For more than 40 years, Weird Al Yankovic has been making parodies of hit songs, including those by celebrities such as Madonna, Michael Jackson, Kurt Cobain, and the Foo Fighters. Some artists have ...

China doesn't exactly do anything half way. Whether it’s building gigantic golden Chairman Mao sculptures or creating huge traffic jams, the world’s most populous country likes to do it up big. And ...

This year has produced more than its fair share of unique and outlandish architecture. From a sail-shaped skyscraper to a revolving house, here's our pick of the top 10 architectural oddities of 2024.

This year certainly produced more than its fair share of unique architecture and we've decided it's high time to look back and highlight the best examples we've seen in 2022. From a plan to build a ...

Post-structuralist French architecture firm R&Sie(n) is in the process of creating a new research station and museum called Waterflux whose strange shape suggests ice caves – or the guts of a living ...

Buildings aren’t always straight lines, glass walls, and sensible shapes. Sometimes, architects go a little wild, and the results are unforgettable. Around the world, you’ll find giant fish-shaped ...

Recent reform in China has doubled down on strict construction and architecture rules as first demanded by leader Xi Jinping. Though Jinping's initial complaints about the "weird" buildings began ...

Almost everyone knows what colonial and craftsman homes look like. Architecture buffs probably know prairie or Queen Anne-style homes as well. Armenian? Maybe not. But travelers along Worthington Road ...

The Awl highlights a recent interest in Soviet architecture, focusing on the outlandish buildings that seem to have been inspired by science fiction rather than the drab utilitarian blocks ordinarily ...