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.
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
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
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15 Buildings That Don't Look like Buildings
- Ryugyong Hotel
- Indira Gandhi Planetarium
- National Fisheries Development Board Building
- Chang Building
- Aldar Properties Headquarters
- Tianzi Hotel
- Longaberger Basket Company Home Office
- National Library of Belarus
- Flame Towers
- Lotus Temple
- Cross # Towers
- Fang Yuan Building
- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
- The Experience Music Project
- London Aquatics Centre