Hello everyone and welcome back! We have already seen what the most famous buildings in Dubai are and what they are like. Today I’d like to talk about oddities. When something does not correspond to the reality to which we are accustomed, we are particularly fascinated. This happens for the 5 strangest buildings in the world, which thanks to amazing shapes and architecture never seen before, involve every year many visitors from all over the world. Do you want to find out more? Let’s do it together, just read through this article.
The dancing house, Prague
Our journey in search for the strangest buildings in the world starts from Europe, more precisely from Prague, where among the ancient palaces, the mysterious neighborhoods and the evocative urban networks there is something extremely fascinating jumping immediately to the eye: it is the crazy Dancing House, nestled on the corner of Rasinovo Nabrezi and Resslova street, along the banks of the ubiquitous Vltava River. It was designed by architect Vlado Milunic in collaboration with fellow Canadian Frank Gehry and completed between 1994 and 1996.
It is the headquarters of the Dutch
National Offices and is also known as Fred and Ginger (by Fred Astaire and
Ginger Rogers). The house reminds of a couple of dancing dancers.
The flat
house, Huainan
The second most curious palace is the Piano House in
Huainan, China; a spectacular building consisting of a gigantic piano and a
violin. It wasdesigned by students of the architecture and design faculty of
Hefei University of Technology and is the symbol of Huainan progress and
culture. It is a structure completely dedicated to music that attracts many tourists
and becomes very impressive during the night when the building becomes almost a
graphic composition. It loses material leaving
the only perimeter of the architecture remains
intelligible with fluorescent accents. The Piano House is considered, rightly
or wrongly, one of the most romantic buildings in China, certainly a majestic architecture
that leaves little to the imagination, which fully expresses the visionary abilities
of young professionals.
Marina
Bay Sands Hotel, Singapore
The third
stop on our journey through the strangest buildings in the world is in
Simgapore, at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel. It is an unprecedented building that houses
a convention center, a museum of art and science, a shopping center, two
theaters, six high-end restaurants, and a casino scattered over 20 acres of
land. The spectacular thing about the
hotel is that it consists of three towers connected by a Sky Park, a large roof
terrace, 191 meters high, complete with three interconnected pools.
The crooked house of Sopot
What could be
more curious than a house that seems to have just taken a spin in a centrifuge?
We are in Sopot and we are talking about
Krzywy Domek, which literally means "crooked house". It is a building
built in 2004 whose shapes look like what you would see by placing a distorting
lens in front of a totally normal house. The structure is the work of
architects Mrs. and Mr. Szotyński. It is said that to draw it they were inspired
by fairy-tale illustrations and curved lines of Gaudi. Inside the house there
are bars, shops, medical offices, offices, restaurants and nightclubs.
Palace corkscrew Shanghai
The
"Corkscrew" is the last of the 5 buildings; it was inaugurated in
2008 in Shanghai and has amazed everyone for its shape. The most curious thing about
this building is precisely the hole that is in it supper part, which makes it shaped
like a trapeze. In the beginning the hole had to be a circle, which had not been
accepted by the Chinese authorities due to the too much similarity with the Japanese
flag. The building houses offices, the tallest hotel in the world, shopping
centers and observation platforms.
Cristiano P., 4sc
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