Top 10 strangest buildings

1. Stone House (Casa de Penedo)

Location: Guimarães, Portugal. Residential house constructed between four huge boulders, which we presume were there already and not a part of the design.










2. Forest Spiral (Waldspirale)

Location: Darmstadt, Germany. Residential building designed by architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Interesting details about this building include the fact that there are no two windows that are the same and no sharp corners anywhere.



3. Cubic Houses (Kubus Woningen)

Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands. Designed by Piet Blom in 1984. Popular tourist attraction. Conceptual architecture at its finest, the cubes are supposed to represent a forest of trees. The cubes contain the living areas, which are split into three levels.


4. Crooked House (Krzywy Domek)

Location: Sopot, Poland. Designed by Szotynscy Zaleski, who drew inspiration from fairy tales, in 2003, this irregularly shaped building is part of the Rezydent shopping center. Has become the most photographed building in Poland.



5. Thin House

Location: London, UK. This residential house is only 6 foot deep. Houses in London are famously narrow, but this is ridiculous!













6. Low Impact Woodland House

Location: Wales, UK. This hobbit-like residence was designed by Simon Dale and built for himself and his family as part of a low-impact or permaculture approach to life. This sort of life is about living in harmony with both the natural world and ourselves, doing things simply and using appropriate levels of technology. The fridge is kept cool by air coming underground through foundations, and solar panels were installed for music, lighting, and computing.


7. Nautilus House

Location: Mexico City, Mexico. Another private house, designed by Javier Senosiain to look like a sea shell and inhabited by a family tired of living in a conventional home.









8. Habitat 67

Location: Montreal, Canada. Architecture Moshe Safdie created this residential block in 1964 as part of the 1967 Expo to illustrate the new lifestyle people would live in increasingly crowded cities around the world. It was designed to integrate the variety and diversity of scattered private homes with the economics and density of a modern apartment building. Each house has a private garden.



9. The Church of Hallgrimur (Hallgrímskirkja)

Location: Reykjavik, Iceland. This 244 ft (74.5 m) church looks like it belongs in The Lord of the Rings, or some other fantasy world. A Lutheran church designed by architect Guðjón Samúelsson in 1937. He is said to have designed it to resemble the basalt lava flows of Iceland’s landscape. It took 38 years to build. Construction work began in 1945 and ended in 1986.





10. Poland Heights (Ramot Polin)

Location: Jerusalem, Israel. Zvi Hecker's residential house from the 1970's was designed with emphasis on geometry and modularity. It resembles a chemical structure or a beehive, which is why it has become known as "Honey Bee Hive House".