This Week’s Crazy Building: Intempo

Intempo by Doblecaña licensed under the terms of the CC BY-SA 4.0
This week’s crazy building is Intempo in Benidorm, Spain. At 630 feet tall, it’s the tallest residential building in Spain and one of the tallest buildings in the world for cities under 100,000 residents. It was meant to represent the success of Spain, but came to symbolize the country’s debt woes. Work began in 2007
Read more
No Comments

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
Read more
No Comments

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
Read more
No Comments

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
Read more
No Comments

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
Read more
No Comments

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
Read more
No Comments

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
Read more
No Comments

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
Read more
No Comments

This Week’s Crazy Building: Wavy Border Checkpoint

Sarpi Border Checkpoint by Frank Miller licensed under the terms of the CC BY-SA 2.0
This week’s crazy building is the Wavy Border Checkpoint in Sarpi, Georgia. This surreal building was built on the coast of the Black Sea on the border of Turkey and Georgia. This undulating structure contains a cafeteria, a conference room and staff rooms. The top floor serves as a viewing platform, which allows officials to
Read more
No Comments

This Week’s Crazy Building: Niteroi Art Museum

Niteroi Art Museum by Marcio Sette licensed under the terms of the CC BY-SA 3.0
This week’s crazy building is Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. While its retro-futuristic design looks like something out of the ’60s, this museum, nicknamed the MAC, was actually completed in 1996. This strange-looking museum looks like an upside-down flying saucer. The main section of the building, the “cupola”, is three stories tall
Read more
No Comments