Dotted across the globe are many curious constructions — from a shopping centre shaped like a cruise ship to a fungi-inspired fabrication — that are gaining fans online.
In a world of cookie cutter new housing developments and office high rises that all start to look the same, it’s rare to find a building that truly stops you in your tracks.A building where you can tell the owner or architect has really let their childhood imagination run wild. Not with a slightly bold colour scheme, or a unique foyer, but by throwing the rule book out the window and deciding to build the building of their dreams.
But dotted across the globe are many more curious constructions — from a shopping centre shaped like a cruise ship to a fungi-inspired fabrication — that are gaining fans online via aAmong the peculiar properties featured on the new Unique Building account , is a one-of-a-kind building in India. The office of the National Fisheries Development Board in Hyderabad, India, is a far cry from the typical bland government building.It’s one big, bold example of mimetic architecture, where a building is designed to mimic its purpose or function, or the product it’s associated with.
Then there’s the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum, which resembles a giant rolled up carpet, a cruise ship-shaped shopping centre docked in the concrete jungle of Hong Kong, and a furniture shop in Bogotá, Colombia, shaped like a giant chest of drawers.
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