lunes, 21 de febrero de 2011

Crazy architecture

Today we take a look at some of the most creative and strangest forms of architecture. Amazingly, these are all completely real. Enjoy 
The Guitar Store in Southampton England
MC Escher design that seems to break all laws of the known universe.
When this sculpture located in Perth, Australia, is viewed from another angle you can see the complicated way it manipulates perspective to get the effect.
This building in Ukraine has a gigantic, 100-foot-tall, crossword puzzle on the side. Yes, you can actually work it.
The clues are hidden around the city, and each night the answers are projected onto the side with lights.
The steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum, decorated for the Dali exhibit.
This melting building is actually just a regular building covered in a huge tarp with the Dali-esque design painted on it.
It’s covering an apartment building undergoing renovation in Paris.
This billboard from Indonesia is a creative effort by the Formula Toothcare company to illustrate the fact that their toothpaste builds strong teeth.
This group of tacky trailer homes isn’t Photoshopped, but it’s not a living complex either. It’s a set for a play in Amsterdam.
The trick to this fountain is that it is supported by a pipe running up through the water
This extra large table and chair is a sculpture in England. The artist wanted to build a monument to the privacy and loneliness of writing.
If you stand in this spot in the parking garage shown in the photo, the word “DOWN” is just floating there.
He created the effect of continuous letters by adjusting the angles for appropriate perspective as they reached walls.
The Inversion House is located on Montrose Boulevard in Houston Texas. A pair of artists, Dan Havel and Dean Ruck was responsible for this house installation. The two wooden buildings were to be replaced by a new built project so the few months before the demolition, they made this into an architectonic installation.
This mile-high tennis match looks like some cheesy special effect from a Nike commercial. But no, it’s just Dubai. This tennis match between Andre Agassi and Roger Federer happened on a helipad located on top of the Burj Al Arab skyscraper.
It looks like a city about to get drained out of a giant’s bath tub, but it’s actually a picture of the world’s largest diamond mine outside of Mirny, Russia. This mine is so large that air currents prevent helicopters from flying over it.

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