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We're all familiar with how many bizarre food flavors exist in today's world. I figured the same basic thread could be made for architecture.
The advantage to strange/interesting architecture over food is that it isn't subject to last only as long as the food does; buildings can last for many years, so theoretically you could visit just about any one of the buildings that will be posted in this thread without worrying about them being gone forever.
What strange/interesting buildings have you come across?
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Buildings are pretty cool. Sometimes I wonder what the architect was thinking when he designed some of this stuff. 
Basket building in Ohio.
I don't believe this applies to the basket building, but some unique buildings are modeled after their function.
Take the Kansas City Public Library, for example.
I'd go into libraries once in a while if they all looked like that.
The details on those books... how did they... '-'
One building that comes to mind is the Sanyo Solark Ark.
Artists have often realized some interesting architecture.
There are some typical buildings and complexes by Hundertwasser:
There's also Mario Botta, who has a thing for cylinders and stripes:
And how could we not mention Antoni Gaudi:
The Cathedral in Brazil is something i've always wanted to go to. I'm a big fan of religious architecture, and this is so new and beautiful. 
The National Architects Union Headquarters in Romania is incredible looking - Old meets new.
I love buildings !
Buildings are pretty cool. Sometimes I wonder what the architect was thinking when he designed some of this stuff.
There are probably on an illegal narcotic?
Hope these work...
I don't understand why somebody would make a sheep-shaped building. This is not exactly a a good example of mimetic architecture.
Honestly, I'm more interested in Gaudi's buildings. Probably, La Sagrada Familia is one of his most known works, though I don't know if it will be finished someday. It's like a never-ending story... However, I've always been fascinated by another one: La Pedrera.
I've also came across another unusual building: cube-shaped houses in The Netherlands.
Hopefully that's skaters pic fixed. What a find skater !
That's actually pretty interesting.
Anyone have any knowledge on it?
I saw this upside down White House in the Wisconsin Dells. I think it's some kind of a funhouse, but I didn't want to fork over a huge amount of cash to go inside.
I always thought Victorian Black and White Revival Architecture was awesome. It's making buildings look like half-timber constructions, but made of more permanent materials.
This house is in Berkeley, right in the middle of a residential area. I've driven past it once just to see it. It's surrounded by regular houses, so naturally it looks very out of place.
And here's the Cathedral of Christ the Light, one of the Bay Area's strangest recent works of architecture, stuck right in the middle of downtown Oakland of all places.
Anyone have any knowledge on it?
It is located at Tirau, New Zealand. It's a wool and craft store. This building has also a "artner", a dog, which is the town's Information Center.
