The Express Tribune T2 - January 7

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THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, JANUARY 7, 2012

Amazing Architecture

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Kids, you may have heard about some strange buildings but have you come across a building that dances or better yet...one that’s shaped like a toilet bowl? Here are some architectural wonders to really make you think!

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The Piano House in China

The Toilet-shaped House in Suwon, South Korea

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You heard me right! It’s a gigantic piano! And that too, with a violin! This unique piano house was built recently in An Hui Province, China. Inside of the violin is the escalator to the building. The building displays various city plans and development prospects in an effort to draw interest into the recently developed area.

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Kansas City Public Library in Missouri, USA

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What is the tallest building in the world?

You have to see it to believe it! South Korean sanitation activists marked the start of a global toilet association on November 21, 2007, by lifting the lid on the world’s first lavatory-shaped home that offers plenty of water closet space.

This building, located in Kansas City, represents one of the most eye-catching projects to give this city a new look. And a more fun look! The people of Kansas City were asked to help pick highly influential books that represent the city. Those titles were included as ‘book bindings’ in the innovative design of the parking garage exterior, to inspire people to utilise the downtown Central Library.

The Dancing House in the Czech Republic

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The Boeing 727 House in Mississippi, USA

The library of course, it has the most stories! If the red house was made out of red bricks, and the blue house was made out of blue bricks, what was the green house made out of? Glass! What did one wall say to the other wall? Meet you at the corner! What house weighs the least? A lighthouse! How did the boy live forever? He stayed in the living room! A glass fell off a building and it survived the fall. How? It survived the fall but not the landing! PHOTO: FILE

How many times have you wished for a long flight to end quickly? Ever wonder what it would be like to live in a plane? Well, here’s someone who does! The plane cost Joanne Ussary $4,000 to move, and $24,000 to renovate. The stairs open with a garage door remote, and one of the bathrooms is still intact. And let’s not forget the personal jacuzzi in the cockpit.

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The name may make you think of a building twirling on the dance floor. And you’re close enough! The Dancing House is the nickname given to an office building in downtown Prague, Czech Republic. It was designed by Czech architect Vlado Milunic along with Canadian architect Frank Gehry on a vacant riverfront plot. The construction started in 1994 and was finished in 1996. The very non-traditional design was controversial at the time. Czech president Vaclav Havel, who lived for decades next to the site, had supported it, hoping that the building would become a centre of cultural activity.


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