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Unusual Churches

This post is not about religion, it’s about architecture. Not just architecture, but unusual architecture, and to be more exact - unusual churches.

World's Strangest Architecture

Architecture comes in all shapes and sizes and these are strangely unique buildings.

Stalinist Architecture

Stalinist architecture (also referred to as Stalin's Empire style or Socialist Classicism) is a term given to architecture of the Soviet Union between 1933, when Boris Iofan's draft for Palace of Soviets was officially approved, and 1955, when Nikita Khruschev condemned "excesses" of the past decades and disbanded the Soviet Academy of Architecture.

Built w/Food: 10 Works of (Incr)Edible Architecture

If only the world of Willy Wonka were real, with skyscrapers made from caramels, chocolate rivers and cities built of shortcake and whipped cream. Living in an edible world is only a dream, but these 10 examples of architecture made from food show that smaller scale versions can be almost as fun.

New York Architecture Images

Photos of, well, New York architecture, that look to be from a good while ago (I'm no good at judging time). Giant boats, old time sailors, propellor planes, bilmps, etc.
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Forbidden Cities

Beijing’s great new architecture is a mixed blessing for the city.

architecture metro station

Wonderfull pics of a metro station all over the world. Those are incredible designs.

Green Towers in the Park: Actually Green-Seoul 2026

This is one of the strangest-looking and coolest pieces of architecture you'll ever see. And, it solves a housing problem and fills the urban space with actual green.

A secret to night vision found in DNA's unconventional 'architecture'

Researchers have discovered an important element for making night vision possible in nocturnal mammals: the DNA within the photoreceptor rod cells responsible for low light vision is packaged in a very unconventional way. That special DNA architecture turns the rod cell nuclei themselves into tiny light-collecting lenses, with millions of them in every nocturnal eye.

Look, Look! There's Something on the Roof!

Architecture isn’t just about architects. It’s human, it’s organic – it’s all about add-ons! Here are a number that you may find questionable. Then again, you may find them wonderful, unique and a tribute to the individual in all of us.

Totalitarian Architecture of the Third Reich

"The Nazis, who dismissed much of the customary decoration and used only the raw, muscular elements, exaggerated the classical Roman style, which portrayed their ideal image of a strong, warlike state."

Evil Lair: On the Architecture of the Enemy in Videogame Worlds

Game developers are unconstrained in their designs for the enemy. Such designers will be punished with poor sales, not death in the gulag, if their designs for the overlord are unpopular. They could go anywhere with the homes of evildoers: halls of electric fluorescence, palaces carved from corduroy, suburban back yards.

Turning the Place Over

British artist Richard Wilson created one of the most amazing public art ever, using a building in the Liverpool city center:

The most daring piece of public art ever commissioned in the UK, Turning the Place Over is artist Richard Wilson’s most radical intervention into architecture to date, turning a building in Liverpool’s city centre literally inside out.

Stalin's Skyscrapers: Gothic Stalinist Architecture

Some Never Built, Some Standing Today.

Architectural Genius

Incredible photos (and minor descriptions) of architecture by the famed Antoni Gaudí. Wow, holy wow.

The Forgotten UFOs of Taiwan

When, exactly, did we delete our architecture category?

Garbage Architecture

I love it when people make something amazing out of discarded items. Architect Jan Korbes, who specializes in designing buildings and other items made from discarded items.

Psycho Buildings Made by Artists Gone Wild

What happens when art and architecture converge, and artists are left to their own devices to transform a structure inside and out? A wild and bizarre display of works for one of the world’s most architecturally unique exhibitions, creating habitat-like structures and architectural environments that are mental and perceptual spaces as much they are physical.

Unusual architecture

Many unusual housing ideas.

Narrow Buildings in Japan and Around the World

Narrow-minded architecture can be brilliant, indeed