5 Weird Buildings

November 8, 2009 Buildings

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1.The Basket Building:

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Basket Building is the world strangest Office Building situated in Ohio, Unites States. It has the area of 180,000 square feet and weight is approximately 9,000 tons. This Seven Storey Building has 84 windows. The project of this strange building cost US $30 million and took two years to complete. The building has the capacity of 500 employees.

2.The Crooked House:

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The Crooked House is located in Sopot, Poland. It took only 11 months to complete from January 2003 to December 2003. The Construction’s main idea is taken from an English detective fiction Novel “Crooked House”, which is started by the line “There was a crooked man”, and ends with the phrase “and all lived together in a crooked house”.

3.Cubic Houses:

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These Strange Cubic Houses are the Housing Complex located in Rotterdam, Netherland. The original idea of these houses came about in 1970s. The cubes are 32 in number and are tiled to 45 degree. The building is divided into three levels. Roofs of cubes look like snow-covered mountain peaks. The building was completed in 1984 by the famous Architect Piet Blom.

4.Nakagin Capsule tower:

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The building is Location in Tokyo, Japan used as Residential and office. It took two years to complete from 1970 to 1972 by the Architect Kisho Kurokawa. It has floor area of 3,091.23 m2. It is actually composed of two interconnected concrete towers, one with eleven floors and second with 13 floors.

5.The Shoe House:

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The Shoe House is situated in Shoe House Road, Hallam, Pennsylvania with the height of 25 feet. It was built by the shoe-seller Mahlon Hannies in 1948. It was rented out to couples in start but later it was opened to public tour also. It is a five storey building.

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  • lelo
    cuttttttteeee ^_^
  • Shaiff
    it must also be scary specially at night
  • Karin
    I like the crooked house best too. Although i imagine it must be difficult to live there and furnish it.
  • Ayesha
    crooked house is really weird ;)
  • Shaiff
    i like the one under title "The Crooked House" :P
  • very nice...................................
    amzing i like it.
  • atif
    really good work.which helps people especially students.
    which needs differents informations at the same time.
    keep it up
  • muneeb
    it is really amazing and intresting also
  • Azfar
    Good one !!!!!
  • Hasaan
    nice!! I remember a forwarded email that had a lot more ov dem weird buildings. Really creative architecture :)
  • Haroon
    Reminds me of another structure a two storey bulding made of a cookie shape. But these are really weird :)
  • Hina
    Really Amazing
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