Tuesday, February 1, 2011

85 Strange and Stunning Buildings Architecture

The term Architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation. As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and constructing buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter. As a profession, architecture is the role of those persons or machines providing architectural services. As documentation, usually based on drawings, architecture defines the structure and/or behavior of a building or any other kind of system that is to be or has been constructed.

01. Device to Root Out Evil (Vancouver, Canada)


02. The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland)


03. Museum of Contemporary Art (Niteroi, Brazil)


04. ING Headquarters (Amsterdam, Netherlands)


05. Experience Music Project (Seattle, Washington, USA)


06. Dancing Building (Prague, Czech Republic)


07. Druzhba Holiday Center (Yalta, Ukraine)

08. Lotus Temple (Delhi, India)


09. Forest Spiral Building (Darmstadt, Germany)


10. The Torre Galatea Figueras (Spain)


11. Upside Down House (Szymbark, Poland)


12. The Basket Building (Ohio, USA)


13. The Ufo House (Sanjhih, Taiwan)

14. Stone House (FAFE, Portugal)


15. Kansas City Public Library (Missouri, USA)


16. Stata Center (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)


17. The Hole House (Texas, USA)


18. Ryugyong Hotel (Pyongyang, North Korea)

19. Container City (London, UK)


20. Erwin Wurm: House Attack (Viena, Austria)


21. Solar Furnace (Odeillo, France)


22. Nakagin Capsule Tower (Tokyo, Japan)


23. Beijing National Stadium (Beijing, China)


24. CCTV Tower – China Central Television Headquarters (Beijing, China)


25. The Egg (Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York, USA)


26. Ripley’s Building (Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada)


27. Ripley’s Believe It or Not! (Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada)


28. Fuji television building (Tokyo, Japan)


29. Olympic Stadium (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)


30. Blur Building (Yverdon-les-Bainz, Switzerland)


31. The Puerta de Europa towers (Madrid, Spain)


32. Gas Natural headquarters (Barcelona, Spain)


33. Wonderworks (Pigeon Forge, TN, USA)


34. Habitat 67 (Montreal, Canada)


35. Manchester Civil Justice Centre (Manchester, UK)


36. Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles, California, USA)


37. Shoe House (Pennsylvania, USA)


38. The National Library (Minsk, Belarus)


39. Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain)


40. Air Force Academy Chapel (Colorado, USA)


41. Fashion Show Mall (Las Vegas, USA)


42. Edificio Mirador (Madrid, Spain)


43. Luxor Hotel & Casino (Las Vegas, USA)


44. Grand Lisboa (Macau, China)


45. Dome House (Florida, USA)


46. Gherkin Building (London, UK)


47. Tempe Municipal Building (Tempe, Arizona, USA)


48. National Architects Union Headquarters (Romania)


49. Cubic Houses (Rotterdam, Netherlands)


50. Nord LB building (Hannover, Germany)


51. Turning Torso (Malmö, Sweden)


52. Lloyd’s building (London, UK)


53. Wozoco Apartments (Amsterdam, Holland)


54. UCSD Geisel Library (San Diego, California, USA)


55. Chapel in the Rock (Arizona, USA)


56. Atomium (Brussels, Belgium)


57. Great arche of defense (Paris, France)


58. Ferdinand Cheval Palace (France)


59. Cathedral of Brasilia (Brazil)


60. Errante Guest House (Chile)


61. The Museum of Play (Rochester , USA)


62. Jumeirah Emirates Towers (Dubai, UAE)


63. Burj al Arab (Dubai, UAE)


64. Raffles Dubai in Wafi city (Dubai, UAE)


65. National centre for the performing arts (Beijing, China)


66. Digital Beijing (Beijing, China)


67. Water Cube (Beijing, China)


68. Atlantis (Dubai, UAE)


69. Nordpark Cable Railway (Innsbruck, Austria)


70. The Valencia Opera House (Valencia, Spain)


71. Water Tower (Zaragoza)


72. Pabellon de Aragon (Zaragoza)


73. Eden project (United Kingdom)


74. Royal Ontario Museum Expansion (Toronto, Canada)


75. John Curtin School of Medical Research (Australia)


76. Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Nice, France)


77. Kunsthaus (Graz, Austria)


78. State Department for Traffic (Tbilis, Georgia)


79. Tenerife Concert Hall (Canary Islands, Spain)


80. Berlin Zeiss Planetarium (Berlin, Germany)


81. Montreal Biosphère (Canada)


82. Esplanade Theatres, Singapore


83. La Pedrera (Barcelona, Spain)


84. National Congress Building (Brazil)


85. Robert Bruno’s steel house (Lubbock, Texas)