Location: Amstelveenseweg 500, Amsterdam, Netherlands (alongside the A10 highway Ringweg-Zuid)
Date: 2002
Architect: Meyer & Van Schooten Architecten
Purpose: Company Headquarters
More info: As a headquarters building, it is required to represent the ideals of the company, which are transparency, innovation, eco-friendliness, and openness. The shape of the building has earned a few nicknames for it - “shoe”, “space ship”.
The Church of Hallgrimur, Reykjavik, Iceland
Location: Reykjavik, Iceland
Date: 1945-1986
Architect: Guðjón Samuelssondesign
Purpose: Church
More info: The Hallgrimskirkja (literally, the church of Hallgrimur)is Lutheran parish church that in addition to being very unusual is also a very tall one, reaching 74.5 metres (244 ft) height. This Lutheran parish church is the fourth tallest architectural structure in Iceland. It is named after the Icelandic poet and clergyman Hallgrimur Petursson.The church is also used as an observation tower. It took incredibly long to build it (38 years!) Construction took time from 1945 to 1986.The Architect of this building is Guðjon Samuelssondesign.
Upside Down House (Szymbark, Poland)
Location: Szymbark, Poland
Date: 2006
Architect: Daniel Czapiewski
Purpose: Entertainment
More info: Daniel Czapiewski, Polish businessman and philanthropist, built this house as an artistic statement about the Communist era and current state of the world. Many tourists who visit complain of mild seasickness and dizziness after just a few minutes of being in the structure.
Experience Music Project, Seattle, WA, USA
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Date: opened in 2000
Architect: Frank Gehry
Purpose: Museum of music history
More info: Experience Music Project(EMP) was founded by Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft. It is a museum of music history sited near the Space Needle and is by one of the two stops on the Seattle Center Monorail, which runs through the building. The museum contains mostly rock memorabilia and technology-intensive multimedia displays. The structure is also home to the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. Designed by Frank Gehry, the building resembles many of his firm’s sheet-metal construction works, such as Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Walt Disney Concert Hall and Gehry Tower. The structure contains 140,000 square feet (13,000 m2), with a 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m2) footprint.
Herbert Muschamp (New York Times architecture critic) described it as “something that crawled out of the sea, rolled over, and died.” Forbes magazine called it one of the world’s 10 ugliest buildings
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