This Week’s Crazy Building: Tower of Dreams and Longings

Trier, Tower of Dreams and Longings auch Turm Luxemburg genannt by Berthold Werner is licensed under the terms of CC BY-SA 1.0
This week’s crazy building is the Tower of Dreams and Longings in Trier, Germany. The 62-foot-tall structure was a gift from the neighboring Luxembourg. Visitors can climb to the balcony to see wonderful views of the surrounding greenery. With its strange geometry and sharp angles, it’s more like a sculpture than a building.
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Tianning Temple

Tianning Pagoda in Changzhou by Jakub Halun is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation
This week’s crazy building is Tianning Temple in Changzhou, China. At 13 stories and 505 feet in height, Tianning Temple is the tallest pagoda in the world. That feat is even more remarkable given that it’s constructed out of wood. Though completed in 2007 for $38.5 million, the site has been the home of several other
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Auditorio de Tenerife

Auditorium of Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain by Diego Delso is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
This week’s crazy building is the Auditorio de Tenerife, an auditorium and music venue in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. It’s renowned as the greatest modern building in the Canary Islands (a territory of Spain) and considered an iconic example of Spanish architecture. It kind of reminds me of a wave crashing over a miniature Sydney Opera
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Casapueblo

Casapueblo by Wagner T. Cassimiro
This week’s crazy building is Casapueblo in Punta Ballena, Uruguay. The former home of artist Carlos Páez Vilaró, it’s now a combination of museum, art gallery and hotel. It could hardly look more Seussian if it were designed by Theodor Geisel himself.
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