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Mar 9, 2025, 24 tweets

Thread of the world's strangest architecture.๐Ÿงต

1. Architecture of Valley in Amsterdam ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ

2. The Interlace - It is a residential complex of 1,040 apartments located on the border between Bukit Merah and Queenstown, Singapore.

3. Snake shaped temple in India dedicated to lord Krishna.

4. The Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) is a complex of two residential skyscrapers in Milan

More than 2000 tree species, including towering shrubs and trees, are arranged across their exteriors.

5. Guangzhou Circle in China ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ

6. Unique housing in Netherlands ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ

7. The Monster Building, Hong Kong - A complex of five 18-story buildings with 2,243 interconnected apartments.

8. King Alfred's Tower in England, built in 1772

9. The Department of Fisheries in Hyderabad, India ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

10. A 24-story wooden building constructed without a single nail by ethnic Shui people in China's Guizhou.

11. Wat Samphran, The Dragon Temple in Thailand ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ญ

12. Liziba Station, Chongqing, China - Located in the southwest of China, it is unique and famous because it allows light trains to pass through a residential building.

13. The Prague astronomical clock, installed in 1410. The world's oldest astronomical clock still in operation.

14. Regent International, Hangzhou, China - This apartment building houses more than 20,000 people.

15. Inverted Pyramid House in Spain ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ

16. Built in the 18th century, this is one of the oldest buildings in Hattfjelldal municipality in Norland, Norway ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด

17. The Dunmore Pineapple in Scotland, a folly built during the 18th century, is architecture with a sense of humour.

18. Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, is one of the tallest unoccupied buildings in the world.

19. The largest hotel in the world is being built in Saudi Arabia, with an astonishing 10,000 rooms.

20. This is Borobudur Temple in Indonesia, one of the world's most important and mysterious buildings.

21. 550-foot building with no windows in lower Manhattan, New York City.

22. The Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), Guizhou, China.

23. The Troll A platform, Norway ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด

Built from reinforced concrete, as of 2014, it was the tallest structure that has ever been moved to another position, relative to the surface of the Earth, and is among the largest and most complex engineering projects in history.

24. The sphere in Las Vegas cost $2.3 billion to build.

And itโ€™s not CGI ๐Ÿ˜ฑ

This is real. What an incredible feat of engineering!

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