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“Road-worker’s Coffee break”
“The Downside of Shredding Continued”
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“Lazy dogs have also come out”
“Shaving is for Boys”
“Tough”
Sunday, October 31, 2010
14 Strange Buildings of the World
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 Marcin Szancer (famous Polish artist and child books illustrator) and Per Dahlberg (Swedish painter living in Sopot) pictures and paintings.
2. Forest Spiral – Hundertwasser Building (Darmstadt, Germany)
The Hundertwasser house “Waldspirale” (”Forest Spiral”) was built in Darmstadt between 1998 and 2000. Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 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.
3. The Torre Galatea Figueras (Spain)
4. Ferdinand Cheval Palace a.k.a Ideal Palace (France)
5. The Basket Building (Ohio, United States)
6. Kansas City Public Library (Missouri, United States)
7. Wonderworks (Pigeon Forge, TN, United States)
8. Habitat 67 (Montreal, Canada)
9. Cubic Houses (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
10. Hang Nga Guesthouse a.k.a Crazy House (Vietnam)
11. Chapel in the Rock (Arizona, United States)
12. Dancing Building (Prague, Czech Republic)
13. Calakmul building a.k.a La Lavadora a.k.a The Washing Mashine (Mexico, Mexico)
14.Wooden Gagster House (Archangelsk, Russia)
Wooden Gagster House (Archangelsk, Russia)
weird people around the world.. XD
This flexible lady might be showing a little more than she intended
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