New Horrors in Architecture and Construction

"QUANTUM SHOT" #522
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Drunk Builders and Mad Architects, Part 4

We all know that we shouldn't "drink and drive", but these guys definitely should not "drink and build"!

Somebody designed it and approved it:

Witness the architectural richness of one Russian general's "dacha" (cottage):
note his car parked nearby

Something old, something new -

A building in Romania, Bucharest, Revolutiei Plaza

A zipper -

No earthquake is responsible for this (the bridge is brand new) -

This billboard is better avoided in windy weather (note the securing bolts, looks pretty flimsy) -

That's great - almost your own "Ripley's Believe It or Not"-styled cottage:

(original unknown)

You must've seen similarly topsy-turvied "WonderWorks" building in Orlando:

(image credit: Oscar Ferrer)

(images credit: Avi Abrams)

Some mad architecture can only be considered as irony. Here is, for example, an interesting Church Metamorphosis:

This is not a church any more - turned into a water tower:
(seen in Curon Venosta, Northern Italy, near Stelvio Pass)

(left photo by Raymond)

In an opposite way, this water tower masquerades as a church:

This church is pretty much out of options:

In the meantime people witness the arrival of Electric Spaghetti Monster:

Plumbing gets complicated:

Nobody can tell me what this is:
(maybe an altar to the gods of construction? They need all the forgiveness they can get)

Update: it seems to be a brick oven, turned mobile

Police somewhere in Ukraine do not seem to mind squeezing into extremely small booths:

...or being crammed into the even smaller containers (the sign says "Police open from 8am to midnight" - I hope they don't stay for sleep in there)

Another way to solve your bank's financial woes:

Somebody needed logs for his fireplace? -

(image via)

Must be from planet Photoshop... -

(image via)

The Great Lenin Sphynx:

Somebody's been stealing the manhole covers... Well, there is always a fix:

"Double-deckers" are getting more and more popular:

Minimalist drain pipe:

Stairways in the Wilderness:

A hybrid:

(sent in Homer Seywerd)

Something always happens to the balconies... they have a special karma, I think:

Windows and Doors:

Just build OVER your problems, and they'll disappear:

Bad, bad FAIL:

Need more square footage? Hire extreme and fearless contractors:

An old warehouse in Bath, England, with a wooden winch housing sticking out, photo by Javier Carcamo

Need more square footage for pigeons? Just keep adding to the existing structure:

Interior Decor recycling and re-use in Chelyabinsk, Russia -

The Throne Room:

Should there be some kind of the "Architectural Horrors" theme park, with all sorts of crazy construction going on there - at the safe distance from general public? It will have rare periods of quiet -