Weird Architecture
_________is a landmark building in Brussels (Belgium), originally constructed for the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair (Expo 58). It is located on the Heysel Plateau in Laeken, where the exhibition took place. It is now a museum. Designed by the engineer André Waterkeyn and architects André and Jean Polak. 1
The Atomium
The seven-story, 180,000-square-foot building was designed by ___________, and executed by NBBJ and Korda Nemeth Engineering. The building opened in 1997.The Basket handles weigh almost 150 tons and can be heated during cold weather to prevent ice damage. Originally, Dave _______ wanted all of the buildings to be shaped like baskets, but only the headquarters was completed at the time of his death. 6
The Longaberger Company headquarters
_______ was an architectural installation created in central Vienna, Austria. Austrian artist Erwin Wurm collaborated with the Museum Moderner Kunst (MUMOK) for a publicity stunt in the form of architecture, for which he perched a cottage-sized house in a precarious position on the side of MUMOK’s large gray building.Completed in October 2006, the house appeared to have fallen from the sky and implanted itself into the museum.11
House Attack Museum
The first realization in MVRDV's hometown Rotterdam is a rooftop house extension. On top of an existing monumental house and atelier, the bedrooms are positioned as separate houses, optimizing the privacy of every member of the family. The houses are distributed in such a way that a series of plazas, streets and alleys appear as a mini-village on top of the building.Parapet walls with windows surround the new village 16
Didden Village
________childcare center is located in the C1 block of the Seguin Rives de Seine district in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburban area of Paris. The program houses a 60 bed childcare center and 20 bed day nursery. The building has been awarded the green “zéro Energie Effinergie” label. This public building is located next to Jean Nouvel’s “Horizons” tower, at the junction between the “Vieux pont de Sèvres” neighbourhood, built in the 70’s, and the new area called “ le Trapèze”. 2
Nativity of the Giraffe
Built in 2012 located near Hyderabad, India. The giant fish-shaped building looks like it is swimming in mid-air. Rectangular scale-like windows puncture its silver body, while a hollow mouth has been punched into the front and it has blue glass for eyes. 7
NATIONAL FISHERIES DEVELOPMENT BOARD
________ located near Mexico City is a unique shell shaped house designed by Mexican architect Javier Senosiain of Arquitectura Organica. The house design is very innovative, unusual and audacious. ... The sculptural whimsical house features a striking entry cut into a wall of colorful stained glass.12
Nautilus House
is a building owned by real estate company Chalmersfastigheter for Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, designed by Wingårdh arkitektkontor. Construction started in October 2010 and was finished in March 2011. The building is located on the Lindholmen campus, where it is connected to the neighboring buildings Jupiter and Science Park by two walkways on the first floor.17
Kuggen
_______is a landmark building in Birmingham, England. The building is part of the Bullring Shopping Centre. The building was completed in 2003 at a cost of £60 million and designed by the architecture firm Future Systems. It has a steel framework with sprayed concrete facade. Since its construction, the building has become an iconic architectural landmark and seen as a major contribution to the regeneration of Birmingham. 3
Selfridges Building
________ is the official name of this mall for drivers. It is the only store in the shape of a truck in Russia and, quite possibly, in the world as a whole. ______opened in 2007 and was immediately decried by local media as tasteless and clumsy. 8
Fura Shopping Mall
Designed by Oscar Niemeyer with the assistance of structural engineer Bruno Contarini, who had worked with Niemeyer on earlier projects, the MAC-Niterói is 16 meters high; its cupola has a diameter of 50 meters with three floors. The museum has a collection of 1,217 works from the art collector João Sattamini. A collection assembled since the 1950s by that collector, constituted by the second largest collection of contemporary art in Brazil. 13
Niterói Contemporary Art Museum
Affordable or subsidized housing building ________ is at 10th Calle de la Catedral de Santiago de Compostela (street) in Carabanchel district in Madrid (Spain). It was designed by Rafael Cañizares Torquemada and built between 2007 and 2010.18
Carabanchel 24
_____________is constructed as part of the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) and was designed by Alsop Architects in a partnership with Robbie/Young + Wright. This rectangular structure sits 26m above the ground, supported by 12 steel columns. It hovers over the oldest building on the campus and is connected to an existing building by an elevator and stair core. 4
SHARP CENTRE FOR DESIGN
_________is one of the buildings of the ______ headquarters located on the east bank of the Sumida River in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan. It was designed by French designer Philippe Starck and was completed in 1989. It is considered one of Tokyo's most recognizable modern structures.The shape of the building is that of a beer glass, designed to complement the neighboring golden beer mug-shaped building 9
Asahi Beer Hall
Its construction began in 1972 and lasted about two years until its completion in 1974.The engineer who built the Casa do Penedo was from Guimarães. The residence was initially used by the owners as a holiday destination. Today Casa de Penedo is a small museum of relics and photographs from the house's history.The building is located near a wind farm, although there is no electricity supply to the house itself. Due to its unusual design and integration into the surrounding nature, the building has become a growing tourist attraction.14
Casa do Penedo (Portuguese for Stone House or House of the Rock)
is a small alley in London's Covent Garden between Shorts Gardens and Monmouth Street which opens into a courtyard. It is named after the 17th century developer, Thomas Neale. In 1976, alternative activist and entrepreneur Nicholas Saunders started the bulk Whole Food Warehouse; he had bought _______, a derelict warehouse for the nearby Covent Garden fruit and vegetable market, for £7,000 a few years earlier. From this success, grew various other enterprises in other buildings such as _______ Coffee House, Neal's Yard Bakery and the Neal's Yard Apothecary.19
Neal's Yard
Some say that Antoni Gaudi’s ______ is the weirdest building in the world. Others say it is the most beautiful. No matter the case, nobody can deny that it is a masterpiece.______ is located in Barcelona, Spain, in Parc Guell. This parc was an idea by Count Eusebi Guell, thus the name. The forecast was to build a park and 60 houses. Gaudi just built two. 5
Mind House
________parking garage, completed in 2004 and designed to look like a giant bookshelf. It amplifies the community element of mimetic architecture: the 42 titles exhibited were all chosen by Kansas City locals. 10
Kansas City Public Library
_______is a visitor attraction in Cornwall, England, UK. The project is located in a reclaimed china clay pit, located 2 km (1.2 mi) from the town of St Blazey and 5 km (3 mi) from the larger town of St Austell.The complex is dominated by two huge enclosures consisting of adjoining domes that house thousands of plant species, and each enclosure emulates a natural biome. The biomes consist of hundreds of hexagonal and pentagonal ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) inflated cells supported by Geodesic tubular steel domes. The largest of the two biomes simulates a rainforest environment (and is the largest indoor rainforest in the world) and the second, a Mediterranean environment. 15
The Eden Project
also known as the Pink Mosque a traditional mosque in Shiraz, Iran. It is located in Gawd-i Arabān quarter, near Shāh Chérāgh Mosque. It was built during Qajar dynasty rule of Iran. The mosque includes extensive coloured glass in its facade, and displays other traditional elements such as the Panj Kāse ("five concaved") design. It is named in popular culture as the 'Pink Mosque', due to the usage of a considerable number of pink-colored tiles for its interior design.20
Nasir-ol-Molk Mosque