18 Most Unusual Buildings in the World

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10 - Not just a number…
This Barcode Building located in St. Petersburg, Russia, is totally unique. It’s the creation of Dmitry Melentyev and Oleg Kosenko and this bright red shopping mall really stands out from the grey buildings surrounding it. The building has 4-floors, is 1800 square metres, and the barcode façade tells you exactly what you will find inside – lots, and lots of products to buy!


9 - A class of it’s own…
It’s been considered the, "most attractive project the architect Rem Koolhaas has ever built". This is the Casa da musica from Portugal, and features impressive glass frontage. The building was completed in 2005 and feature seating for 1300 in the auditorium and the daylight spills into the large room through those massive glass windows.

8 - Going Green…
This building has claimed the title of London’s most environmentally friendly building. It’s the PricewaterhouseCoopers building, which has renewable energy sources and a super advanced IT system. Each employee is able to change the light and temperature in their own office space to suit their needs, and it’s hard to believe that it used to be a leaky old building! It emits 40% less carbon then buildings of similar sizes and a saving of 250 000 pound each year on their electricity bill.


7 - A little fun…
It’s nice when something as serious as banking can do something quirky like this. The Robot building is located in Thailand, and is home to United Overseas Bank’s Bangkok headquarters. Designed by Sumet Jumsai, it reflects how banking has become so computerised.

6 - I call architecture frozen music…
Stunning quote and this Solar Furnace reminded me of that. It’s based in France, and the array of curved mirrors act as a parabolic reflector, which concentrates the light on to a specific focal point. It opened in 1970 and the heat can be used to create electricity, melt steel and some temperatures can reach 3500 degrees Celsius.


5 - Believe it…
Of course Ripley’s Believe it or not! Museum has to be something that is – well – hard to believe! And just thinking of how crazy the museum looks on the outside, can only be even more weirder on the inside. It houses 2-headed animals, the world’s rarest egg and more than 500 other unique displays.

4 - Up for a visit?
This is the Inverted House from Poland, and it’s become a super tourist attraction in the small village it’s based in. It was completed in 2007 and took 5 times longer to build than a regular home. Workers became very disorientated whilst building, so they had to rest quite often. Even many tourists feel the same strangeness upon entering this house.


3 - Melting Away…
This house was part of the Merge Fesitval in London, and don’t worry – it’s not a real home. It’s the creation of British artist Alex Chinnek, who used 8000 red wax bricks to build. It was designed to burn throughout the month, and at the end of the month the roof and base would be the only remaining parts of the house. It was made to celebrate the history of candle making like the old days.

2 - Off to New Zealand…
Our next stop is a small village called Tirau in New Zealand, and come the end of the 80’s the village’s tourism numbers were dwindling significantly. Henry Clothier made it a point to turn that around, and along with several other ideas – they turned some buildings into works of art – like the sheep and dog building.

1 - Bang the Drum…
A Guinness World Record was set in East Chia with this strange drum-shaped building. It won the title of world’s largest drum-shaped building – no surprises there. It’s nick-named China Drum, and forms part of the tourism and exhibition centre.