At all times, people have attached great importance to their home - the place with which the entire future life of their family will be connected. Therefore, it is not surprising that they approach the process of building a house with all seriousness, not limiting themselves to their 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, the simplicity of their design. We offer you a selection of the most unusual buildings in the world, each of which undoubtedly absorbed part of the personality of its owner.

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1. The airplane house you can see in this photo is located in the village of Miziara, North Lebanon. Misiara is known for its extraordinary houses, and seeing buildings there that resemble ancient Greek temples or Egyptian ruins is not at all unusual. (Photo: Aziz Taher / Reuters)

2. On the roof of this house located in Oxford, you can see a shark statue. The sculpture, made of fiberglass and measuring 7.6 meters in length, was installed to commemorate the 41st anniversary of the dropping 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 cliff 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 ideal 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, Guangdong Province, China. (Photo: Reuters/China Daily)

8. A small tumbleweed house driving along a highway near Colorado. The construction of tiny houses began several years ago thanks to lovers of simple living. 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 home in the Chinese town of Shapu. Five years ago, Liu decided to walk back to his hometown in Rongang County from Shenzhen Province, where he had previously worked. From improvised materials - 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 carries it on himself, walking about 20 km a day. On the day this photo was published, Liu was 20 km from his hometown. (Photo: Reuters/Stringer)

10. Heliodom, a bioclimatic solar house, was built in Causevillers near Strasbourg (Eastern France) in 2011. The house is a huge three-dimensional sundial. It is placed 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 in the rock. The unusual house is located in the Rockland Farmers' Cooperative in Utah. “The Rock,” according to the memories of the 15 families living there, 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 looking into her house, built right in a wine barrel. In central Spain there is an entire camp of these quaint houses, where the 40 inhabitants 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 Soquelamos. (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 home closer to nature and the earth in order to be able to take advantage of the cool temperature of the underground. Construction was completed in 2002, the house can move up and down and turn in different directions, allowing 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 Mexican state of 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 their roof is a rock 40 meters in diameter. The property is located near the city of San Jose del Pedros in the arid Coahuila Desert, approximately 80 kilometers from the Texas border. (Photo: Daniel Becerril/Reuters)

15. Architect Harry Chang relaxes in a hammock in his apartment, which is located in Hong Kong and occupies 32 square meters. Chang grew up in exactly the same small apartment and has now come up with an innovative solution for the increasingly cramped conditions of city residents. 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 television channel TVN24 that he would live there, visiting 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 Samberharjo 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 photographed 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 facade of the covered parking lot, which is called the “Public Bookshelf”. This is a series of book spines measuring 3x8 meters each, made of especially durable plastic. There were 22 books on the shelf. They were selected by the Library Board of Trustees as best reflecting the reading interests of local residents.

There are world-famous works here: “The Wizard of Oz” - the creation 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 represented 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

The office of Longaberger Baskets is located 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. Her type of activity 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 Gary and Vlad Milunić erected this grandiose office building in Prague. It resembles 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 Missouri, USA, is proud of the building of the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Museum. From the outside it may seem that the museum has had to survive more than one earthquake!

Cube house in the Netherlands (Rotterdam)

Some might think that living in a tilted house is extremely difficult. But it’s better to ask those who live in Kijk-Kubus about this. Designed by architect Piet Blom, an ordinary house was tilted 45 degrees and placed in such a way that three sides face the ground and three face the sky. Each cube has three floors - the top floor is used as an attic or observation deck, below is a living room with a kitchen, a guest room with a bathroom, and a floor on which the bedrooms are located. These are very expensive houses, but you can easily visit the museum version of such a marvel.

Krakow radio station

The head office of the radio company RMF FM is located in Krakow, Poland. Many people who see it for the first time think that this is a creation. However, this unusual building was built by completely ordinary people.

There is a snail house in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia.

This unique building took 10 years to construct. Who came up with the idea for its creation still remains 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 from lightweight polymer concrete.

For some time there were rumors around the city that they were planning to open a kindergarten in the house. Later they 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 vintage antique furniture, and the radiators are designed in the shape of frogs, ladybugs and pumpkins.

House Nautilus

This unusual building was built in Mexico City. Construction of the structure 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, you can also feel the fourth, which is twisted into a spiral. There is an illusion that the inside of the house...

Wooden skyscraper in Arkhangelsk

Recently, according to reports from the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, it became known that in Arkhangelsk a fire destroyed “Sutyagin’s house.” It was once built by local businessman Nikolai Sutyagin. With a height of 38 meters, it had 13 floors! The cause of the fire turned out to be a nearby bathhouse, also built by this businessman. The house burned down completely, but, fortunately, no one was injured from the fire.

Sutyagin began building the house in 1992. The building has the status of self-development, and all the neighbors and firefighters were in favor of its demolition. The decision to demolish the building was made by the court in 2008. The city generally prohibited the construction of structures higher than two floors without the appropriate permission from 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, apartments and luxury villas.

The rotating tower produces its own energy through solar panels and wind turbines located on the roof. 1,200,000 kWh of energy is created annually. The amount of investment in this project amounted to 700 million dollars.

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As children, many of us dreamed of living in fairy-tale houses. They even tried to build them from old unnecessary boxes, various construction sets, and household utensils. Years pass, and nothing remains of these desires. However, some people make their childhood dream come true. They build houses that amaze with their extraordinary architecture.

• The most unusual houses in the world - Forest Spiral House, Darmstadt, Germany

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The "Forest Spiral" house is a twelve-story residential building twisted into a shell, in which, according to German tradition, each entrance has a separate number. So it looks like a complex of houses. The house was built between 1998 and 2000.

The intricate spiral design has a green roof with grass, shrubs and trees, hence the structure's name. Inside the building there are 105 apartments, a garage, a kiosk, and a cafe and bar at the top of the building. In the courtyard there is a children's playground and a small artificial lake.

One of the features of the facade of a residential building can be called unusually located windows. In the Forest Spiral they do not form a straight line, but are scattered along the walls in a chaotic manner.

The author of this architectural miracle is Friedrich, a famous Austrian architect and artist. The essence of Hundertwasser's creation comes down to the fact that man should live in harmony with nature everywhere - even in the city. And for this, houses should be built that fit into the surrounding landscape and are unlike each other - individual, like any living beings.

How to get there: Getting to Darmstadt is very easy - to Frankfurt by train from Berlin, and from there by train to Darmstadt.

• The most unusual houses in the world - "Basket Building", Ohio, USA

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The "basket building" is one of the strangest office buildings in the world. The 180,000-square-foot building is shaped like a shopping cart manufactured by Longaberger. About 500 workers are housed in the house. The weight of the building is 9000 tons. One of the workers once calculated that there were 84 windows in the seven-story building. The roof of the building is crowned with handles, which, in fact, can be used to hold a real Longaberger basket in your hands while shopping in the supermarket.

The "Basket Building" is a stunning sight, especially at night, when darkness falls over the city, and the building lights up in all its glory with many lights and lights. Since the building is located above the water, in addition to unprecedented practicality in the external exterior, it acquires a special romance and tenderness.

How to get there: The city of Newark is located near New York. You can get to the strange office by bus from Newark Airport.

• The most unusual houses in the world - "Upside Down House", Tennessee, USA"

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"Upside Down House" is a mystical museum in Tennessee. Just look at the history of its creation! The building was once a research laboratory and was located on one of the islands in the Bermuda Triangle. The scientists who worked and conducted experiments in this building created a vortex, a giant tornado, but they did not calculate its strength. The whirlwind caught the house and it landed, almost intact, on its roof.

The building was converted into an unusual, mystical museum: a room with a simulated earthquake of magnitude six, a meditation room, a virtual roller coaster, chairs hanging from the ceiling everywhere. In other words, "everything is upside down."

How to get there: The Upside Down House is located in the small town of Pigeon Fort, and the best way to get there is by plane. The airport is located 2 kilometers from the city.

• The most unusual houses in the world - Habitat 67, Montreal, Canada

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Habitat 67 is a residential complex in Montreal. For more than 40 years, the house has been impressing with its architectural originality.

Canadian-Israeli architect Moshe Safdie chaotically placed 346 dissimilar cubes. He set out to make each apartment unique, to create a complex of separate, independent plots with their own front gardens and courtyards, and at the same time optimally use the space to accommodate as many people as possible in a relatively small area. Thus, the complex accommodated 146 apartments.

How to get there: There are regular buses between Toronto and Montreal. They start flights at 7.00 in the morning, and the next one departs every hour and a half.

• The most unusual houses in the world - Cube houses, Rotterdam, Netherlands

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To say that the cubic houses in the city of Rotterdam look stunning is an understatement. Danish architect Piet Blom designed a whole street of buildings square on all sides, rotated 45 degrees and placed at one of the corners on ordinary one-story buildings.

The cube itself is three-story: below there is a living room with windows onto the asphalt, on the second level there are bedrooms and bathrooms, and on the third floor there is a small pyramidal room that can be adapted as a solarium, a nursery, a mini-observatory or a winter garden.

One cube is used as a Show Cube museum, which uses various photographs, videos and 3D panels to show what it's like to live in a cube house. And some residents even offer tours of their homes.

How to get there: Rotterdam is located in the southwest of the Netherlands, 76 km from Amsterdam. The cities are connected by the E19 highway. Rail services connect Rotterdam with Amsterdam, The Hague, Delft, Brussels, Antwerp and Paris, as well as other cities in Holland, Belgium and France. Trains arrive at the city's central station, Rotterdam Centraal. You can get to Rotterdam by bus from Amsterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and other cities in the country. Rotterdam The Hague Airport is a 20-minute drive from the city. You can get there by bus No. 33, as well as by express train. The cube houses are located on Overblaak street in Rotterdam and occupy an entire block. Blaak metro station is nearby.

• The most unusual houses in the world - The Hole House, Texas, USA

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The Hole House is a unique and unusual house located in Texas. On the site of this house, the authorities planned to build a new building and completely destroy the building itself.

But, fortunately, a few months before the demolition of this building was supposed to begin, two famous artists from the USA, Dan Havel and Dean Ruck, made a fantastic tunnel in this old house. And the building itself was preserved and turned into a museum, as visitors began to come there.

How to get there: You can fly to the city of Houston, where the strange house is located, by plane. The airport is located 11 kilometers southeast of Houston. And then take a bus (the parking lot is located near the baggage claim office) to the city center.

• The most unusual houses in the world - "Broken House" (Errante Guest House), Puerto Varas, Chile

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A residential building about which there is not much information. A local architect, having survived the hurricane, decided to build a house that would resemble those terrible days for him. Now the house looks like a dilapidated structure that is going to fall at any second. But this is just an optical illusion.

How to get there: You can get from the capital of the state to the town of Puerto Varas by plane. It is best to buy tickets at the airport ticket offices. Having arrived at the place, it is better to ask local residents how to get to this strange building.

• The most unusual houses in the world - Stone House, Guimarães, Portugal

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This strange house was built in 1974, in the mountains near the town of Fafi. The structure is very reminiscent of the house of the cartoon characters "The Flintstones". According to the architectural plan, the builders simply found four huge stones and built a house between them, thus saving on two walls. The house has asymmetrical windows and moss-covered boulders, tiles on one side and a flat slope on the other. In total, Stone House has 2 floors, a fireplace and a swimming pool.

How to get there: the house is closed to tourists. The owners even hired security to discourage everyone from looking at the marvelous structure. But if you still decide, then it is better to take a bus to Porto, and from there to Fafe.

• The most unusual houses in the world - Crazy house, Da Lat, Vietnam

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The owner of this wonderful house is Dang Viet N. The architect put into the concept of this complex her idea of ​​​​understanding life: you need to turn your attention to living nature, and instead of creating new forms, destroying old ones - not only in architecture, but also in the minds of people - return to what is given to us.

Here you will see winding rooms connected by various stairs and passages, irregularly shaped windows, animal figures serving as fireplaces, lantern-shaped sconces and much more. Adjacent to the house is a concrete giraffe with a coffee shop built inside.

How to get there: taxi is the fastest way to get to your house.

• The most unusual houses in the world - restaurant "Old Mill", Ternopil, Ukraine

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The futuristic restaurant appeared on the site of an old steam mill in 2002. The Old Mill restaurant is a four-story colorful building, at the entrance to which there is a stone brought from the house of the famous Catalan architect Gaudi.

The owners of the establishment themselves position the “Old Mill” as a “moonshine restaurant.” You will be treated to local moonshine, given a taste of the “Ukrainian’s First Communion,” that is, traditional red borscht with pampushki, and they also prepare unique lard in chocolate and serve it on a citrus peel.

How to get there: The unusual building in Ukraine can be easily reached from the train station in 15 minutes. Address: Brodovskaya street, 1-a, Ternopil.

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Emtseva Alexandra. School No. 81, Voronezh, Russia
Essay in English with translation. Nomination Our world.

My unusual flying house

I`ve got a very nice house. There are a lot of big and small rooms in it. There are two cozy bedrooms and my room upstairs. There is a large living - room with a comfortable sofa and armchairs. In the middle of the living-room and on the roof there is a tall tree. There is a kitchen, a hall and two bathrooms on the ground-floor. There is a long ladder outside the house.

You can see a large bridge in front of the house. There are some small towers at the top of the house.

My house looks like an old fairy-tale castle flying in the blue sky among the white clouds and big orange fishes. They can fly because they are fairy-tale fishes too.

My house is very unusual. It doesn`t stand on the ground. It is in the sky and it can travel to different countries and to the Moon. My flying house is very warm. The sun warms it up in good weather and there is a fire-place in it when it is cold and rainy.

I like to rest with my friends and pets in my nice house. And I can talk with the fishes from the windows of my house. My friends and I like to watch different towns and villages on the ground sitting in my flying house.

I have a very beautiful house. It has many large and small rooms. On the top floor there are two cozy bedrooms and my room. There is a large living room with a comfortable sofa and armchairs. There is a tall tree growing in the middle of the living room and on the roof. On the ground floor there is a kitchen. entrance hall and two bathrooms. There is a long staircase outside the house.

In front of the house you see a large bridge. At the top of the house there are small turrets.

My home, flying across the blue sky among white clouds and huge orange fish. They can fly. because they are also fabulous.

My house is very unusual. He doesn't stand on the ground. He is in the sky and he can travel to different countries and to the moon. My flying house is very warm. The sun warms it in good weather, and when it is cold and rainy there is a fireplace.

I love relaxing with friends and my pets in my nice home. And from the windows I can talk to fish. My friends and I love to look at different cities and villages on earth while sitting in my flying house.