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30 Times Architects Made Buildings That Looked Unique But Were Uncomfortable To Live In (New Pics)
The world has its share of beautiful and ugly buildings. In the middle, there are ordinary and dull ones. And then, in a category entirely of their own, are the truly bizarre ones—the kind you need to see to believe.
When architects have complete freedom in their designs, things can get weird. Just like how we used to create crazy buildings with LEGO bricks as kids, the r/bizarrebuildings subreddit features architects bringing their wildest dreams to life. We've chosen some of our new favorite posts from the Reddit community to show you these unique designs and to bring about either light-hearted amusement or strong opinions.
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#1
Netherlands Beauty
Caroline Nagel 3 years ago
It's the pancake restaurant in the Hans & Grietje (Hansl and Gretl) amusement park in the Netherlands (Zeewolde).
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#2
Brick Expressionism In Frankfurt, Germany
#3
Furniture Shop In Colombia
#4
Whale Museum That Looks Like A Whale In Norway
#5
Mid-Century House Built Over A River In New Canaan, Connecticut
Stefaan De Clerck 3 years ago
Don't understand why it would be uncomfortable to life there. It doesn't look very uncomfortable to me.
#6
This Looks Like Candy
#7
Residential Neighborhood Near Zurich, Switzerland
#8
Azadi (Freedom) Tower, Tehran, Iran
#9
This Church In Reykjavik
Mariele Scherzinger 3 years ago
It's a church. Nobody "lives" here, right? (See listicle title...)
#10
The Round House Wilton - 1968
#11
Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain
#12
Alpine Refuge From World War I Located At 2760 Meters, Monte Cristallo, Italy
#13
Colin's Barn, Chedglow, England
#14
There's A Huge Open Market In The Netherlands With Apartments Inside
#15
Beckham Creek Cave Lodge, Arkansas
#16
Duck House, UK
#17
Modern Cabin For Rent In Norway
Settled for Infamy 3 years ago
Just imagine leaving something downstairs or the 2nd grocery bag trip... Grrrr
#18
Casa Torta, Brazil
#19
It's All One House!
Herringbone 3 years ago (edited)
Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, CA. A bit tourist-trap-ish, but absolutely amazingly bizarre inside. https://what3words.com/heap.transfers.tall
#20
Building Loading... 89%
Jrog 3 years ago (edited)
The MahaNakhon in Bangkok. Tallest building in Thailand. It's decor is much nicer than shown here, that's just a bad photo. bangkok-ta...d6c4bc.jpg 
#21
Supertree Grove, Singapore
#22
Hole House Or Villa Vals, Switzerland
Chewie Baron 3 years ago
This was featured on a series on BBC2 here in the UK, Extraordinary Houses, and inside it’s beautiful.it’s an amazing house.
#23
This Building In The Philippines That Looks Like A Ship And Has A Korean Restaurant And A Cafe "Onboard"
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
I live on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I remember, when I was a kid (I’m 62 now) that there was a seafood restaurant, I think in Lower Delaware near the beach, that was actually built inside a grounded ship. As a kid I thought it was cool. Food was good too. Wonder if it’s still there.
#24
The Steel House, Lubbock, Texas
#25
Kring Kumho Culture Complex
#26
Robert Downey Jr.’s Inflatable Malibu Bungalow
#27
Forcing This Road To Surround Their House
#28
Brick Facade For A Bookstore In Korea
#29
Transcendence, Keith Jellum (1998). Public Art Installation In Portland, Oregon
Let’s Be Kind 3 years ago
I feel like the places featured here stray farther and farther away from the title of this post. But the pictures featured are pretty interesting to look at!
#30
Building Shaped Like A Bulldozer; Turlock, Ca
#31
A Smart Passive House With Green Roof In Moscow, Russia By Snegiri Architects
#32
The Juilliard School For Music In New York City
#33
Built In The 18th Century, This Is One Of The Oldest Buildings In Hattfjelldal Municipality In Norland, Norway
#34
Japan
#35
Building In Germany, This Is Just A Painting, The Walls Are Straight. Perfect Illusion
#36
Architecture Of Barcelona
#39
Lyon Airport Train Station, Lyon, France
#40
This Is The Grasshopper Cafe In South Korea Made Out Of Train Cars
#41
Snake Shaped Temple In India Dedicated To Lord Krishna
#42
Stunning Abandoned House In Isère, France
#43
Kindergarten "Die Katze" In Karlsruhe, Germany, By Artist Tomi Ungerer And Architect Ayla-Suzan Yndel, 2011
#44
Holocaust Memorial In Kaunas
Living Example 3 years ago
Wow! This is is remarkable. No piece of art can show the true horror of the Holocaust, but this somehow conveys a real feeling of angst and agony. One of the few pieces of modern sculptures that actually stirs feelings in me, even if the artist would probably scoff at my "interpretation".
#45
When Your Neighbor Has An Evil Lair
#46
Cambodian Homestead
#47
Half Of The National Gallery Of Denmark Is Grafted On To The Original 1889 Building. All Of This Is Indoors
#48
East Meets West In A Hybrid Building In An Unfinished Theme Park In Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China
Jrog 3 years ago
Old photo. They resumed work in 2021 and finished in early 2022, after years of abandonment. Those "culture park" are very appreciated in China, where most of the population is not wealthy enough to travel abroad, so these parks provide what they perceive as the experience of visiting Paris, Rome, Venice etc... To someone ho actually knows those places, it's quite cringe and surrealistic.
#49
Happy House By Dan Witz In Brooklyn
#50
Taipei Performing Arts Center
Nurichwersonst 3 years ago
Maybe its the new X-Men Headquarter with this sphere Xavier sits in to locate other mutants? 🧑🦽💆♂️😅
#52
Hotel Lisboa, Macao
#53
Ow-Energy Organic House Design With Wild Slate Roof In Germany
#54
Science And Technology Museum, Wuhan
#55
King Alfred's Tower In England, Built In 1772
#56
What If All Buildings Had Heads Outside Of Them?
#58
Inhabited Natural Rock Formations In Göreme, Turkey
#59
A Monument In Armenia
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Fire drills must be a b***h, though. Funneling everyone down into that tiny exit area.
#60
Seocho Garak Tower East (130 M, 24 Stories), Seoul, South Korea, Completed In 2011
#61
Twisted Chimney - Bute Town, Wales
#62
Winning Design For Shenzhen's Natural History Museum
Jrog 3 years ago (edited)
As per my comment on the same exact image over 1 year ago: "That is a rendering from the project who won the design competition in 2020. Nothing has been built yet. The place is not so natural and beautiful, it is a cramped park inbetween a commercial developement, an industrial area and the Pingshan District housing 300.000 people." 2023 update: they have not yet broken ground, and likely never will.
#64
L'ile Fllottante (Abidjan, Ivory Coast)
#65
“Colorful Desert House” (Render) Sonora, Mexico
#66
"Flintstone House," Declared "Public Nuisance," Now Allowed To Keep Colorful
Megan The Viking Traveler 3 years ago
We drive past this house for years now, its amazing!!!! Keep the color!
#67
House On A Leg, Hamburg, Germany
Panda Kicki 3 years ago (edited)
Apart from the anxiety about tipping over, the house itself looks normal and prob isnt uncomfortable.
#68
Dancing House, When I Was In Prague A Few Years Back
#69
Accidental House, By Eric Perriard
#70
$ 200 Million Ghost Town Of Castles In Mudurnu, Turkey
#71
Yick Fat Building, Hong Kong, Shot By Me On 35mm Film
#72
The Whale Car Wash, Formerly Located At Nw 50th St. & Meridian Ave. In Oklahoma City (Photo By John Margolies, 1979)
#73
We Call It “The Cheese Grater”. It’s A Medical Research Lab
#74
An Artist's House In Chicago
#76
"Twisted House" In Indianapolis, In
#77
National Museum Of Qatar
#78
Container House In The Desert
#79
Parasitic Architecture By Artist Mark Reigelman And Architect Jenny Chapman, In San Francisco
#80
Still Standing In Canterbury, UK
#81
Police Station In Brakel, Belgium, Designed By Org In 2009
Blue Bunny of Happiness 3 years ago
Let’s not bother with a sign, we’ll just put massive police officers to hold it up..
#82
Tencent Building, Shenzhen, China
#83
Apartments In Amsterdam
#84
99 Dome Mosque, Makassar
#85
Torres De Colón, In Madrid, Was Built From Top To Bottom
#87
I Mean… Good That They Didn’t Cut The Tree?
#88
Fallen Star
#89
These Are Real Houses. Located In Encinitas, California
#91
Do Bizarre Bridges Count? Linjiang Bridge In Wuhu City, China
#92
A 1909 Apartment Building Designed And Built By A Local Brick Mason. Chicago
#93
The Entrance To Frankfurt Subway Station Looks Like A Crash
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Kind of counterintuitive from an advertising standpoint, don’t you think? Otherwise, I love the dark humor.
#94
Ps4 Pro Looks Remarkably Like A Toronto Building. 325 Front St W. Built 1982
#96
Industry City Building - Sunset Park, Brooklyn
#97
"Penthouse" - Nairobi, Kenya
#98
This Building In Atrani, Italy Has Some Of The Weirdest Architecture I've Ever Seen
#99
Enough Solar Panels To Power The Town
#100
Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Brazil, Designed By Oscar Niemeyer In 1991
#101
Thyssenkrupp Elevators Test Tower In Zhongshan, China
#102
12 Ugly Ducks By Victor Enrich
#104
Changjiang Media Building, Wuhan, China
#105
Rotterdam Is Both Beautiful And Bizarre
#106
Do You Want Neoclassical Or Modern? - Yes
#107
This Building Looks Like It Was Designed In Microsoft Word
#108
Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center For Brain Health, Las Vegas, Nevada USA
#109
Traffic Police Station, Vasylivka, Ukraine. Built In The 1960s
Alexandru Bucur 3 years ago
Unfortunately, right now about 11km behind the front line, in the area occupied by the Russians. Here it was back in 2015 when the google car came by: https://www.google.com/maps/@47.4466026,35.2844703,3a,75y,348.94h,90.91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shcsx7LCe_bf7RRVkq6ghsw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu
#110
This Church In Rowayton, Ct
#111
Grand Lisboa Hotel, China
#112
Druzhba Holiday Center, Yalta, Ukraine
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Again, in a fire people would jump rather than be crushed and burn trying to get out by trying to funnel through that tiny exit area in a panic.
#113
Montreal Decorated The Little House That Sits Atop An Abandoned Factory For The Holidays
#114
Some Apartments In Inwood, Upper Manhattan, NYC
#115
Luxury Hotel Or Collapsed Pile Of Sheet Metal?
#117
The Plane Shaped "Coronado Hotel" In Antalya, Turkey
#118
Casa Beretta, Val D'aosta, Italy, Designed By Mario Galvagni In 1967
#119
India's Research Base In Antarctica
#120
An Apartment Building That Popped Up In Krasnodar, Russia
#121
Canadian Museum For Human Rights - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
#122
Ex-Overpass, Now An Exchange Office
#123
L’arbre Blanc (The White Tree) Residential Tower, Montpellier, France
#125
This House With At Least 5 Different Styles In Kassel, Germany
#126
Conservatory, Montreuil, France
#127
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Diolla 3 years ago
BP I BEG YOU make titles that cover the content!!!! A lot of these buildings are not uncomfortable to live in or even intended to live in, it's not about that AT ALL. The subject is interesting architecture. PLEASE. Thank you.
Jill 3 years ago
I think they missed the Atomium. I mean it just looks so impractical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomium IMG_1040-6...e814d.jpeg 
Diolla 3 years ago
BP I BEG YOU make titles that cover the content!!!! A lot of these buildings are not uncomfortable to live in or even intended to live in, it's not about that AT ALL. The subject is interesting architecture. PLEASE. Thank you.
Jill 3 years ago
I think they missed the Atomium. I mean it just looks so impractical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomium IMG_1040-6...e814d.jpeg
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