25 architectural masterpieces “out of this world” (26 photos)
Unique buildings and structures, impressive and strange, are what moves the art of architecture forward and prevents it from “stagnating.” The more such architectural wonders, the better! 
1. National Carpet Museum, Baku, Azerbaijan 
2. Ribbon Wedding Chapel in Hiroshima, Japan 
3. Science and Technology Museum, Wuhan 
4. Geisel Library - 1970 
5. Les Choux, Creteil, near Paris, France. These houses are called "artichokes" or "pineapples", although the architect who built them in the 70s dubbed them "cabbage" 
6. Port Authority Building, or Port House, Antwerp, Belgium (2016) 
7. Wenzhou Grand Theater (China) designed by architect Carlos Ott 
8. Shoreditch Hotel London 
9. New Greek Orthodox Church in Lower Manhattan, architect Santiago Calatrava 
10. Hallgrimskirkja - Lutheran church in Reykjavik (Iceland), a wonderful example of brutalist expressionism 
11. Central Mosque - Cologne, Germany 
12. Cultural center Luma Arles. It is often called architectural madness. Or a crushed soda can. Arles, France 
13. Kunsthaus (Art House) of the Graz Art Museum (aka “Friendly Alien”), Graz, Austria - 2003. Designed by Colin Fournier and Sir Peter Cook 
14. Residential building "Wave" in Vejle, Denmark 
15. US Embassy London, UK 
16. This house was featured in the Netflix show "The World's Most Unusual Homes" 
17. Gangnam, Seoul 
18. The Tycon Courthouse with its “urinal” was voted the ugliest building in Virginia (USA) by Business Insider readers. 
19. Emporia Shopping Centre, Malmo, Sweden 
20. De Young Center for the Performing Arts. Kew, Victoria, Australia 
21. One Washingtonian Center, office tower, Gaithersburg, Maryland 
22. Mi'costa Hotel Residences, Cesme, Izmir Peninsula of Turkey (2013) 
23. “Almaz”, one of the buildings of the University of Sheffield, UK
24. M2 building in Tokyo by Kengo Kuma Architects. It was designed as a design laboratory for Mazda, but now houses a funeral hall 
25. Multi-apartment residential building in Poland 
