You can see ordinary constructions everywhere, and their number increases from one year to another. With a touch of imagination and a lot of work, some architects have implemented different building ideas, funny and at least strange compared to the rest. Have you ever thought that there may be a basket-shaped building or another that dances? You should know that they exist and that they are visited annually by a lot of tourists.
Today's
real estate blog article comes in handy and presents the 5 strangest buildings in the world and the story behind them.
1. The stone house in Portugal. It is a house built in the rock, in the Braga district, in the north of Portugal. The architect who designed the house was inspired by the "Flintstone Family" cartoons, more precisely by the houses presented there. It consists more precisely of a small bungalow between two huge boulders. Both the exterior of the house and the interior of it have a rustic style. Its construction began in 1972 and was completed in 1974, and currently operates as a museum.
2. The Dancing House in Prague. Work on this building began in 1992, and the process lasted 4 years. It was built of 99 pieces of concrete, with unique and different shapes. Two architects worked on the office building, and the design they thought sparked controversy at the time because it was very different from other historic buildings in the city. Initially, the building was named Fred and Ginger, after the famous dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Today, it is known as the Dancing House and enjoys many tourists.
3. The crooked house in Poland. After all this time, this still seems like an illusion, but it is very real. It was built in 2004 and measures 4,000 sqm. It is found in our struggle due to the architectural asymmetries that characterize it. The design was inspired by the works of Polish artist Jan Marcin Szancer and the works of Swedish painter Per Dahlberg. Jan Marcin Szancer is also the author of children's books, and this has left a mark on the building that seems to be detached from the cartoons.
4. Cubic houses in the Netherlands. Do you live in a residential complex where the buildings look normal? This is not something that some Dutch people in Rotterdam can boast of, who live in a residential neighborhood detached from SF movies. The houses are the creation of the architect Piet Blom and were built in 1974. They represent cubes distributed at different angles, on hexagonal pillars. They were designed in order to diminish in one way or another the idea of a crowded city. In the architect's vision, the houses make up a tree (the yellow cube being the crown and the pillar being the stem), and the ensemble would symbolize a forest in the middle of the city.
5. Ohio Basket Building. On the outside a picnic basket, and on the inside a 7-storey office building. How can this be? Its shape was decided by an owner for his company that produced picnic baskets. The main purpose of the construction was to promote the brand, to attract everyone's attention, and thus to increase sales. It started to be used as office space in 1997 and for 20 years, over 500 employees made picnic baskets here. Because things did not evolve very well, today the building is looking for an owner, but there is no shortage of admirers.
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