Every New Year for more than thirty years we have been watching the wonderful comedy "Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!" with pleasure. Fate played a trick on the hero, throwing him into another city, but the street was the same, and the houses, and apartments, and even the keys came up!
We live in such averageness and sameness, but there are people who do not want to live like puzzles. And they build their own houses, unlike anything else.
tallest tree house
Tree houses are built not only by children for entertainment, but also by adults in order to equip them with a fairly comfortable home. One of these houses in 2004 was built by environmentalists and became the tallest tree house. 
This house was on the island of Tasmania at a height of at least two hundred feet from the ground and consisted of 2 platforms. The record-breaking house had a kitchen and a shower. For five months, six people lived in it, thus attracting the attention of the world community to the deforestation and development of Australia. Now the tallest tree house does not exist.
"Dancing" house in Prague
The "dancing" house, erected in the historical part of Prague, is absolutely knocked out of the surrounding landscape. It consists of two cylindrical towers, one of which is symmetrical and regular, and the other is curved so that it might seem that the building started to dance. It has long been recognized as one of the most original architectural creations in the deconstructivist style. 
"Dancing" house - the project of architects Vlado Milunich and Frank Gehry
Unusual transparent house
Unique transparent house built in Japan. The project was developed by the architect Su Fujimoto, who uses transparent walls to create a house that unites all neighbors. He called his building House NA. Its total area is only fifty-five square meters. The rooms in the apartments are located on uneven platforms. 
The advantage of such a transparent house is the abundance of light in it. The downside is the same transparency, because it is almost impossible to hide from prying eyes in it. At night, the walls of the house are closed with blinds, making the inhabitants invisible to all those watching them from the outside. It is fair to say that House NA is not the only transparent house in the world. Many countries can boast of their designs of transparent buildings.
"Crooked House"
In 2004, an unusual fantastic-looking house was built in the Polish city of Sopot, later called the Crooked House. His project was created by the Swedish artist Per Dahlberg, inspired by the fairy tales of Jan Marcin Szanser. He planned to give the building a fabulous look. It should be noted that he managed to bring his plan to life. 
On the Internet, "Crooked House" is very popular. Participating in the competition "Great Dreamers", "Crooked House" was named the best architectural project. Numerous tourists seek to be photographed against the backdrop of such an unusual structure. Today it houses a shopping center with many shops, cafes and bars.
House "Piano with Violin" in China
The building is located in Chinese city Huainan. It is made in the form of a violin leaning against a piano. A transparent stringed instrument is the original entrance to the building; it is here that the escalator for going up to the "piano" is located. 
This teamwork Hefei students technological university and designers from Huainan Fangkai Decoration Project Co. Specialists have provided night illumination, which makes the attraction an adornment of the city not only in the daytime.
"Sutyagin's House"
It is also known about Russian unusual houses. One of them was in Arkhangelsk. We are talking about the "Sutyagin's House", which was built of wood according to the old technology. 
Unfortunately, the "Sutyagin House" was not completed to the end. Its owner was arrested, and after serving the term, he no longer had the financial opportunity to continue construction.
The height of this thirteen-story wooden structure was forty-five meters. Eyewitnesses say that being on the thirteenth floor, one could see the White Sea. During construction, the owner of the house planned to enter it into the Guinness Book of Records. Unfortunately, the unfinished house-record holder has been lost. In 2008, by a court decision, it was reduced to 4 floors (there must be a permit for the construction of higher private houses), and in 2012 the building was destroyed by fire (the neighbor's bath caught fire).
Demolition of Sutyagin's house
Unusual "House-basket"
In America, in the state of Ohio, there is a house that resembles a huge monument to a wicker basket. In fact, this is a house that is the office of the Longaberger company, which specializes in the production of baskets and other wicker products. The building was built by order of this company. About thirty million dollars were spent on this construction. 
Thanks to this original appearance at home, the company practically does not need additional advertising, because the Basket House is a real attraction that everyone knows about.
Amazing "Cactus House"
A cactus-like house was built in the Netherlands in the city of Rotterdam. Wanting to bring a person closer to nature, the architects created a project for a house that later entered the top ten "greenest" skyscrapers. The house has been compared to a cactus because of the open terraces. 
The unique 19-storey building has ninety-eight apartments. The balconies of each of them are semicircular, thanks to which the plants growing on them are illuminated from all sides. Outwardly, these balconies resemble large improvised steps, as if screwed up like a spiral. "Cactus House" is a real decoration of Rotterdam.
"Brutal" house of Moshe Safdie
Architect Moshe Safdie built a residential complex in Montreal from 354 concrete cubes randomly stacked on top of each other. There are 146 apartments in this array. This style is called "brutalism".An unusual house built literally in stone is located in Portugal near the town of Fafe. It also somewhat resembles the dwelling of prehistoric people from the cartoon "The Flintstones". This house was built in 1973 by Victor Rodriguez in the mountains between two huge boulders. The purpose of creating this fabulous home is to find a place where you could retire and relax with your family away from civilization. Surprisingly, according to the site, none of the most expensive houses in Russia has made it to the list of the most unusual buildings.
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The world is beautiful and amazing. It would seem, well, what can you come up with from the standard set of “walls, floor and roof”. Much more than even the most original imagination can imagine. Here are collected the most, well, very strange buildings and those that even the hand does not rise to categorize as a building. 1. The first place, not strangely, but simply in order, is occupied by the Crooked House, built in Sopot, Poland. Jan Marcin Szancer, a well-known Polish children's book illustrator, and Per Dahlberg, a Swedish artist living in Sopot, live in the house. The construction of this building began in January 2003, and in December 2003 it already delighted (and / or surprised?) The eyes of the inhabitants of the Polish town and tourists. 2. The house with the intriguing name "Forest Spiral" (Waldspirale (Forest Spiral)) was built in Darmstadt, Germany between 1998 and 2000. 
The creation belongs to the hand of a renowned Austrian architect and artist, well known for his revolutionary, colorful architecture. The architect's projects very often borrow their forms from nature - for example, an onion-shaped dome. This building with 105 apartments, as if "wrapping" around the courtyard, among other things, has a comfortable restaurant with a cozy cocktail bar. 3. Torre Galatea Figueras (The Torre Galatea Figueras). Spain. 
Egg kingdom, yes. 4. Palace of Ferdinand Cheval or the Ideal Palace. (Ferdinand Cheval Palace, Ideal Palace). France. 
5. Basket building. State of Ohio, USA. The office of Longaberger Construction Company, based in Newark, Ohio, must be the strangest office in the world. (Although, we know other, quite interesting examples). 
The $30 million replica of the famous picnic basket, over 18,000 square meters, took two years to complete. Many experts tried to convince Dave Longaberger - the head of the company - to cancel his plans regarding the construction of this building and choose a more familiar form, but he did not want to do this, thanks to which we can see this creation with our own eyes. 6. Public Library in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. This project, located in the heart of Kansas City, is one of the first projects to restore the city itself and its historical and tourist value. 
Residents of the city were asked to help pick up the most famous books that are somehow connected with the name of Kansas City. These publications have been incorporated into the innovative design of the Central City Library to encourage visits. 7. Upside down house. State of Tennessee, America. 
8. Habitat 67 (Habitat 67). Canada. 
In 1967, Canada hosted one of the largest world exhibitions of that time - Expo 67. The main theme of the exhibition was houses and residential construction. The cube is the basis of this structure, called Habitat 67, completed in time for the exhibition. In a material sense, the cube is a symbol of stability. As for him mystical meaning, then the cube is a symbol of wisdom, truth and moral perfection. 354 cubes stacked on top of each other made it possible to create this gray (in color, not in essence) building with 146 apartments floating between heaven and earth, between city and rivers, between greenery and light. 9. Cubic houses. Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The original idea for these cubic houses originated in the 1970s. Piet Blom designed a couple of these houses, which were then built in Helmond. 
When the architect received an order for the design of houses in Rotterdam, he decided to use the cubic idea for this project as well. Another nuance of construction is that each house resembles an abstract tree, which is why the whole village turns into a forest. 10. Hotel or crazy house (Guesthouse aka Crazy House). Hang Nga, Vietnam. 
The house belongs to the daughter of the ex-president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. At one time, this Vietnamese lady studied architecture in Moscow. The structure does not comply with any of the generally accepted concepts of housing construction and looks like a fairy-tale castle, with a huge belly of a giraffe or a spider. The house is open to tourists. 11. Chapel. (Chapel in the Rock). State of Arizona, USA. 
12. Dancing Buildings Prague, Czech Republic. 
13. Building-washing machine (Calakmul building, La Lavadora, The Washing Machine). Mexico City, Mexico. 
14. House-kettle (Kettle House). Texas, USA. 
15. Manchester Civil Justice Centre. Manchester, UK. 
16. Nakaginskaya tower - capsule. (Nakagin Capsule Tower). Tokyo, Japan. 
17. Surreal house (Mind House). Barcelona, Spain. 
Surrealism is what makes even the most indifferent hearts come alive and clearly (but unevenly) shudder. Salvador Dali, who once lived in Catalonia (a region of Spain) and worked, inspired by his woman, for the benefit of the surrealist direction, still stimulates the creative impulses of architects to create unusual houses around the world and in particular in Spain. 18. Stone House. Guemaraes, Portugal. 
19. Shoe House. Pennsylvania, America. 
20. Weird House Alps. 
21. UFO House (The Ufo House). Sanji, Taiwan. 
22. Hole-house (The Hole House). State of Texas, USA. 
23. Ryugyong Hotel. Pyongyang, North Korea. 
24. National Library. Minsk, Belarus. 
25. Large pineapple (Grand Lisboa). Macau. 
26. House-wall (Wall House). Groningen, Holland. 
27. Guggenheim Museum. Bilbao, Spain. 
28. House of Worship or Lotus Temple (Bahá'í House of Worship, Lotus Templ). Delhi, India. 
29. House-container (Container City). London, Great Britain. 
30. Attacked house (House Attack). Vienna, Austria. 
The idea of this house belongs to the famous architect Erwin Wurm. 31. Wooden house for a gangster. Arkhangelsk, Russia. 
Live a century, travel a century! Who would have known that in Russia there is such an unusual and grandiose house! It is not clear only the presence of voids in the walls of this structure. We can only guess whether it was the author's idea or the tree ran out in Arkhangelsk. 32. Air Force Academy Chapel. Colorado, USA. 
33. House-solar battery (Solar Furnace). Odeillo, France. 
The battery house, as you understand, fully provides itself with electricity and everything necessary to sustain life. Now it remains only to wait for him to launch a rocket into space. 34. House-dome (Dome House). Florida, USA. 
35. Beijing National Stadium. Beijing, China. 
36. House of fashion and shopping (Fashion Show Mall). Las Vegas, USA. 
37. Luxor Hotel and Casino (Luxor Hotel & Casino). Las Vegas, USA. 
And we thought that this thing was dug up in Egypt. 38. Stadium "Zenith Europe" (Zenith Europe). Strasbourg, France. 
39. Civil Center (Civic Center). Santa Monica. 
40. Mammy's Cupboard House. Naches, America. 
41. Pickle Barrel House Grand Marais, Michigan, USA. 
42. Egg (The Egg). Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York, USA. 
43. Building-cucumber (Gherkin Building). London, Great Britain. 
44. Nord LB building. Hanover, Germany. 
45. Lloyd's building office. London, Great Britain. 
46. "Friendship". Yalta, Ukraine. 
47. The building of the company Fuji-TV (Fuji television). Tokyo, Japan. 
48. UCSD Geisel. Library. San Diego, California, USA. 
49. House "with a crack." Ontario, Canada. 
50. Bank of Asia or Robot Building (The Bank of Asia aka Robot Building). Bangkok, Thailand. 
51. Office center "1000" or "Banknote". Kaunas, Lithuania. 
The building, which was built from 2005 to 2008, was conceived by architects Rimas Adomaitis, Raimundas Babrauskas, Darius Siaurodinas and Virgilijus Jocys. 52. House-boat (House Boats). Kerala, India. 
53. Olympic Stadium (Olympic Stadium). Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 
54. Blue building (Blur Building). Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland. 
This unusual "ocean" building was built on the occasion of Expo 2002 by the architectural studio Diller Scofidio and Renfro (Diller Scofidio + Renfro). 55. Concert Hall in Tenerife (Tenerife Concert Hall). Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. 
56. House, "in which you have never been" (The Never Was Haul). Berkeley, California, USA. 
Another example of a surrealistic view of architecture. 57. Gateway to Europe or the office of the company Torres KIO (Torres KIO). Madrid, Spain. 
These two towers are the world's first experience in the construction of inclined high-rise buildings. 58. UFO house. New Zealand. 
59. Department for the problems of extraction and supply of natural gas (Gas Natural headquarters). Barcelona, Spain. 
60. Walt Disney Concert Hall. Los Angeles, California, USA. 
This grandiose hall is the fruit of the efforts of the famous Frank Henry (Frank Gehry). 1987-2003. 61. Cob House Vancouver, Canada. 
62. Mushroom House or Tree House (The Mushroom House aka Tree House). Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. 
63. House-dungeon. Location unknown. 
64. House-panorama (Edificio Mirador). Madrid, Spain. 
This building was designed by the Dutch architects MVRDV. The building reaches 63.4 meters in height. In the center is a large central hole, which is 36.8 meters above the ground. This is a large viewing area. The remaining blocks serve as a residential area with 9 different types of apartments. 65. Home - Free Spirit Spheres. Qualicum Beach, British Columbia, Canada. 
66. Municipal building. Tempe, Arizona, USA. 
67. Tree house. Papua New Guinea, Indonesia. 
68. Turning Torso. Malmö, Sweden. 
Architect Santiago Calatrava. 2005. 69. Apartments. Amsterdam, Holland. 
70. Dormitory of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 
71. Great Mosque (Great Mosque). Jenne, Mali. 
72. Glass House Boswell, British Columbia, Canada. 
73. House of beer. Houston, Texas, USA. 
74. Strawberry Ice-cream shop. North Carolina, USA. 
75. In pursuit of the previous building - a strawberry house. Tokyo, Japan. 
76. House-sculpture (Sculptured House). Colorado, USA. 
77. Nautilus (Nautilus House). Mexico City, Mexico. 
78. Igloo (Eskimo hut made of hardened snow). Kvivik, Faroe Islands. 
79. Modern igloos. Alaska. 
80. Atomium. Brussels, Belgium. 
81. Cathedral of Brasilia. Brazil. 
82. Building-arch (Great arche of defense). Paris, France. 
83. Quarry house (La Pedrera). Barcelona, Spain. 
84. "Broken" house (Errante Guest House). Chile. 
85. Museum of Contemporary Art (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art). Nice, France. 
86. Agbar Tower. Barcelona, Spain. 
87. Museum of entertainment (The Museum of Play). Rochester, USA. 
88. House-bubbles (Bubble House). Bay Aria, California, USA. 
89. Pyramid (Raffles Dubai in Wafi city). Dubai, UAE. 
90. "Atlantis" (Atlantis). Dubai, UAE. 
91. House of Music (Casa da musica). Porto, Portugal. 
92. Carl Zeiss Planetarium. Berlin, Germany. 
93. National Theater (National Theatre). Beijing, China. 
94. Montreal Biosphere (Montreal Biosphère). Canada. 
95. Project "Eden". Great Britain. 
96. Kobe Port Tower Japan. 
97. Egg. Mumbai, India. 
98. Kunsthaus, House of Arts (Kunsthaus). Graz, Austria. 
99. Federation Square Melbourne, Australia. 
100. Esplanade. Singapore. 
For many of us, home is a cozy place to eat, sleep and unwind after a hard day at work. We buy various knickknacks, look for furniture and beautiful wallpaper to make everything our own way, in fact there is no fundamental difference between our home and the neighbor's home. But the 10 houses presented in our rating go beyond the "4 walls" and are distinguished by the originality and breadth of imagination of their creators.
The most unusual houses in the world
The Belgian town of Stenokerzel is famous not only for its unpronounceable name, but also for its house located in an old water tower. It belongs to the director of one company, Patrick Mets. All his life, Patrick dreamed of living in such a tower. And his dream came true! The tower has 6 floors, its height is about 30 m. Mets purchased the building for $43,000. Leaving the interior layout unchanged, the new owner entrusted the interior of his house to designer Mauro Brigham, who brought the premises to a residential look.
9. Malator
This house is often called underground, which is not entirely true: only the roof and 2 side walls are underground. At the same time, it surprisingly harmoniously fits into and resembles the holes of the hobbits from The Lord of the Rings. Malator was built back in 1998 and managed to gain popularity - his pictures were even in Forbes magazine.
8. The narrowest house
One of the narrowest houses in the world is located in Warsaw. If you decide to find it, you will have to not blink so as not to miss it - the width of the house is about 1.5 meters. Its author is the Polish architect Yakov Szczesny. He responded to the request of his friend, an Israeli writer who came to Poland every year for a few days and asked him to find him some small corner.
When viewed from the side, the house has a triangular shape. To get into it, you first need to climb the stairs (second photo from the left). On the ground floor there is a kitchen, shower and toilet. The bedroom and desk (far right) are on the second floor. You can climb there using the ladder attached to the right wall.
7. Forest sphere
Many children dream of having a tree house. But if childhood has passed, but the dream remains, then the "Sphere of the Free Spirit", as the Canadian Tom Chudley called his invention, is at your service. He founded a whole company that is engaged in the production of such housing. There is also a hotel complex of 4 sphere-rooms, which allows everyone to temporarily plunge into the life of a forest hermit.
6. House of a skateboarder
This house is every skateboarder's dream. The idea belongs to Pierre Andre Senizergue, a professional skater. And the designer Gilles Lebont Delapointe and the famous architect Francois Perrin were able to realize his plan. Initially, this house was presented to the public at an exhibition in Paris, and later recreated on the land of Senizerg himself in Malibu. The unusual interior of the dwelling allows Pierre to stay in shape, turning everyday movements around the house into a workout.
5. Transparent house - an introvert's nightmare
Nice to deal with open people who have nothing to hide: in Tokyo, commissioned by a young childless couple, design company Sou Fujimoto Architects created a completely transparent house. This is not just an ordinary house with glass walls - its design is very original and, according to the authors of the project, should resemble life on a tree. Many small platforms are located at different heights and are interconnected by small stairs flowing into each other.
The answer to a legitimate question: the house has curtains that allow you to retire or turn on appropriate censorship.
4. Cardboard house
Shigeru Ban is a famous Japanese architect, sometimes referred to as the cardboard samurai - he uses cardboard in many of his projects. Shigeru was able to build a bridge that can support up to 1.5 tons of weight from recycled paper, cardboard and wood. Also among his works are a museum of modern art in Russia, an exhibition hall in Germany, houses for those who lost their homes during a natural disaster, and even an entire cardboard cathedral in Christchurch.
The main material of all these buildings, you guessed it, is cardboard pipes. To protect against water and fire, they are covered with a layer of polyurethane. Although living in a cardboard house is not as exciting as living in a free spirit realm, Shigeru Ban deserves a high place in our ranking: his bold experiments in finding new building materials and using recycled materials help solve the world's problems. Shigeru received the Pritzker Prize in 2014.
3. Glass house
This creation of the great architect of the twentieth century, Philip Johnson, is unique in that it was the first among its kind. Johnson built this house as a private residence in 1946. Try to remember the traditional architecture, available building tools and materials of those years: it is not surprising that the glass house was recognized best job Philip. Currently, it hosts various creative events, and from May to November it is open to tourists who can admire various art objects that belonged to the master's collection.
The chemosphere is a house like spaceship, built in 1960 by John Lautner. It was a glorious time of the space race and aerospace fashion. The octagonal house is located on top of a steep slope, so the view from its windows is amazing - it seems like you are inside a UFO hovering in the air.
The history of the Chemosphere was not cloudless - the building passed from hand to hand and for some time was in disrepair, but gradually everything got better: in 2004, the Chemosphere was declared cultural heritage Los Angeles and was included in the ranking of the 10 best houses in this city. In addition, the growing fame of Lautner prompted admirers of his talent to carry out a high-quality reconstruction of this building.
1. Fallingwater
Before you is one of the most famous houses in the world - Fallingwater ("Fallingwater" - "Falling Water"). It was built as a private country house for a wealthy family in 1937. Its author is the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. During the construction, he sought to ensure that the building fits perfectly into the landscape - during the design, he took into account all the trees, boulders, various features of the relief and, of course, the waterfall.
Wright's project was bold not only because of its ecological harmony - the building is located in such a way that it seems that it is not subject to the laws of physics. It is not surprising that the architect had to constantly "fight" with contractors who sought to "strengthen" this or that part of the house according to their own experience and understanding. However, Lloyd closely followed the work, rejecting such "help". And a year later, Fallingwater was completed. Its cost to the owners was $150,000, which is almost $2.5 million by today's standards.
At all times, a person attached great importance to his home - a place with which the whole future life of his family will be connected. Therefore, it is not surprising that they approach the process of building a house with all seriousness, not limiting themselves in fantasies and, without exaggeration, putting a piece of their soul into their home.
Nowadays, you can see houses that can amaze the imagination with the complexity or, conversely, with the simplicity of their design. We offer you a selection of the most unusual buildings in the world, each of which, of course, has absorbed a part of the personality of its owner.
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1. The house-plane, which you can see in this photo, is located in the village of Miziara, Northern Lebanon. Miziara is known for its extraordinary houses, and seeing buildings there that resemble ancient Greek temples or Egyptian ruins will by no means be a curiosity. (Photo: Aziz Taher/Reuters)
2. On the roof of this house located in Oxford, you can see a statue of a shark. The sculpture, made of fiberglass and reaching a length of 7.6 meters, was installed in memory of the 41st anniversary of the drop of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. (Photo: Eddie Keogh/Reuters)
4. A house that looks like an ancient Greek temple is under construction. Baalbek, Lebanon. (Photo: Aziz Taher/Reuters)
5. On the roof of this 19-story building located in Guangzhou, a gazebo surrounded by green trees was illegally erected. (Photo: Reuters/China Daily)
6. This house is built on a rock near the Drina River, near the western town of Bajina Basta in Serbia. The house was built in 1968 by a group of young people who decided that a rock near the river was the perfect place for a tiny shelter. So says the co-owner, one of the company that built the house. (Photo: Marko Djurica/Reuters)
7. Houses on the roof of a factory building in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, China. (Photo: Reuters/China Daily)
8. A small tumbleweed house driving down a highway near Colorado. The construction of tiny houses originated a few years ago thanks to lovers of the simple life. The area of these small houses ranges from 93 to 9.3 square meters, but, nevertheless, they can hardly be called shacks. (Photo: Rick Wilking/Reuters)
9. 38-year-old Liu Lingchao carries his house in the Chinese town of Shapu. Five years ago, Liu decided to walk back to his hometown of Rongan County from Shenzhen Province, where he had previously worked. From improvised means - bamboo, plastic bags and sheets - Liu made himself a "portable room" 1.5 meters wide and two meters high. The room weighs about 60 kg, and Liu constantly wears it on himself, walking about 20 km a day. On the day this photo was published, Lew was 20 km from his hometown. (Photo: Reuters/Stringer)
10. The heliodome, a bioclimatic solar house, was built in Coswiller near Strasbourg (East France) in 2011. The house is a huge three-dimensional sundial. It is set at a certain angle with respect to the movement of the sun, so in the hot summer months the house is always shaded and cool, and in autumn, winter and spring the sun is lower in the sky and shines directly through the large windows, warming the house inside. (Photo: Vincent Kessler/Reuters)
11. This photo shows girls jumping on a trampoline near a house built right into the rock. The unusual house is located in the Rockland Farmers' Cooperative in Utah. "Rock", according to the memoirs of members of 15 families living in it, was built about 35 years ago in sandstone deposits near national park Canyonlands. (Photo: Jim Urquhart/Reuters)
12. In this photo, you can see a Bulgarian woman peeking into her house, furnished right in a wine barrel. In central Spain there is a camp of such unusual houses, 40 of whose inhabitants are ethnic Turks who came from Bulgaria to pick grapes during the six-week annual harvest. They sleep in overturned wine barrels about the size of a car. The makeshift camp is located in Castile-La Mancha near the agricultural society of Soquellamos. (Photo: Andrea Comas / Reuters)
13. Bohumil Lhota, a 73-year-old builder, built his house near the town of Jablonec nad Nisou, a hundred kilometers northeast of Prague. Lhota came up with the idea to create a unique house, and in 1981 he began construction. The man wanted to build a dwelling closer to nature and the earth, in order to be able to take advantage of the cool temperature of the dungeon. Construction was completed in 2002, the house can move up and down and turn in different directions, which allows you to change the view from the window. (Photo: Petr Josek / Reuters)
14. This house is located near San Jose del Pedros in the northern state of Mexico, Coahuila. For more than 30 years, Benito Hernandez and his family have lived in a strange house made of adobe bricks, dried in the sun, and a rock with a diameter of 40 meters serves as a roof. The property is located near the city of San Jose del Pedros in the arid desert of Coahuila, about 80 kilometers from the Texas border. (Photo: Daniel Becerril/Reuters)
15. Architect Harry Chang rests in a hammock in his apartment, which is located in Hong Kong and occupies 32 square meters. Chang grew up in the same small apartment and has now come up with an innovative solution for the increasingly cramped conditions of the city dwellers. This is a "transforming apartment", just like in science fiction films. (Photo: Bobby Yip/Reuters)
16. This is one of the narrowest houses in the world. It was built as an art installation between two buildings in Warsaw. The width of the building is only 92 centimeters, it was built for the Israeli writer Etgar Keret. Keret told the TV channel TVN24 that he would live there, coming to Warsaw twice a year. The writer conceived this project as a kind of memorial to the families of his parents who died due to the Holocaust during World War II. (Photo: Kacper Pempel/Reuters)
17. These 70 domed buildings were built by an American organization in the village of Samberhardjo near Jakarta for residents left homeless due to the earthquake that occurred on May 8, 2007. (Photo: Dwi Oblo/Reuters)
All over the world there are people who approach building a house in a more original way than others. They often not only develop an unusual design themselves, but also build everything with their own hands from improvised materials. Such dwellings are not only impressive in appearance, but also amaze with their practicality.
We invite you to visit the 10 most original houses around the world.
Photographer Simon Dale, obsessed with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, decided to design a hobbit house for himself. He found a suitable plot in the forest, spent it on environmental materials only $5,000 and did all the work himself in four months.
The cabin is heated with solar panels, the refrigerator's cooling system is powered by cool air in the basement, and the toilet produces compost. Unusual, economical and environmentally friendly.
Airplane House
Bruce Campbell built his house from the frame of an old 1965 Boeing 727. He purchased it for just $2,000 in San Jose.
But to convert the plane into a real home, he had to spend $ 24,000, plus the cost of shipping the frame to the site.
Dick Clark, a popular TV presenter from the United States, who lived on a permanent basis in Malibu, designed a mansion for himself, like two drops of water similar to the home of Fred Flintstone from the animated series The Flintstones.
Inside the building there is only one bedroom, a living room, a couple of bathrooms and a miniature kitchenette. After Clark's death, the mansion was put up for auction with an estimated value of $3.5 million.
In Poland, in the village of Szymbark, there is a very unusual house. It was designed by a Polish businessman as a symbol of communism, which turned everything upside down. Inside, everything is really turned upside down, even the paintings on the walls. 
Businessman Melon Haynes, who made his fortune in the shoe industry, built himself a highly symbolic boot-shaped house. It is located in Pennsylvania. Previously, people really lived in it, but after the death of the magnate, it was turned into a museum.
The owners of a small plot of land in the USA, inspired by fairy tales, have designed a fantastic fairy-tale house for themselves.
In France, not far from Paris, an unusual house was built. His image was also inspired by fairy tales and legends. Stylistically, it resembles an abandoned haunted house, but no one dares to check whether they actually live in it.
The architect Frank Lloyd Wright decided to somehow express himself brightly. In 1935, he designed the incredible waterfall house to emphasize the harmony between man and nature.
This is very practical, as it saves space on the site, and the energy of water can be used to heat and light the house.
This house was designed by architect Dmitry Maxwell. The concept is based on meditation and relaxation, as all its walls are completely transparent and offer an incredible view of the ocean.
The house stands on a raft that moves slowly across the water surface.
Architect Mas Miller originally designed the house on a large scale, but as he did not have enough money, he reduced the project several times.
It took two years to build. The result is a very compact and economical house.
Have you already decided on the original design for your home?
