Is it a nuclear power station? Is it a Stargate? No, it's The House Of God!

[denny]

Continuing my hobby of collecting weird buildings (or at least, links to them), I quite liked this one.
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/06/aia_arch/source/6.htm

Not quite as bizarre as my all-time favourite, but still quite unusual and attractive.

See also the dancing towers:
http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/690812.html

"Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards, whilst wearing high heels. AND MADE OF WINDOWS." Or something.

Comments

[pooloftrees.livejournal.com]

It's architecture porn!

I can so see number 8 in that list (http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/06/aia_arch/source/8.htm) getting blown down by a freak wind...

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Dude! If I was God, that's totally where I'd live.

[hythloday.livejournal.com]

the exterior cladding is composed of precast concrete panels that look like stone

That's so the new pebble-dash.