16 COMPLETELY BEWITCHING buildings you have never seen before (PHOTOS)

The world is strange place with strange buildings that will leave you bewildered after seeing them.

Sometimes that strangeness is a function of amazing architecture which is always evolving and changing.

There are lots of weird but amazing buildings around the world that can catch your attention.

The world owes some of these strange structures to the masterminds of unconventional architects.

You are about to see some of the world’s most bizarre and yet captivating buildings.

1. Hotel Marqués de Riscal (Elciego, Spain)

Designed by Frank Gehry, this structure has curving panels of metal adorning the outside and various tilts and zigzags throughout. It was opened in 2006.

2. Stone House (Portugal)

Located in the Fafe Mountains of Portugal, this structure was built between two rocks. This building which resembles the famous home of the Flintstones is a wonderful example of modern architecture in Stone Age style.

3. Wonderworks (Tennessee, USA)

This building was designed to look as if the building was picked up by severe weather and dropped upside down on an existing building. It is primarily an entertainment center focused on science exhibits.

4. Dancing Building (Czech Republic)

Designed by Vlado Milunic in cooperation with Frank Gehry, this building is an amazing masterpiece of architecture which has its own romantic charm. The way the buildings hug each other for a dance is just so stunning.

5. Mind House (Barcelona, Spain)

Designed by Antoni Gaudi works in Barcelona in the early twentieth century, the Mind House is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is so impressive that it’s been named one of the top 10 creative buildings in the world.

6. The Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum, (Brazil)

It was designed by Oscar Niemey, who created it with the help of Bruno Contarini. Built in 1996, the building is 16 meters high and the diameter of its cupola is 50 meters. It looks pretty much like coming from another world, or from the outer space.

7. The Crooked House (Poland)

It was built in 2003 with design based on the pictures of Jan Marcin Szancer and Per Dahlberg. It was designed by Szotynscy and Zaleski. The design of this building is “crooked”, but a kind of symmetrically, giving it that strange look.

8. Habitat 67, Montreal (Canada)

This structure is widely considered an architectural landmark and one of the most recognizable and significant buildings in both Montreal and Canada. It is a complex which resembles a very interesting arrangement of cubes that kids play with. It comprises 354 identical, prefabricated concrete forms arranged in various combinations, reaching up to 12 stories in height.

9. Cubic Houses, (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

Designed by Piet Blom in 1970s, the Cubic houses are a set of innovative houses.They are cubes, situated in different angles over hexagon formed pylons, so they resemble trees, and altogether make a forest. There are 38 small cubes which are all attached one to another.

10. Cathedral of Brasilia (Brazil)

This awesome building was designed to be residence of the Archdiocese of Brasilia. The designer Oscar Niemeyer made the structure using 16 columns of concrete, each of them with 90 tons weight.

11. National Centre for the Performing Arts, (China)

Described as The Giant Egg, this building which took almost 6 years to be built resembles an enormous egg, lying in an artificial lake. It is all made of titanium and glass and looks really amazing. It was designed by French architect Paul Andreu seats 5,452 people in three halls.

12. Lotus Temple (Delhi, India)

The renowned flower-like shape of this structure has won it numerous architectural rewards.

13. Kansas City Library (Missouri, USA)

One of the most striking features of the Kansas City Library in Missouri is the “community bookshelf” that runs along the south wall of the parking garage. Some of the titles include: Romeo and Juliet, The Lord of the Rings, The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Tao Te Ching, and Fahrenheit 451.

14. Nautilus House (Mexico City, Mexico)

Built by architect Javier Senosiain, this sea shell shaped house was constructed to be a livable home. It features smooth surfaces, spiral stair cases, and natural paintings.

15. Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Alexandrina, Egypt)

It resembles an angled discus or giant sundial. It was created to reincarnate the famous ancient library of Alexandrina, which held the largest collection of manuscripts in the world but burned down in the 3rd century.

16. Biosphere environmental museum (Montreal)

This architectural masterpiece was designed by noted American architect Buckminster Fuller. It offers interactive activities and presents exhibitions about the major environmental issues related to water, climate change, air, ecotechnologies and sustainable development.

These buildings are definitely worth seeing. Who knows what awesome buildings we could see 100 years from now.

Which is your favourite building?