25 Bizarre Buildings

Juggz: Standing up I suspect :)

what about the hundertwasserhaus in Vienna – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundertwasserhaus

HGTV (Home and Garden Magazine’s TV channel) has a show called ‘What’s with that house?’ that has showcased a few of these. interviews w/ the owners. tour of the interiors. its a way cool show.

HGTV: What’s with that house?

if ya get a chance check out the website. there might be an international version. or actually there have been some international episodes…not sure if there is an international TV syndication though. its a 30 min show. cute, cute host. LOL and really entertaining. the reasoning some people have for building these houses…amazing!

Only thing this list could have used would maybe have been something by Gaudi, like the Casa Mila or his unfinished cathedral. British artist Roger Dean has also done some interesting architecture; he’s the man responsible for all that intriguingly vivid cover art for Yes in the 70s. But overall, another terrific list, JF.

Oi!

What about the Winchester Mystery House???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House

Cyn: great – thanks!

Kancgab: okay – that is one of the coolest houses I have seen! Thanks for the link.

Martin L: to be honest I am not familiar with his work – I will look him up tomorrow – thanks.

batesman: brilliant stuff – thanks for the links. The first one could almost be on the top 20 optical illusions!

Joe skepsis: I really wanted to put the Winchest house on (it appears on one of the other lists- do a search for it) – but outside it doesn’t appear abnormal – inside it is probably the number 1 weirdest house.

Yarr: did you crawl through the tunnel?

Actually, the “Basket House” isn’t a house at all, but the corporate headquarters for Longabarger Baskets. It’s about an hour’s drive from here.

Yeah, I went through it a few times.

Actually #11. “The Ship House, USA” is not located in the USA, but in Dalmatian part of the Croatia, close to the mid coast. I cannot exactly remember the name of the village but it is around 50km NEE from Split on the road to Imotski. I have passed by it a couple of times and it’s hard to miss it. Unfortunately, the building is deteriorating. Try to copy the picture to the desktop and you would see it for yourself. :)

How about the “Sleeper” house in Denver? Was featured in Woody Allen’s film, “Sleeper”. It is on the market for only $10 million if anyone is interested!

http://www.forbes.com/2002/09/09/0909how.html

I want that Russian log house. I could hang with Rasputin. You know if he was so hard to kill that he could come back to life too.

Kelsi: in most cases I think they were designed by drug users :)

I saw pictures of a house one time that had been designed to be an exact replica of the Simpson’s house, right the cartoony colors.

MojoRisin: Thanks for letting me know. Considering the amount of traffic I get from them through the daily dump, I don’t mind too much :)

Fantastic list. Here is a TOILET shaped building.
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSSEO13684020071009

That’s it. I’m moving to Poland. First I will visit the upside down house, and I want to live in the crooked house.

desmonda: I am not actually sure to be honest

wow, without this website i would never be able to have an idea of these building, especialy the thin one …….wow …….

Im with you on that one barb….I want to live in the crooked house too! Its soo funky!

The WTF House (#6) is located in Cincinnati, Ohio, about five miles from my own home, in a quite upscale part of town. Every year or so, right on cue, there’s a newspaper story about how much the well-to-do neighbors hate it, complete with mocking comments from the builder/owner . . .

The Malibu Castle would have been a good addition. Unfortunately it burned down during the last wildfire in November 2007. There’s even a video on youtube of it burning…very sad.

The WTF House is near where I live. Haha.
I think an architect lives there, and that part of the house is his studio.

#18 is by far the coolest house ever!

[Katie was so correct I guess I repeated it!]

Jazzy Jeff: That is a cool building and lots of fun stuff to do inside as well. I’m going to Orlando this weekend actually, I might have to go again! :)

No. 25: I divided by Zero!

what about the heidelberg houses in detroit?

Damn, these are great.

Is The Thin House real?

These are really awesome.I really liked the top two the most.

*I meant “think” not “like”

notice how most of these houses are in the US, and its amazing how many commenters liv “down the road from them” stupid americans.

Where in London is the thin house/facade? I recall seeing it while I lived there early this year.

Drove past the shoe house in South Africa once… it’s in the middle of nowhere…

Anyone ever been to the cubehouses in Rotterdam? It’s a housing complex where all the buildings are perfect cubes, but they’re balanced on a corner. Some guy owns 2 of them so he opens one to the public. It’s so weird walking around inside you feel like you’re going to fall over the whole time. I’d hate to be drunk and in one of those houses!I also went to the home of now (sadly) deceased Spanish artist Cesare Manrique on the island of Lanzarote. The house is built underground in some lava bubbles it’s so cool.

I tried looking up a few of these online and I can’t find anything except THIS site. I’d love to know more about htese places. Can anyone direct me?

I want to live in one of those! But not the thin one and not the UFO one that looked small compared to the cars.

the thin house is a set from harry potter.

I actually live not too far from the Egyptian House. Well not super close, but I’ve passed it many times on my way to Illinois. It’s weird to actually see it on a list. But a lot of these houses I would love to see the inside of.

I thought I lived in number 24. But I’m sure it doesn’t look like that…

If you have ever been to Japan the thin house would not even make this list, there are hundreds of houses like that in Japan.

Here is a site with pictures of 20 of them: http://www.bouncingredball.com/2008/12/10/20-really-thin-buildings-and-houses-in-japan/

fuck you ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@saber: I agree.not to mention houses modeled from a tree, the elephant house and a house in a tree.

I live in Pensacola and my friends and I commonly refer to #4 as the Vagina House. I was so excited to see that and #9 on the list. Every time someone comes to visit I’m like YOU GOTTA SEE THIS!

Ok so the the thin house i can explain, It has been featured on a few shows on the BBC over the years.
There are actually quite a few of these around london, but they are generally mid terraced, so you don’t notice them.

The “House” is actually a facade. If you could open the front door behind it you would find a big hole leading into the london underground rail system. When it was originally built they had vent shafts along the lines, and since a giant hole in the ground is pretty unsightly at the best of times and quite dangerous to leave lying around at others, they hid them in with the rest of the houses. In whichever street the hole would come out in, they built a matching housefront or something inkeeping with the architecture of the time.

For an example Park Crescent (NW1) has an elegant pavilion concealing a ventilation Shaft. If you check out some of the tourist guides to london you should get more examples, or the London underground website.

what about the cube houses in Rotterdam?

there’s a house around Middleton, South Australia, that looks as though it has been hit by a cyclone and the just had everything bound together and plastered over. it’s actually supposed to look like that it’s really weird.

I go past number 9 almost everyday!
And there’s a house very similar to number four in the same place.

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The onion house is amazing, a list of tree houses would be cool!