This Week’s Crazy Building: The Eden Project

Panoramic view of the geodesic biome domes at the Eden Project by Jürgen Matern licensed under the terms of the CC BY-SA 2.5
This week’s crazy building is the Eden Project in Cornwall, England. These massive structures look a bit like clusters of giant soap bubbles, but they’re actually a type of architecture called geodesic domes. They’re made of huge hexagon- and pentagon-shaped plastic cells (much like a soccer ball) and supported by steel beams. The domes are
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This Week’s Crazy Building: MI6 Building

MI6 Building by Dun.can licensed under the terms of the CC BY 2.0
This week’s crazy building is the MI6 Building in London, England. You may know this one better as the “James Bond” building. It’s been depicted in The World Is Not Enough, Skyfall and most recently as a ruin in Spectre. What you may not know is that this oddly-designed building really does house the British Secret Intelligence Service.
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Sealand

Sealand by Richard Lazenby licensed under the terms of public domain
This week’s crazy building is the Principality of Sealand, off the coast of Essex, England. This time around, our crazy building is (depending on who you ask) also its own country. Originally a British WWII naval fort known as Roughs Tower, it was occupied by pirate radio broadcaster Paddy Roy Bates in 1967. By 1975,
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Bombay Sapphire Glasshouses

Bombay Sapphire Glasshouses by Andrewrabbott licensed under the terms of CC BY-SA 4.0
This week’s crazy building is the Botanical Glasshouses at Bombay Sapphire Distillery in Laverstoke, England. This English gin-maker commissioned these bizarrely-shaped glass structures to put their ingredients on display for visitors. They curve elegantly, swooping sideways and inward towards the still house (a former paper mill). The waste heat from the distillation process flows outward to warm the
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This Week’s Crazy Building: From the Knees of My Nose to the Belly of My Toes

From the Knees of My Nose to the Belly of My Toes by Alex Chinneck licensed under the terms of CC BY-SA 4.0
This week’s crazy building is From the Knees of my Nose to the Belly of my Toes in Margate, England. This 4-story house is as bizarre as the name itself. It had stood empty and decaying for 11 years before designer Alex Chinneck decided it would make an excellent art installation. Chinneck removed the old
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This Week’s Crazy Building: The Crooked House

This week’s crazy building is the Crooked House in South Staffordshire, England. Built as a farmhouse way back in 1765, the Crooked House didn’t become crooked right away. During the late 1800s, nearby mining caused the land beneath to start gradually sinking. Now one side of the building is four feet lower than the other! In
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This Week’s Crazy Building: The Walkie Talkie

The Walkie- Talkie by Colin licensed under the terms of CC BY-SA 4.0
This week’s crazy building is the Walkie Talkie Building in London, England. Officially called “20 Fenchurch Street”, this distinctive skyscraper was dubbed the Walkie Talkie building due to its unusual shape. Later, though, the Walkie Talkie began to pick up other, even less flattering nicknames: The “Walkie Scorchie” and the “Fryscraper.” Why the strange monikers? As
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