Advertising is the soul of commerce. He must have also thought Dave Logaberger, founder of homonymy company, when in the mid-90s he decided to build the new headquarters of his company, the Longaberger Company. Which as you might guess ... produces baskets. The Basket Building is located in Newark, the state of Ohio (USA) and the numbers that describe it are impressive: seven floors, 9000 square meters of offices and 9,000 tons, of which only 150 for the handles, heated prevent snow and frost them drowsy and have them collapse.
Where can live the president of the World Toilet Association, the worldwide association of manufacturers of toilet? But it is obvious: in a house in the form of water. The home of mr. Sim Jae-duck is located in Suwon, about 40 km from Seoul, occupies an area of 420 square meters and the center is home to a toilet completely transparent. To protect the privacy of users, when needed the room is saturated with dense fog. It cost $ 1.6 million and can be rented the exorbitant sum of $ 50,000 per day.
Currently 40% of the world population has no access to a toilet.
By Lord of the Rings to the Tale of Two Cities, through the Charlotte's Web: these are some of the titles on display on the central library of Kansas City. It is not a misprint: we just wrote "on" Library: Opened in 2004, this building has a design that is absolutely unique. The 22 titles of the works that shape façade were chosen by the citizens of Kansas City with a referendum. The entire complex has cost more than $ 50 million, funded in part by public bodies and partly by private.
Dancing House, or house dancing, is the nickname of a very special building that is located in the center of Prague, in the Czech Republic. Designed by the Czech architect Vlado Milunic and dall'archistar Canadian Frank Gehry, was built between 1994 and 1996. the palace was originally called Fred & Ginger, in tribute to Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger, because of its resemblance to a pair of dancers. It was built with 99 panels of concrete, all of different shapes and sizes. Also called "House of drunkards", this original building is home to many multinationals, and a fine French restaurant.
The Crooked House, crumpled or house, is located in the commercial area of Sopot, Poland. It was designed by the Polish Szotynscy Zaleski and is inspired by the drawings of Jan Marcin Szancer, illustrator and writer of children's tales. In fact, the Crooked House straight out of a fairy tale: the roof tiles, green and uniquely shaped, recall for example the scales of a dragon and the soft shapes make the building appear similar to the construction in pose of a child. Built in 2003, houses inside a shopping center of 4000 square meters.
The Cubic House was born in 1984 from an idea by architect Piet Blom. It is built on top of a long pedestrian walkway in the center of the city. Each of the 32 cubes that compose it is an independent living module, divided into three levels: the living area on the first level, the sleeping area on the second, and an additional space on the third. In the vision of the Cubic House Blom is the representation of a forest, where each cube identifies a single tree.
Stuff to be come seasickness. In the Polish village of Szymbark, the businessman Daniel Czapiewski conceived and funded the "upside down house" (house upside down) seems to bring out the uncertainty and confusion of the modern era. Inside furniture and furnishings attached to the ceiling and the effect is that the lack of gravity. If not for the many tourists who flock to the rooms every day and who are firmly planted my feet on the ground.
The construction of this particular house, intended only to sightseeing, required a time five times higher than the normal time of construction of a house of the same size.
Looking at the world upside down is one thing, but making a whole house inside out, including furnishings, is truly unique. The idea came to two Polish architects Klaudiusz Golos and Sebastion Mikuciuk, who designed and built this house (which seems to fall from the sky) in Trassenheide on the Baltic Sea, Germany.
What prompted them to realize this oddity? No particular reason, they say, only the taste of something different.
Entering this strange house you have the feeling of walking on the ceiling on which there are beds, chairs, table, chairs, kitchen and even bathrooms. The building, which for obvious reasons is not inhabited, is a tourist attraction open to the public, in addition to being used as an exhibition space for exhibitions and events. Several visitors, however, admit that after a few minutes inside you feel a sense of disorientation ...!
Other houses upside down (yes: it is not the only) can be visited in Poland (l '"upside down house" in the village of Szymbark, also a house-museum), in Orlando Florida (one of the main tourist destinations the city, with inside fake hurricanes and earthquakes) and Mallorca in Spain (the "House of Katmandu" hosting oddities of all kinds, such as self-propelled robot and a rotating tunnel).
This curious building is located in the heart of Chinatown in Vancouver, Canada, and is known to be the narrowest commercial building in the world: it is in fact only 1.83 meters wide. Built to normal size in 1903, has been reduced to the actual size in 1912, when the city of Vancouver has decided to widen the road on which overlooked the palace and has expropriated 7.3 meters at the Sam Kee Company. It was then, for salvage, architects Brown and Gillan drew this strange building resting it on a sturdy steel skeleton. Originally used to turkish bath for the Chinese community in Vancouver, still hosts inside a secret tunnel that allowed guests to escape in the event of checks by the police.
As you go up in the house piano? But it is obvious: you take ... the violin. This original home-piano was built in 2007 in China, in the province of An Hui, not far from Shanghai. It was commissioned by the local government as a tourist attraction to attract the interest of the public and the media and revitalize the area. It hosts a permanent exhibition on the beauty of the surroundings.
Do you want to understand what it is like during an earthquake of 6 degrees on the Richter scale? Want to explore a world completely upside down like that of Alice in Wonderland? Do you want to die of fear in a house that seems about to crollarvi him? To experience these and many other sensory experiences you can tour Wonderworks, the house upside down in Orlando, Florida, one of the major attractions in the California town.
The Robot Building is located in Sathorn, the financial heart of Bangkok, Thailand. It hosts the headquarters of the United Overseas Bank and was designed by Sumset Jumsai. It was created in 1986 to celebrate the computerization of the bank. The unique shape has been obtained thanks to the superposition of concrete modules of different width. 20 stories tall, is home to 23,000 square meters of office and it cost about 10 million dollars.
Seen from above resembles a busy anthill. But approaching it turns out that these buildings conical village Kandovan, in northwestern Iran are real homes. The karan (which in the local dialect means "hives") are dug in volcanic rocks in the region. Originally used as a shelter to defend themselves from advancing hordes of Mongols, now have homes in several floors completely efficient in repairing the outside temperatures. Volcanic ash tablets that form the walls are in fact perfect natural insulation. The village has more than 700 years but continues to exert a fairytale charm for those who visit.
What makes us a house up there? Expects its inhabitants. It is actually a hotel, one of the strangest of the united kingdom.
It's called House in the clouds, in the Italian house in the clouds, and it was made from an old water cistern built in 1923 near diThorpeness in Suffolck, England. When it was converted into a house and later in a hotel. Today on 5 floors are 5 rooms to rent for weekend or weeks
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