All over the world, people build themselves houses that stand out among the rest with their unusual architecture. Some are willing to give a lot of money for uniqueness, while others want to live in an environmentally friendly house. Consider the 15 most unusual and interesting houses in the world.
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The Hobbit House, UK
Photographer Simon Dale built a real house for his family that resembles the home of one of the heroes of The Lord of the Rings.
It took 4 months and 5,000 dollars to build an unusual house. This house is built only of environmentally friendly materials: flooring from wood waste, lime cement, stucco panels and dry closets instead of cement.
House from old windows, USA
Building a house for just $ 500 is possible. The photographer Nick Olson and designer Lil Howitz spent so much on building a house from old windows.
For several months they collected thrown windows, from which they built for themselves an unusual house in the mountains in West Virginia.
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School Bus House, USA
Endowed with out-of-the-box thinking, architecture student Hank Butitta bought an old school bus via the Internet and made a home out of it. Such an unusual house has a kitchen, toilet and comfortable living space. The floor is made of bamboo, and everything else is sheathed in oak and pine.
Hank took 15 weeks and $ 6,000 to remake a school bus under the house.
Mobile home from logs, the Netherlands
The Dutch comedian and musician Hans Lieberg also wanted to live in an environmentally friendly and at the same time special house.
His house is built of logs so that with the windows closed it seems to merge with nature and become invisible.
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Waste bin house, USA
In one of the areas of New York, in Brooklyn, you can see the house from the garbage containers. This idea of the original house was embodied by Californian designer Gregory Kloen.
Such a small room has everything for living: a kitchen with a mini-oven, a berth with storage and even a toilet with a shower.
Transparent house in a cemetery, England
This house was built in the old part of Highget cemetery. A house was already standing at this place in 1970, but for 30 years it had become unusable and the new owner decided to completely restore and transform it. The house is glass, even floors. Today, a large family lives here who do not find anything wrong with the fact that their house is located next to the cemetery.
The main decoration of the house is a wood-burning fireplace that passes through the floor, which looks very impressive.
Ball House, Russia
The most original houses can be found in Russia. So in Zelenograd, doctor Olga Kochuneva built herself a vacation home in the form of a ball. Locals call this pineapple house, as the ball is covered with larch shingle.
Greenhouse conditions, Germany
Florists Beate and Peter Kremkau spend most of their time in the greenhouse, so they decided to make a house in the greenhouse. There are three rooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen and a spacious terrace.
Florists have been living in the greenhouse for over 20 years, their son and daughter grew up here.
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Grain Bunker, USA
Drawing teacher Kate Morris from childhood dreamed of a house that would look like a grain bunker. Many years later, she inherited 23 acres of land, she bought an old bunker and turned it into a house with two residential floors, a balcony and panoramic windows.
Cage House, Japan
Each house has walls, but this unusual house does not have them, instead of walls there are grilles of pipes and movable partitions made of tinted glass. The area of the building is small, a man lives here with his dog, for which he equipped a heated pool.
Invisible House, Italy
This house of mirrored facades, like a portal to parallel worlds. The architect Peter Pichler not only glazed the facades of the house, but also decorated the ends of the windows in the form of wedges, and he raised the house to the platforms. All this gives the impression that the building seems to soar in the air and merges with the landscapes around.
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Palace of Ferdinand Cheval, France
In France, you can see an unusual building, which was not built by an architect or builder, but by the usual postman Ferdinand Cheval. His palace was built of cement, stones and wire. Here, all styles and trends are mixed together, inside the palace there is even a mosque and a temple.
Cheval could not afford to buy building materials, so he decided to use what was given by nature. For 20 years he collected material and built his palace for another 13 years.
Stone House, Portugal
When you see such an unusual house, you get the feeling that as if a person gave the stone a new life. The house is built between two boulders, there are two floors, however, today no one lives in it. Countless stream of tourists do not allow the owner of a unique house to retire and relax.
"Planet" for a sheikh in the UAE
The original house in the form of a planet was built specifically for Sheikh Hamad. Like the globe, it has a round shape and the same colors. Initially, the house was intended for trips through deserts, it has four floors, several bedrooms and bathrooms.
House of Nikolai Sutyagin, Russia
In Arkhangelsk a 13-storey building was erected from planks and beams overlooking the White Sea. The creator of the project decided to build a house as the ancestors of the Slavs built their dwellings without nails. But the owner could not live in this house, since the maximum number of floors should be 9, not 13. By order of the authorities, the upper floors of the building were demolished, and in 2012 the house was completely destroyed by fire.
There are many more unusual buildings in the world that strike with their originality. The genius of man is such that in the modern world you can build a house even from a garbage container, even from glass.
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