Whimsical and Wild, ‘Weird Buildings’ Celebrates Architects Who Think Outside the Box

Whimsical and Wild, ‘Weird Buildings’ Celebrates Architects Who Think Outside the Box

From the now-defunct Longaberger basket company’s iconic Ohio headquarters to the distinctive Casa de Penedo — Portuguese for “boulder house” — the world has no shortage of quirky, fanciful, and just plain strange structures.

Forthcoming from Hoxton Mini Press with text by Imogen Fortes, Weird Buildings celebrates more than 100 norm-busting buildings ranging from the whimsical to the wildly engineered.

a building foregrounded by a pond, shaped like a giant picnic basket
The Basket Building © Andre Jenny/Alamy

“Whether playful or provocative, all the buildings in this book push at the boundaries of convention,” the publisher says. “From the fluid forms of Zaha Hadid’s mountaintop museum to a whimsical teapot-shaped service station, this is a playful and inspiring tour of the world’s weirdest—and most wonderful—architecture.”

Weird Buildings will be published on October 7. Pre-order your copy in the Colossal Shop.

a spread from the book 'Weird Buildings,' featuring a unique patterned house with stacking gables
Casa de Penedo, a unique stone home built between two huge boulders in Portugal
Casa do Penedo © Marc-Philipp Keller/Alamy
a contemporary home on a steep cliff with undulating windows
Casa del Acantilado © Luminar Neo
a fanciful, tall apartment building with a facade that looks like numerous stacked European facades in green and blue
Inntel Hotel © Pixelbiss/Alamy
a spread from the book 'Weird Buildings' featuring a house shaped like an airplane
a tiny vintage service station shaped like a red-and-white teapot
Teapot Dome Service Station © Mark Kiver/Alamy
a futuristic, amorphous, rust-colored home that stands on sculptural posts
The Steel House © Jerry Cotten
the cover of the book 'Weird Buildings'

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