This article presents a list of unusual homes and buildings from around the world that are unbelievably cool to totally weird.
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. 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.
3. 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 ‘book bindings’ in the innovative design of the parking garage exterior, to inspire people to utilize the downtown Central Library.
4. Wonderworks (Pigeon Forge, TN, United States)
5. 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.
6. Kettle House (Texas, United States)
7. Nakagin Capsule Tower (Tokyo, Japan)
8. The Hole House (Texas, United States)
9. Shoe House (Pennsylvania, United States)
10. Wall House (Groningen, Netherlands)
11. Container City (London, UK)
12. Erwin Wurm: House Attack (Viena, Austria)
13. Wooden Gagster House (Archangelsk, Russia)
14. Pickle Barrel House (Grand Marais, Michigan, United States)
15. Nord LB building (Hannover, Germany)
16. Lloyd’s building (London, UK)
17. Druzhba Holiday Center Hall (Yalta, Ukraine)
18. UCSD Geisel Library (San Diego, California, United States)
19. Ripley’s Building (Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada)
20. Kerala House Boats (Alappuzha, Alleppey, Kerala, India)
21. Cob House (Vancouver, Canada)
22. The Mushroom House aka Tree House (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)
23. Ewok House (Location unknown)
24. Free Spirit Spheres (Qualicum Beach, BC, Canada
25. Great Mosque of Djenné (Djenne, Mali)
Source: Strange Buildings of the World