World's strangest buildings

World's strangest buildings

Forest Spiral Building - Germany

The Waldspirale apartment building is located in Darmstadt's Burgerparkviertel. It contains 105 apartments, a parking garage, a kiosk as well as a cafe and a bar. The inner courtyard contains a playground for the children of the residents and a small artificial lake. Peculiarities of the U-shaped building are the unique facade, which does not follow a regular grid organisation, and the windows, which appear as if they were "aus der Reihe tanzen," everywhere different and appearing out of order.

Kansas City Public Library - US

The Kansas City Public Library operates its Central Branch located at 14 West 10th Street in Kansas City, Missouri, US and neighborhood branches located in Kansas City, Independence, and Sugar Creek. Founded in 1873, it is the oldest and third largest public library system in Kansas. It's special collections, housed in the Central Library's Missouri Valley Room, has a collection of Kansas City local history, news articles, post cards, photographs, maps, and city directories dating from the community's earliest history.

Habitat 67 - Canada

Habitat 67 is a famous housing complex in Montreal, Canada. Designed by architect Moshe Safdie and built in 1967 as part of the Universal Expo, the project is still hailed for its futuristic design after 40+ years. The cube is the base, the mean and the finality of Habitat 67. 354 cubes of a magnificent grey-beige build up one on the other to form 146 residences nestled between sky and earth, between city and river, between greenery and light.

Cubic Houses - Netherlands

The original idea of these cubic houses came about in the 1970s. The concept behind these houses is that each cube represents an abstract tree; therefore the whole village becomes a forest. The cubes contain the living areas, which are split into three levels. The triangle-shaped lower level contains the living area. The middle level contains the sleeping area and a bathroom, while the top level, also in a triangular shape, is used as either an extra bedroom or a living space.

The Ufo House - Taiwan

Built in the early eighties, these extraordinary sea-view homes are known as the 'UFO houses' by the Taiwanese. Just 15 kms from the capital, the deserted residences have been left abandoned for the past three decades. Now they face imminent demolition. A debate over their demolition spiralled into an excited dispute over paranormal activity. The more rational web users pointed out that high winds and large windows led to shattered glass and over-heating, while others said the project was abandoned because ghosts haunted the grounded spaceships.