TOP 10 Exceptionally strange Great buildings from around the world

TOP 10 Exceptionally strange Great buildings from around the world

There is no doubt that art and architecture can be unusual. And when the artistic license meets the concrete world of construction, the results can be simply staggering.

10. Horizontal Skyscrapers - Vanke Center (Shenzen, China)

When is a skyscraper a skyscraper in name and form, but not in behavior and function? When is a typical skyscraper that has been carefully built to lie on its side! The building would logically be quite typical if you had to turn your head 90 degrees to the side when you examine it, because the position of the building is what makes it odd. Standing on pillars of support, the building is in fact the length of the height of the Empire State Building, while its physical location is stretched along a pristine landscaped garden with grass, woody plants and plants. plants. Pools of water.Contributed to a winner, the project was awarded with a 2010 Honorary Award from the American Institute of Architects, presented as an example of excellence.

9. The wooden skyscraper (Archangelsk, Russia)

A house of cards does not hold well, but a wooden skyscraper? The work of a madman, a convict and a potential crazy genius, even if the rules of construction are violently disturbed, the Archangelsk wooden skyscraper in Russia is an imposing monstrosity that is described as a monument to travel a man's staff in Babel in the sometimes frozen north.

Known as Sutyagin House, the 144-foot building was started in 1992 by the infernal lord Nikolai Petrovich Sutyagin in defiance of building regulations and architectural challenges. Impressive in size, massive but clearly fragile after careful inspection, the giant building withstood all conceivable building regulations before the end of its reign of rebellion. After his release, the city authorities finally managed to build on the inspiration of the Japanese and Norwegian timber structures and designed as a symbol of status and accommodation, to demolish.

8. Robot Building (Bangkok, Thailand)

State-of-the-art technology and buildings often go hand in hand, but it's almost unbelievable that a big skyscraper looks like a robot. Technologically advanced buildings can boast of appropriate materials, shapes and structural elements, but simply constructed to resemble artificial, non-living humanoids, it is a courageous and mechanical step in a radically new direction. Built with a set of superficial features added to a body, torso and head structure, United Overseas Bank's high-tech headquarters in the form of a robot building in Bangkok, Thailand forms an unprecedented and exceptionally striking project .

7. Genex Tower (Belgrade, Serbia)

The architecture of Eastern Europe can take on the appearance of science fiction constructions, sometimes merging the modern and the castle into one building. Strange, embarrassing in the eyes of some but undeniably impressive, Belgrade's Genex tower is an architectural monstrosity that dates back to times of great conflict. 

6. Burj Khalifa (Dubai)

Acclaimed as the tallest building on the planet, the Burj Khalifa is notable not only for its height and height at 2,716.5 feet and more than 160 floors. The building holds a multitude of world records, including the tallest building in the world, the highest floor occupied, most stories of all the buildings in the world, the highest outdoor observation deck, the highest elevator of the world. service and the largest freestanding structure. (Oh, and there was also this time Tom Cruise climbed to the side.) Built the gigantic building was started in 2004, while the exterior of the building reached its completion in 2009 before the opening of the structure. 2010.

Built in part to increase tourism revenues, the construction was supported by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum with the aim of creating an extraordinarily striking creation that would allow for greater global recognition of Dubai. Containing hundreds of apartments and suites, the building also has swimming pools and elevators that include equipment that can reach a speed of 33 feet per second. Constructed primarily from reinforced concrete with significant amounts of steel structural elements, the tower has both a multi-level appearance and narrow spiers that reflect Dubai's characteristic Islamic architectural styles.

5. Goldin Finance Tower (Tianjin, China)

Remarkable for its incredibly simple and ordinary form, combined with incredible height and slenderness, the Goldin Finance Tower in Tianjin, China, reaches an astonishing height of 1,957 feet, but is essentially cube-shaped and remarkably fine. Almost a third of a mile high, the building was compared to a huge walking stick because of its chunky appearance and its supertall design when it is nearly finished. With 117 floors in its vertical rise, the central landmark of Tianjin's business district is deceptively ordinary in its almost stereotypical form of skyscraper. 

4. AlDar Headquarters (Abu Dhabi)

Built in Abu Dhabi, the bizarre headquarters of AlDar could shock novice visitors or lead to a false UFO crash report. Why? Because the huge but beautiful structure is actually the world's first circular skyscraper. Rising to 360 feet, the building represents unity, stability and rationality as well as infinity and was completed in 2010. The structure looks like a gigantic plaque that has been sunk into the desert floor, slightly enlarged and filled with offices. Both sides of the building are interspersed with a continuous edge of windows that resembles a band that was used to join two halves, but further enhances the appearance of the UFO lateral landing of the structure.

3. Dancing House (Prague, Czech Republic)

The leaning tower of Pisa is remarkable, but its lean was certainly not intended and apart from the lean, its architecture is normal. Conversely, the Prague Dancing House in the Czech Republic was deliberately constructed in such a way that, at first glance, it seems to collapse. Started in 1994 and completed in 1996, the structure consists of two leaning figures representing the dancers Fred Astair, represented by the concrete tower, and Ginger Rogers, intended to be represented by the leaning glass tower that stands on the legs. concrete. The combination of both actually looks like a man and a woman in the moment of hug while enjoying a graceful and intimate dance.

2. Basket Construction at Longaberger Headquarters (Newark, Ohio)

Is it bigger than a bread basket? Well, this sentence may be less useful as a measurement generalization when the bread basket in question is not more than a foot long, but is an entire office building. It's not a complete skyscraper, but a building so remarkable in terms of scale for what it stands for and as a subject, we have to take our hats to the headquarters of the Longaberger Company, Ohio. Why? Because the whole building is not just built like a gigantic bread basket, but in reality it looks like one, built to include even a textured exterior design that mimics the look of a woven basket.

1. Faux Hills (Beihai, China)

It can be said that hills have eyes in horror movies, but in Beihai, China, the hills you see can certainly be filled with human glances as people go about their business in a bizarre building complex but impressive. a hilly horizon. The Fake Hills represent a very bold expression of the concept of urbanism which consists of harmonizing the shape of the building and the character with the surrounding environment. Stretching lengthwise and parallel to the beach, with the exception of a perpendicular unit, the false hills form a buttress-like silhouette with lush gardens interspersed with lower individual buildings between the structures and the beach.