This Week’s Crazy Building: Intempo

Intempo by Doblecaña licensed under the terms of the CC BY-SA 4.0
This week’s crazy building is Intempo in Benidorm, Spain. At 630 feet tall, it’s the tallest residential building in Spain and one of the tallest buildings in the world for cities under 100,000 residents. It was meant to represent the success of Spain, but came to symbolize the country’s debt woes. Work began in 2007
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This Week’s Crazy Building: St. Francesc Convent

St. Francesc Convent by Enric licensed under the terms of the CC BY-SA 3.0
This week’s crazy building is the St. Francesc Convent in Santpedor, Spain. This incredible mixture of old and new began way back in the early 1700s. Franciscan friars built this convent in a small Catalan town, but it was pillaged in 1835. The church remained standing in complete ruin until 2000, when a new project
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Casa Milá

Casa Mila by Rob Shenk is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
This week’s crazy building is Casa Milá in Barcelona, Spain. Also called “La Pedrera” (“The Quarry”), this strange, modernist-style building was the last public work by world-renowned architect Antonio Gaudí. It was built for land developer Pere Milá and his wife. Like Casa Batlló, another of Gaudí’s later works, there are bonelike structures that make
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Casa Batlló

Casa Batlló by Keith Roper licensed under the terms of CC BY 2.0
This week’s crazy building is Casa Batlló in Barcelona, Spain. Remodeled in 1904 by the renowned architect Antoni Gaudí, this unusual structure is nicknamed the “House of Bones” due to its organic and skeleton-like appearance. There are a plethora of architectural oddities packed into this building, including large oval windows, a facade decorated with multicolored
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