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5 The Most Unusual Buildings

Architecture is both an art and a science that serves society. It requires creative thinking to design high quality buildings. The Crooked House in Poland is an unusual building that attracts many tourists due to its surreal details and colorful design inspired by fairytales. The Cube Houses in Rotterdam are iconic residential buildings constructed from tilted cubes to resemble an abstract forest. The Atomium in Brussels depicts an iron crystal cell magnified 165 billion times using spheres to represent atoms.

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5 The Most Unusual Buildings

Architecture is both an art and a science that serves society. It requires creative thinking to design high quality buildings. The Crooked House in Poland is an unusual building that attracts many tourists due to its surreal details and colorful design inspired by fairytales. The Cube Houses in Rotterdam are iconic residential buildings constructed from tilted cubes to resemble an abstract forest. The Atomium in Brussels depicts an iron crystal cell magnified 165 billion times using spheres to represent atoms.

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Architecture is a passion, a vocation, a calling – as well as a science and a business.

It has been
described as a social art and also an artful science. Architecture must be of the highest quality
of design architecture is an art form because it comes into being as a result of creative thinking,
just like writing a poem. As opposed to the bohemian artists of the 20th century who produce
art for themselves, 21st century architects create art while serving the benefit of society.
Crooked house
• This building seems completely unreal, like an image from a children’s book. Tourists
from Poland and abroad come here daily to take their photograph next to this
architectural wonder. But not only tourists are intrigued by this peculiar construction,
but experts as well.
• The surrealist details that add uniqueness to the Crooked House are the stone elevation
decors, the colorful stained glass entrances and the windows framed with sandstone.
Not only these surprise the innocent passer-by, but also the blue-green enameled
shingles on the roof that have the role of creating the illusion of dragon skin. The house
looks amazing enough during the day, but during the night when it is lighted its
appearance is even more unique and intriguing
• IT is an unusually shaped building in Sopot, Poland.[1]
• Krzywy Domek was built in 2004. It is about 4,000 square meters (43,000 sq ft) in size
and is part of the Rezydent shopping center.
• It was designed by Szotyńscy & Zaleski, who were inspired by the fairytale illustrations
and drawings of Jan Marcin Szancer and Per Dahlberg. It can be entered from either
Monte Cassino or Morska Streets.
• The Cube Houses (Kubuswoningen) in Rotterdam are one of the city’s most iconic
attractions. Designed by Dutch architect Piet Blom, this residential development stands
apart as its homes are literally cubes, tilted over by 45 degrees. Curious visitors can
learn more about these apartments by exploring the Show Cube Museum (Kijk-Kubus).
Or complete a memorable trip to the harbor city by spending a night in a cube. The
Cube Houses were designed asymmetrically to resemble an abstract forest, each
triangular roof representing a treetop. The residences were constructed on concrete
pillars with wooden framing. Standing at three-floors tall, their ground floor is the
entrance, the first floor contains an open kitchen and living room, the second floor
houses a bathroom and two bedrooms, and in some cases the top floor is used as small
rooftop gardens.
• Atomium Designed by the engineer André Waterkeyn and architects André and Jean
Polak,[1] it stands 102 m (335 ft) tall. Its nine 18 m (60 ft) diameter stainless
steel clad spheres are connected, so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of
an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times. Tubes of 3 m (10 ft) diameter connect the
spheres along the 12 edges of the cube and all eight vertices to the centre. They enclose
stairs, escalators and a lift (in the central, vertical tube) to allow access to the five
habitable spheres, which contain exhibit halls and other public spaces. The top sphere
includes a restaurant which has a panoramic view of BrusselsIn the 1950s, faith in
scientific progress was great, and a structure depicting atoms was chosen to embody
this. The Atomium depicts nine iron atoms in the shape of the body-centred cubic unit
cell of an iron crystal, magnified 165 billion times
• Piano house This unusual Piano and Violin shaped building built in 2007 serves as
showroom for exhibiting the plans for newly created district of Shannan in Huainan City,
China. The transparent Violin houses the escalators and the staircase for the main piano
building which displays various plans and development prospects for newly developed
area. t was reportedly designed by Hefei University of Technology and has been built to
a scale of 50:1. The piano structure is built on three concrete legs and is made from
hundreds of black glasspanels interspersed with clear and white glass to represent piano
keys. A roof terrace is sheltered beneath a canopy shaped like the propped-open lid of a
piano.
• Rotating tower In 2006, architect David Fisher proposed an idea for
a sustainable rotating tower in Dubai. However, it was just an idea. It seems, though,
that the dream is finally coming true, with the announcement of an opening date for the
project in 2020.
• David Fisher, founder of Dynamic Architecture Group, designed the 80-storey
skyscraper, extending 420m above ground, such that each floor can rotate 360 degrees
in both directions while being held firmly to a concrete core. The rotation will provide
the residents of the tower with a 360-panoramic view of Dubai. The floors of the
Rotating Tower will be fabricated and assembled in a factory, then they will be
transported to the site and attached to the concrete core. The pre-fabricated units will
be made of steel, aluminum, and carbon fiber material. The tower is, also, planned to be
self-powered, where solar panels mounted to the terraces and wind turbines placed
between every two floors will be generating the needed energy to operate the building.

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