Foreign Property News | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
These beautiful and unusual buildings certainly stand out in the skyline.
Architecture aficionados from around the world have posted photos of the quirky buildings on the Unique Building Twitter page which were collated into a gallery by Bored Panda.
One of the standout entries is a cafe in South Korea that is shaped like a giant grasshopper, elsewhere there is a magnificent temple in India which is in the shape of a gigantic orange snake.
The photos also celebrate the very best in traditional design, including the Sun and Moon Pagodas which are a huge tourist attraction in Guilin, China.
Here, FEMAIL shares some of the best examples...
(Architecture aficionados have posted photos of quirky buildings on the Unique Building Twitter page which were collated into a gallery by Bored Panda, including this cafe in South Korea which is shaped like a big green grasshopper made out of train cars)
(This magnificent temple called The Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple in India, dedicated to Lorn Krishna, is in the shape of a gigantic orange snake)
(25 Green is a residential building in Turin, Italy, and is generally known as the urban treehouse, in total there are 150 trees featured on these terraces)
(Designed by landscape architect Piet Oudolf, this unique building called Valley, in Amsterdam, contains apartments, shops, offices)
(This breathtaking building Les Espaces d'Abraxas - Noisy le Grand, is located in France, near Paris, and it was designed by Ricardo Bofill in 1982)
(This beautiful rail museum in Tomobe, in Japan, also known as SL Kyuurokukan, was shaped to look like a brown locomotive)
(This stunning 600 year old clock tower is located in Prague and it is the world’s oldest astrological clock still in operation)
(You'd better not be scared of heights if you want to score one of the terrace apartments in this building complex In Guizhou, China)
(These breath-taking buildings of the Sun and Moon Pagodas in Guilin, China, are huge tourist attractions and are even connected via a tunnel at the bottom of the lake)
(The PAN Treetop Cabin, in Norway, is perched up among the treetops of in Finnskogen, a forest region on the Swedish border)
(A stunning vertical garden located in Madrid, covers an entire exterior wall of the building with plants)
(This 3D mural in Mannheim, Germany, was painted onto the side of a building to give the perfect illusion that the building was quirky)
(This unique structure was built in the 18th century, and is one of the oldest buildings in Hattfjelldal Norland)
(Narai-juku, in Japanm is a unique town with unique wooden houses lined along a small street, the town was known as Narai of a Thousand Houses)
Ref: Built to stand out! Gallery reveals some of the most striking structures around the world - from a cafe shaped like a grasshopper to an Indian temple inspired by the curves of a SNAKE (dailymail)