This Week’s Crazy Building: Flower Dome And Cloud Forest

The Gardens by the Bay by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas licensed under the terms of the CC BY-SA 3.0
This week’s crazy buildings are the Flower Dome and Cloud Forest conservatories in Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay. The incredible complex is the centerpiece of Singapore’s master plan to become a “City in a Garden.” It’s filled with jaw-dropping feats of engineering and massive amounts of greenery. The Flower Dome covers three acres and contains
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Eye Museum

Eye Museum distributed by Max Pixel licensed under the terms of the CC0 1.0
This week’s crazy building is the Eye Museum in Curitiba, Brazil. The “Eye Museum” is in fact the Oscar Niemeyer Museum, which earned its nickname due to the eye-catching design of its central tower. The annex consists of a 60-foot pillar topped with a giant eye-shaped structure, all hovering above a reflecting pool. Its construction
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Smart Home-Selling Strategies

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   There are three factors that go into selling your home in today’s market that are more important than the rest. We’re going to start in reverse order, so let’s talk about
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It May Be the Summer to Sell in San Diego

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   If you live in San Diego, this may be the summer to sell your home. I’ve got 3 reasons why: 1. The market is on fire. Many segments of the market
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Let Us Say Thanks to You This Fourth of July Weekend

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   We can’t thank all of our clients enough. As a special thank you, coming up just before the Fourth of July, we’d like to say thanks again with a big, tasty,
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This Week’s Crazy Building: High Heel Church

High-Heel Wedding Church in Chiayi, Taiwan by Pilzland licensed under the terms of the CC BY-SA 4.0
This week’s crazy building is the High Heel Church in Chiayi, Taiwan. A church made of glass may conjure images of elegance and piety. A church made of a glass slipper? That’s another story. This 55-foot structure is made of over 300 blue-tinted glass panels, arranged in the shape of a giant shoe. The bizarre
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This Week’s Crazy Building: St. Francesc Convent

St. Francesc Convent by Enric licensed under the terms of the CC BY-SA 3.0
This week’s crazy building is the St. Francesc Convent in Santpedor, Spain. This incredible mixture of old and new began way back in the early 1700s. Franciscan friars built this convent in a small Catalan town, but it was pillaged in 1835. The church remained standing in complete ruin until 2000, when a new project
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Robot Building

Robot Building by Oran Viriyincy licensed under the terms of CC BY-SA 2.0
This week’s crazy building is the Robot Building in Bangkok, Thailand. When the Bank of Asia asked architect Sumet Jumsai to create a building that shows banking has been modernized and computerized, Jumsai took them literally. Inspired by his son’s toy robot, built a robot of his own—only this one was 20 stories tall! The
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Sulamani Temple

Sulamani Temple by Dario Severi licensed under the terms of CC BY-SA 3.0
This week’s crazy building is Sulamani Temple in Bagan, Myanmar. This remarkable Buddhist temple was built by the Burmese king Narapatisithu in 1183, over 830 years ago. It rises high above the many pagodas surrounding it, making it one of the most-visited attractions in the region. Tourists soar above the landscape in hot air balloons
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Market Hall

Markthal covert market by Paul Arps used under CC BY 2.0/Faces blurred from original
This week’s crazy building is the Market Hall in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Designed by legendary architecture firm MVRDV, it was completed in 2014 at a cost of $200 million. As the name suggests, this ridiculous building contains a huge market running down the center with a lattice of glass windows at either end. All along the
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