10 Most Strange Buildings Around the World

Piano shaped building. This unique piano house was built recently in An Hui Province, China. Inside of the violin is the escalator to the building. The building displays various city plans and development prospects in an effort to draw interest into the recently developed area.link

Office Center 1000, better known as the Banknote Building was designed in the form of a Lithuania 1,000 Litu 1924 banknote.The exterior consists of 4,500 different pieces of glass with enamel designs, which are being slotted together like a giant jigsaw puzzle.link

Blur Building .Described as “an inhabitable cloud whirling above a lake,”. It was constructed for the Swiss Expo 2002 at the base of Lake Neuchatel in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland. The massive construction was constantly shrouded in a body of thick mist, produced by 31′500 seperate high-pressure water jets which propelled lake water droplets so small that they remained suspended for an extremely long time.
The structure was controlled by a computer allowing the cloud’s size to be controlled at the touch of a button.link

Sheepdog building, New Zealand. Tirau, a Waikato farming town, has a wonderfully unique Information Centre housed in a Quonset Hut building in the shape of a dog, which was built to complement the sheep-shaped building which houses a wool and craft shop. link

The Aqua Tower is located on the 200 block of North Columbus Drive. To capture views of nearby landmarks for Aqua’s residents, Gang stretched its balconies outward by as much as 12 feet (3.7 meters. The result is a building composed of irregularly shaped concrete floor slabs which lend the facade an undulating, sculptural quality. By including an undulating exterior and specifying the use of fritted glass—which is etched with gray marks to make it easier for birds to see—the company has created a design that will help prevent birds from flying into windows. link

Universum Science Center. Bremen, Germany. The science center building, with its 40,000 stainless steel scales, resembles a mixture between a whale and mussel. It was designed by the Bremen architect Thomas Klumpp link

The Seed Cathedral in Shangai is a 20-metre high building, constructed from 60,000 transparent 7.5-metre long optical strands, each of which has embedded within its tip a seed. The interior is silent and illuminated only by the daylight that has filtered past each seed through each optical hair; a quiet space in which to contemplate this formidable collection of the world’s botanical resources.link

Lucy the Margate Elephant NJ, USA is a six story structure made out of tin and wood during 1882. James V. Lafferty built the structure to attract tourists to the area and make real estate sales.The United States Patent Office gave Lafferty the patent granting exclusive rights to make and sell or use building shaped as animals for a total of seventeen years. link

Doll’s Theatre Torun, Poland

The Big Pineapple is a famous tourist attraction and working farm situated near Nambour, Queensland. The Big Pineapple is 16 metres high, and was originally open back in 1971.link