After getting so many quality feedback on one of our past post over 80+ Strange and Fantastic Buildings Architecture It’s necessary to write this post about More Unusual Buildings Architecture as a quality addition to respective topic.
As it’s very transparent that Architectural works are perceived as cultural and political symbols and works of art. Historical civilizations are often known primarily through their architectural achievements. Cities, regions and cultures continue to identify themselves with (and are known by) their architectural monuments.
We are lucky to exist in a revolutionary generation where we have a chance to see pattern braking Architectural achievements by modern blood.
The Architecture expressed by the dreams, spirit and aspirations of a nation or a whole community stand as an expression of its core unique values in matter and the multiplicity of different styles and typologies found in modern Art reflect the socio-economic, cultural, ideological, ecological and climatic factors that have shaped us over 3 decades.
When Modern architecture was first practiced, it was an avant-garde movement with moral, philosophical, and aesthetic underpinnings. Immediately after World War I, pioneering modernist architects sought to develop a completely new style appropriate for a new post-war social and economic order, focused on meeting the needs of the middle and working classes. They rejected the architectural practice of the academic refinement of historical styles which served the rapidly declining aristocratic order.
The approach of the Modernist architects was to reduce buildings to pure forms, removing historical references and ornament in favor of functionalist details. Many architects resisted Modernism, finding it devoid of the decorative richness of ornamented styles.
As the complexity of buildings began to increase (in terms of structural systems, services, energy and technologies), architecture started becoming more multi-disciplinary. Architecture today usually requires a team of specialist professionals, with the architect being one of many, although usually the team leader.
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Awesome. I especially liked #41. Keep finding these buildings, they are really interesting.
What a fantastic collection of unusual buildings. Thanks.
Great article, pure love! I would love to see an article about contemporary — or modern — Dutch architecture. Keep up the good work!
this is amazing i love all
Great buildings. :)
I wish I personally see few of them.
Those are great, but…what about Casa da Música in Oporto, Portugal?!
By the architect Rem Koolhaas:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/89707735@N00/90788331/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/89707735@N00/90788332/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcseixas/3216456668/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7278450@N07/3244006754/
Hugs, (,”)
I love Frank Lloyd Wright’s house. When I was little my mother had a picture of it as a fridge magnet. So, consequently I would see it just about every day. To live over a waterfall would be amazing.
really good.hope i can visit some of this building
Selfridges in Birmingham, UK:
http://www.contemporist.com/photos/selfridges_birmingham_01.jpg
interesting.
casa batllo in gaudi barcelona should def be on here somewhere. it is absolutely AMAZING!!!
The number 14 (Agbar Tower has a mistake. Barcelona is a Spanish city. “Catalonia” is not a country.
Excellent list of buildings with great Architecture.
Here’s a few more:
Crazy house for children in Germany
http://decojournal.com/200906/pop-art-happy-rizzi-house-germany/
Flying saucer in the Netherlands
http://www.evoluon.org
wykop kurrrrrrrrrrrwa
I think you should add Mode-Gakuen Spiral Towers which are in Nagoya, Japan. The style fits here really good. :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mimundo/256204571/
Museum Oscar Niemeyer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedelllounge/3530569305/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cesarnascimento/3705492055/
Catedral de Brasília
http://www.usp.br/fau/cursos/graduacao/arq_urbanismo/disciplinas/aup0179/Bases_-_Aup0179/Nk_Quadra_Copan.jpg
COPAN
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bjurman/2097559222/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leandrosmoreira/1586480904/
Cathedral de São Sebastião
*Architecture of Oscar Niemeyer – Brazil
I suggest the Wiesmann Manufactory in Duelmen (Germany):
http://www.wiesmann.com/en/manufactury/manufactory#/_my_media/1/1/Manufaktur/Bildergalerie_Manufaktur/_tn/743_2112_0_manufaktur_galerie_02.jpg
The building looks like a Gecko. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groninger_Museum
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King
http://easydaysnight.com/custom/Liverpool_Metropolitan_Cathedral.jpg
Great stuff. Here’s another one. El Paso Convention Center. Supposedly looks like a sombrero. I always thought it looked like a roller coaster.
http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicv/vfiles33510.jpg
Don’t forget the Sage in Gateshead, uk!
Another one: http://www.gymnasium-gerlingen.de/Kunst_DB_Museum_1.jpg
Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany!
Cheers
http://www.onedigitallife.com/images/rmf-radio.jpg
House of Poland’s largest radio station, RMF FM
I really enjoyed this buildings so much , and I WISH TO SHOW EVERYONE MY BUILDING WHICH I DESIGNED IN MY LAST YEAR COLLEGE IN ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY,DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE WITH GRADE EXCELLENT .IT WAS AQURIUM IN RAS MOHAMED , SOUTH SINI , EGYPT
You forgot Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna, Austria.:)
Excellent list of buildings with great Architecture.
Definitivamente la arquitectura es maravillosa unida con la ingenieria civil eestan muy bonitas las imagenes…
These are amazing! I just spent an hour looking through them and looking up information on the ones I found the most fascinating. Thanks for the compilation!
Great work of art,but there are much more of selection in tis series like Gugenhime musum in new york or George pompideu centre in Paris also
Habitat in Montreal.
Nice list. Thank you for sharing. I can think of at least one amazing structure that was missing from the list. Baha’i temple in India.
please see the image in the following link
http://www.redbridgerenet.co.uk/gallery/bahai.jpg
about #14: Catalonia is not a country, it belongs to Spain. Thanks.
By the way, amazing photos!
Art and Architecture is matter of harmony and personal choice
there are many other attractive architecture around the world,
what is logic behind those selections
great building and thank for good informations…. and give me a inspiration… for build something new….
Excellent list of MODERN buildings
KHORRAMABAD LORESTAN IRAN
With good luck
You might want to add a whole village of unusual architecture: La Grande Motte, a seaside resort in the South of France.
http://www.ot-lagrandemotte.fr/anglais/index.php
Here’s a link to a photo that epitomizes La Grande Motte’s architecture:
http://www.picturefrance.com/architecture/arch_grande_motte2163.html
Pictures are great!
Suggestion: can you add some info?
very nice collection! i’ve seen quite a number of them in real life, without looking for them specifically and yes they stunned me! just two maybe lesser known buildings i just had to think of that should join this collection
rolex learning centre, epfl, lausanne switzerland
http://www.rolexlearningcenter.ch/the_building/
chichu art museum, naoshima japan (difficult to appreciate how special it is becuase it’s mostly in a hill
http://www.google.de/images?q=chichu+art+museum
http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/Chichu-Art-Museum1.jpg
You should add the “Canadian National War Museum” from Ottawa, Canada
Loved #5. Beautiful
the thin house is so thin ??? loved 27,28,32,33, and many .. always wanted to be an architect but things dint work out so for some days ive been reading
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/architecture/
also.. i had read this quote one time.. don’t remember by whom :P
the best thing about architecture is that you can walk into your dreams…
The quality of pics above is quite high.
All of that, i know more places with “impressive” architectures via your pics.
I will choose one of this to set my desktop background.
Thank
Gran parte de los edificios son espectaculares pero feos se olvidan de lo humano y solo piensan en llamar la atencion, me gustan mucho el estilo de francia (muy artisticos), españa y brasil. y los de EU parecen que son para esenografia. Existen gran ingenio en cosas tan bellas y espectaculares como la casa de Frank loyd Write
Saludos desde Mexico
[Translation: Many of the ugly buildings are spectacular but they forget the human and the only think to call attention, I really like the style of France (very artistic), Spain and Brazil. and the U.S. look like they are for esenografia. There is great talent in things as beautiful and spectacular as the home of Frank Loyd Write
Greetings from Mexico]
Nice Collection. Could you add Canada Place in Vancouver?
These are awesome! It’s amazing what people can build.
Here are some more similar ones…
Broadcasting Tower in Leeds – Voted world’s best tall building. I don’t think it’s the best but its still great!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-11606949
Its really awesome…
Some of these are really amazing, I would to see them in person. I was surprised the Experience Music Project building in Seattle didn’t make the list.
making it a goal to view and get inside of at least 6 of these buildings! the outside just makes me want to see the inside that much more..
I’ve read several good stuff here. Certainly worth bookmarking for revisiting. I wonder how much effort you put to create such a great site.
Inspiring buildings. i plan to be a legendary architect when i am older, although i would be lucky to even come close to one of these masterpieces!
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa, Canada
(in the foreground of this picture)
http://www.cityprofile.com/forum/attachments/canada/2747-gatineau-canadian-museum-of-civilization-ottawa-river-and-parliament-hill-credit-ottawa-tourism-small.jpg
You forgot about the Longaberger Basket building in Newark, Ohio. =)
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/10658
hello what name of first building not the The Pyramids (Indianapolis, USA) but the another one please… thank for helping
It s wanderfull
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Belgrade-avio-museum.jpg
Please consider the Futuro house. If you need help I live in one. There are about 50 surviving out of some 100 built in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
Nice list and to add more, some of Zaha Hadid design are really strange also.