Weird houses of the World
There are some truly unique houses located all over the world. A house is important for anyone but some people know how to really take the creativity to the next level. I’ll show you some examples that are sure to blow your mind. It’s amazing some of the designs people can come up with!
- The first up on our list is, a car-shaped dwelling, built for a family of four, by architect Manfred Voglreiter, in the town of Langwied, in the Austrian Salzburg province, on June 23, 2004.
2. This one is truly amazing. I’m not sure how practical this design would be but it would sure be a fun place to visit and spend a weekend! A full-scale mock-up of the Floating Seahorse home is readied for clients to visit on the waters of The Dubai World on May 9, 2016. The Seahorses are part of an ambitious larger hotel development called The Heart of Europe, seeking to attract interest in The World, the long-stalled Earth-shaped island project off Dubai’s coast.
3. This house is really out of this world, literally! Original caption from November 11, 1970: A flying saucer-like house, the Futuro II, has been selected as the grand prize for a caption contest being conducted by the Arrow Company for college students across the country. Standing on the edge of International Airport here, Futuro II is 26 feet in diameter, 12 feet high, sleeps 2–4 comfortably and is delivered as a fully self-contained house.
4. The private house of architect Konstantin Melnikov, also known as Melnikov’s house, in central Moscow, on April 3, 2014. This house is modeled after a medieval styled tower. It’s definitely unique in its design.
5. I really like the design of this place, maybe not to live there full time but it would be a great place to visit. Le Palais Bulles, or The Bubble Palace, sits atop a hillside in Theoule-sur-Mer in the French Riviera, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The futuristic mansion, comprised of rounded rooms with rotating floors, was designed by Pierre Cardin and architect Antti Lovag. You can view Le Palais Bulles on Google Maps.
6. A house built on a rock on the Drina River is seen near the western Serbian town of Bajina Basta, about 160 km (99 miles) from Belgrade, on May 22, 2013. The house was built in 1968 by a group of young men who decided that the rock on the river was an ideal place for a tiny shelter, according to the house’s co-owner, who was among those involved in its construction.
7. An airplane house in the village of Miziara, Lebanon, on May 12, 2015. Miziara prides itself on building residential homes that resemble ancient Greek temples and Egyptian ruins, or this one, built in the shape of an Airbus A380.
8. The Heliodome, a bioclimatic solar house in Cosswiller, eastern France, on August 4, 2011. The house is designed as a giant three-dimensional sundial, set on a fixed angle in relationship to the sun’s movements.
9. Thierry Atta sweeps the courtyard of his house, built in the shape of a crocodile, in Ivory Coast’s capital Abidjan, on September 11, 2008. Atta was an apprentice of the artist Moussa Kalo who designed and built the house but died two months prior.
10. A Japanese television presenter looks at a disaster resistant Japanese soccer-ball-shaped home designed by Kimidori Housing on May 25, 2006, in Gifu, Japan. The 32-sided geodesic sphere, which floats and has the structural strength to resist earthquakes, was priced at less than $15,000.
There’s so many examples of weird houses all over the world around us, we couldn’t possibly list them all here. Hopefully this will give you some idea of what’s possible! Who knows, you might even get some ideas from here for your next home!
