r/bizarrebuildings
Saw this when Dale and Flash flew to Planet Mongo. (St. Joseph Ukrainian catholic church, Chicago)
u/tequilasundae — 1 day ago
Hotel du Lac, Tunis.
The inverted pyramid of Hôtel du Lac was more than concrete and steel. It was an architectural declaration of independence. Today, it stands suspended between demolition and abandonment, its fate temporarily delayed only by concerns over asbestos.
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u/BlacksmithRich9986 — 2 days ago
This 7-storey house in Boston, MA
u/Strycedar — 8 days ago
St. Paulus Church (1968) by Fritz Schaller & Stefan Polónyi
u/n3xus1oN — 8 days ago
The Žižkov Television Tower: Prague’s late-communist signal to the future
Completed in 1992 during the final years of communist Czechoslovakia, the tower remains the tallest structure in the Czech capital standing at 216 metres tall. Built to strengthen television broadcasting across Prague and widely believed to help disrupt Western transmissions during the Cold War, acting as a signal jammer, it emerged at a moment when the socialist regime was already beginning to lose its certainty about the future it was building.
u/BlacksmithRich9986 — 8 days ago