BeulalandBlog : Architectural designs that blow the mind

Grand Lisboa, Macau

1. Grand Lisboa is a very impressive building. Located in Macau, Grand Lisboa houses 15 restaurants. The building comprises 47 floors and is 261 meters tall, which makes it the tallest building in Macau.

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The Valencia Opera House, Valencia SPAIN

2. The Valencia Opera House is a beautiful work of art. It’s futuristic and unexpected shape was designed by the famous Santiago Calatrava. The building is 17 stories tall, and is 75 meters in height. It’s actually the tallest Opera House in the world. It is comprised of 4 separate halls that are filled with the newest technology needed to stage all sorts of theatrical and musical performances.

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Nordpark Cable Railway (Innsbruck, Austria)

3. Have you ever seen a railway station that looks this awesome? This design is called “Shell and Shadow” and it was created by Zaha Hadid, who says he was inspired by ice formations. This beautiful piece of architecture blends seamlessly into the landscape of the Austrian mountains, and only enhances the natural beauty of this region.

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Dunmore Pineapple (Stirlingshire, Scotland)

4. It is a purely decorative building. It’s also rightly called ‘the most bizarre building” in Scotland. I mean, why would anyone have a building shaped like a Pineapple. It was built in the middle of the 18th century. The Pineapple is a work of art that’s been crafted with great care. It’s made of stone, and each individual lead and detail of the pineapple is carved in a way that prevents water from accumulating, so that the building doesn’t get damaged in the colder months, when the temperatures are below freezing.

Solar Furnace (Odeillo, France)

5. The building was built by Felix Tombre, a French engineer. The shape isn’t just a coincidence. It’s actually designed this way, so that all the mirrored surfaces can reflect light from the sun, and concentrate it in one spot, the size of a cooking pot. That spot is on the building in front of it, and it reaches crazy temperatures of 3500 degrees Celsius. This building is often used by various companies, agencies and scientist for their experiments.

Air Force Academy Chapel (Colorado, USA)

6. This futuristic looking building was built in 1962. It is a chapel. We’re used to chapels looking all traditional, but not this one. This chapel has different spaces inside, created to serve the needs of people of different religions. There are three main levels inside. The top level is for Protestants, the middle one is divided between Catholics, Jews and Buddhists, and the bottom one is used for Islamic services.

The Basket Building (Ohio, USA)

7. The building is home to the Longaberger Company, a company that makes and sells handcrafted maple and wood baskets. Without the shadow of a doubt, it’s a perfect example of great marketing. If you sell baskets, why not make your office look like a huge basket? More companies may like to adopt this strategy. Imagine how much more interesting the world would look, and you’d always know exactly what building you’re walking by.