You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

[Lee Stewart]

The distinctive looking United States Air Force Academy Chapel is located in Colorado Springs and opened in 1962. It was designed by Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill of Chicago. The building is 150 feet high and cost $3.5 million to build. The frame of the entire chapel is constructed out of 100 identical tetrahedrons, weighing five tons each.

[Lee Stewart]

This jaw-droppingly wacky pyramid-shaped building is an 18-story residential structure situated in Kunshan, a city near Shanghai. It stands at 330 feet tall and was designed by Masters' Architectural Office. The Shanghai-based firm said it was inspired by parkour, an urban activity much-loved by Chinese city dwellers that sees people running and jumping between buildings.

[Lee Stewart]

Tempranillo vines surround the colorful Marqués De Riscal Hotel in Elciego, Spain, which opened in 2006. It was designed by Frank Gehry and its pink-hued exterior is said to resemble a ribbon wrapped around a present. The hotel has 43 luxurious rooms and suites. The interior was also designed by Gehry.

[Lee Stewart]

The Fondation Louis Vuitton building, designed by Frank Gehry, is an art museum and cultural centre in Paris that opened in October 2014. Its design is inspired by the glass structure of the Grand Palais on the Champs Elysees.

[Lee Stewart]

It might look like a giant shell, but this building is in fact the Ordos Museum in Inner Mongolia, China. It was designed by the MAD architecture firm and houses collections relating to the local history of Ordos and the surrounding area. The design was influenced by the Gobi desert and the building is clad in polished metal tiles that are resistant to frequently occurring sandstorms.

[Lee Stewart]

Known as the Star Wars house, this residential home in South Korea was designed by architect Moon Hoon. It received its name after Hoon said the top floor looks like 'a place that could be a control room for Darth Vader'.

[Lee Stewart]

The Dancing House in the Czech capital Prague is often referred to as Fred and Ginger after the famous dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It was designed by Frank Gehry, who had been inspired by the Hollywood stars. The building was completed in 1996 and is now the home of the Nationale Nederlanden bank.

[Lee Stewart]

The Cleveland Clinic's Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health opened near Las Vegas in 2010 and was designed by renowned American-Canadian architect Frank Gehry. Gehry wanted to make the building look memorable. After all, the theme of the center is 'keeping memory alive'.

[Lynn]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

The King Power MahaNakhon is a bizarre skyscraper in Bangkok - and one of the tallest buildings in Thailand. It stands 78 stories high and opened in 2016, with architect Ole Scheeren among those that created the design. The cutaway parts of the building are meant to give the effect of it being pixelated.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Incredible waste of space in the high rent district.

[Too Many Projects]

Originally Posted by Lynn

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Incredible waste of space in the high rent district.

I was thinking something along the same order. How many hundreds of millions were spent to make a building that doesn't look completed ?

A lot of the pics of designs by Frank Gehry are bizarre too.


The residential stepped pyramid is actually, kind of cool looking, but seems to have a lot of wasted space and small rooms too. I'd like to see the inside, it may be cool ??