Day 4743: Wild, Weird Architecture & World's Largest Cave.

        

"Broken": junk collage, digitized.

  

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National Fisheries Development Board © UniversalImagesGroup. All images from ‘Weird Buildings

Wild, Weird Architecture, Out of the Box. 

From the now-defunct Longaberger basket company’s iconic Ohio headquarters to the distinctive Casa de Penedo — Portuguese for “boulder house” — the world has no shortage of quirky, fanciful, and just plain strange structures.

The Basket Building © Andre Jenny/Alamy

Forthcoming from Hoxton Mini Press with text by Imogen Fortes, Weird Buildings celebrates more than 100 norm-busting buildings ranging from the whimsical to the wildly engineered.

“Whether playful or provocative, all the buildings in this book push at the boundaries of convention,” the publisher says. “From the fluid forms of Zaha Hadid’s mountaintop museum to a whimsical teapot-shaped service station, this is a playful and inspiring tour of the world’s weirdest—and most wonderful—architecture.” Weird Buildings will be published on October 7. You can pre-order your copy in the Colossal Shop.

Casa do Penedo © Marc-Philipp Keller/Alamy

Casa del Acantilado © Luminar Neo

Inntel Hotel © Pixelbiss/Alamy

Teapot Dome Service Station © Mark Kiver/Alamy

The Steel House © Jerry Cotten

 

  

 

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