Friday, April 2, 2010

World's 32 Strangest Buildings


1. Mind House ( Barcelona , Spain )


2. The Crooked House ( Sopot , Poland )


3. Stone House ( GuimarĂ£es , Portugal )


4. Lotus Temple ( Delhi , India )




5. Cathedral of Brasilia ( Brazil )




6. La Pedrera ( Barcelona , Spain )



7. Atomium ( Brussels , Belgium )



8. Museum of Contemporary Art ( Niteroi , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil )


9. Kansas City Library ( Missouri , USA )



10. Low impact woodland house ( Wales , UK )


11. Guggenheim Museum ( Bilbao , Spain )


12. Rotating Tower, Dubai , UAE




Have you ever seen a building in motion that actually changes its shape? Sounds unbelievable but not to Dr. David Fisher. This building will never appear exactly the same twice.It is amazing but you will have the choice of waking up to sunrise in your bedroom and enjoying sunsets over the ocean at dinner.In addition to being such an incredible engineering miracle it will produce energy for itself and even for other buildings because it will have wind turbines fitted between each rotating floor (picture 2). So an 80-story building will have up to 79 wind turbines, making it a true green power plant.

13. Habitat 67 ( Montreal , Canada )


14. Casa da musica ( Porto , Portugal )




15. Olympic Stadium ( Montreal , Canada )


16. Nautilus House ( Mexico City , Mexico )


17. The National Library ( Minsk , Belarus )




18. National Theatre ( Beijing , China )


19. Conch Shell House, Isla Mujeres , Mexico



20. House Attack ( Vienna , Austria )
21. Bibliotheca Alexandrina ( Egypt )

22. Cubic Houses (Kubus woningen) ( Rotterdam , Netherlands )


23. Ideal Palace ( France )

24. The Church of Hallgrimur , Reykjavik , Iceland


25. Eden project ( United Kingdom )


26. The Museum of Play ( Rochester , USA )

27. Atlantis ( Dubai , UAE)


28. Montreal Biosphere ( Canada )



29. Wonderworks (Pigeon Forge , TN , USA )



30. The Basket Building ( Ohio , USA )



31. Kunsthaus ( Graz , Austria )

32. Forest Spiral ( Darmstadt , Germany )

Lata Mangeshkar ...
















One of the best-known playback singers in the Hindi film industry, Lata Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. She sang in over 980 Bollywood movies and has sung songs in over twenty regional Indian languages. She was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records from 1974 to 1991 for having made the most recordings in the world. The claim was that she has recorded no less than 25,000 solo, duet, and chorus-backed songs in 20 Indian languages between 1948 to 1974 (30,000 songs between 1948 and 1987, according to 1987 edition.) At 79, she still sings for young actresses like Katrina Kaif and Kareena Kapoor.Lata Mangeshkar has won several awards and honors, including Padma Bhushan (1969), Padma Vibhushan (1999), Dada Saheb Phalke Award (1989), NTR National Award (1999), Bharat Ratna (2001), three National Film Awards, and 12 Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards. She has also won four Filmfare Best Female Playback Awards. In 1969, she made the unusual gesture of giving up the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award, in order to promote fresh talent. She was later awarded Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993