This Week’s Crazy Building: Elephant Building or Chang Building

The Elephant Building or Chang Building stands 32 stories high in Bangkok, Thailand. With such a large representation, it should come as no surprise that the elephant is Thailand’s national animal. Revered in the Buddhist tradition, elephants also played an integral role in industry and agriculture. Featured on some of the national flags, many provinces
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This Week’s Crazy Building: MahaNakhon

MahaNakhon Tower unfinished (Bangkok Thailand) by tongeron91 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
MahaNakhon or “great metropolis” is located in Bangkok, Thailand. It is 1,030 feet tall and contains 77 stories. The unusual design, by internationally renowned architect Ole Scheeren was created to blend the inner life of the building with the rest of the city. Another goal was to portray an irregular mountain landscape in a modern
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Robot Building

Robot Building by Oran Viriyincy licensed under the terms of CC BY-SA 2.0
This week’s crazy building is the Robot Building in Bangkok, Thailand. When the Bank of Asia asked architect Sumet Jumsai to create a building that shows banking has been modernized and computerized, Jumsai took them literally. Inspired by his son’s toy robot, built a robot of his own—only this one was 20 stories tall! The
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Phra Pathom Chedi

Phra Pathom Chedi at Wat Phra Pathom Chedi, Nakorn Pahom, Thailand by ScorpianPK licensed under the terms of CC BY-SA 3.0
This week’s crazy building is the Phra Pathom Chedi in Thailand. At nearly 400 feet tall, this unusual structure has the distinction of being the tallest stupa in the world. What’s a stupa, you ask? Why, a dome-shaped Buddhist shrine, of course! This particular stupa has its origins way back in 193 BC. The Indian
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