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Whimsical and wild, “weird architecture” celebrates the thoughts of the outside box – huge

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From the iconic Ohio headquarters of the now-extinct Longaberger Basket company to the unique Casa de Penedo in Portugal for “Boulder House” – the world is full of weird, fantasy, strange and ordinary structures.

Text from the upcoming Imogen Fortes from Hoxton Mini Press, Weird building Celebrate over 100 destructive buildings from whimsical to crazy design.

A building shaped like a giant picnic basket in the foreground
Basket Building © Andre Jenny/Alamy

“Everything in this book is going to go all out, whether it’s romp or provocative,” the publisher said. “From the smooth form of Zaha Hadid’s mountaintop museum to the whimsical teapot-shaped service station, it’s a fun and inspiring tour that’s the weirdest and most wonderful in the world – architecture.”

Weird building It will be published on September 4. Book your copy on Colossal Shop.

The spread of a book, The Weird Buildings, contains unique patterned houses with stacked gables
Casa de Penedo, a unique stone house
casa do penedo©Marc-Philipp Keller/Alamy
Modern home on steep cliff with rolling windows
Casa del Acantilado©Luminar Neo
A fantasy tall apartment building with exterior walls that look like numerous green and blue European facades
Intel Hotel©Pixelbiss/Alamy
Spread from the book
A small old-fashioned service station shaped like a red and white teapot
Teapot Dome Service Station ©Mark Kiver/Alamy
A futuristic, unrestrained, rusty house standing on a sculpture column
House of Steel © Jerry Cotten
The cover of the book

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