Unusual architecture

Modern architecture has long overcome the boundaries of the rectangular space and is able to give people more than just the roof above the head and typical building. The uncontrollable fantasy of gifted architects and designers, the limitless self-confidence of rich customers who demand to create for them almost impossible, high engineering technologies and the newest composite materials capable of "materialize" any whims of those who do not limit themselves in expenditures - all this in the aggregate led to the appearance Buildings having such an unusual appearance that millions of tourists from all over the world are coming out every year. In this book, this book contains the most original, even extravagant, architectural dickers built in the world in the last 250 years. Raissed over aquatic glazing Sails of the Opera House, a residential building, in the roof of which is stuck a 200-kilogram shark from fiberglass, bus stop -50-meter mollusk, an office, which is a huge basket, mansion in the form of a huge yellow excavator, pineapple pavilion from stone, 50 times more than natural fruit, buildings - cosmic ships, binoculars, boats, i.e. everything that is only capable of creative thought and professional genius, you will find in this book. The magnificent photo material, which is difficult to tear the look, is accompanied by interesting comments on the development and engineering intricacies of various projects and, of course, about their creators