Sunday 24 December 2017

World's Strangest Building

In this article, i am going to talk about the most strangest buildings in the world.
The architecture’s field has contributed with many man-made structures and huge buildings to challenge nature’s boundless miracles.
 Here, we list some most amazing, strangest buildings in the world.

Mind house
One of the most popular works of the famous architect Gaudi in Barcelona is Park Güell.It is situated in Barcelona,Spain.It was constructed from 1900 to 1914,and was opened in 1926. It was declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO in 1984.One of these is Park Guell, referred to by some people as the Mind House. This is a public park system sitting on top of the Carmel Hill in Barcelona.

The Crooked House
It was built in in 2004,Located in Sopot, Poland, this commercial building is a popular landmark for tourists and photographers.
It was designed by Szotyńscy & Zaleski, who were inspired by the fairytale illustrations and drawings of Jan Marcin Szancer and Per Dahlberg.
              The local name of the building is Krzywy Domek which translates into English as “Crooked House” and is home to many popular shops, restaurants, and even a radio station.

Stone House 
It is situated in portugal.In portguese it is called Casa do Penedo.
Casa do Penedo is translated in English as House of the Rock 
The engineer who built the Casa do Penedo was from Guimarães
The Flintstones-inspired home was built between four boulders in 1974 by the Rodrigues family as a holiday retreat.

 Lotus Temple 
The Lotus Temple, located in Delhi, India, is a Bahai House of Worship.
The temple was completed in 1986 and is one of the most visited places in the world.

The structure is made up of pure white marble. The Iranian architect Furiburz Sabha chose the lotus as the symbol common to Hinduism, Buddhism,  Bahai Temple Jainism and Islam.

Atomium

The Atomium is a landmark building in Brussels,belgium. it was originally constructed for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo 58). It is located on the Heysel Plateau, where the exhibition took place.

 Atomium was designed by the engineer Andre Waterkeyn and architects Andre and Jean Polak,it stands 102 m (335 ft) tall. Its nine 18 m (60 ft) diameter stainless steel clad spheres are connected, so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times.
 It is now a museum.

Kansas City Library

The Kansas City Public Library is a public system headquartered in the Central Library in Kansas City, Missouri,usa.
It was Founded on December 5, 1873.
The Community Bookshelf (also known as the Library District Parking Garage) is a striking feature of Kansas City's downtown. It runs along
the south wall of the Central Library's parking garage on 10th Street between Wyandotte Street and Baltimore Avenue. The concept of turning the parking garage into a bookshelf was part of an effort on behalf of the community to bring character to the needed  structure.

No comments:

Post a Comment