This Week’s Crazy Building: The Dunmore Pineapple

Dunmore pineapple by giannandrea is used under CC0 1.0
The Dunmore Pineapple is part of Dunmore House, the former family estate of the Earls of Dunmore, located in Scotland. The Pineapple is about 45 feet high and flanked with two small guest rooms. Inside the estate are walled gardens. The protective walls keep the temperature inside the garden a few degrees warmer than outside
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Federation Square

Federation Square by Francisco Anzola is licensed under CC BY 2.0
This week’s crazy building is Federation Square in Melbourne, Australia. This series of uniquely designed buildings cover about an entire city block and also had to fulfill a challenge: to complement several historical buildings as well as integrate a river into its design! It features buildings, two open squares, and one covered square. Trains run
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Yas Hotel

YAS-Hotel by le1parrain is licensed under CC BY 2.0
This week’s crazy building is the Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi. One part is actually built right into a racetrack and is the only hotel in the world to have been constructed in this way! The other main building of the hotel is located right next to the marina. The other notable feature of this
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Cocoon Tower

Cocoon Tower by kuracom is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
This week’s crazy building is the Cocoon Tower in Tokyo, Japan. It was completed in 2008 and is the home of 3 educational institutions. At 669 feet tall, it is the 2nd tallest educational building in the world and Tokyo’s 17th tallest building. It can accommodate 10,000 students. In 2008 it was awarded Skyscraper of
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This Week’s Crazy Building: L’Oceanogràfic

L'oceanogràfic by TimOve is licensed under CC BY 2.0
L’Oceanogràfic or The Oceanographic was opened in 2003 and is located in Valencia, Spain. It is the largest Oceanarium in Europe and has an astounding water capacity of 11,000,000 gallons! It accommodates 45,000 animals including: fish, sharks, penguins, dolphins, sea lions, walruses and beluga whales to name a few. What we can’t see in this
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Statoil Building

Statoil Fornebu, Norway by Robin Parker is licensed under CC BY 2.0
This week’s crazy building is the Statoil Building which is in Fornebu, Norway. This building was created for the Statoil Company which is an energy producer. The Statoil building which appears to be falling down is actually very energy efficient and uses only a fraction of the energy such a building normally would. Another wonderful
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Rusty Building

Broadcasting Tower, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, from Willow Terrace Road by Tim Green is licensed under CC BY 2.0
This week’s crazy building is the Rusty Building in Leeds, England. Known officially as Broadcasting Tower, this structure is most notable for one particular feature: Its facade is covered in COR-TEN weathering steel. When exposed to the elements over a few years, this special type of steel eventually forms a deep red, rust-like appearance. For
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This Week’s Crazy Building: The Football Shoe

The ING House By Migdejong licensed under the terms of Public Domain
This week’s crazy building is the Football Shoe in Amstelveen, Netherlands. The official name of this building is the ING House, after the banking firm it used to house. But locals have taken to calling it the Football (i.e. soccer) Shoe due to its unusual shape. The entire structure is indeed shaped like a shoe!
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Institute for Sound and Vision

Institute for Sound and Vision by Husky licensed under the terms of the CC BY 4.0
This week’s crazy building is the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, Netherlands. This building is extraordinary both inside and out. It’s a cultural archive and museum that houses nearly three-quarters of the Netherlands’ audiovisual records. that includes 750,000 hours of movies, radio, TV and music, some of it dating back to the
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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
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