Designed for the 2012 Olympics, Zaha Hadid’s London Aquatics Centre cost a whopping $430 million. From the side, it looks like a beached whale stuck on a concrete shore. Inside, spectators get the sense they’re sitting underneath the animal’s belly.
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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15 Buildings That Don't Look like Buildings
- Ryugyong Hotel
- Indira Gandhi Planetarium
- National Fisheries Development Board Building
- Chang Building
- Aldar Properties Headquarters
- Longaberger Basket Company Home Office
- Tianzi Hotel
- National Library of Belarus
- Flame Towers
- Lotus Temple
- Cross # Towers
- Fang Yuan Building
- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
- The Experience Music Project
- London Aquatics Centre