A friend sent me these cool pictures of some of the greatest and most innovative architectures today. I did some research and have written some information of them for your better understanding. Enjoy!
The Piano House -This super cool piano-shaped building is located in Huainan city, China. Even the stairs are housed within a violin shaped structure built with glass.
Longaberger Basket Company HQ - This monument is the world’s largest basket, and it’s also the seven-story corporate headquarters of the Longaberger Basket Company in Newark, Ohio.
Dancing House - The Dancing House is the nickname given to the Nationale-Nederlanden building in downtown Prague, Czech Republic. It was designed by Croatian-born Czech architect Vlado Milunic in co-operation with Canadian architect Frank Gehry on a vacant riverfront plot (where the previous building had been destroyed during the Bombing of Prague in 1945). The building was designed in 1992 and completed in 1996.
Kansas City Library - Who said libraries have to be boring? The Kansas City Library has one seriously cool façade. Local residents were asked to nominate influential books that represent Kansas City and humungous versions of the winning nominations were then used as the exterior of the library.
The Blue Building - The borough of Delfshaven, Rotterdam , asked Schildersbedrijf N&F Hijnen to come up with a plan for a block of derelict buildings, which will eventually be demolished. The agreement with the neighbourhood is that the block will remain blue as long as there isn’t a new plan for the area. This was once one of the most unseen blocks of houses in Rotterdam, and by applying a later of only 2 micron of blue paint onto it, it became Rotterdam’s most photographed one.
The Crooked House - Polish architect of the Crooked House, Szotynscy Zaleski, was inspired by the fairytale illustrations of Jan Marcin Szancer and the drawings of the Swedish artist and Sopot resident Per Dahlberg. The most photographed building in Poland , the 4,000 square meter house is located in Rezydent shopping center in Sopot , Poland .
Samkee Building - The Sam Kee building is situated at 8 West Pender Street . It runs from the corner of Pender and Carral to the lane at the halfway point of the block. It is two storeys tall and 1..5 meters (six feet) deep. The story behind the building is as exotic as the structure with several intriguing twists and turns included in its telling. The City of Vancouver provided the original owner, Chang Toy, with a challenge when it expropriated all but two meters of his property as part of an expansion of Pender Street . No compensation was provided to its owner who was left with what most believed to be a useless property. In a creative turn of events fuelled by spite and some say a bet an architect was hired to design a building to fit the remaining property. The rest is history in more ways than one. This building was home to 13 businesses at one time. It was the only place in Chinatown for residents to enjoy hot baths. There is a tunnel beneath the building that was used as an escape route from raids on Opium dens situated on neighbouring Shanghai Alley… The building is also fronted by the only remaining glass sidewalk in Chinatown . As part of the ongoing history of this structure, issues still arise between the owners and the city with respect to encroachment and overhangs. In spite of each side having an element of right it seems to boil down to the proverbial ‘tit for tat’. It makes for an interesting study in civics..
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