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Strange Buildings of the world

Strange Buildings of the world. 1. The Crooked House ( Sopot , Poland).

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Strange Buildings of the world

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  1. Strange Buildings of the world

  2. 1. The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland) • Construction of the building started in in January 2003 and in December 2003 it was finished. House architecture is based on Jan MarcinSzancer (famous Polish artist and child books illustrator) and Per Dahlberg (Swedish painter living in Sopot) pictures and paintings.

  3. 2. Forest Spiral – Hundertwasser Building (Darmstadt, Germany) • The Hundertwasser house “Waldspirale” (”Forest Spiral”) was built in Darmstadt between 1998 and 2000. FriedensreichHundertwasser, the famous Austrian architect and painter, is widely renowned for his revolutionary, colourful architectural designs which incorporate irregular, organic forms, e.g. onion-shaped domes. • The structure with 105 apartments wraps around a landscaped courtyard with a running stream. Up in the turret at the southeast corner, there is a restaurant, including a cocktail bar.

  4. 3. The Basket Building (Ohio, United States) • The Longaberger Basket Company building in Newark, Ohio might just be a strangest office building in the world. The 180,000-square-foot building, a replica of the company’s famous market basket, cost $30 million and took two years to complete. Many experts tried to persuade Dave Longaberger to alter his plans, but he wanted an exact replica of the real thing.

  5. 4. Kansas City Public Library (Missouri, United States) • This project, located in the heart of Kansas City, represents one of the pioneer projects behind the revitalization of downtown. • The people of Kansas City were asked to help pick highly influential books that represent Kansas City. Those titles were included as ‘bookbindings’ in the innovative design of the parking garage exterior, to inspire people to utilize the downtown Central Library.

  6. 5. Wonderworks (Pigeon Forge, TN, United States) • WonderWorks is an amusement park for the mind featuring over 100 interactive exhibits. It is 55,000 square feet of family fun.The entire family will enjoy this fun, educational and totally upside down attraction in Pigeon Forge. Located at the north end of the Parkway, WonderWorks is filled with hands on activities and experiences that will delight and entertain all ages. And the upside down reference...well, you’ll just have to see it to believe it! Interactive Forensic ExhibitWonderWorks is thrilled to announce the opening of its newest

  7. 6. Cubic Houses (Rotterdam, Netherlands) • The original idea of these cubic houses came about in the 1970s. Piet Blom has developed a couple of these cubic houses that were built in Helmond. • The city of Rotterdam asked him to design housing on top of a pedestrian bridge and he decided to use the cubic houses idea. 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.

  8. 7. Dancing Building (Prague, Czech Republic) • The Dancing House (Czech: Tančícídům), or Fred and Ginger, is the nickname given to the Nationale-Nederlanden building on the Rašínovonábřeží (Rašín Embankment) in Prague, Czech Republic. It was designed by the Croatian-Czech architect VladoMilunić in cooperation withCanadian-American architect Frank Gehry on a vacant riverfront plot. The building was designed in 1992 and completed in 1996.[1] • The very non-traditional design was controversial at the time because the house stands out among the Baroque, Gothic and Art Nouveaubuildings for which Prague is famous, and in the opinion of some it does not accord well with these architectural styles. The then Czech president,Václav Havel, who lived for decades next to the site, had avidly supported this project, hoping that the building would become a center of cultural activity. • Gehry originally named the house Fred and Ginger (after the famous dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers – the house resembles a pair of dancers)[2] but this nickname is now rarely used; moreover, Gehry himself was later "afraid to import American Hollywood kitsch to Prague",[3] and thus discarded his own idea.

  9. 8. Shoe House (Pennsylvania, United States) • The Shoe House was built in 1948 (and completed in 1949) by Colonel Mahlon Nathaniel Haines, the flamboyant "Shoe Wizard," for advertising purposes. Haines walked up to an architect, handed him an old work boot, and said "Build me a house like this." Haines owned forty shoe stores in Maryland and Pennsylvania, was a millionaire and an honorary Indian chief, and knew the value of self-promotion. Haines would stand up at baseball games and offer $20 to anybody who knew who he was. - See more at: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2202#sthash.GcCP5qdA.dpuf

  10. 9. Erwin Wurm: House Attack (Viena, Austria) • Museum ModernerKunst (MUMOK) pride themselves on their extensive collection of 20th and 21st century modern art, and their status as the largest art museum in Austria. This may or may not be why a small family home attempted to bring them down by hurtling itself into the roof of the museum, wedging its roof helplessly into the mammoth's frame. • Artist Erwin Wurm is known for his unusual, sometimes humorous, and occasionally puzzling work. While his "House Attack" piece could fall into any or all of those categories, it's at the very least intriguing. The sensation of walking underneath a house that is perched in such a precarious position may spark a natural instinct to move out from under it with haste, but from a distance it's hard not to smirk at the implied predicament of the little guy. • Located in the heart of Vienna, House Attack is the first modern art piece you will see when arriving at the museum, but go inside to see an extensive collection of international art, including works from classical modernity, Cubism, Futurism and Surrealism up to the art movements of the 1960s and 1970s, Pop Art, Fluxus and Nouveau Réalisme.

  11. 10. Nord LB building (Hannover, Germany) • In 1985 collection NORD/LB started to build up an art with the aim of representing post-1945 modern art in an international context. The collection today comprises about 3,000 artworks, still with an emphasis on postwar art, including Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Sol LeWitt, Jeff Koons, JannisKounellis and JörgImmendorff, among others.[1] Employees can use the works to decorate the buildings, and they are displayed within the bank's own exhibition program. In 1999 it was able to open the exhibition space of its own. • In 2009, NORD/LB returned Franz Marc's Cat Behind a Tree (1910), a painting the bank had bought in 1983, to the descendant of a Jewish shoe-manufacturing family persecuted by the Nazis; the bank had loaned the painting long-term to the Sprengel Museum in Hanover. In 2012, the bank sold its Jeff Koons sculpture, Tulips (1995-2004), from the “Celebration” series. The bank will use the proceeds to set up a foundation to promote contemporary art and cultural projects in northern Germany.[2]

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