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Toph
Sopot Poland
The concept of this building is that it should look like it melted. This is actually a mall which houses restaurants, bars ans shops.
Montreal, Quebec Canada
Also called The Big O, this is a multipurpose building where large events in the area are held.
The leaning tower that you see in the picture is about 175 m tall -- The tallest leaning tower in the world.
Forest Spiral
Darmstadt Germany
This is an apartment comprised of 105 units. This was built in 1998 and was finished in year 2000.
Canary Islands Sapin
The all-concrete building is characterized by the dramatic sweep of its roof. Rising off the base like a crashing wave, the roof soars to a height of 58 meters over the main auditorium before curving downward and narrowing to a point.
The Basket Building
Ohio USA
Built by Longarber Basket Company. The building is a replica of the product of the company, a market basket. This building costs $30 million.
Missouri USA
Looks like a book shelf. The books that were designed in the building were choosen by the people of Kansas that best represents their city which includes the very famous Lord of the Rings.
WonderworksPigeon Forge, USA
It is an amusement park for the mind featuring over 150 interactive exhibits. Its 55,000 square feet of family fun!
Montreal Canada
354 cubes of a magnificent grey-beige build up one on the other to form 146 residences nestled between sky and earth, between city and river, between greenery and light.
Rotterdam Netherlands
The concept behind these houses is that he tries to create a forest by each cube representing an abstract tree; therefore the whole village becomes a forest.
Tempe, Arizona USA
Completed in 1971 and costs $52.5 million, the pyramid is 3 stories tall containing 17,650 square feet of municipal offices, including offices for the Mayor, City Council, and City Manager on the third floor. The 45º slope of the walls results in the floors on that level to measure 100 feet on each side, but the ceiling to measure 126 feet on each side.
Guimarães Portugal
Yabadabado... The real life Flintstones. This house was carved from a huge boulder of stone.
Minsk Belarus
It houses the largest collection of Belarusian printed materials. Its main architectural component has the shape of a rhombicuboctahedron. A total of 4646 color-changing LED fixtures were installed all around the building, effectively creating a monitor with 25x25 meter sides and 62 meters in diameter.
As a result, spectators are able to observe a fantastic show with incredible dynamic plots from hundreds of meters away.
Delhi India
Inspired by the lotus flower, its design is composed of 27 free-standing marble clad "petals" arranged in clusters of three to form nine sides. The nine doors of the Lotus Temple open onto a central hall, capable of holding up to 2,500 people.
Modern Igloo
Alaska
Igloos are once design to house a single family. But if you need more rooms. Then the modern igloo is what you will be needing.
Brussels Belgium
It is 102-metres (335 ft) tall, with nine steel spheres connected so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times. Tubes which connect the spheres along the 12 edges of the cube and all eight vertices to the centre enclose escalators connecting the spheres which contain exhibit halls and other public spaces.
Paris France
The Arche is almost a perfect cube (width: 108m, height: 110m, depth: 112m); it has been suggested that the structure looks like a four-dimensional hypercube (a tesseract) projected onto the three-dimensional world.
Air Force Academy Chapel
Colorado USA
The most striking aspect of the Chapel is its row of seventeen spires. The structure is a tubular steel frame of 100 identical tetrahedrons, each 75 feet (23 m) long, weighing five tons, and enclosed with clear aluminum panels.
Beijing China
Designed to look like a bird's nest, this is the stadium where the 2008 olympics was held
Las Vegas USA
That oval shaped structure on top is called "The Cloud".The Cloud at The Strip entrance is about 128 ft (39 m) above the sidewalk and is 480 ft (150 m) long. During the day, the structure provides shade for the entrance and at night it serves as a movie screen.
Dubai UAE
This is a hotel resort with 1500 rooms and a huge arch in the middle supported by 22 storey towers.
Beijing China
The exterior of the theater is a titanium accented glass dome that is completely surrounded by a man-made lake. It is said to look like an egg floating on water, or a water drop.
London UK
Featured in Basic Instinct 2, this building was completed in 2003 with 40 floors and stands 180 m tall.
Japan
A hyperboloid structure, is a 108 metre high lattice tower in the port city of Kobe, Japan. Kobe Port Tower has an observation deck at a height of 90.28 metres. The red steel Port Tower offers a spectacular sight of the bay area and the surrounding area.
Ontario Canada
Located near the Niagara Falls, this is an entertainment building for of Ripley's Believe It Or Not. The looks like being hit by an earthquake
Kaunas Lithuania
The image of the LTL 1000 banknote is brought onto this building using special enamel paint. Money theme well represents various businesses located in this spectacular building
Yverdon-les-Bainz Switzerland
‘The Blur Pavilion’ with self generated mist was meant to give an impression that the building is floating above the water without any structural support. And indeed it looks just like that.
Madrid Spain
The highlight of this building is the large central hole which is 36.8 meters above the ground. It’s the large lookout area that provides inhabitants with a community garden and a space from where they can contemplate the skyline.Different colors represent different blocks with its own planning, which offer at least 9 different types of apartments.
Turning Torso
Malmö Sweden
The design is based on a sculpture by Santiago Calatrava called Twisting Torso. It uses nine segments of five-story pentagons that twist as it rises; the topmost segment is twisted ninety degrees clockwise with respect to the ground floor.
Montreal Biosphère
Canada
The Biosphère of Environment Canada is a museum in Montreal dedicated to water and the environment.
Djenne Mali
The Great Mosque of Djenné is the largest mud brick or adobe building in the world and is considered by many architects to be the greatest achievement of the Sudano-Sahelian architectural style
Archangelsk Russia
Believed to be the world’s tallest wooden house. The house dominates the skyline of Arkhangelsk, a city in Russia’s far north-west soaring 13 floors to reach 144 ft. It’s about half the size of tower of Big Ben.
Viena Austria
Installed on MUMOK's external façade: the single family house as a symbol of the everyday plunge into the façade of the museum.
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