Whimsical and Wild, ‘Weird Buildings’ Celebrates Architects Who Think Outside the Box

Whimsical and Wild, ‘Weird Buildings’ Celebrates Architects Who Think Outside the Box

Whimsical and Wild, ‘Weird Buildings’ Celebrates Architects Who Think Outside the Box

From the now-defunct Longaberger basket company’s iconic Ohio headquarters to the distinctive Casa de Penedo — Portuguese for “boulder house” — the world has no shortage of quirky, fanciful, and just plain strange structures.

Forthcoming from Hoxton Mini Press with text by Imogen Fortes, Weird Buildings celebrates more than 100 norm-busting buildings ranging from the whimsical to the wildly engineered.

a building foregrounded by a pond, shaped like a giant picnic basket
The Basket Building © Andre Jenny/Alamy

“Whether playful or provocative, all the buildings in this book push at the boundaries of convention,” the publisher says. “From the fluid forms of Zaha Hadid’s mountaintop museum to a whimsical teapot-shaped service station, this is a playful and inspiring tour of the world’s weirdest—and most wonderful—architecture.”

Weird Buildings will be published on September 4. Pre-order your copy in the Colossal Shop.

a spread from the book 'Weird Buildings,' featuring a unique patterned house with stacking gables
Casa de Penedo, a unique stone home built between two huge boulders in Portugal
Casa do Penedo © Marc-Philipp Keller/Alamy
a contemporary home on a steep cliff with undulating windows
Casa del Acantilado © Luminar Neo
a fanciful, tall apartment building with a facade that looks like numerous stacked European facades in green and blue
Inntel Hotel © Pixelbiss/Alamy
a spread from the book 'Weird Buildings' featuring a house shaped like an airplane
a tiny vintage service station shaped like a red-and-white teapot
Teapot Dome Service Station © Mark Kiver/Alamy
a futuristic, amorphous, rust-colored home that stands on sculptural posts
The Steel House © Jerry Cotten
the cover of the book 'Weird Buildings'

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