This Week’s Crazy Building: MoPOP

EMP Museum by philstyle is licensed under CC BY 2.0
The Museum of Pop Culture or MoPOP is located in Seattle, Washington. Among its archives are the largest collections of Jimi Hendrix and Nirvana memorabilia. This unique building has become a part of Seattle and aims to bring people together through their common connection in pop culture. Designed by Frank Gehry the building itself was
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Riverside Museum

Glasgow Riverside museum by nuklr.dave is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Situated at the meeting point of the River Kelvin with the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland, the Riverside Museum was envisioned as a place that would connect the city with the river. The open ends on either side form a channel linking the two. This connection is a nod to the former importance of the
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This Week’s Crazy Building: The Broad

Broad Museum, Los Angeles by Sharon VanderKaay is licensed under CC BY 2.0
You may already know this building, The Broad is a new contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles. It was founded philanthropists Eli and Edyth Broad and built in 2015. Some of their goals are to enrich, educate, inspire, and foster appreciation of today’s art. One way they do that is by offering free admission.
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Institute for Sound and Vision

Institute for Sound and Vision by Husky licensed under the terms of the CC BY 4.0
This week’s crazy building is the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, Netherlands. This building is extraordinary both inside and out. It’s a cultural archive and museum that houses nearly three-quarters of the Netherlands’ audiovisual records. that includes 750,000 hours of movies, radio, TV and music, some of it dating back to the
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Eye Museum

Eye Museum distributed by Max Pixel licensed under the terms of the CC0 1.0
This week’s crazy building is the Eye Museum in Curitiba, Brazil. The “Eye Museum” is in fact the Oscar Niemeyer Museum, which earned its nickname due to the eye-catching design of its central tower. The annex consists of a 60-foot pillar topped with a giant eye-shaped structure, all hovering above a reflecting pool. Its construction
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Niteroi Art Museum

Niteroi Art Museum by Marcio Sette licensed under the terms of the CC BY-SA 3.0
This week’s crazy building is Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. While its retro-futuristic design looks like something out of the ’60s, this museum, nicknamed the MAC, was actually completed in 1996. This strange-looking museum looks like an upside-down flying saucer. The main section of the building, the “cupola”, is three stories tall
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Bundeswehr Military Museum

Bundeswehr Military Museum by Kolossos licensed under the terms of the CC BY 3.0
This week’s crazy building is the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany. This building’s original use was as an armory in the 1870s, but believe it or not, it has been a museum since 1897. In that time, it’s been a Nazi museum, a Soviet museum and an East German museum, shifting every few
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Titanic Belfast

Titanic Belfast, author unknown licensed under the terms of CC BY-SA 4.0
This week’s crazy building is the Titanic Belfast in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Opened in 2012, this massive museum boasts over 130,000 feet of floor space. It tells visitors the story of the Titanic with artifacts, reconstructions and even an informative high-tech ride. The museum was built in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter, directly in front of where
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Hanoi Museum

Hanoi Museum by Grenouille Vert licensed under the terms of CC BY-SA 3.0
This week’s crazy building is the Hanoi Museum near Hanoi, Vietnam. This remarkable building has a cantilevered design that makes it resemble an upside-down pyramid. The overall effect is that the museum almost appears to be floating above the ground. A massive central atrium with a spiral ramp in the center allows visitors to easily
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This Week’s Crazy Building: ArtScience Museum

The ArtScience Museum by William Cho licensed under the terms of CC BY-SA 2.0
This week’s crazy building is the ArtScience Museum in Singapore. Located at Marina Bay Sands, this attraction resembles a gigantic lotus flower lifted high above the water. The points of the “petals” contain skylights that provide natural lighting to the interior. Another “green” feature: rainwater flows down through the center of the building and into
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