The most unusual houses in the world amaze with their shapes, bright design, interior layout and even the material from which they are made. The human imagination, with the help of which unique masterpieces are created, has no boundaries.
The top 10 includes the most unusual houses in the world, photos and descriptions of which are located below.
10."Crooked house"(Sopot, Poland) reveals the 10 most unusual houses in the world. When looking at the building, it seems that the contours of the structure are melted. The optical illusion of deception was realized by two Polish architects at once - Shotinsky and Zalevsky.
Absolutely all the details of the building are asymmetrical, and the walls resemble waves. "Crooked House" was built for commercial purposes, and is currently used as a shopping center.
9."Shell House"(Isla Mujeres, Mexico) is a fantastic piece of architecture designed by Eduardo Ocampo. Every detail of the interior is made here in a marine style, and the building itself reflects the natural beauty of nature. It took about four thousand shells to decorate the snow-white building. The owner of the shell house is the artist Octavio Ocampo, brother of Eduardo.
The work of art is rented out, and everyone can relax here, enjoying not only the interior of the housing, but also the picturesque views around.
8."Hobbit House"(Wales, UK) - a fabulous architectural structure by Simon Dale, which is an environmentally friendly home with low energy consumption.
The main materials for the construction were stone, oak wood, clay and earth. The house was built over 4 months by Dale and his friends. The author of this creation, together with his family, settled in an earthen house.
7. cube houses(Rotterdam, The Netherlands) are the most unusual among all the works of the architect Piet Blom. According to the idea of the Dutch architect, each of the buildings should look like a tree. In total, there are 38 such trees in the complex, which together resembles a small forest of houses.
There are practically no straight walls in the room. It is noteworthy that the residents who originally settled here consider classic houses with straight walls to be very strange.
6.Shoe hotel(Mpumalanga, South Africa) - the most unusual house in Africa. Its author and owner was Ron Van Zyl, who built a magnificent building for his wife.
Currently, the noteworthy architecture serves as a museum, where the works of the author of the shoe house are exhibited. Inside is a seven-room cavern that Ron Van Zyl called "Alpha Omega". One of the rooms of the cave is a chapel where marriages are held.
5. The list of the most original houses in the world rightfully includes "Mushroom House"(Cincinnati, Ohio, USA), built according to the project of Professor Terry Brown by students of the architectural institute.
In 1992, the architect bought an ordinary residential building and decided to remake it in his own way. Brown wanted to create something unusual, and he quite succeeded. It took about 14 years to rebuild. The material for the reconstruction was wood, and broken ceramics, colored glass and handmade tiles were used as decor.
4.Flintstone Mansion(Malibu, USA) ranks fourth in the ranking of the most unusual houses in the world. The unique building inside and out looks like a cave with elements of modern decor.
In 2013, the house was put up for sale. The advertised cost for it was $3.5 million.
3. " House-stone»(Fafe, Portugal) is one of the most eccentric buildings. It was located near the city of Fafe, in a mountainous area. Giant stones covered with moss serve as walls for an unusual dwelling.
Due to the fact that the building became the object of attention of numerous tourists, the residents were forced to move from the stone house.
2."Crazy House" or the Hang Nga Hotel (Dalat, Vietnam) is one of the most unusual creations created by man. The author of the building work was a Vietnamese female architect Dang Viet Nga. Built in the Expressionist style, the building is an echo of the creations of the Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí. The design completely lacks any straight lines, and the structure itself resembles a huge tree, decorated with multiple decorations. The house got its unusual name due to the fact that the first visitors exclaimed: "Crazy house!". Indeed, the construction is eccentric to the point of insanity.
Each hotel room is different and has its own theme. The Vietnamese do not really like this building for its non-standard, but tourists are happy to visit the landmark hotel. Dang Viet Nga herself decided to live in her creation, so visitors have a unique opportunity to personally get to know the creator of the "Crazy House".
1."House Mila" or "Stone Cave" (Barcelona, Spain) - the most unusual house in the world, owned by the legendary architect, Antonio Gaudi. This is the last completed masterpiece by the brilliant architect. The uniqueness of the building lies in the complete absence of symmetry and load-bearing walls. Columns serve as a support for the house, and many walls are movable, which allows redevelopment at any time.
But this is not all that the building can surprise with: it is provided with natural ventilation, thanks to the unusual layout of the courtyards. Even in the hottest weather, the rooms of the premises do not need air conditioning.
The roof of the Quarry is decorated with various sculptures of fairy tale characters. They serve as a mask for ventilation pipes and chimneys. Anyone who comes to Barcelona can admire the legendary creation, which is over a hundred years old. Wealthy Catalans live in some apartments of the house. The mezzanine, also known as the exhibition hall, and the roof are used for excursion needs.
At all times, a person attached great importance to his home - a place with which the whole future life of his family will be connected. Therefore, it is not surprising that they approach the process of building a house with all seriousness, not limiting themselves in fantasies and, without exaggeration, putting a piece of their soul into their home.
Nowadays, you can see houses that can amaze the imagination with the complexity or, conversely, with the simplicity of their design. We offer you a selection of the most unusual buildings in the world, each of which, of course, has absorbed a part of the personality of its owner.
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1. The house-plane, which you can see in this photo, is located in the village of Miziara, Northern Lebanon. Miziara is known for its extraordinary houses, and seeing buildings there that resemble ancient Greek temples or Egyptian ruins will by no means be a curiosity. (Photo: Aziz Taher/Reuters)
2. On the roof of this house located in Oxford, you can see a statue of a shark. The sculpture, made of fiberglass and reaching a length of 7.6 meters, was installed in memory of the 41st anniversary of the drop of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. (Photo: Eddie Keogh/Reuters)
4. A house that looks like an ancient Greek temple is under construction. Baalbek, Lebanon. (Photo: Aziz Taher/Reuters)
5. On the roof of this 19-story building located in Guangzhou, a gazebo surrounded by green trees was illegally erected. (Photo: Reuters/China Daily)
6. This house is built on a rock near the Drina River, near the western town of Bajina Basta in Serbia. The house was built in 1968 by a group of young people who decided that a rock near the river was the perfect place for a tiny shelter. So says the co-owner, one of the company that built the house. (Photo: Marko Djurica/Reuters)
7. Houses on the roof of a factory building in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, China. (Photo: Reuters/China Daily)
8. A small tumbleweed house driving down a highway near Colorado. The construction of tiny houses originated a few years ago thanks to lovers of the simple life. The area of these small houses ranges from 93 to 9.3 square meters, but, nevertheless, they can hardly be called shacks. (Photo: Rick Wilking/Reuters)
9. 38-year-old Liu Lingchao carries his house in the Chinese town of Shapu. Five years ago, Liu decided to walk back to his hometown of Rongan County from Shenzhen Province, where he had previously worked. From improvised means - bamboo, plastic bags and sheets - Liu made himself a "portable room" 1.5 meters wide and two meters high. The room weighs about 60 kg, and Liu constantly wears it on himself, walking about 20 km a day. On the day this photo was published, Lew was 20 km away from his hometown. (Photo: Reuters/Stringer)
10. The heliodome, a bioclimatic solar house, was built in Coswiller near Strasbourg (East France) in 2011. The house is a huge three-dimensional sundial. It is set at a certain angle in relation to the movement of the sun, so in the hot summer months the house is always shaded and cool, and in autumn, winter and spring the sun is lower in the sky and shines directly through the large windows, warming the house inside. (Photo: Vincent Kessler/Reuters)
11. This photo shows girls jumping on a trampoline near a house built right into the rock. The unusual house is located in the Rockland Farmers' Cooperative in Utah. "The Rock", according to the memoirs of 15 families living in it, was built about 35 years ago in sandstone deposits near Canyonlands National Park. (Photo: Jim Urquhart/Reuters)
12. In this photo, you can see a Bulgarian woman peeking into her house, furnished right in a wine barrel. In central Spain there is a whole camp of such unusual houses, whose 40 residents are ethnic Turks who came from Bulgaria to pick grapes during the six-week annual harvest. They sleep in overturned wine barrels about the size of a car. The makeshift camp is located in Castile-La Mancha near the agricultural society of Soquellamos. (Photo: Andrea Comas / Reuters)
13. Bohumil Lhota, a 73-year-old builder, built his house near the town of Jablonec nad Nisou, a hundred kilometers northeast of Prague. Lhota came up with the idea to create a unique house, and in 1981 he began construction. The man wanted to build a dwelling closer to nature and the earth, in order to be able to take advantage of the cool temperature of the dungeon. Construction was completed in 2002, the house can move up and down and turn in different directions, which allows you to change the view from the window. (Photo: Petr Josek / Reuters)
14. This house is located near San Jose del Pedros in the northern state of Mexico, Coahuila. For more than 30 years, Benito Hernandez and his family have lived in a strange house made of adobe bricks, dried in the sun, and a rock with a diameter of 40 meters serves as a roof. The property is located near the city of San Jose del Pedros in the arid desert of Coahuila, about 80 kilometers from the Texas border. (Photo: Daniel Becerril/Reuters)
15. Architect Harry Chang rests in a hammock in his apartment, which is located in Hong Kong and occupies 32 square meters. Chang grew up in the same small apartment and has now come up with an innovative solution for the increasingly cramped conditions of the city dwellers. This is a "transforming apartment", just like in science fiction films. (Photo: Bobby Yip/Reuters)
16. This is one of the narrowest houses in the world. It was built as an art installation between two buildings in Warsaw. The width of the building is only 92 centimeters, it was built for the Israeli writer Etgar Keret. Keret told the TV channel TVN24 that he would live there, coming to Warsaw twice a year. The writer conceived this project as a kind of memorial to the families of his parents who died due to the Holocaust during World War II. (Photo: Kacper Pempel/Reuters)
17. These 70 domed buildings were built by an American organization in the village of Samberkharjo near Jakarta for residents left homeless due to the earthquake that occurred on May 8, 2007. (Photo: Dwi Oblo/Reuters)
This page contains a far from complete collection of unusual buildings, which we are pleased to show you. We thank everyone who took pictures of these amazing buildings and provided the opportunity to admire the structures without leaving the computer.
Library. Kansas City. USA
A unique library building is located in the center of Kansas City. Its striking feature is the façade of the covered car park, which is called the "Public Bookshelf". This is a row of book spines, each measuring 3x8 meters, made of extra strong plastic. There are 22 books on the shelf. They were selected by the Board of Trustees of the library, as the most reflective of the reading interest of local residents.
There are world-famous works here: The Wizard of Oz - the work of Baum, Marquez's work One Hundred Years of Solitude, Tolkien's work The Lord of the Rings, A Tale of Two Cities by the talented writer Dickens, Shakespeare's novel Romeo and Juliet.
But to a greater extent, works of classical American literature and modern authors such as D. Grisham, D. Baldacci, S. Sheldon, S. Cox are presented here. This is perhaps the most beautiful and interesting unusual building of all built by human hands.
Newark. USA. Longaberger basket company office
House made in the form of a huge basket
Longaberger's Baskets is based in Newark, Ohio, United States of America. The founder of the company, D. Longaberger, wanted the central office to be located in a huge basket. The headquarters of this company is located in the same unusual building. Its line of business is the production of baskets and other wickerwork.
Poland. Sopot. curved house
In the Polish city of Sopot, you can see this strange house. Its construction dates back to 2003. It is based on sketches by a Polish artist, whose name is Jan Marcin Szancer. The building is unusual, it is a shopping and service center with many bars and cafes.
dancing House
Architects Frank Gehry and Vlad Milunich built this grandiose office building in Prague. It looks like a dancing couple. It is not surprising that at first everyone called him "Ginger and Fred." Later, the unusual building received a new name "Dancing House".
Museum
The city of Branson, located in the state of Missouri, USA is proud of the Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum building. From the outside, it may seem that the museum had to endure more than one earthquake!
Cube house in the Netherlands (Rotterdam)
Someone might think that living in a tilted house is extremely difficult. But it is better to ask those who live in Kijk-Kubus about this. According to the project of the architect Piet Blom, an ordinary house was tilted at 45 degrees and placed in such a way that three sides of it look at the ground, and three - at the sky. Each cube has three floors - the top floor is used as an attic or observation deck, below - a living room with a kitchen, a guest room and a bathroom, and the floor where the bedrooms are located. These are very expensive houses, but the museum version of such a diva can easily be visited.
Krakow radio station
In the Polish city of Krakow, the main office of the radio company RMF FM is located. For many people who first saw him, it seems that this is a creation. However, this unusual building was built by quite ordinary people.
There is a snail house in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria
This original building was erected for 10 years. Who came up with the idea of its creation is still a mystery. Obviously, the owner of the house does not need world fame, since he does not give interviews and does not want to be photographed. But the name of the architect - Simeon Simeonov is well known to everyone. He said that the house was built of lightweight polymer concrete.
For some time, rumors circulated around the city that they were planning to open a kindergarten in the house. Later it was said that a school for the most gifted children would be organized here. There is information that the interior design of the house is amazing. The house is furnished with old antique furniture, and the radiators are made in the form of frogs, a ladybug and a pumpkin.
House Nautilus
This unusual building was built in Mexico City. The construction of the building was completed in 2006. A young couple and their two children wanted to live. After a long search, they found what they needed.
The house has several rooms. True, in the traditional sense they are not separated from each other. Moving in the space of three dimensions, one can feel the fourth, which twists into a spiral. There is an illusion that the inside of the house.
Wooden skyscraper in Arkhangelsk
Recently, according to the reports of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, it became known that in Arkhangelsk a fire destroyed the "Sutyagin's house". It was once built by a local businessman Nikolai Sutyagin. With a height of 38 meters, it had 13 floors! The cause of the fire was a nearby bathhouse, also built by this businessman. The house burned down completely, but, fortunately, no one was injured from the fire.
Sutyagin started building the house in 1992. The building has the status of self-building, and all the neighbors and firefighters were in favor of its demolition. The decision to demolish the building was taken by the court in 2008. In the city, the construction of structures higher than two floors was generally prohibited without the appropriate permission of the authorities.
UAE. Dubai. dynamic tower
Dynamic Tower is a wonderful skyscraper, each floor of which moves along its own axis. This very unusual building reaches a height of 420 m! With the help of wind turbines, the skyscraper rotates its floors around a fixed column. The dynamic tower houses hotels, offices, luxury apartments and villas.
The rotating tower generates its own power through rooftop solar panels and wind turbines. 1,200,000 kWh of energy is generated annually. The amount of investment in this project amounted to 700 million dollars.
For some people on our planet, the mere thought of having to live in a nondescript house like everyone else makes them feel bad. They decided to be original and created unique houses that may not be to everyone's taste, but the flight of imagination of their creators is hard not to appreciate. See the most original houses in the world.
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1. Hut on the Drina River in Serbia.
This is without a doubt one of the most unusual houses in the world. It is located on the Drina River near Bajina Basta, a city in the western part of Serbia. The house looks very lonely, perhaps its creator likes to be away from the hustle and bustle. (Photo: Flickr.com).
2. House-snail in Bulgaria. This five-story building, built in 2009, is located in the capital of Bulgaria - Sofia. Apparently, its owner is very fond of insects, since a bee also sits on a snail. (Photo: Flickr.com).
3. Neverwas Haul, USA. The Neverwas Haul was built by a group of adventurers at the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert of northern Nevada. The palace on wheels is made in the Victorian style from garbage. (Photo: Christopher Prentiss Michel).
4. Stone house in Portugal. Casa do Penedo or stone house can be seen in the Fafe Mountains in Portugal. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons).
5. Habitat 67, Canada. Habitat 67 is a residential complex in Montreal, designed by Moshe Safdi. It consists of 354 precast concrete modules interconnected in various ways, the total height of which reaches 12 floors. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons).
6. House of the Flintstones in the USA. It is located in Malibu, California and was put up for sale for $3.5 million after the death of its owner, Dick Clark. (Photo: Facebook.com).
7. Keret's house in Poland. Art installation created by architect Jakub Szczęsny in 2012 in Warsaw. This is perhaps the narrowest house in the world, but you can really live in it. In the photo - this is what is located between 2 buildings. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons).
8. House 1 m2, Germany. Would you be able to live on an area of 1 m2? Architect Van Bo Le-Mentzel wanted to prove that it was possible and created a portable 1-meter house. How do you like this idea? (Photo: Flickr.com).
9. House-Boeing 727 in the USA. This unusual house is located in Benoit, Mississippi. Joanne Ussary - the hostess of the house spent a lot of money on its reconstruction so that it met all her requirements, but it was worth it, there is even a Jacuzzi on the plane. (Photo: Flickr.com).
10. House-toilet, South Korea. The idea is the same, of course. Who wants to live in a toilet? As it turned out, this is the headquarters of the activists who founded ... the World Toilet Organization. (Photo: JO YONG-HAK / REUTERS)
11. Upside down house in Poland. This house is not for those who get dizzy. In the house, which is located in Szymbark, everything is really upside down, even the paintings on the walls. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons).
12. House-shell in Mexico. This unusual, fabulous house, called Nautilus (Nautilus), was built in 2006 in the capital of Mexico. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons).
13. Mushroom house in the USA. The mushroom house was built in the early 70s in Perington, New York, and due to its unusual design, it immediately became the hero of several American TV shows. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons).
14. Steel house in the USA. The house was designed by Robert Bruno, a world-famous artist and sculptor. The building looks like it was carved from a single piece of metal. Original, nothing to say. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons).
15. Waterfall house in the USA. This home was designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 and is located in southwestern Pennsylvania. A very beautiful house. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons).
16. Shoe house, USA. The shoe-shaped house was built in Hellam, Pennsylvania by a local tycoon named Mahlon N. Hainesa, who wanted to pay tribute to his business in this way. Previously, it was a guest house, now it is only a museum. (Photo: Flickr.com).
17. Bubble House in France. This original house can be seen in Cannes. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons).
18. Log house in the USA. The house is made inside a redwood tree, which was about 2000 years old. The Log House is located in Garberville. (Photo: oneloghouse.com).
19. Home-barrel for salting in the United States. This barrel-shaped home is located in Grand Marais, Michigan. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons).
20. House-strawberry in Tokyo in Japan. (Photo: Flickr.com). 
21. House-teapot from Texas in the USA. (Photo: Flickr.com). 
22. House-teapot in the USA. It is located in Zilla, Washington State and was built in 1922. Before it became a local landmark, the house was a gas station. (Photo: Flickr.com).
23. Leaky house in the USA. In my opinion, this is the most original house in the world. One thing is for sure, in such a house it will never be stuffy. (Photo: Flickr.com).
24. Kvivik Igloo in Denmark. A tiny rooftop grass house can be rented for $150 per night. (Photo: Flickr.com).
25. House-constructor Lego in England. The idea of creating this house belongs to a man named James May. The house was built by hundreds of volunteers from more than 3 million blocks. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons).
26. Klein Bottle House, Australia. Klein Bottle House is the superiority of geometry over architecture. This is the only house of its kind in the world, which in 2009 received a prestigious award at the World Festival of Architecture. (Photo: Facebook.com).
Hello our dear readers. In modern cities, sometimes there are so many identical houses - entire blocks. And this view is not at all happy. But suddenly, among this grayness, the most unusual houses of the world flash by. Made of wood, brick, stone, one-story and several floors, round, square, and such original shapes that you wonder.
Crooked house in Poland
The house was built according to the fairy tales of Jan Marchin. This is truly a fabulous house. So it seems that now the mouth-entrance will open and say something unusual. And around the day and night the turbulent life boils. Inside the building on the ground floor is a shopping center. Imagine how briskly trade is going on in it, if a lot of tourists, having taken a selfie, go inside for souvenirs. On the second floor, popular radio stations are constantly broadcasting.
Palace of Ferdinand Cheval in France
Surprisingly, this unusually beautiful building was brought to life by an ordinary postman without an architectural and construction education. The house is built of stones, cement and wire. And in such a mixture of styles, every tourist from East and West will find a piece of their own culture. Ferdinand loved his brainchild so much that he expressed a desire to bury himself in it.
But he was refused (strange, because this is his house) and then he quickly built a crypt next to his palace and in the same style. There the famous postman of France calmed down.
portuguese stone house
It is really a solid, huge stone lying on a mountain. A creation of nature, into which an ordinary person seemed to breathe life. The house was built between two boulders. It has two floors, absolutely suitable for life, but no one has been living here for a long time, because the huge influx of tourists simply does not allow you to relax in this secluded place.
"Planet" for a sheikh in the UAE
An interesting and unusual house was built for Sheikh Hamad. Round shape and painted like a globe. Initially, the house was built for convenience when traveling through the desert of the state - it has 4 floors, several bathrooms and bedrooms. And the building has wheels. Imagine, a lone 12-meter globe is rolling across the vast desert! Not himself, of course, hitched to the tractor. But the sight is unusual.
House of Nikolai Sutyagin in Russia
This wooden 13-storey house was built in Arkhangelsk from boards and timber without nails at all, as the distant ancestors of the Slavs built. From the last floor you could see the White Sea. But, unfortunately, the owner never completed the house. It turns out that private multi-storey residential buildings should not exceed nine floors.
And at the direction of the authorities, the top was demolished, but the house was still not completed. It's a pity! But apparently the building was not destined to "live" even like this, because in 2012 the house burned down completely.
"Flying saucer" in Moscow
Another of the building masterpieces built in Russia is the Moscow registry office, which looks like a plate of aliens. As they say: “Marriages are made in heaven”, so in this registry office lovers are registered “under the clouds”. The wedding palace has two halls: one is on the ground, at the foot of the bridge, and the other is suspended at a height of 100 meters. The upper hall can accommodate about 600 guests. So you can sign on a grand scale and "in heaven."
spherical house
