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The Broken ChairThe Broken Chair is a monumental wooden sculpture made by the Swiss artist Daniel Berseth and the carpenter Louis Geneva. The sculpture is 12 feet high. It was needed 5.5 tons of wood for its manufacturing. The point is that the product is a chair with a broken, half-repulsed leg, which rises in the middle of Nations Square, in Geneva. The sculptu...
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Sibelius MonumentJean Sibelius is the most famous Finnish composer and the key figure in the entire European music who enjoyed tremendous popularity during his lifetime. Jean Sibelius was the author of unofficial anthem of Finland, which was forbidden during the reign of Nicholas II. Finns are proud to keep the memory of their famous compatriot, perpetuating his memory in street names, plaques and monuments. ...
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The Singing Ringing TreeThe three-meter musical sculpture “The Singing Ringing Tree” is established, in 2006, on the top of winds wept Crown Point hill, overlooking the city Burnley. In a strong wind, the sculpture, made in the form of a tree, emits quiet hum covering several octaves. The tree is configured in such a way that sounds emitted by it, does not violate the idyllic surroundings and do not frighten the animals. The authors of this unusual sculpture...
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The Manneken PisThe Manneken Pis is one of the most famous attractions of Brussels, located near the Grand Place, at the intersection of Banna and Oak Streets. This is a miniature bronze statue-fountain in the form of a naked boy urinating in the pool. The history of the statue ...
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The Engagement RingsTwo engagement rings adorn the English Beach Bay in Vancouver. Dennis Oppenheim has made them out of glass, steel and aluminum. The shapes in the form of houses took symbolically the place of jewelry on these rings. Obviously, the engagement rings are monuments to the institution of marriage. "The Jewels" from the 10 meters rings are inside lighted by city mains. These glass houses are located at an ele...
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The Device to Root out Evil"The Device to Root out Evil" is a sculpture created by Dennis Oppenheim in 1997. It is an 8 foot village church in the English new style, with the roof spiked into the ground. The statue is made of transparent red Venetian glass and steel. The steel shines in the daylight during a sunny day. After the sunset the church is illuminated from within. The glass glows with red and the st...
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The Statue of a Man hanging by one handIn Prague, in the Old City, at the intersection of the Gusov and Skorepka streets, holding with one hand to a horizontal mast fastened in the wall a sculpture hangs. It represents a figure of a man in full view. The figure is at a high altitude, 15 meters above the ground. An untrained passerby, especially if it is dark, can easily take it for a real person. "The Hanging Man" or &qu...
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The AtomiumIf you ever visit Brussels, do not be lazy to go to the 81st tram and get off at the station "Heysel". Here, you will see the majestic statue, a monument to limitless possibilities of peaceful nuclear energy, after a series of similar European structures.This is the symbol of Brussels, the Atomium, a huge, polished model of an iron molecule increased by 165 billion times. ...
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The Toad monumentAn unusual toad monument was established in Kiev, on May 30, 2010, on the city day. This is the third monument dedicated to the toad on the territory of the Ukraine, but these one has a secret. The toad is 4 feet tall and 6 tons weigh. Its size is staggering, but it was designed and provided in advance. It is in fact not just a monument, but also a kind of piggy bank. ...
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A monument to all LoversA monument to all lovers was opened in 2006, in the Hermitage Garden. It looks like a huge heart made of 70 meters pipes. Few cylindrical bells hang inside the construction. The layout for its realization became the image of the heart, found on the wall of the house where Juliet lived, in Verona. The photo of that image was found by a girl and sent to the radio sta...
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The RunnerThe legendary sculpture “The Runner” is located in Athens since 1988. It is made entirely of dark green glass. The author of this unusual sculpture is the Greek sculptor COSTAS VAROTSOS. Costas Varotsos prefers to work only with glass and metal, so each of his sculptures becomes unusual, because other sculptors work in ...
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Cesar Baldaccini's ThumbA wonderful sculpture a "thumb" of Cesar Baldaccini is located in the heart of the business center of Paris. Thanks to it the business district Défense became famous for its decoration. The sculpture "thumb" is considered the central Cesar creation. By the way, each trip to Paris includes the visit of the famous French "thumb". This sculpture was created in 1965. It weighs eig...
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The Chizhyk-Pyzhik statueA monument to the Chizhyk-Pyzhik was installed in St. Petersburg on November 19, 1994. This is one of the smallest sites in the world. The monument represents a small bird standing on a small pedestal. The singularity of this monument is that it is installed on the reverse side of the embankment. The unusual monument is loved by the local people an...
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Passing through the wallMontmartre is a very different Paris. Here, at the top of the hill the steep, narrow and winding streets are usually paved with cobblestones and the stairs that cut the way to its peak. There is a different architecture here. There are beautiful little parks and entwined with bindweed small houses where sometimes the fireplaces are drown. Even the air is special here. It is crystal-clear. People say that even the Parisians, who live here, are dif...
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The Traffic Light TreeThe Traffic Light Tree is eight feet high. It is found in the capital of England, in Docklands, at the intersection of Westferry and Marsh Wall Roads. For the first time it was seen in 1999. It is the element of the new urban art. Its functional role does not matter, because the island is located in the middle of the roundabout, between two ordinary trees. The traffic lights are switched by the controller ...
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The Cactus HouseThe "green" technologies are wide used now in the buildings construction and design. This is the desire to approximate the persons living in the city and the nature. A magnificent 19 floors construction was built in Rotterdam. It represents an unusual cactus, which consists of plate lobes, located on each other. Each rounded lobe ends with a landscaped terrace or balcony. The "...
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The Quarry HouseThe Quarry House, known as "La Pedrera", is the last Gaudi completed work. It is a strange building with two court yards and six light wells. The building has a complex curvilinear plan. Originally Gaudi intended to give curvilinear outlines to all internal partitions, but he renounced it later, giving them a polygonal shape, contrasting with the undulating surface of the facade. Th...
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The Oakland HouseRubinstein's family house is located on a hill, in the north of Oakland. The magnificent views of the Bridge "Golden Gate" in San Francisco from there approves the use of large windows along the entire front facade. At the same time the southern orientation required to protect the premises from the hot sun. That’s why large overhangs and terraces were designed. As there the two boys in the fa...
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The Kaufmann Desert HouseThe Kaufmann House in Palm Springs, built by Richard Neutra, is one of the most famous works of the architect. It is also one of the most influential and the most important example of 20th century art and architecture of North and South America. Edgar J. Kaufmann, the owner of the Fallwater House i...
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The Eliphante Art HouseThis unusual house is an excellent example of organic architecture creative art. It has a space of 3 hectares of natural landscape in Arizona. It was constructed by Michael Kahn and Leda Levant, who are husband and wife. The building has five separate handmade areas, linked by a common theme. The main living areas are located in The Eliphante and are connected with the area of meditation, the ar...
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The Mushroom HouseUndoubtedly, The Mushroom House is one of the most original architectural structures. It is located in Hyde Park, Ohio, USA. The idea to create such an unusual and fabulous building came up to an architecture and interior design professor of the University of Cincinnati. The Mushroom House was built by the students of that University. The wood was the main material that was used in the construction. The frame str...
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The Pickle Barrel HouseThe Pickle Barrel House is a two-level cabin, carved out in two barrels. The home design is taken from the comic book "Tiny Uiniz". The unusual home adorns the south shore of the Superior Lake, Michigan. There is a living room on the first floor of the big barrel and a bedroom on the second floor. The little barrel is the kitchen. There is a pantry in the hallway, which links the tw...
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The Shoe HouseThis American house is situated in the county York, Pennsylvania. This shoe isn’t used for a walk, people live in it. They live with all the amenities, because there are three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen and a living room on the five levels in this building. There is an American Flag on the front porch of the house. The house was built in 1948 and it was by far the most bizarre publicit...
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The Stone HouseThe Stone House is located in Fafe mountains in northern Portugal. Dating from 1974, it was originally a holiday home of an engineer from Guimarães. The builder was inspired by the space between four blocks of stone, which he joined by walls. The interior is very spacious and it is decorated in rustic style, although the outside doesn’t show it. ...
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The Fallingwater HouseThe Fallingwater House is one of the most iconic and famous private houses of the twentieth century. The building was designed by the American architect Frank Wright in 1934. The construction was completed in October 1937. Today, the Fallingwater is considered one of the best buildings in the history of the American architecture. The construction of the towers is situated above the waterfall,...
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The Toilet-shaped HouseThe first toilet-shaped house was built at a distance of 40 km from Seoul, the South Korea's capital. The owner, Sim Jae-Duck, invested $ 1.6 million in it. What should not surprise you is that he is the president of the World toilet Association. The Toilet-shaped House covers an area of 4508 square meters and it has four luxury bathrooms, each with water conservation devices and elegant fittings. There is a more special toilet...
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The Steel HouseIf you look at least once at this 110 tones steel house, you will not forget it. The designer Robert Bruno wanted this building to be a cross between the machine and the animal. The house is unique and it is located in Texas, near Lubbock. Even if it is not very comfortable for living, it is more interesting than our rooms with four walls....
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The Nautilus HouseThe Nautilus House in Mexico City was built in 2006 by the architect Javier Sensonian from the Arquitectura Organica. Sensonian used bio-architecture and built whales, snakes and other animals shaped houses. Nautilus was built especially for a family that wanted a house closer to nature....
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The Dancing HouseInitially it was called "Fred and Ginger" after the legendary dancing couple Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The building was designed by the Czech architect Vlado Milunić-Croatian, in collaboration with the Canadian architect Frank Gehry. The construction was started in 1992 and completed in 1996, when it became known as "The Dancing House". It is one of the most controversial buildings in Prague and one of t...
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The Upside-Down HouseIt represents a memorial to the horrors of communism and crimes against the humanity. The house was built at the initiative of Daniel Czapiewski, a Polish businessman who deals with the construction of wooden houses. The construction lasted 114 days, 5 times more than usual, because the workers felt confused and disoriented in the strange house. The house is a tourist attraction, but people who visit complain of symptoms similar to sea sickness. ...
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The One Log HouseWould you believe that a tree trunk may become a house for you? So, there is a house carved into a huge, over 2,000 years old, tree of 42 tons. The tree is of the same family as the sequoia trees are. It was “built" by the carpenter Art Schmock in 1946. He exhibited this home at various fairs and festivals log across the country to promote the beautiful old trees in Northern California and his labor source. The house, ...
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The Kvivik IglooKvivik is a village from the Faroe Islands on the coast of Denmark. A pair of identical igloos was built there. Each structure has about 91 square meters and a kitchen, a living room with double bed and a loft. Both igloos are very friendly with the nature. It has a lush green roof and they are so near to the mountains and the ocean. Tourists enjoy these two constructions as they can be rented at least for tw...
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The Cube HousesWho goes through Rotterdam without visiting the cube houses, known by the locals as "Kubuswoningen", loses a lot! This residential complex was designed by the Dutch architect Piet Blom in 1984, at the request of the municipality of Rotterdam. It was an architectural experiment. The main goal was to create a bridge over one of the circulated city arteries. The architect designed it as a stylized forest c...
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The Bubble HouseIt is not a tourist attraction, but it is the dream house of the famous Italian fashion designer Pierre Cardin. It is situated on the French Riviera, near Cannes. Known as the "Palais Bulles", the bubble house in Théoule-sur-Mer was originally designed by the Finnish architect Antti Lovag for a French industrialist. Its futuristic design with arched windows was designed to exploi...
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The Teapot DomeThe American architect Jack Ainsworth designed in 1922 in Zillah, Washington, a sketch of a teapot shaped house. The sketch came immediately after the Teapot Dome scandal. Following this scandal, the U.S. official, Albert Fall, was jailed for taking bribes from oil companies who wanted the access to the government-owned oil fields. The circular building has ...
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