The strangest buildings in the world

The modern history of humanity amazes by its scope and variety of experiments. The latest technology and materials have enabled people to create and to carry out experiments in a wide range of fields. Today, not only artists surprise us by the avant-garde style of new forms and means of expression. The works of architects are also becoming more and more innovative, and experiments while creating new forms are becoming more surprising and overwhelming. Being impressed by these experiments, the famous tourist observer Tourism-Review released a list of the most unusual buildings in the world.

The first place in the list of amazing buildings occupies such a delightful and original example of creativity of architects as a basket-house in Ohio. Seven-storey building, built in the form of giant yellow basket, is also serves as the headquarters of the American Longaberger company, producing hand-made baskets. According to the Tourism-Review even only 150 ton handles of this amazing «basket» are worth seeing.

We take one gifted architect, mix his flashing talent with a real love for shoes, find a group of extraordinary masons, and, voila, a house in a form of a huge shoe is ready! A great eccentric person Mahlon N. Haines from the American city of Hellum in Pennsylvania has celebrated by the construction of this unusual 25-foot shoe-house the success of his footwear empire. For many years the building has been used as a guesthouse. Now there is a museum of its creator.

I-pod, an immortal work of the Apple Company has long taken a stable place in our lives: many people are its happy owners, many want to become them, and many simply can not imagine their life without the I-pod. And it is not surprisingly that the idea of creating a building in a form of a popular player had occurred to the architects. At this time the 23-storey I-pod building is under construction in Dubai (Arab Emirates). The cost of the project, which will be completed in 2010, is estimated at the level of $ 800 000 000.