If you ever feel like some architects live in their own fantasy land, you’re not the only one. The buildings that they create can range from majestic all the way to magical, and they’re sure to catch your eye with their flying buttresses, stoic columns, angelic balconies, and fearsome facades. However, you can sometimes get the idea that some of these artistic innovators haven’t fully thought some things through—like the fact that people actually have to live and work in the buildings they design.
We’ve got some dreamy and confusing buildings to show you today, dear Pandas, so take out your opera glasses, grab yourself some popcorn, and let’s go take a tour through the crème de la crème of the ‘Bizarre Buildings’ subreddit. Check out some of the coolest-looking buildings that people might have a hard time living in, upvote the ones that you enjoyed the most, and let us know which one you’d pick as your home in the comment section.
I had a lovely chat about architecture with Dr. June Komisar from Ryerson University. Dr. Komisar, who is a specialist in architectural design, the history and theory of architecture, and designing for urban agriculture, told Bored Panda that professionals should look to the “wise” ancient Roman writer Vitruvius for inspiration. “What he said about balancing commodity (the suitability of the building to needs), firmness (structural integrity), and delight (the aesthetics of the building and its relationship to site and context) still holds.”
#1 Cat Shaped Kindergarten, Germany
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#2 600 Year Old Clock Located In Prague Is The World’s Oldest Astrological Clock Still In Operation!
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#3 The Evolution Of This Building Can Be Seen In It’s Masonry
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#4 Unique Housing In Netherlands
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#5 Pavilion Of The Enlightened, Thailand
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#6 The National Carpet Museum In Baku, Azerbaijan
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#7 Giant 16th-Century ‘Colossus’ Sculpture In Florence, Italy Has Entire Rooms Hidden Inside
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#8 Living Like A Caveman With Modern Amenities
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#9 This Building In Guizhou, China
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#10 The Department Of Fisheries In Hyderabad, India
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#11 The Interlace – Singapore
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#12 When Your Growing Family Needs An Upgrade But You Love That Cozy Cottage
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#13 Turtle Building
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#14 The Sheep Building (Tirau, Waikato, New Zealand)
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#15 Japanese Moka Train Station In A Shape Of A Locomotive
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#16 An Original 1930’s Shell Gas Station
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#17 This Is The Proposed Crescent Moon Tower For Dubai
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#18 This Is What Happens When The Owner Of One Half Of A Townhouse Refuses To Sell
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#19 Container House In The Desert
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#20 This One-Of-A-Kind Pixelated Facade On The Mahanakhon Tower In Bangkok, Thailand
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#21 Kazakhstan’s Tower Of The Sun By Fundamental Architects
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#22 Abandoned Potato Sorting Station In Ukraine
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#23 Treehouse Restaurant (Demolished), Okinawa
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#24 Inverted Pyramid House In Spain
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#25 Tianzi Hotel, China
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#26 When You’re An Architect Whose Brother-In-Law Owns A Struggling Window Store
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#27 The Stockholm Telephone Tower With Approximately 5,500 Telephone Lines, 1890
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#28 Walden 7 In Barcelona, Spain
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#29 There’s A Huge Open Market In The Netherlands With Apartments Inside
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#30 An Awesome Building In Chile
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#31 This Tiny House
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#32 Saemoonan Church In Seoul, Korea
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#33 When You Have The Money But Not The Land (Batié, Cameroon)
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#34 “Local Man In Altus, Ok Arrested After Firing A Trebuchet At A Group Of Girl Scouts. His Wife Was Quoted As Saying ‘I Wish I Hadn’t Given In To Him Begging For That Damn Castle Turret When We Had The House Built, He’s Been Mentally Stuck In The Middle Ages Since 1981’”
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#35 A Rare Sighting Of Two Buildings In The Wild Having Intercourse
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#36 Bizarre Chicken
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#37 Shenzhen International Airport Looks Like A Giant Airplane
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#38 Sou Fujimoto’s “Arbre Blanc” Tower In Montpellier, France
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#39 Apartment In Katayama, Japan
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#40 Seafood Restaurant? An Institute For Marine Biology? Or A Headquarters For Crab People Hiding In Plain Sight?!
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#41 University Of Technology Sydney (Uts)’s Business School Building
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#42 Store Front In Kyoto
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#43 Austria
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#44 Spiral House, Ramat Gan
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#45 “My Apartment Is Right Off The Highway”
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#46 The Largest Hotel In The World, With A Staggering 10,000 Rooms Is Currently Under Construction In Saudi Arabia
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#47 The Peachoid, A 135 Feet (41 M) Tall Water Tower In Gaffney, South Carolina
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#48 The Frame In Dubai- Elevator Up, Walk Across A Glass Floor, Elevator Down
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#49 The New Louis Vuitton Store In Tokyo
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#50 Plot #1282, A Residential Building In Beirut Designed By Bernard Khoury
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