Cliff houses are nothing new. In the Middle Ages, countless castles grew on them, even today many people, admittedly not out of strategic aspirations, build a house on the edge of a precipice. But Casa Brutale on the coast of the Aegean Sea adds a new dimension to cliff houses. It does not lie on but in the cliff, and in addition, it acts as if it were rotated by 90 degrees. The concept is the work of OPA.
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The Cinder Cone is a bohemian treehouse in the Columbia River Gorge Nature Reserve (Skamania County, USA) that hovers over a skatepark. It's a tree-lined residential "complex" that hovers over a skatepark and an outdoor hot tub that's "heated" by wood. The project was overseen by people of various professions, from professional carpenters to those who gained experience while working.
Elora Hardy has decided to end her successful career in the world of fashion and devote herself fully to the extraordinary work of the design team that together developed a revolutionary sustainable bamboo home construction in Indonesia over the past five years.
Over the past few years, French architect and artist Emmanuelle Moureaux has invested her expertise in designing branches of the Japanese bank Sugamo Shinkin. This is how some exceptional buildings have grown across Japan, which impress with the unexpected.
Fans of classical architecture today are often disappointed because most modern architectural solutions are modern and minimalistic, but the rich style still does not ring the bell. A good example is the Palace of Farmers building of the Ministry of Agriculture in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan (an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation). It is an exceptional work that leans on architecture from the past, and the silhouette of a wrought iron tree caught in a massive arch catches the eye.
Singapore can boast of one of the most modern and unique hotels in the world - the Parkroyal, which is adorned with six amazing gardens that rise into the sky.
Architects are considered to be artists without borders, who often look to play with original forms with the help of new technologies and bring new astonishing stories. This is how the present selection of the most unusual buildings in the world stirs our imagination.