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Top 10 Most Unusual Houses In The World by Mmgboji(m): 7:19am On Jul 23, 2014 |
Top 10 Most Unusual Houses In The World 10. It was built due to few attempts by the national Ministry of Housing, to break out of the standard architectural mold. Philadelphia
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Re: Top 10 Most Unusual Houses In The World by Mmgboji(m): 7:27am On Jul 23, 2014 |
9. In New Mexico a country church is seen balancing on it’s steeple, as if it had been lifted by a terrific force and brought to the site as a device or method of rooting out evil forces.
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Re: Top 10 Most Unusual Houses In The World by Mmgboji(m): 7:30am On Jul 23, 2014 |
8. Daniel Czapiewski, Polish businessman and philanthropist, built this house as an artistic statement about the Communist era and current state of the world. Many tourists who visit complain of mild seasickness and dizziness after just a few minutes of being in the structure.
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Re: Top 10 Most Unusual Houses In The World by Mmgboji(m): 7:33am On Jul 23, 2014 |
7. One of the original ideas for Expo ‘58 was to build an upside-down version of the Eiffel tower, however, Waterkeyn felt that an atomic structure would be more symbolic of the era. The monument was originally planned to remain standing only six months. However, it soon became a symbol not only of the World’s Fair, but of modern architecture and Brussels. The monument stayed the same for almost 50 years. Brussels
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Re: Top 10 Most Unusual Houses In The World by Mmgboji(m): 7:37am On Jul 23, 2014 |
6. A young family with two children from Mexico City were tired living in a conventional home and wanted to change to one integrated to nature. The goal of this project was to make it feel like an internal inhabitant of a snail, like a symbiotic dweller of a huge fossil maternal cloister.
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Re: Top 10 Most Unusual Houses In The World by Mmgboji(m): 7:40am On Jul 23, 2014 |
5. “The house was built with maximum regard for the environment and by reciprocation gives us a unique opportunity to live close to nature.” This building is one part of a low- impact or permaculture approach to life. This sort of life is about living in harmony with both the natural world and ourselves, doing things simply and using appropriate levels of technology. Honolulu
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Re: Top 10 Most Unusual Houses In The World by Mmgboji(m): 7:43am On Jul 23, 2014 |
4. The very non-traditional design of the Dancing house was controversial at the time. Czech president Václav Havel, had supported it, hoping that the building would become a center of cultural activity. The building includes several offices and a French Restaurant on the roof.
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Re: Top 10 Most Unusual Houses In The World by Mmgboji(m): 7:45am On Jul 23, 2014 |
3. Ripley’s Believe It or Not! is a franchise, founded by Robert LeRoy Ripley, which deals in bizarre events and items so strange and unusual that readers might question the claims. The Believe It or Not panel proved popular and was later adapted into a wide variety of formats, including radio, television, a chain of museums, a book series and apinball game. California
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Re: Top 10 Most Unusual Houses In The World by Mmgboji(m): 7:48am On Jul 23, 2014 |
2. The Neverwas Haul represents a reimagining of the victorian era. Inspired by the works of Jules Verne, the neverwas haul represents a combination of the Victorian love of comfort and imposition of its own values on to the primitive landscape of the old and new worlds and pure, unadultered belief in the overaching grace of technology. Paris
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Re: Top 10 Most Unusual Houses In The World by Mmgboji(m): 7:51am On Jul 23, 2014 |
1. This little cute gas station was built in 1922, intended to be a reminder of the Teapot Dome Scandal involving President Warren G. Harding and a federal petroleum reserve in Wyoming. The scandal rocked the presidency of Harding and sent Interior Secretary Albert Fall to prison for his role in leasing government oil reserves. The building has a circular frame with a conical roof, sheet metal “handle,” and a concrete “spout.” Said to be the oldest gas station in use in the country, it survived partially because it was moved years ago, to be closer to the interstate. It is no longer in operation.
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Re: Top 10 Most Unusual Houses In The World by Mmgboji(m): 7:53am On Jul 23, 2014 |
Re: Top 10 Most Unusual Houses In The World by purplesummer(f): 8:10am On Jul 23, 2014 |
When you are in house number 8, would you feel you are standing up side down |
Re: Top 10 Most Unusual Houses In The World by angela98(f): 8:58am On Jul 23, 2014 |
I have seen house number six on TV. Its owned by an American. The inside of the house is a big WOW! Its really gorgeous... 1 Like |
Re: Top 10 Most Unusual Houses In The World by missdebs(f): 10:15am On Jul 23, 2014 |
that church tho |
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