80+ Strange and Fantastic Buildings Architecture
The term Architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation. As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and constructing buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter. As a profession, architecture is the role of those persons or machines providing architectural services. As documentation, usually based on drawings, architecture defines the structure and/or behavior of a building or any other kind of system that is to be or has been constructed.
In the late 20th century many new concept was included in the compass of both structure and function. Now days, before performing any action we keeping future in our visions. same applies in Architecture also. In the selection below, we present over 80 Strange & Fantastic Buildings Architecture of modern world. All photographs are linked and lead to the source – the respective photographers.
To restrict the meaning of (architectural) formalism to art for art’s sake is not only reactionary; it can also be a purposeless quest for perfection or originality which degrades form into a mere instrumentality”.
Among the philosophies that have influenced modern architects and their approach to building design are rationalism, empiricism, structuralism, poststructuralism, and phenomenology.
On the difference between the ideals of “architecture” and mere “construction”, the renowned 20th C. architect Le Corbusier wrote: “You employ stone, wood, and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces: that is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good. I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture”.
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Strange & Fantastic Buildings Architecture
01. Device to Root Out Evil (Vancouver, Canada)
02. The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland)
03. Museum of Contemporary Art (Niteroi, Brazil)
04. ING Headquarters (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
05. Experience Music Project (Seattle, Washington, USA)
06. Dancing Building (Prague, Czech Republic)
07. Druzhba Holiday Center (Yalta, Ukraine)
08. Lotus Temple (Delhi, India)
09. Forest Spiral Building (Darmstadt, Germany)
10. The Torre Galatea Figueras (Spain)
11. Upside Down House (Szymbark, Poland)
12. The Basket Building (Ohio, USA)
13. The Ufo House (Sanjhih, Taiwan)
14. Stone House (FAFE, Portugal)
15. Kansas City Public Library (Missouri, USA)
16. Stata Center (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
17. The Hole House (Texas, USA)
18. Ryugyong Hotel (Pyongyang, North Korea)
19. Container City (London, UK)
20. Erwin Wurm: House Attack (Viena, Austria)
21. Solar Furnace (Odeillo, France)
22. Nakagin Capsule Tower (Tokyo, Japan)
23. Beijing National Stadium (Beijing, China)
24. CCTV Tower – China Central Television Headquarters (Beijing, China)
25. The Egg (Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York, USA)
26. Ripley’s Building (Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada)
27. Ripley’s Believe It or Not! (Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada)
28. Fuji television building (Tokyo, Japan)
29. Olympic Stadium (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
30. Blur Building (Yverdon-les-Bainz, Switzerland)
31. The Puerta de Europa towers (Madrid, Spain)
32. Gas Natural headquarters (Barcelona, Spain)
33. Wonderworks (Pigeon Forge, TN, USA)
34. Habitat 67 (Montreal, Canada)
35. Manchester Civil Justice Centre (Manchester, UK)
36. Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles, California, USA)
37. Shoe House (Pennsylvania, USA)
38. The National Library (Minsk, Belarus)
39. Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain)
40. Air Force Academy Chapel (Colorado, USA)
41. Fashion Show Mall (Las Vegas, USA)
42. Edificio Mirador (Madrid, Spain)
43. Luxor Hotel & Casino (Las Vegas, USA)
44. Grand Lisboa (Macau, China)
45. Dome House (Florida, USA)
46. Gherkin Building (London, UK)
47. Tempe Municipal Building (Tempe, Arizona, USA)
48. National Architects Union Headquarters (Romania)
49. Cubic Houses (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
50. Nord LB building (Hannover, Germany)
51. Turning Torso (Malmö, Sweden)
52. Lloyd’s building (London, UK)
53. Wozoco Apartments (Amsterdam, Holland)
54. UCSD Geisel Library (San Diego, California, USA)
55. Chapel in the Rock (Arizona, USA)
56. Atomium (Brussels, Belgium)
57. Great arche of defense (Paris, France)
58. Ferdinand Cheval Palace (France)
59. Cathedral of Brasilia (Brazil)
60. Errante Guest House (Chile)
61. The Museum of Play (Rochester , USA)
62. Jumeirah Emirates Towers (Dubai, UAE)
63. Burj al Arab (Dubai, UAE)
64. Raffles Dubai in Wafi city (Dubai, UAE)
65. National centre for the performing arts (Beijing, China)
66. Digital Beijing (Beijing, China)
67. Water Cube (Beijing, China)
68. Atlantis (Dubai, UAE)
69. Nordpark Cable Railway (Innsbruck, Austria)
70. The Valencia Opera House (Valencia, Spain)
71. Water Tower (Zaragoza)
72. Pabellon de Aragon (Zaragoza)
73. Eden project (United Kingdom)
74. Royal Ontario Museum Expansion (Toronto, Canada)
75. John Curtin School of Medical Research (Australia)
76. Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Nice, France)
77. Kunsthaus (Graz, Austria)
78. State Department for Traffic (Tbilis, Georgia)
79. Tenerife Concert Hall (Canary Islands, Spain)
80. Berlin Zeiss Planetarium (Berlin, Germany)
81. Montreal Biosphère (Canada)
82. Esplanade Theatres, Singapore
83. La Pedrera (Barcelona, Spain)
84. National Congress Building (Brazil)
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Wow, Its Awesome Awesome ! Nice collection of Buldings there.. Very Cool Post. Thumbsup.
My Favourite the Basket Building.. xD
Awesome! I’m proud to present Chang building in my country, Thailand!
http://tariquesani.net/displayimage.php?album=37&pos=4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Building
Glad to see the MIT Sata Center. It’s my favorite :)
It’s interesting to see how many buildings China had in your compilation. It seems like it’s really starting to make its way into the architectural scene; in particular with its newer buildings.
Very interesting.
Very interesting…Fantastic collection.Thanks
Amazing! thanks for sharing.
¡Great compilation!, but notice that number 78 and 79 are swapped, the picture in number 78 corresponds to the 79th building (and vice versa).
Hey, #79 (State Department for Traffic (Tbilis, Georgia)) is really Tenerife Auditorium (Canary Islands, Spain).
Google maps: http://maps.google.es/?ie=UTF8&ll=28.456043,-16.25115&spn=0.005594,0.009763&t=h&z=17
Auditorium webpage: http://www.auditoriodetenerife.com
Nice post!
Great!!
16 and 77 are the same
@Pablo, Adrián, alta – Thanks for the info… post updated.
This is also a very nice one:
The Agbar Tower, Barcelona, Catalonia:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/arturdebat/2743942567/
nice one…
All captions refer to the next image, which makes me wonder about the first image ?
:))) amazing..
The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. ought ot be on this list, it makes all the buildings on the mall seem so old. Here’s a link I Googled up:
http://tinyurl.com/b6uoba
rock and roll hall of fame is def a good one that should be added
One correction. The Atlantis which you listed as being in Dubai, UAE is actually a huge resort located in the Bahamas on Paradise Island (adjacent to Nassau) I know because I’ve been there.
Cheers!
Billy
you left out frank lloyd wrights falling water, which is an absolute masterpiece
this is all memorizing….however, you should add Frank Lloyd Wrights home in western Pennsylvania, Falling Water. A true gem.
Hahah, This is just amazing! Really nice architecture!
The title of the 70# picture is wrong, all the building is “La Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias” or “City of Arts & Science”… You can see the site in http://www.cac.es
@Billy – please check following two links for clarification.
1. The Atlantis Hotel, Dubai on Palm Jumeirah Dubai – flickr source
2. Atlantis Resort -Paradise Island, Bahamas – flickr source
Now check our listed image – which is from “The Atlantis Hotel, Dubai”
PS: Thanks maarten@dubai for adding up more details.
@Jordi – you are also right as building no. 70# known by many names and one of them is Valencia Opera House. please check following link for more Info
@bill, this is definitely the Atlantis in Dubai (ive been there). At the far right you can see the station and rail for the monorail.
If you’re still not convinced, click on image source….:
T
he Atlantis Hotel at the far end of Jumeriah Palm in Dubai. The hotel is enormous and rooms above the arch will go for $10000 a night when it opens! Start booking now! (sigh). Amazing to think a couple of years ago this was just sea.
Ciao
http://gallery.zoom.nl/image/122419/bolwoning.html
Location: ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
I have shaw the all building constructions an i really appriciate the constructor work who has done this great job.
I Loved the 80 buildings – I think you should include the station in Lisbon, Portugal.
I’d be happy to send a picture but somehow I cannot stick it to this message. If you want it let me have an email address.
wow, super…Vay Canına Gerçekten çok ilginç harika yapmışlar ya bayıldım.Yakından görmek isterdim(:
How could you forget Gaudi’s Church in barcelona
Sagrada Familia
http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Sagrada_Familia.html/cid_1171408226_barSagFamGauface_06-37-33.html
The CN Tower, Sky Dome and City Hall from Toronto not in the list?
The CN Tower & Sky Dome example picture *not mine* ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/metropol2/365532582/sizes/o/ )
are of interest not only because of their style but also function CN Tower was for decades the tallest free standing structure in the world that was designed to withstand an impact from a Jet Airliner, only 1 person died in it’s construction (they were standing on the ground), The Sky Dome (unless I was mistaken was/is the worlds largest retractible roof).
The Toronto City Hall simple and neat ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/rodolfonovak/71760124/ ) & ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/wvs/253069800/ ) can be seen in the Resident evil movie AKA Racoon City :-)
The scottish parliament building Edinburgh Scotland
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3283/2682361608_b295e263fe.jpg?v=0
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I was disappointed not to see the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Calatrava addition missing.
Check it out.
Wow. I am speechless. I have seen only few of those buildings. I did not know there are a lot of those kinds of fantastic building.
@Arno, Thanks for the link. It’s interesting. Added here
@Vittore, Please send us more info about the station in Lisbon, at contact [at] instantshift.com We would love to list it.
@Stuart, We have included Scottish Parliament Building here . Really cool Architecture.
@Colin, It seems this church is under construction. But we will look into it. :) Thank you for your attention.
@Steve, Ouch, I think we missed it again. It’s really fantastic. Thanks Steve. :D
@Stephen, We will check Milwaukee Art Museum. But it would be great if you can send us some link or may be a picture at contact [at] instantshift.com Thanks.
It is so wondorfu! lol
This is my favorite wierd house:
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/6808
Incredible, absolutely incredible.
Pleasant to to link you to photos of the Architectural National Winner in Venezuela, Fruto Vivas.
http://venezuelamultimedia.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_archive.html
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruto_Vivas
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joan_rodes/2702676448/
Enjoy it!
cool!!
Wow Amazing building, with genius architecture
great post
You might want to look at the reflecting pool and buildings surrounding it in Albany New York.
Nice picture selections
Fun blog, thanks
you should put in the denver art museum.
what about the rock and roll hall of fame in Cleveland ohio ???
You should know that number 15, Kansas City Public Library is not actually the library but the parking garage for the library.
very nice buildings luv it!!
Just because a building is in China does not mean the architect is Chinese!
I study architecture myself and i love weird looking building design. I have seen building no.39 and no.83 in real life while on architectural study tour to Spain in year 1997.
There are also a lots of weird buildings design by A. Gaudi.
I will surely bookmark this for reference. Fantastic Find!!
you know whats sad? The United States doesnt have a single artistic building of massive proportions. Sure there are some really cool buildings here and there, but not a single one that is really big. And NewYork City doesnt have a single fantastic building in it! The most populated building in the United states has not a single feat of architectural design in it. The most fantastic building would be the empire state building, but thats just a really tall building, nothing very special about it…
Wow! I’m speechless
this is brilliant!
http://myfacefriends.com
Truly an awesome collection of buildings. Great pics. Thanks for the post
Thanks for that, I also think the people who commissioned the buildings have courage. If you had an architect tell you he wanted to build something upside down for example, with your money I think most people would not take the risk.
Great site
there’s a “pencil” building in Frankfurt am Main, germany..and a “cyber gateway” in hyderabad, india.
Its really Fantastic Buildings…
#12 is the headquarters of the Longaberger Company in Newark, Ohio, roughly 35 miles east of Columbus. I have seen this in person – I went to college at Denison University in Granville, which is right next to Newark. Denison doesn’t have any fancy architecture but it is, in many people’s opinion, one of the most beautiful college campuses in the country.
As a native of Northeast Ohio, I second the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – and the nearby Peter B. Lewis building (Case Western University).
nice pics and like you said, definitely fantastic buildings architectures..
Check out my post :
9 Worlds Most Creative Buildings
It’s amazing, fantatic :-).
lem me love it
wonderful,splendid,fantastic.All in all. Thanks
this is the site of a mexican architect, his architecture is based on organic components http://www.arquitecturaorganica.com/inicio_i.html
Hotel Unique Sao Paolo Brazil is stunning. Morag.
I’m wondering about the two buildings both labeled as Ripley’s, Niagara Falls ON. Should one of those be some thing else, or somewhere else?
But whatever, I sure did love seeing all those creative buildings. Can you imagine how wonderful it would be to live or work in something like these?
@Marilyn – Both the buildings have same name but one of them is museum.
I was glad to see the number of Canadian buildings listed — very pleasing! I second Canadian Steve’s choices, but would like to add a few more:
The Canadian Museum of Civilization, in Hull, Quebec: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/4/7924749_5d227b4f2f.jpg
The Canadian War Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario, where some of the windows are arranged in Morse code: http://www.planetware.com/i/photo/canadian-war-museum-ottawa-cdn1119.jpg
The museum at Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo Jump, Alberta: http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/2169600.jpg
And, my favourite, Robarts Library at the University of Toronto:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robartslibrary.jpg
Every list should start with Faiing Waters
http://www.GreatBuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Fallingwater.html/cid_1126975055_fallingwater10.html
and somewhere there needs to be Thorncrown Chapel in Arkansas
i just see and send others to see —- what is the meaning of creation?
Very interesting…
Fantastic collection.
Thanks
lolol awesome
Esas estructuras son hermosas, estoy estudiando arquitectura y me han encantado!
All of these buildings are great, but I liked the Lotus Temple most of all.
I expected to see the BMW building in Munich in this list.
TThe Tower was built between 1968 and 1972 and was ready just in time for 1972 Summer Olympics. The building stands 101 m (roughly 331 feet) tall and is often mentioned as one of the most notable examples of architecture in Munich. The large cathedral exterior is supposed to mimic the shape of a tire in a race car, with the garage representing the cylinder head. Both buildings were designed by the Austrian architect Karl Schwanzer [1].
The main tower consists of four vertical cylinders standing next to and across from each other. Each cylinder is divided horizontally in its center by a mold in the facade. Notably, these cylinders do not stand on the ground, they are suspended on a central support tower. During the construction, individual floors were assembled on the ground and then elevated. The tower has a diameter of 52.30 meters (roughly 171 feet). The building has 22 occupied floors, two of which are basements and 18 serve as office space. Millions of dollars have been spent on the facility due to high demand in progression.
Amazing buildings. In Seville:
Kuwait Pavillion (Expo’92), with a mobile roof:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/62/224655859_dadfd092fb.jpg?v=0
http://es.geocities.com/maika1esp/sevilla/imagen/expo92/kuwait.jpg
http://www.expo92.es/includes/upload/pabellones/1157763916_6.jpg
http://es.wikiarquitectura.com/images/thumb/d/d0/Pabellon_Kuwait_Expo92.jpg/250px-Pabellon_Kuwait_Expo92.jpg
I’d like to recommend Peter Eisenman’s snake shaped building, the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning at the University of Cincinnati, for the list. It is a delightful interplay of colored planes and intriguing angles in sun-washed corridors. It is a wonderful space inside and out.
did I miss the Centre Pompidou?
The Atlantis which you listed as being in Dubai, UAE is actually a huge resort located in the Bahamas on Paradise Island (…)
these are amazing!
realy cool post
Re: Emotikon
“The Atlantis which you listed as being in Dubai, UAE is actually a huge resort located in the Bahamas on Paradise Island (…)”
ACTUALLY there’s a duplicate of the Bahamas resort in Dubai.
Your first entry is not actually a building per se, but a sculpture.
Just an FYI on the Sagrada Família…it’s been under constant construction since 1882. I kept expecting to see it as I scrolled through the list, therefore I think your list is amazing, but incomplete. :-)
I’ve in in one of tose …. The Atomium in Brussles (number56) Its an oversized( I think 9.000.000.000 times real size) Fe molecule .
Wow some stunning buildings, great post.
I am having a hard time finding anything on the “Blur Building” in Yverdon-les-Bains. :(
The “hole house” in 17, which was in Houston, actually doesn’t exist anymore. That building was set to be knocked down, and an artist created that after it was emptied out. It stood for a few weeks, and then was completely demolished. More pics here:
http://www.artleaguehouston.org/Inversion.htm
There is a coffee shop where it used to stand :-\
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thank you for looking
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roshan
don’t miss these!!
http://paulparsons.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/the-eight/
http://www.abbeville.com/interiors.asp?ISBN=0789202875&CaptionNumber=05
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/13083
very nice collection!!!congratulations!!
you could also add the new acropolis museum in Athens,Greece:
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/new-acropolis-museum-by-bernard-tschumi-architects-cr3849-090-small.jpg
more info:
http://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/
why is the ROM expansion included?
Wow :D Interesting :) There is in Poland another one strange building. It’s headquarter of Radio Station RMF FM located near the Cracow. It look like the balls lying on the ground or some space station on the other planet :D
http://www.onedigitallife.com/images/rmf-radio.jpg
http://i.pinger.pl/pgr496/82e11e4100216e0e4988982c/Warszawa,nowa+siedziba+TVP.jpg
headquarter of public television in poland
You forgot Spodek [Poland]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spodek
http://mapy.pomocnik.com/img/photos/Katowice_Spodek_blue.jpg
I missed the Cathedral at Rio de Janeiro.
Here’s a picture:
http://www.citypictures.org/data/media/175/Catedral_Rio_de_Janeiro.jpg
I present some buildings from Buenos Aires Argentina in the next links:
Biblioteca Nacional de Buenos Aires
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CPtUSP1MzEE/SbrPATsOfcI/AAAAAAAABBI/NfRMuFEiaEI/s1600-h/Biblioteca_Nacional_Buenos_Aires.JPG
Banco Hipoterio Nacional
http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/5066/78956888zs5.jpg
Planetario de Buenos Aires
http://tecnicaarca.com.ar/imagenesblog/PLANETARIO.jpg
You missed the “Tholos” building at the “Hellenic Cosmos” Cultural Centre in Greece.
Look at http://www.tholos254.gr/
(http://www.tholos254.gr/images/tour_02_bg.jpg & http://www.tholos254.gr/en/tour/ )
Very good collection.
Someone wrote comments like: “you forgot that…”, “you miss this… ” etc… In my opinion “they forgot” to think that there are hundreds of millions of buildings worldwide and of course missings are unavoidable. Anyway I think that`s important to add the “hundertwasserhaus2 and the 2hundertwasser incinerator”, both en Vienna:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/viena%20hundertwasserhaus/dollusa/Wien%202006/cafd.jpg
http://www.checkonsite.com/wp-content/gallery/hundertwasserhaus/hundertwasser_04.jpg
http://www.ojodigital.com/foro/attachments/urbanas-pueblos-y-ciudades/13879d1197482133-fabrica-art-deco-stitched_004_ojo_2.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1111/575502697_0dae93f9bb_b.jpg
tttThe Atlantis Hotel is located in the Bahamas, not in Dubai. Please correct pic information.
I stand corrected. Your Atlantis Hotel pic is correctly identified as located in Dubai. Its twin & nearly identical building is the one located in the Bahamas… sorry
WEIRD! Some give me eye-strain just looking at them, not to mention the migraine at the thought of ever going inside!
Neato!
Amazing, a great list of bizarre and modern art. thanks for sharing
Those are just amazing! Thanks for sharing them in this post. Most I had not seen before.
I love the upside down buildings!! They are soooo COOL!
GREAT compilation!
I believe #26 is the Ripley’s Believe it or Not in Branson, MO. http://www.reservebranson.com/blog/2009/01/bransons-ripleys-believe-it-or-not.asp
It is so wondorfu! lol
Great and Amazing……
Well, as a fifth year student in architectural engineering i can say that some of the buildings are really awesome ! the designs are astonishing although we learned in school to always stay realistic and practical !!
20. Erwin Wurm: House Attack (Viena, Austria) [ I’ve been wondering all day about the flipped house, how would someone live in such a building?! is it built for someone to live in or its a useless object stuck into the facade to make it look strange !! ]
Great website, amazing photos.
oonly thing I deplore, is that it is only about famous,
very big buildings at the international level (opera
concert hall, official gouvernment buildings, etc). I
would like to see ordinary house (in the sense of their
size) with strange architecture.
I remember seeing very odd houses in Montreal’s West Island
many years ago (cement and stone, rounded walls) and I would
like to see them again, and share it with others.
Thanks
awesome architecture
astonishing architectures n great photography…excellent examples of architecture,cityscape & travel photography..i really like the Ferdinand Cheval Palace (France) is pic with great exposure..National center for performing arts (Beijing, China) the reflection completes the picture…
wow … this Great , thanks
You should add Xilitla: The Surreal Gardens of Las Pozas (Mexico)
http://images.google.com.ar/imgres?imgurl=http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4DKAVxxQSVg/0.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.videowasi.com/videos/pozas/1/&usg=__MyXGa5x28lfn3xrs-d-RQHRRlh4=&h=360&w=480&sz=13&hl=es&start=14&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=MMgpYG3Wx16yIM:&tbnh=97&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dxilitla%2Benglish%26um%3D1%26hl%3Des%26sa%3DG%26tbs%3Disch:1
Sehr bekömmliche Abhandlung, Dank hinter Arbeiten
wow all these comments make me laugh u guys are nerds
Such a marvelous Creativity!
Spectacular….I wish I could do this..?
End Oscar Niemayer Museum, in Curitiba, PR, Brazil?
I never see so much strange pictures.
Sorry for the question, but I am very interested in how CMS operates a blog?
Nice building but is it all true?
so wonderful, i love all them.
Awesome!!!!!!!!! :)
There are some amazing buildings on this planet and some might say the architects must have too much time on their hands. I found an article with some similar buildings which is wirth a look at – http://www.charringtonoak.co.uk/Top10-WorldsWeirdestBuildings.html
Oh wow these magnificent architecture is good !
Magic collection! couldn’t believe my eyes !
dont forget the MUSAC in León (spain)
Wow look at that cool architecture. incredible buildings
very interesting buildings and I especially the Capsule Tower in Japan and the ING Headquarters look very interesting.
Glad to see China and Ukraine!
The National centre for the performing arts in China is awesome, I love it
This stuff is truly mind-blowing! Thanks for the pictures.
Many of those actually look like they are fake, actually… haha
I didn’t know there was such crazy stuff in architecture. Some buildings are really crazy. Thanks for sharing this, it is really interesting to see different buildings all over the world.
my God, i thought you were going to chip in with some decisive insght at the end there, not leave it with ‘we leave it to you to decide
nice pictures. great.
Surreal looking pics, great collection.
I can just Say, All are Awesome, Thanks for sharing
Great collections. Thanks
All I can say is Wow! These structures are truly amazing. I want to visit each one of them and have them as a background in my photos. Thanks for sharing this… I see why this page is popular.
Very well… but notify: Centre Beauboug, Paris
i see library in Minsk every day, and i was surprised when saw it here. Cool collection!
superb!!!!!!
Glad to see China
A most timely and informative article. Tips i will definitely implement.
WOW!! There are lots of amazing building in our whole world, It is a realistic, interesting, fantastic collection..Thanks for sharing them in this post.
Amazing what a creative imagination and a little funding can create. Great collection.
unique and fantastic design of building , very creative
wow … there are great collection ..
never seen such buildings in my life ….thanks for shairng
Nice List, how creative are they,
mind blowing. How do people thinks of such works of art?
Your site has some off the wall architecture. Just when I thought our city would just be plane jane, up comes David Sloan architectes to renovate our art gallery. It’s now renamed the Art Gallery of Alberta and it is located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It would make a nice candidate for your collection. Best to free load this structure through Google Earths Panaramo
you missed the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt
here a link:
http://www.bibalex.org/imagegallery/ba_gallery_en.aspx?ID=7&Name=BA%20Complex
Wow Amazing Buildings to see, I like this collection of Buildings thanks…
Wow great. It’s unique and fantastic design of building , very creative
what a great collection. Nice work
Cool collection and amazing work..
oh my god, really-really great jobs,
Crazy Stuff, every building style is unique. Nice collection!
really cool selection of building in there, lots to take in.
Pretty cool really. I think I have seen almost all of these in the US.
these buildings are insane lol in a way they are actually quite awesome
it looks stunning and wonderful to have a large collection of heavy structures like these.
museum of modern contemporary art in france, that is amazing, the building itself is a piece of art alone.
Here are some more amazing buildings…
WOW~Wish i could travel all around these places one day!!!!!
Love it!!
I am very interesting these photos, looks really good, fell in love them.
” The “Marilyn Munro” buildings. Mississauga, Ontario, Canada: http://www.absolutecondos.com/
Superise! So strange and fantastic buildings architecture.I ever come to BeiJing in 2010 Olympic Games.I had saw the National Stadium.Interesting and beautiful.
Haven’t gone through all the comments, but have you seen the Origami building, situated inside the Infosys Campus, Mysore, India
Img: http://india.ehsanrahman.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/origami_building.jpg
Source: http://india.ehsanrahman.com/?cat=7
it’s adorable ………….:]
lovely………..
There are a few good projects mixed within this mess. But don’t try and compile a list of important architecture if you have no idea what you’re talking about. You help promote the dissemination of utter stupidity.
If you’re truly interested in design, please visit dezee.com or archdaily.com
Architects you might want to bother to look up include Toyo Ito, Bjarke Ingles, Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid, Shigeru Ban, Herzog and DeMuron, OMA, and many others.
That comment is inappropriate, uncalled for and rude. You should be ashamed of yourself behaving with such conduct! You have a great potential and you are throwing it away! This site is brilliant for fantastic examples of architecture- are they not buildings? Are they not beautiful to some people? Is this not a list? Yes, yes and yes. And Yes, there are more, but the writer of this blog obviously liked these ones. If you don’t like them, don’t comment, just leave it be. Your words will one day lead you into danger and temptation- learn to tame your tongue to avoid further response. You have the capacity- you are a smart man with a vibrant future.
That was fantastic pictures i have never seen before..
This is definitely a great collection of amazing architecture. I literally couldn’t stop looking at every single bit of detail of each building. It’s shocking to see some of them I even questioned myself how that came about? There are some buildings that I have actually had the pleasure of seeing them in person and it’s incredible.
WEIRD! Some give me eye-strain just looking at them, not to mention the migraine at the thought of ever going inside! I have shaw the all building constructions an i really appriciate the constructor work who has done this great job.
I appreciate the time and effort taken to assemble the wonders shown here into some kind of order in one spot. I’ve no doubt everyone has thier opinion and expression on each and every unique building featured and that is a great thing to propel forward. Inspiration comes to those who look, and to look here is a journey in itself without leaving the seat.
I want to visit so many places and see so many things, and if I get to see at least some of these amazing places I will continue a hopefully better person. Thank you.
i love the building they are really great i never see building in my life for
i love the building they are really great i have never seeing building like this before in my life.Thanks for read
Truly amazing! I really enjoyed going through this post with amazing building architecture.
Thanks for sharing interesting photos.
amazing!!! wow!!! superb!! I have never seen this kind of building before. Thank you very much for publishing it thought me a lot. I thought, how much more in heaven when we get there?! If humans can construct unbelievable buildings, how much more God can prepare a wonderful home for us… JESUS is coming very soon!!! Let’s make right with God….Just my heart’s content sharing to you friends out there..God bless us all! Maranatha
WoW, amazing building of all times,how can I imagine now that if you imagine what ever thing you can imagine it can have a good result,if you applied it in real life.I’m so amaze,i can’t imagine how they made that very artistic buildings.
wow… its fantastic…. its really amazing buildings………………
I’ve no doubt everyone has thier opinion and expression on each and every unique building featured and that is a great thing to propel forward. Inspiration comes to those who look, and to look here is a journey in itself without leaving the seat.
Glad to see the MIT Sata Center. It’s interesting to see how many buildings China had in your compilation. It seems like it’s really starting to make its way into the architectural scene; in particular with its newer buildings. It’s my favorite.
There is temple near Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India. It is called Chile Maharaj Temple. The shape of the building is like a massive Tortoise. See if you could add it to your collection.
– Uday
Where is “Bibliotheca Alexandrina” of Egypt?!!!!!!
Cool architecture!! These buildings really add an interesting view o the world. I’m proud to represent the Lotus temple of my country( India) and I’m glad to have seen the Atlantis hotel and the Raffles(Dubai). China is repetitive in the list,woah!. I’d love to tour the whole world and see all these wonderful places.
Amazing buildings! Spent my lunchbreak looking at these, this has really brightened up my day! My favourite was Manchester Civil Justice Center! Cooool:) i love cavan
This has ASTOUNDED me! I have never seen so many beautiful buildings! I’ve spent what seems like a lifetime searching this, my husband lewis approves too!
The Crookes House and ING Headquarters of Amsterdam have a fantastic architecture
Amazing architectures=another world’s wonders.
Thanks for your wonderful post.
What about the Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado?
The building itself is one of the best peices of art to see at the museum. It doesn’t use any right angles throughout the shape of the building.
Me and my long term partner Tom Wood approve of these because they are made of our favourite material : wood!:)
Amazing buildings !
it is so motivating to see how God gifted people with creative mind especially when I am aiming there. surely the missing of Lloyd Wright’s work is a disappointment please add the Falling Waters.
These images are very interesting, wow.
Great List! As an architect myself its an honor to work alongside such extraordinary minds.
Hi there, its my first time to visit your site. Its really awesome Amazing building, thanks for sharing this one. Good job.
Selfridges building Birmingham UK…
some of them are really good design whole some of just not.
thx
There are a lot of attractions in anaheim too
It was good