No, you're not drunk, and no, this isn't some kind of Photoshop trick. This is an actual building designed in 2004 by someone who had a little too much fun at architecture firm Szotynscy & Zaleski. Krzywy Domek ("Crooked House") is a shopping center in Sopot, Poland, and those crazy curves are for real.
Inspired by the fairy tale illustrations of Jan Marcin Szancer and Per Dahlberg, Krzywy Domek looks like it leaped off the pages of a storybook.
Online magazine Village of Joy awarded Krzywy Domek the top spot in its list of "50 Strange Buildings of the World," ahead of renowned landmarks like the Kansas City Public Library in Kansas City, Missouri, and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
Despite its cartoonish looks, Krzywy Domek is home to many Polish and global businesses in the finance, health and media industries. Can you imagine rolling up to work every day here?
Via My Modern Met
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Wow. That's incredible. The engineering is mind boggling. But now I feel kind of seasick.
What Ginger said. I'm nauseous every time I see pictures of this place!
That's so fascinating, but it seems like it could be difficult to be in for a long time, like it would make you off balance. Visually stunning though.
I love it! Very Seuss-ish.
As a person living in a very square apartment.. I oh so want a bit of this whimsy in my life!
How do you know I'm not drunk?
This makes me feel nauseated just looking at it.
Design by the love child of Dr. Seuss and Antoni Gaudí.
I've been here. its in an odd location too, it's not like its in an area where everythings a little artsy, its an old town with a wonky building in the middle.
Ahh, very Gaudi-esque. Looks like Barcelona...
I think these go too far -- they belong in an amusement park. They are fascinating and cartoonish and amazing -- but somehow so WRONG! Disney. Not main street.
It looks more Frank Gehry than Gaudi.
Looks like toon town!
How do you know I'm not drunk?
Exactly my thought, Andyrama. Cheers!
I have been here! The building is beautiful and does not invoke nausea, contrary to what some might say without having been there. Sopot is a vacation destination for Poles, Swedes, Danes, and Germans and this building is a huge tourist attraction that people from all over Europe come to admire. What's so "WRONG" with that?
In Poland we have few more strange houses: http://bryla.gazetadom.pl/bryla/56,85301,10381215,Przewrocony_dom_w_Szymbarku,,6.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C5%82ote_Tarasy
http://bryla.gazetadom.pl/bryla/56,85301,10158427,Nietypowe_domy_jednorodzinne_TOP_10.html