There are very surprising buildings all over the world. It is up to you to judge…
Palais bulles
Palais bulles is designer Pierre Cardin’s huge property. It stretches on more than 8500 m2, which is equivalent to 2 football pitches. This house was imagined by Antti Lovag, a Hungarian architect, who is a fan of curved lines. Everything is round : the doors, the windows, the furniture…
The green citadel of Magdebourg
The pink front of the building is not moving but it was painted on purpose like that. Everything is zigzag. In this huge architectural complex, there can be found shops, a hotel and 55 flats. The walls are wavy, the angles are made round and huge pearls decorate the columns that were placed here and there on the front of the building…Indeed, Friedensreich Hunderwasser, the Austrian architect, was a fervent ecologist and had banned the right angle in order to be as close as possible of nature. Besides, this citadel is green because vegetation can be found everywhere. The roof, the surface of whom is 4000 m2 is completely covered with vegetation.
Malator
The walker is likely to go past Malator without seeing it : the camouflage of this property is perfect. Built in Wales a dozen years ago, this chameleon house belongs to a British politician who wanted a visually non polluting mansion, perfectly icluded in the landscape. Therefore, the architecture agency Future Systems imagined a buiding whose walls are covered with vegetation that enables the house to seem to be buried in the ground. The only openings on the outside are the entrance a large front, both of them are glazed and decorated with portholes in order to enlighten the rooms. Many Welshmen give the nickname “teletubby” to the house: with its steel chimney on the lawn roof, it looks like the inhabit of the teletubbies.
Armando Munoz
This artist gave to his house the appearence of a naked woman. This building is located in Rosarito, in Mexico. The works began in 1990 and are not finished yet: Armando Munoz is still having work done on the house. The woman’s hair has to be done.However, it is already possible to live in the woman.The building has 3 stories. There is a bedroom just behind the right breast, the living room is in the belly and the bathroom is… in the bottom.
Nader Khalili
This building is located in the californian desert, on the site of Calearth Institute where architect Nadr Khalili has become the champion of sustainable developement. With soil, sand and sweat, one can build houses that can be lived in and that cost nearly nothing. To build a house, it only requires to take soil on the site, to put it on bags, to lie tha bags one on the others and finally to bind them all…
A week of efforts and two or three people are needed to build a house. The Khalili method that renews ancestral techniques has seduced the UN who used this accomodation to shelter people that are victims of humanitarian crises.
Reversible destiny
This block of flats recently built in Tokyo looks like playmobil. It has an exterior look with bright colours. The interior is also original. The interior of the flats has an over-elaborate arrangement, supposed to stimulate the intellectual and physical faculties of the inhabitants. For instance, the TV sets are put in the ceiling. The switches are either very high or very low. The floor is undulating. This type of accomodation meets a lot of success.
