Unusual buildings

If you ever feel like some architects live in their own fantasy land, you’re not the only one. The buildings that they create can range from majestic all the way to magical, and they’re sure to catch your eye with their flying buttresses, stoic columns, angelic balconies, and fearsome facades. However, you can sometimes get the idea that some of these artistic innovators haven’t fully thought some things through—like the fact that people actually have to live and work in the buildings they…

víctor enrich's ongoing series of digital distortions twist, bend and braid buildings into unrecognizable versions of themselves.

Bored panda presents you an incredible list of 33 strangest buildings in the world, and best of all, it's not just another random list, but it is based on 4.520 unique visitor votes. So don't blame panda for this exact order, blame yourself for voting this way, or for not voting at all (and don't tell me you didn't know where to vote, you could have asked).

The construction of high rise buildings did not commence until the late 1800's but sustained its development well past the turn of the century with the first

Not everything in Australia is "upside down". Sure, their Christmas is in the summer and they might have a BBQ to celebrate it, but in some ways, they're just like us Northern Hemisphere folks. Our fascination with bad architecture, for example, is equally obsessive.

shusaku arakawa and madeline gins' 'the reversible destiny lofts mitaka (in memory of helen keller)' is an experimental apartment complex in tokyo.

The best the world built in the last 15 years.

Abraj Kudai—the $3.5-billion project expected to become the world’s biggest hotel (by room count) in Mecca, Saudi Arabia—may have trouble completing as scheduled by 2017.

My own design ...Inspired from a stack of books at a book store