Thread of the world's strangest architecture.🧵 1. The Interlace, Singapore.

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A visual tour of the world's most unusual and distinctive architectural structures, ranging from Singapore's interlocking residential towers to North Korea's abandoned hotel and Bulgaria's abandoned UFO-shaped monument. The thread showcases innovative designs like Milan's vertical forest towers, underwater-inspired temples in India, and Thailand's dragon temple.

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Thread of the world's strangest architecture.🧵 1. The Interlace, Singapore.
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2. 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.
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3. Snake shaped temple in India dedicated to lord Krishna.
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4. Guangzhou Circle in China 🇨🇳
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5. Architecture of Valley in Amsterdam.
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6. This is Borobudur Temple in Indonesia, one of the world's most important and mysterious buildings.
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7. King Alfred's Tower in England, built in 1772
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8. Unique housing in Netherlands 🇳🇱
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9. The Monster Building, Hong Kong - A complex of five 18-story buildings with 2,243 interconnected apartments.
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10. The Department of Fisheries in Hyderabad, India 🇮🇳
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11. A 24-story wooden building constructed without a single nail by ethnic Shui people in China's Guizhou.
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12. Wat Samphran, The Dragon Temple in Thailand 🇹🇭
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13. The Prague astronomical clock, installed in 1410. The world's oldest astronomical clock still in operation.
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14. 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.
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15. Inverted Pyramid House in Spain 🇪🇸
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16. Regent International, Hangzhou, China - This apartment building houses more than 20,000 people.
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17. Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, is one of the tallest unoccupied buildings in the world.
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18. The largest hotel in the world is being built in Saudi Arabia, with an astonishing 10,000 rooms.
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19. Built in the 18th century, this is one of the oldest buildings in Hattfjelldal municipality in Norland, Norway 🇳🇴
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20. The Dunmore Pineapple in Scotland, a folly built during the 18th century, is architecture with a sense of humour.
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21. The Buzludzha Monument in Bulgaria is one of the world's strangest buildings. It's a sort of concrete UFO in the mountains which has been totally abandoned since 1989.
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22. This 121-meter-tall building in the city of Guiyang, China, has a tank installed at its base, where four 185-kilowatt pumps lift the water to the top of the fall and create an artificial waterfall. [📹 mychinatrip]
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23. The Royal Museum of Bamoun in Foumban, Cameroon. 🇨🇲 It is renowned for its unique snake-shaped and spider-like architecture.
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24. 24. The sphere in Las Vegas cost $2.3 billion to build. And it’s not CGI 😱 This is real. What an incredible feat of engineering!
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