG, OMG – I want the teapot house. Pleeeeaassse …
Oh, OK. But only because you said please.
THANK YOU!!!
These are great! Which one is your house, Mitch?
Oh, I own a dozen of them, actually, but didn’t mention it due to modesty.
😀
WOW! My son is an associate architect…these are really creative!
What a wonderful collection. So fun! ..and… AMAZING!!!
This is an incredible collection of buildings showing what knowledge and art / fun can create.
Started picking some but there were so many that I would need a viewing first. 😊.
Miriam
Flabbergasted. If we are voting—check me off for the Kansas library.
Vote noted!
Stunning images!
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Form follows function? Frank Lloyd Wright must be spinning in his grave. 😉
;>)
What is it about Wright’s architecture? Is it his respect for the natural surroundings into which one of his buildings was placed? There is something almost “Japanese” about that or perhaps “Feng shui.” Some modern buildings seem to be an insult to the natural surroundings, a sort of imposition of human will upon nature. The surroundings seem to be relegated to being a just a frame around vaunted human creations.
Great collection. But one other thing. The locals in the island of New Guinea have tree house designs built from bush materials and the all bunch of families can live there for up to 30 plus years 😀. Cheers!
I’ll check it out, Jonah. My dream as a kid was to live in a big, elaborate Swiss Family Robinson-style tree house!
Ha ha. One of my fondest memories was a tree platform, left by earlier kids, in a big old So. Cal. Pepper Tree, which stood next to a tiny neighborhood grocery, across the street from our grade school. Often, we’d skip lunch, then after school spend our lunch money on a pocketful of penny-candy. We’d then climb the tree, lie back on that platform, high above the world (to us) and blissfully munch our candy, surveying the blue sky through those lacy, spice-scented leaves.
Kid-heaven. I’d recognize it anywhere!
These definitely aren’t boring! The Tree Stump House looks just like the Baba Yaga house in my book of Russian fairy tales. Quite a surprise to see it in this compilation.
Interesting, Liz. The house rests on two carved bird’s feet. Does that fit the Baba Yaga story, as well?
Yes, it does. Baba Yaga’s house was on chicken feet so that she could move it to different locations.
Aha! So that’s undoubtedly the inspiration for this little house.
Some truly creative people out there. Amazing.
Bizarre! 🙂
Looked at the all these again. Three thoughts:
1. Hollywood location scouts should be all over this. 🙂
2. The Earth’s surface has become a platform for whimsical construction art.
3. Curiously, China, one of the most *politically* repressive regimes, is the Mecca for this type of free-form architectural whimsy. I wish I could have recorded more of it but it’s hard to grab a quick shot from a moving tour bus. 😉
Yep x 3.