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15 Buildings That Don’t Look Like Buildings

Pyongyang’s Ryugyong Hotel resembles a giant ballistic missile. As the so-called “Hotel of Doom” prepares to open in 2013, TIME looks at 15 buildings that don’t look like buildings

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

By Nov. 05, 2012
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Among other things, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has been compared to a ship, a meteorite, a spaceship from Alpha Centauri, a large soufflé and a metallic piece of cauliflower. Regardless of the analogy deployed, academics and critics alike praise the Frank Gehry building as one of the most influential and important of our time.

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