Great architecture is more than just functional, and with the amount of effort that goes into construction, no building has the right to be ugly.
And these buildings don't look like regular structures at all and were each designed with something else in mind. From animals to accessories, here are 20 buildings made to look like something else.
1
The producer of 'American Psycho' designed a home in Joshua Tree that looks like a fallen skyscraper called the 'Invisible House' and it's now on sale for $18 million.
2
The National Fisheries Development Board, located in Hyderabad, India.
3
Residential complex in Thun Switzerland designed to look like rice terraces.
4
The Longaberger Basket Building in Newark, Ohio.
5
Sheep, Ram, and Dog buildings in Tirau, New Zealand.
6
Mercure Kakadu Crocodile Hotel in Jabiru, Australia.
7
The Kansas City Public Library.
8
The Elephant Tower in Bangkok.
9
Lucy the Elephant is a former hotel in Margate New Jersey.
10
The Hood Milk Bottle holds a small restaurant in Boston.
11
Kaeng Krachan Elephant Park compound at the Zurich Zoo, designed to look like a Turtle shell.
12
The Cybertecture Egg in India.
13
The Nautilus House in Naucalpan, Mexico, looks like a fish.
14
Grasshopper themed cafe at a South Korean train station.
15
The Big Duck building in Flanders, New York.
16
The Wat Sam Phran is Buddhist temple in Khlong Mai, Thailand.
17
The Kindergarten Wolfartsweier in Karlsruhe, Germany is made to look like a white cat.
18
Dog Bark Park Inn in Cottonwood, Idaho.
19
The Sanrio Strawberry House in Tokyo.
20
A building in South Myrtle Beach, SC designed to look like it fell on its head from the sky.
